Investment Strategies – Sovereign Wealth Funds back in play

Analysis and Discussion with Jan Randolph of IHS Global Insight

The Currency Report – Dollar, Ozzie, Rupee

U.S. Dollar falls on Banking Outlook; Australian Dollar climbs to highest level since October; Indian Rupee seeing biggest gain since 1986 on ruling party...

Investing in Currencies

Interview and discussion with Steven Pearson of the Bank of America - Merill Lynch. He discusses the Pounds domination against Dollar in the economy....

Euro vs Dollar

Analysis and discussion with Geoffrey Yu of UBS talking about the latest in the currency market.

The resurgence of the Middle East cards industry

The last twelve months has seen the Middle Eastern retail banks face the twin challenges in their cards business of security threats and exposure...

Global Investments Roundup

Exxon profit spills 58%; Motorola posts loss, bleeding cash; FTSE 100 moves 8.1% in April; South Africa cuts interest rate to 8.5%; Flu scare...

RAKBANK Achieves 13% Growth in First Quarter Profits

RAKBANK has reported a net profit of AED 160.37 million for the first quarter of 2009, a 12.7% increase over the same period last...

Meltdown turns spotlight on Islamic finance

The failure of major investment and commercial banks that helped trigger the global recession has led some experts to look for other ways of...

DMCC to host international gold forum in Dubai

1.‘DMCC Gold Convention’ to be held on April 27 at Atlantis, The Palm 2. Gold commands attention with investment demand registering 27 per cent increase...

Istithmar World Investment Management (Dubai) Limited to operate from DIFC as...

To focus on private equity and alternative investment opportunities Istithmar World, the investment arm of Dubai World,  today announced that its investment management entity, Istithmar...

Foreign investors net DFM buyers by AED 16.29 mln

Non-Arab foreign investors bought shares at a net value of approx. AED 58.69 million on Dubai Financial Market (DFM) today, while their sell transactions...

Foreigners net DFM buyers by AED 5.08 mln

Non-Arab foreign investors bought shares at a net value of approx. AED 21.11 million, while their sell transactions reached about AED 20.02 million, according...

Emirates NBD to propose capital increase through government tranche

Emirates NBD has announced in a notice to its shareholders regarding its Second Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will...

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...

UAE Central Bank sets up crisis committee with banks

Representatives of the Central Bank of the UAE and major national banks met yesterday to discuss the challenges faced by the UAE banking system...

UAE federal Government to move to 3-year budgets

UAE plans a big makeover with regard to its federal budget, like releasing budgets every three years instead of yearly one at present and...

UAE financial markets close for holiday on Sunday

The UAE financial markets will close on Sunday March 8 to mark the anniversary of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) birthday, a statement issued today by...

Finance House subsidiary to launch Fund to finance UAE private sector...

Finance House, through its DIFC-registered subsidiary, FH Capital Ltd, today announced that it intends to launch the FH Special Opportunities Fund (SOF), with a...