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Dubai Financial Market in Final Stages of Launching New Trading Platform...

Dubai Financial Market (DFM) announced today that it's in the final stages of launching the new state of the art trading system "X- Stream",...

Foreign investors purchase AED 728.7 million worth of shares on DFM...

Value of shares bought by institutional investors reaches AED 354.5 million during last week, and value of shares sold reached AED 455.1...

UAE financial markets to close on Thursday

Securities and Commodities Authority(SCA) has announced that the financial markets nationwide will close on Thursday, Nov. 15, and resume transactions on Sunday, Nov. 18,...

Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange extends trading hours

Exchange will open 30 minutes before Indian exchange traded currency derivatives markets DGCX participants will have 30 minutes of trading time overlap with the Asian...

SCA to issue new regulations to enhance stock markets

The 5th Annual Conference of the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (ESCA) was held here in Dubai under the auspices of Engineer Sultan bin...

UAE Stocks To Have 5% Decline Limit Effective Wednesday

The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has imposed a 5 percent daily lower fluctuation limit for shares effective Wednesday, March 18th, and until further...

Frontier Markets ETFs Soared in May

The iShares MSCI Frontier 100 ETF is proving Thursday's massive volume spike was not a fluke. Along with some other frontier markets ETFs ,...

Equity markets in emerging economies to experience significant growth in next...

Emerging market capitalization could account for half of the world total by 2020In under a decade, equity markets in the emerging world have flourished...

Infrastructure and Economic Diversification to Drive Saudi Private Equity Market

With the steady population growth propelling continuous infrastructure development, Saudi Arabia is considered the next big market for private equity and venture capital investors,...

DGCX Gold Futures Rise 111%

Exchange Sets Fourth Consecutive Monthly Volumes Record in June Exchange registers 889,131 contracts in June, valued at $32.92 billion, a growth of 231% from June...

Social Affairs Ministry denies converting Arkan shares to social assistance recipients

The Ministry of Social Affairs denied today it has converted ownership of about 100 million shares of Arkan Building Materials Company to 10,000 recipients...

Foreign investors purchase AED 511.3 mn worth of shares on DFM...

Dubai Financial Market announced today that the value of shares bought by foreign investors, or non-UAE nationals, during last week (1 - 4 Feb.)...

Dubai Mercantile Exchange achieves new record in Open Interest

The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME) today announced that it has achieved the highest level of open interest for its benchmark Oman Crude Oil...

DGCX First Quarter Volumes Up 112%

Exchange trades 3,281,234 contracts in the first quarter March volumes total 1,072,052, a 95% rise from 2012 Indian Rupee futures grows 104% year-on-year March volumes on the...

Net foreign investment on DFM reaches AED 102.6m between 7-11 June

Dubai Financial Market (DFM) announced today that the value of stocks sold by foreign investors during last week (7-11 June) reached AED 2.845 billion...

Tamweel requests share trading in 1 month

Tamweel has requested the resumption of trading in its shares in the next month and is in discussions with the UAE federal government over...

Goldman Sachs finalizes ADX-DFM merger study

Goldman Sachs has completed a study on the merger of Dubai Financial market (DFM) and Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), Al Bayan newspaper reported. The...

DGCX launches Middle East’s First Derivatives Trading Academy

Exchange seeks to extend benefits of derivatives trading to wider business community DGCX Academy to offer broad range of educational programmes Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange...