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MENA M&A Market Started 2015 on a Positive Note

The MENA M&A market depicted a steady activity during 1Q2015, prolonging its 9-month positive performance. Despite depressed oil prices and the regional political turmoil...

GCC Markets Performance in February 2013

GCC were unstable in February; TASI consolidated under 7,000 Highest MoM gains belongs to Abu Dhabi and Kuwait Trading activity withdraws on MoM basis Activity of IPO...

UAE stock markets outperform world’s top bourses in January

Both UAE's financial markets - Dubai Financial Market and Abi Dhabi Securities Exchange - took the first ranking among global bourses in January 2013....

Sovereign Wealth Funds may change direction of investment flows

Restrictions by the United States and others may lead sovereign wealth funds to invest closer to home instead of in the West, the head...

2013 outlook for MENA markets cautiously optimistic

Investor confidence returns as real estate market slightly rebounds and tourism booms Institutional volumes grow, with Mubasher posting Year-on-Year volume growth of 56% (UAE), 47%...

S&P upgrades Emaar rating on recurring income

The good performance of Dubai-based property company Emaar Properties PJSC's leasing and hospitality assets, and fewer handovers of developments, has raised the proportion of...

Foreign investors purchase AED 699.3 mn worth of shares on DFM...

Dubai Financial Market announced that the value of shares bought by foreign investors, or non-UAE nationals, during last week (July 5 - July 7)...

Treat sovereign funds equally

Sovereign wealth funds should be treated like any other institutional investor and not have special rules imposed on them, Henry Azzam, head of Deutsche...

Dubai Financial Market performance during April 2011

Dubai Financial Market overall performance increased by 5% to reach 1634.1 points at the end of April compared to 1556 points at the end...

DFMGI ended in the negative territory

Dubai Financial Market General Index (DFMGI) ended in the negative territory for the second consecutive session. It lost as much as 0.71%, or 11.35 points...

Declining trading volumes may not be bearish

Stock market volume in recent sessions has begun to decline, just as it does every June as summer begins. Analysts also have started to...

Foreign investors purchase Dhs1.497bn worth of shares on Dubai Financial Market...

Dubai Financial Market announced today that the value of shares bought by foreign investors, or non-UAE nationals, during last week (11 - 15 April)...

Recovery in Oil Prices Positive Catalyst for Regional Markets

Global equities performed positively during the week as investors are encouraged by synchronized policy responses by leading Central Banks, and gradual reopening of the...

Dubai Financial Market secures two thirds of Nasdaq Dubai purchase

Dubai Financial Market PJSC paid two thirds of its acquisition of Nasdaq Dubai and transferred 80 million of its shares to NASDAQ OMX Group...

DFM posts third quarter loss of Dhs9.28m

The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) Company announced today its financial results for the first nine months of 2011 ending September 30th, with a 90%...

Global Sell-off Should be a Reality Check for Investors

Concerns about inflation that are rattling global stock markets should be used as a reality check for investors, says the CEO of one of...

BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Renewed Risk Appetite...

Investors are channeling most of their renewed risk appetite into global emerging market equities (GEM) in the wake of an expected second wave of...

Regional markets likely to remain range bound due to lack of...

Global markets continued the positive momentum during the month of February. Better than expected economic data from China, benign US inflation and optimism over...