Flip Media bought by Publicis as Dubai digital media enters rapid growth phase
French media giant Publicis has bought the Dubai-based digital media agency Flip for an undisclosed sum, making the founders wealthy men.
Digital media only represented around four per cent of regional advertising spend at $160…
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Eurozone and Iran to top Davos agenda as recession looms
It is that time of year again when all the leaders of the business world assemble in Davos in Switzerland to discuss the future with invited guests from governments and academia.
Nothing is actually decided…
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Beware the positive spin on negative news for financial markets
Wall Street’s spin factory is working overtime as we get into the New Year. The slowdown in the Chinese economy is good news for new stimulus money. Greece is a small problem. Hungary is tiny.…
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Eurozone crisis ‘more dangerous’ than 2008 warns George Soros
George Soros, the multi-billionaire hedge fund manager who broke the Bank of England in the early 90s is warning that the current eurozone sovereign debt crisis is ‘more dangerous’ than the crisis of late 2008…
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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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Worst of years can be the best of years for investment opportunities
Turn back the clock to the start of 2009 and perhaps this is a good indication of the outlook for investors. Then we got a massive crash into the Spring and the Devil’s Bottom with…
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News Feeds introduced on ArabianMoney.net
ArabianMoney wanted to introduce something new for our growing readership for 2012 and after extensive market research we noted a strong demand for real-time news.
It is not really within our resources to provide a…
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Will Prince Alwaleed’s $300m Twitter stake revisit his dot-com crash turkeys?
Legendary Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed has bought a $300 million stake in the Twitter micro-blogging site jointly with his Kingdom Holding Company. This appears to be a repeat of the dot-com investment folly to which…
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Deflationary shock the most likely outlook for the world economy in 2012
The forces of inflation are abating in the world economy with a credit contraction evident in the eurozone and imminent in China.
Money printing is less and less effective at stimulating demand. This probably adds…
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Market reaction to eurozone crisis is like the disbelief before World War One
Stock market investors are hopelessly lost in a sea of volatility with unexpected waves raising them up only for another larger one to dash them down. Jumping into this sort of market is suicidal because…
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