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Featured UAE
Breakeven oil prices for Saudi Arabia and the UAE decline for the first time in years, according to Deutsche Bank, which is great news for the GCC, especially
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As construction activities in the Gulf explode, the cement industry is also poised for growth. Eight key emerging trends show that while prospects are bright, the sector also
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Featured UAE
From a vertigo-inducing high earlier in the year, the Dubai Financial Market index has come crashing down. At its height this year, the market was up 31% but
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The Middle East's natural gas production will be a victim of low prices and lack of focus over the next five years, leading to a slowdown in output,
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It doesn't take much for markets to drain away their confidence these days.
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Featured Qatar
TweetQatar has ruled the liquefied natural gas (LNG) world for the past few years, but it will see the market flooded with new rivals eager to sign up
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Bahrain
Gulf economies, led by the UAE, have fared quite well in a World Economic Forum focused on world's trade-friendliness and access to global markets.
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With a civil war raging in Syria and other flare-ups and tensions elsewhere in the region, Jordan's economic prospects look challenging
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Dubai's retail sector could grow by 5.1% annually till 2015 to reach AED174.8-billion (USD47.6 billion), according to Oryx Business Intelligence.
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The bears are out again, painting images of doomsday and Armageddon for the global economy.
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Sovereign wealth funds' assets grew by USD500-billion in 2011 to reach USD4.6 trillion, according to the latest Preqin Sovereign Wealth Fund report.
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'Be careful for what you wish for, you just might get it.' And Egypt has got democracy. But it's not to everyone's liking, especially as it has resulted
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Featured Islamic Finance
Tweet“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.” - Sonia
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Featured Qatar
Nobody even considered looking at MENA states last year, as news of Arab Spring-related crisis, instability and the Iran conflict dominated the headlines.
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It has been a massive quarter for stock markets around the world. The S&P; 500 - arguably the most influential indicator of global stock market health - had
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The United States' hydrocarbon's production will eclipse Saudi Arabia and Russia as early as 2017, says Citibank. In fact the energy surplus points to North America effectively becoming
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Bahrain
A list of institutions the bankrupt firm owes shows the Central Bank of Bahrain is the biggest Arcapita creditor. Other major lenders include Riyad Bank and Mashreq.
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An OECD study shows countries with greater income from natural resources tend to be socially less developed.
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Featured Saudi Arabia
Middle East's 30 richest people collectively lost USD5-billion, according to Forbes data. In all, sixteen billionaires lost part of their fortunes last year. Find out who lost and
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Private equity, sovereign wealth funds and governments of food-importing countries are buying up land to secure food supplies. For good reason: farmland could generate returns of up to
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Featured UAE
TweetWhy have regional capital inflows remained well below their 2007 levels, even though emerging markets have since investments surged since then? The IIF says there are four good
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As the world faces its biggest oil crisis since the 1970s, politicians are blaming every one - President Obama, Iran, QE and Saudi King - for high oil
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While Dubai's economic environment is improving rapidly, the real estate sector is likely to go through more pain and fall by a further 15-20% before bottoming out, says
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Featured Islamic Finance
TweetFeb 17, 2012 By Rushdi Siddiqui, Global Head of Islamic Finance, Thomson Reuters Shiekh Yusuf Talal Delorenzo In an exclusive interview with Shiekh Yusuf Talal Delorenzo (YTD), one
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TweetThe U.K. Government sent out a message to fat-cat bankers by stripping ex-RBS chief Fred Goodwin of his knighthood. But should Sir Alan Greenspan and Sir Mervyn King
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Transportation is a key consumer of global energy supplies and will increase its share in the future, thanks to rising populations and greater demands for mobility via air,
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Tweet Ellie Brewster /Foter Booz & Company addresses ways in which the GCC’s private sector can address nationalization and unemploymentby hiring the region’s highly educated female population
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Egypt
Human Rights Watch reports, by their very nature, never present a rosy outlook as they are given to highlighting the atrocities of governments and the lack of dignity
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TweetJanuary 15, 2012 A year after HSBC released its 2050 report which estimated that Egypt would surpass Saudi Arabia as the largest economy in the Middle East, the
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Tweet Jan 12, 2012 The U.S. elections are a media circus at the best of times, but the Republican race to find a presidential hopeful who can defeat
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Tunisia's travails over the past year paid off as it shot up in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index 2011.
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The year 2011 has been extraordinary not just for the tectonic shift in the region's political structures, but also the extraordinary pressures and opportunities faced by many regional
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Kuwait-based KAMCO sheds light on the future economic outlook of the GCC based on 2011 and 2012 GDP growth expectations
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Deleveraging in EU banks is one of the many issues impacting the ME economies in the 2012. Tourism, trade, investment and oil exports could also suffer as the
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Africa
Whether western countries and ME liberals like it or not, Islamic parties have emerged victorious in elections in North African states. Before typecasting and dismissing them, Islamic parties
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Transparency International's Corruption Perceptionx Index 2011 shows the world remains a very corrupt place with few bright spots.
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The latest round of conflict between Iran and the trio of Western powers, Israel and Gulf allies once again brings to the fore the fragility of oil markets.
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Maura Connelly, the US Ambassador to Lebanon, warned of "serious consequences" if the Lebanese government fails to cooperate with and fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL).
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A Swiss study reveals how a mere 147 global companies rule the world through complex network of ownership, control and indirect influences
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Iraq
The withdrawal from Iraq creates enormous strategic complexities rather than closure. While the complexities in Libya are real but hardly strategic, the two events share certain characteristics and
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With Libya's civil war over for all practical purposes after the death of Colonel Muammr Gaddafi - at least for now.. all eyes have turned back to Syria
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The Middle East's major economies will have 109,000 new millionaires in the next five years, according
to a report, with Egypt - not Saudi - with the highest
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Tens of Thousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to "Occupy Together" Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in
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The October 2011 edition of Barclays Wealth Compass, entitled “Perspectives on Markets: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” reflects upon the past two decades of market volatility with an eye
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Africa
The Arab Spring not only cost at least three dictators their jobs but also $56-billlion in lost GDP for the worst affected countries, according to a statistical study
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"As per the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), the U.S. economy has already entered a new recession and it is going to get a lot worse."
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Something is amiss when US Treasuries become the frontier investor’s instrument of choice
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Featured Qatar
The EU and the US economies are not the only headaches for Middle East economies. China's faltering economy could also hurt the region's growth prospects
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Bill Gross in a speedo? PASS. PIMCO’s Bill Gross has released his monthly Investment Outlook for October, devoting a few paragraphs to his physique before comparing the today’s
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The Gulf is not immune to the U.S. downgrade by ratings agency Standard & Poor's from triple-A to AA+, and the issue if European sovereign debt crisis.
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TweetMr. President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
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With the ongoing rebound in economic activity, a question that emerges is whether inflation will increase again as it did in 2007–08 when the annual increase in consumer
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TweetCAUSES: Click Here To Sign The Petition FROM AVAAZ: In four days the UN General Assembly will meet, and the world has an opportunity to embrace a new
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There will be riots in the streets: Mayor Bloomberg warns of anarchy if more jobs aren't created soon
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Robust and timely support from the Gulf central banks have made the region's key financial institutions secure and safe powerhouses
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UBS believes that the euro is fundamentally flawed and hurts most of its members and they would be economically better off if they had never joined
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TweetMapping Stereotypes have drawn up an interesting map of Arab Spring:
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TweetQatar leaves regional competitors in the dust, rising as one of the most competitive economy in the world. But Arab Spring unkind to competitiveness of liberated Egyptian and
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Bahrain
Lebanon's Riad Salameh is ranked as one of the world's best central bankers. But which Mideast bank governor fares worse than Ben Bernanke and Jean-Claude Trichet? Surprising answer
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Tweet Moammer Gaddhafi’s regime is crumbling, his son is captured. How long will the resistance last before Libya can be completely free and prepare for a revolutionary
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Arab Spring-style protests are apparently being planned in the United States as the richest country in the world teeters on the edge of a 'lesser depression'
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TweetBy Rushdi Siddiqui, head of Islamic Finance at Thomson Reuters It took Islamic finance forty years to reach the magical US$1 trillion benchmark (in terms of size or
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TweetIn its grim prognosis of the global economy, Morgan Stanley completely ignores the Middle East countries. So we don’t know how MS really feels about the outlook of
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The Iranian bourse is in the midst of a fantastic rally on the back of high oil prices, new initial public offerings and lack of other investment opportunities
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Africa
As Tunisia prepares for elections in October, the chronic and fundamental weaknesses in the country's political and economic structures are becoming evident
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Barclays, Citibank and Goldman Sachs analysts weigh in on what the S&P; downgrade means for the global economy and the U.S. dollar. Plus, that $2-trillion S&P; calculation error
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Mark Mobius, chief of investment house Franklin Templeton, and a known emerging market bull thinks the S&P; downgrade of U.S.'s sovereign ratings makes emerging markets more attractive
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Bahrain
Realign the regional economies to the new realities
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S&P;'s damning verdict of the U.S. economy
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TweetRamadhan is a period of introspection for Muslims and Islamic financial institutions to better observe Islamic teachings, appreciate our blessings and be moved to action by the burdens
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Global investors and market participants are frustrated by US, EU and Japanese policymakers, arguing that politicians are 'kicking the can down the road' instead of solving the problems
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Iraq
TweetOpec’s annual bulletin reveals the changing dynamics of the energy industry and the key challenges facing both the producers and the consumers. Click through the charts to find
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Featured Saudi Arabia
Forget Arab Spring. If Saudi Arabia's spending patterns and economic policies don't change, it could be staring at a breakeven oil price of an astonishing $320 a barrel
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Bahrain
Gulf states saw their default risks subside considerably during the second quarter as investors shrugged off the Arab Spring and focused on the troubled EU states
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Bahrain
TweetThe Arab World’s tryst with democracy and freedom is unlikely to bear economic fruits, according to a study. Instead, we could well see a gridlock political environment and
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The Gulf states will need to create 3.3 million jobs over the next ten years, meanwhile the MENA region will need to create 30.7 million jobs by 2020,
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Egypt
As investors say goodbye to the first half of the year and brace themselves for a strange and uncertain world in the second half, the worry beads are
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TweetU.S. Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke says interest rates will remain low and dampened enthusiasm for QE3. But one heavyweight thinks Qe3 could come in August. Forget about a
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U.S. Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke says interest rates will remain low and dampened enthusiasm for QE3. But one heavyweight thinks QE3 could come in August
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TweetEven if Saudi Arabia was aware of the IEA’s move to draw from its oil reserves, all parties appear to have lost face, without really upsetting the trend
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TweetEquities markets across the world are feeling the heat as investors turn negative over a flood of dismal news from all corners of the globe. However, Goldman Sachs
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Capital inflows in the Middle East and North Africa region will drop this year, as investors avoid the region's uncertain political and economic conditions. Troubled states such as
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Gulf investors have shorter investment horizons, like to invest in tangible assets and prefer to invest directly, according to a new survey
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Egypt
Egypt's economy has received a much-needed boost with the promise of aid and loans from the international community
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Bahrain
TweetThe potential inclusion of Morocco and Jordan in the GCC fold should be taken for what it is – a political move by the Gulf states to widen
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TweetThe United Nations updated its World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 in late May and offered more grim warnings about the state of the global economy and especially
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TweetDubai’s debt problems refuse to go away, as the IMF warns that the emirate’s debt will rise to 53% of GDP by 2016 if it does not act.
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Africa
TweetClose to $1.6-trillion worth of projects are cancelled or are on hold in the Middle East and East North African market, with $800-billion in the UAE alone, according
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Africa
TweetJordan and Morocco’s possible inclusion in the Gulf is a political move rather than an economic one, but there might be other - unlikely - candidates in the
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Tweet Investing Ideas: Can silver resume its breathless rally or has this bubble burst for good? And find out who is joining PIMCO in shorting U.S. Treasuries. Read More
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Iraq
TweetIraq’s strong oil revenues this year, coupled with a new $37-billion investment plan, will ensure double-digit hike in GDP this year. However, political and security issues could derail
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TweetPrivate equity (PE) activity in the MENA region remained slow for the second consecutive month, in April, according to Al Masah Capital research. “The first month of 2Q
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Africa
TweetMiddle East’s oil-importing countries such as Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Syria could fall into recession this year, according to the International Institute of Finance (IIF), a group of
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Bahrain
TweetThe Arab World’s foreign assets will rise to a stunning $2.2-trillion this year, says the IIF. But the key to growth in the region will not be financial
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TweetSilver has outshone gold this year with a spectacular 19% rise in price in April alone. Can silver continue its breathless run, or will it come crashing down?
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