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Dubai house prices to spike in September
- This time last year this column predicted a house price spike in September, which did happen, and tended to suggest that might be it for Dubai house price rises.
- United Arab Emirates: Thursday, August 09 - 2007 at 14:07 |
The Optimists View of GCC Banking
- In part one of our short series on the likely future course of the regional banking industry after last year’s traumatic stock market crashes, we examined the outlook should things go wrong. Here we look at the optimistic economic scenario of continued high oil prices and revenues, improving geopolitics and a slow deflation of the real estate boom.
- Thursday, July 19 - 2007 at 17:13 |
How will the GCC banks cope if the future is bleak?
- In the first of a two part series looking at impact scenarios for GCC banks, we are going to look at what will happen if the future is bleak.What would happen if global stock and bond markets implode, oil prices crash, local stocks take another dive and the real estate sector crashes?
- Sunday, July 15 - 2007 at 14:44 |
Inflation, rental costs and school places worry Gulf business
- The cost base for many businesses in the Gulf States has picked up sharply for many companies this year with staff demanding higher salaries and housing allowances to meet rampant general inflation, soaring rental costs and higher school fees.
- United Arab Emirates: Sunday, June 24 - 2007 at 11:10 |
Geopolitics, gold and the oil price
- Instability in Nigeria is the present driving force behind oil prices, now back at a nine-month high, while gold seems to have turned a corner with the highly significant changes in the US bond market. But let us not forget that a real spike in both the oil and gold price is very likely to require a particular constellation of geopolitics.
- Saudi Arabia: Tuesday, June 19 - 2007 at 09:11 |
Will George Soros be right about the US recession after all?
- It was in early 2006 that AME Info reported on George Soros’s prediction of a US recession in 2007, as described in his book ‘The Age of Fallibility’. We took the argument a little forward and examined what this would likely mean for the oil price and the future economic outlook for the Middle East.
- USA: Saturday, June 02 - 2007 at 08:40 |
UAE stocks: a bear market rally or a new bull run?
- When AME Info columnist Dr. Marc Faber appeared on stage in Dubai a couple of weeks ago he forecast a sharp rally in UAE stocks, and the market has duly obliged our guru from the Far East with a rally of more than five per cent last week alone. But can this upturn be sustained? Is it more than a bear market rally?
- United Arab Emirates: Saturday, May 26 - 2007 at 09:20 |
Revaluation of UAE dirham back on agenda after surprise Kuwait move
- Some UAE banks have started to limit their US dollar exposure following the decision by Kuwait on Sunday to abandon its currency peg to the US dollar in favor of a basket of currencies.
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, May 22 - 2007 at 07:56 |
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