Will Dubai ever match Abu Dhabi for home finance?
If only Dubai could match the 5.75 per cent home finance rates currently being offered by Abu Dhabi Finance that would go a long way towards reviving the Dubai real estate market which is still…
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Boom businesses of the future
From my own entrepreneurial background as a partner in the private equity sale of the Dubai dot-com AME Info four years ago and my interest in stock markets, I retain a strong interest in the…
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Can the UK inflate fast enough to support house prices?
Devaluing the pound earlier this year was a good start but the UK is going to have to seriously inflate general price levels if the economy is going to avoid the agony of falling house…
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Hindenburg Omen confirmed as equities slump, buy short ETFs
The complex chart indicator known as a Hindenburg Omen occurred yesterday for the first time since the market lows of March 2009. This is a major chart indicator suggesting a market crash is imminent.
However,…
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City 7 TV interview on the outlook for Arabian equities
City 7 TV presenter Katie Jensen interviews ArabianMoney editor and publisher Peter Cooper about the outlook for global and local stock markets.
He explains how investors at the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver last month…
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Will Ramadan bring new interest in the Saudi ETFs?
The launch of two Exchange Traded Funds for the Tadawul or Saudi stock market this year has raised hopes for a market recovery. The August edition of the ArabianMoney investment newsletter contains a detailed appraisal…
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Emap fails to sell AME Info business website
The UK’s second largest publishing house Emap has failed to find a buyer for AME Info, the leading Middle East business information portal that it bought almost exactly four years ago for $27 million.
In…
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Stock trading hits a year low, is this an inflection point?
US stocks managed meagre gains on Monday but the important thing to note was that the lowest volume of shares changed hands in a year. That hardly indicated much confidence ahead of the Fed meeting…
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Autumn seasonal uplift for gold prices a clear trend
This article is hardly going to thrill gold bugs with new information but the old timers are going to have to get used to new gold investors wanting to learn the ropes. The idea that…
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US unemployment different this time?
Here are three graphs taken from the Huffington Post showing the true depth of the US unemployment crisis. They seem to point to the conclusion that something different is happening this time from previous recessions.…
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