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Comparing the price of oil and gold
- Oil headed back to $61 a barrel this week, and could go higher with colder weather in the northern hemisphere. Gold also broke $535 an ounce, and seems to have decisively cleared the $500 an ounce psychological hurdle. But there is a relationship between the two commodities.
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, December 13 - 2005 at 10:14 |
AME Info audit points to surge in Internet use
- The Internet is becoming a part of daily life in the Middle East in general, and in the most wired nations like the UAE in particular. AME Info's latest audit from ABC ELECTRONIC suggests that Internet use is now running at much higher levels than generally assumed.
- United Arab Emirates: Saturday, December 03 - 2005 at 13:48 |
Iranian earthquake tremor hits Dubai
- Tremors from an earthquake registering 6.1 on the Richter scale 60km south west of Bandar Abbas in Iran were felt in Dubai today, prompting the evacuation of high-rise buildings on the Sheikh Zayed Road and in the Dubai Media City.
- United Arab Emirates: Sunday, November 27 - 2005 at 16:12 |
DGCX, DIFX, welcome to the future of Dubai
- This week saw the launch of the new Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, while the Dubai International Financial Exchange held a one-day conference to focus attention on its future plans. Welcome to the brave new world of Dubai as a regional home for international capital markets.
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, November 22 - 2005 at 15:05 |
Dubai Air Show: Airbus to outshine Boeing
- Next week the Dubai Air Show will bring to the fore the battle between the giants of global aviation: Airbus and Boeing. The first landing of the Airbus A380 superjumbo in the Middle East will surely be the publicity coup of the week, but Boeing claims to have been outselling its rival in the region this year.
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, November 14 - 2005 at 10:03 |
The fall and rise of online advertising
- The dot-com crash of 2000 brought online advertising to a low ebb. But since then the bounce has been enormous, driven by new sector giants like Google. Now online advertising is the fastest growing medium in the world, even in the Middle East.
- United Arab Emirates: Sunday, November 06 - 2005 at 14:21 |
Dubai goes for gold!
- With around 100 members trading gold futures on Day One on November 22, the world's newest commodities bourse is sure to be an instant success. The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange is a fully automated, screen-based, online commodities exchange.
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, October 25 - 2005 at 16:27 |
GCC bank profits: heading for a fall?
- This reporting season has seen some fantastic results from the banks of the GCC. Yet much of their good fortune comes from local stock market income which is unsustainable in the long run. So how long can the good time roll for the Gulf banks?
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, October 17 - 2005 at 08:12 |
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