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Asian banks seen taking pole position in post-sanctions Iran
December 21st, 2015
Asian banks are expected to be among the first institutions to venture into Iran once sanctions are removed, with Western financial players remaining cautious for some time to come, banking officials said on Thursday. Iran and world powers reached ...
Dubai economy picks up with tourist activity on the rise
December 14th, 2015
Dubai’s economy picked up in November as tourist activity increased against the previous month, an economic survey of the emirate shows. The Dubai economy tracker, a survey of business conditions in the emirate, rose to 53.4 in November, up ...
December 14th To 18th: A Week Of Reckoning For Global Stocks If The Fed Hikes Interest Rates?
December 14th, 2015
Are we about to witness widespread panic in the global financial marketplace? This week is shaping up to be an absolutely critical week for global stocks. Coming into December, more than half of the 93 largest stock market indexes ...
Tour Operators: Which countries to substitute Turkey, Egypt for Russian tourists
December 10th, 2015
UAE, Thailand, India to substitute Turkey, Egypt for Russian tourists Tour operators have seen an increase in the demand for Middle East and Asia tours following ‘the loss’ of Egypt and Turkey destinations, the newspaper Kommersant wrote on Friday. ...
Oil Majors Don’t Share OPEC’s Optimism On Oil Prices In 2016
November 12th, 2015
OPEC’s meeting in Vienna is less than a month away, and oil producers – countries and companies alike – have been raising their concerns at an energy conference in the United Arab Emirates over the cartel’s strategy to keep ...
ICM Capital Announces Local Dubai Partnership
November 11th, 2015
ICM Capital Limited has announced an inaugural UAE partnership with the esteemed brothers Mohammad and Abdulla Habib Al Mulla. ICM Capital, an FCA regulated online trading services provider for retail and corporate clients, are celebrating this milestone in their ...
The Middle East Could Face A Historic Crisis By Century’s End
November 10th, 2015
Regarding the Middle East and its oil, the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saed Al Maktoum, longtime Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, once famously remarked: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, ...
Dubai private sector growth hits five-year low amid ‘travel and tourism contraction’
November 9th, 2015
Dubai’s private sector recorded its slowest growth in more than five years last month. Expansion of business activity was at a 68-month low with a slowdown in the travel and tourism sector particularly prominent, according to the Emirates NBD ...
Middle-East private wealth to reach $7.2 trillion by 2018
October 29th, 2015
This is approximately a 3.6 per cent share of total global wealth The private wealth in the Middle-East region will reach $7.2 trillion by the end of 2018, according to a report. The report issued by the Boston Consulting ...
Saudi Arabia to run out of cash in less than 5 years
October 26th, 2015
Not even the mighty Middle East can survive cheap oil forever. If oil stays around $50 a barrel, most countries in the region will run out of cash in five years or less, warned a dire report from the ...
