Not the Davos economic forum live from Dubai!
Not invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week ArabianMoney editor and publisher Peter Cooper joined Sandra Mergulhão from MyDubaiMyCity.com to discuss some of the main issues from an Arabian point of…
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How long can the Fed pump up the US bond bubble? Time to shift into hard assets?
The most obvious bubble in the global financial system is the US bond market and by far the biggest today. Holding interest rates until late 2014 as the Fed announced yesterday should hold it stable…
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Soros tells Davos forum eurozone and Iranian crises bad news for the Arab Spring
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros has warned that the eurozone economic crisis poses a ‘big danger’ to the direction of the Arab Spring protests, revolutions and civil wars that started suddenly a year ago…
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What does the EU embargo on Iranian oil mean for the UAE?
The European Union has agreed an immediate embargo on new oil contracts with Iran while existing contracts will be allowed to run until July, in order to pressure Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
The EU…
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Is the escalation of tension with Iran good or bad for the Gulf States?
At first blush any notion of rising tension in the Persian Gulf, or Arabian Gulf if you sit on the otherside, is obviously bad news for the Gulf States.
Iran in a corner could prove…
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How best to invest for success in 2012
The success of the ArabianMoney asset allocation in 2011 in not only protecting subscribers from a very rough year in financial markets but actually gaining from it is proof enough that asset allocation is the…
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Chinese real estate bubble pops just like Dubai three years ago
The spectacular real estate boom is over in China with new home prices in Beijing crashing by 35 per cent last month and the growth of M2 money supply dropping to its lowest in a…
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Oil prices jump on rumors Iran to hold maneuvers in Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices jumped above $100 -a-barrel yesterday on reports that Iran plans to hold military maneuvers to practice the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, according to Bloomberg citing the Fars news agency, although the…
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UAE celebrates 40th anniversary what do the next 40 years have to offer?
The success of the United Arab Emirates in creating the nation with the fifth highest per capita GDP in the world in a dusty desert location is astonishing. So much could have gone wrong in…
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Black gold to top $100 this week as world chooses inflation over recession
After a very tough week in eurozone politics with the economic crisis claiming the heads of two prime ministers, markets will likely pause a little before a resumption of attacks on whatever they perceive to…
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