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"Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain" GFH published the agenda for its shareholders' general meeting on the capita...

This post uses the data in the recent IMF update to its Financial Sector Stability Assessment to look at the Investment Company Sector in ...

Roula Khalaf at the Financial Times : What’s going on at the banks in the United Arab Emirates? It is an open secret that the deterioration...

AlQabas reports that the GCC has rejected recent European attempts to revive the trade talks.  The key issue is the right of states to impo...

The National carries an article today about DIFC Investments loss.   Beyond the details, this is another sign that the economic distress i...

Markaz has published another of its excellent research reports. This one's on Dubai Real Estate and the prospects through 2012. Her...

  The GCC-China Economic Forum will hold its inaugural meeting this March 23-24 in Bahrain under the patronage of Bahrain's Prime Mini...

The study finds that most of the slowdown in MENA Emerging Markets (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia) and the GCC ...

 Markaz has published another of its insightful research pieces.  This one is on the GCC banking sector in 2009. Here's sample par...

Here's the news item from WAM. Two major points. Work has not stopped.  AA:  The Reuters story mentioned a slow down in work, not a...

Rupert Bumfrey has a post on this.   Here's another from Reuters . Some comments. It's not unexpected that construction costs wo...

Today WAM carried an announcement that HH Shaykh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum had issued "a decree exempting companies operating in ...

With all the discussion about the fall out from real estate  in Dubai and the declines in real estate elsewhere in the GCC, I thought it wou...

The Peoples Republic of China continues its economic penetration of the region. Back in Washington, minds are focused on what are imagine...

Well, I guess some people are hard to educate (not a real surprise when the intended audience is bankers and journalists  - their past and m...

Dubai dropped the first shoe - its request for a debt repayment standstill.  And what a big shoe it was.  Still causing shockwaves. Not on...

A bit of good news for this beleaguered country - which is desperately in need of hard currency earnings, not to mention water, peace, prog...