What do you say to an investor who has just seen a significant chunk of his equity investment drain away this year? “It’s true that the best time to invest …
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The real estate market in the GCC, especially in highly speculative Dubai, is still on a downward trend and companies are struggling to ensure their survival in these tumultuous times. …
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Thinkforce Researchers per thousand employed, full-time equivalent, 2004 or latest available year Researchers are professionals engaged in the conception and creation of new knowledge, products, processes, methods and systems, spanning …
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Regional stock market indices Regional currency rates $1.9B for Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi The Cleveland Clinic project on Abu Dhabi’s Sowwah island has been granted to a joint venture …
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At a hotel by the Nile, politicians and civil society representatives from oil producing regions are indignant about the activities of oil companies in their home areas. Entire villages have …
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The global financial crisis is causing Maghrebi economists to rethink dependence on foreign sources of financing economic growth. As financing possibilities at the international level grow increasingly limited, Maghrebi economies …
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Higher world oil prices in recent years — which apexed in mid-2008 — as well as advances in technology and reforms easing foreign investment have renewed interest in hydrocarbon production …
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The luxurious Dorchester Hotel in London was the setting for an uncomfortable meeting between the world’s private equity (PE) chiefs, where there was no doubt nervous exchanges as to how …
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OPEC is in a state of panic, as the downward trend in the price of oil shows no sign of abating. OPEC’s move to stem production has not managed to …
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About a year ago, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF) injected $7.5 billion into an ailing Citigroup. Kuwait’s fund also invested $2 billion into Citigroup and it put another $3 …