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An article in the FT today reports that bankers were told that lead underwriters on Dubai's recent US$1.25 billion sovereign bond were...

You may have seen some references to this survey in press articles. The Middle East survey, which really seems to be focused primarily on t...

حقل الأحلام الكويت If you build it, he may not come after all.   AlQabas has a summary of a recent Middle East Economic Digest ("ME...

The Gulf Daily News reports that rentals have fallen across the board in the retail, residential, office and industrial sectors. Martin ...

In April 2008, Markaz issued its first report on the "Golden Portfolio" – the various stocks held by GCC government owned enterp...

FOR SALE     Great Price.  One Owner Only!  Carefully Underwritten and Maintained Asa Fitch over at The National has a report on secondar...

The BIS released its Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and OTC Derivatives Market Activity.  Use the links at the upper rig...

Arabic Knowledge at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania recently published an article with Jeff Singer, CEO of ...

Today Investcorp announced on the Bahrain Stock Exchange that it intended to de-list its London GDRs citing as a reason: In the period si...

AlQabas reports that in the past 10 business days some 90.1 million shares of KIB (8.6%)  have been traded.  KD 19.5 million worth in 1121...

You'll recall that Bharti Airtel secured a US$7.5 billion loan last March to fund its purchase of African assets from Zain Kuwait.  Or...

AlQabas has an interesting article on YTD performance through 25 June performance of funds domiciled in Bahrain.  Global has I believe som...

8 July 2010 - Approximately US$1.25 billion in debt affected Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded to B3 from B2 the senior ...

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...

You've probably seen reports quoting Jones Lang LaSalle's prediction that half of Dubai's commercial office space will be vacant...

What's interesting about this article is the assertion of a new found willingness by landlords to negotiate rents. Apparently, tenants...

Copyright The Truth About Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License The Nationa l has an article with the above headl...

Ithmar Bank announced on the BSE that on 28 March it had held its Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders. Tucked in the announcement w...

A slightly different take on the purpose of the National Portfolio from Bader Nasser Al-Subaie, Chairman of Kuwait Investment Company whic...

AlAnba'a Newspaper (Kuwait) reports that the Kuwait Investment Authority ("KIA") met with three Kuwaiti investment companies...