Does more debt to beat the debt-crisis make sense?
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The UK newspapers are full of a new $33 billion government-backed debt facility for small and medium enterprises, while in the UAE credit for SMEs remains…
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UAE keeps intervention down, trusts market forces
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It is interesting to compare and contrast the approach of the UAE Central Bank to the global economic crisis with that of the Federal Reserve and…
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Burj Dubai topped out!
No official announcement yet – but you can hardly miss this building from anywhere in Dubai so it is hard to keep the obvious hidden – and it looks like this is the…
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In which currency should you hold cash?
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In a recession cash is king, but which currency should you hold? As investors begin to worry about the size of global bailout and stimulus packages…
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Calm before the next financial storm?
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This particular week has that same unsettling quietness that preceded the collapse in October last year, and to be fair I flagged it up with my…
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Dubai freezes salaries, boosts spending 42%
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The new Dubai Government budget is freezing salaries and hiking public spending by 42 per cent to $10.2 billion, assuming a $1.1 billion deficit, with 45…
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UAE fixed deposits pay 6-6.6%
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Hunting around the world for a safe investment option is pretty fruitless these days with interest rates ultra-low and the outlook for stocks and real estate…
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Stimulus packages are panic policy and inflationary
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We now know a little more about the global financial crisis from the terrible experience of 2008, and can trace its causes back to cheap credit…
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DFM up 7.8%, Daman more cautious than optimistic
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The Dubai Financial Market bounced into the New Year today with a 7.8 per cent gain on the first day of trading in 2009. But top…
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Buy 'The New Gulf' for its 2030 vision
At the online bookstore Amazon.com there is a useful facility that says ‘people who bought this book also bought this one’.
For my book ‘Opportunity Dubai’ the companion volume that appears is ‘The Snowball’, the…
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