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The Top Companies in the Arab World 2016
June 2nd, 2016
Last year was not an easy one for Arab companies. Political instability and plunging oil prices affected financial performance. Total market value for the 100 Top Companies in the Arab World dropped 15.5% to $689 billion between April 1, ...
Winners of Middle East Hotel Awards 2016
May 30th, 2016
12 Dubai Hotels win at Middle East Hotel Awards 2016 The awards ceremony, held on 24 May at the Palazzo Versace Dubai, witnessed a 63 per cent increase of submissions on the previous year’s edition, with the 6-month old ...
Saudi Arabia Has a Plan B to Try to Stop Iran’s Economic Rise
May 26th, 2016
The kingdom is mobilizing its Gulf allies to make sure that Iran’s opening-up to the global economy doesn’t go smoothly. Saudi Arabia couldn’t stop the Iran nuclear deal from being signed. Plan B is to limit Iran’s ability to ...
Five States Agree To Adopt New Tax Transparency Standard
May 19th, 2016
Bahrain, Lebanon, Nauru, Panama, and Vanuatu – five territories that were earlier criticized for not following tax transparency standards – have newly committed to sharing financial account information automatically with other countries. With these new commitments, 101 jurisdictions around ...
IMF lowers Gulf economic growth forecast with ‘substantial measures needed’
April 25th, 2016
Growth in the Arabian Gulf will slow to 1.8 per cent this year as low oil prices take their toll on budgets, which will lose $140 billion in export revenue this year, the IMF said today. The growth forecast ...
Can A Divided OPEC Agree On Anything In Doha?
April 6th, 2016
Only two weeks remain until the fated meeting between the OPEC countries and their counterparts from outside the organization, scheduled to take place in the Qatari capital of Doha on the coast of the Persian Gulf. The meeting could ...
Arab States Face $94 Billion Debt Crunch on Oil Slump, HSBC Says
February 29th, 2016
$52 billion of bonds, $42 billion of loans due this, next year Refinancing challenging with slow growth, rating downgrades Gulf Cooperation Council countries may struggle to refinance $94 billion of debt in the next two years as the region ...
Global Law firm opens Oman office
February 15th, 2016
Clyde IP expands GCC coverage Following the opening of a direct filing office in Bahrain in August 2015, Clyde IP is further expanding its trade mark and patent filing capabilities in the Middle East, with the addition of a ...
Which country is the World’s Favorite New Tax Haven?
January 28th, 2016
The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business. Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew ...
War Between Saudi Arabia And Iran Could Send Oil Prices To $250
January 14th, 2016
The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries. The back-and-forth escalation quickly turned the simmering tension into an overt struggle for power in the Middle East. First, ...
