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Middle Eastern countries gold reserves not affected by inflation hedge worries

According to Dubai International Financial Centre Authority, Middle Eastern countries should expand their gold reserves holdings. That is expected to shield their assets in...

Inflation-Targeting Dead, Long Live Inflation

The Fed actually thinks it can drive 315 million souls through a 0.2% gap in its forecasts... REMEMBER INFLATION? Central bankers do –...

High Oil Prices will constrain Economic Growth

During the last century, cheaper oil prices gave a boost to global economic growth. However, during the last decade, prices for oil surged, and...

Dubai’s Consumer Price Index, Inflation Rate up in August

The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) reached 116.86 in August 2012, and with comparison with the base year (2007 =100); it increase by 0.33%...

Silver top performer on weak economic data, ratings revision

On Tuesday, in electronic trading gold and silver reached their highest level in more than five months. This was after the manufacturing figures from...

Unscary Reasons to Add Gold

Never mind inflation or credit default. There are plenty of less scary reasons to consider gold investing too... Gold is of course for kooks and...

Consumer Price Index shows food prices drive inflation

Inflation at 1.2 percent over the First 5 Months of 2012 Y-o-Y Food Accounts for 67.2 percent of the Rise in Consumer Prices Average consumer prices...

Inflation up 0.7 percent in the first two months of 2012

Abu Dhabi (SCAD) issued today its monthly report on the consumer price index (CPI) and the inflation rate in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi...

January inflation in Dubai down at 0.94%

The monthly consumer prices inflation rate in Emirate of Dubai dropped 0.94% in January 2012 compared to December 2011, due to the decrease in...

Bullish sentiment on gold as hedge against inflation

With gold prices continuing to beat various moving averages, a signal some analysts perceive as being bullish, the demand for the yellow metal lifted spot prices

Consumer prices rose by 1.9% during the first 11 months of...

Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi, issued today its periodic report on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the inflation rate in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi for the first 11 months of 2011 and the month of October 2011.

Commodities growth to ease in 2012

Expectations of lower inflation is expected to reduce commodities’ appeal in 2012. Two of 2011’s strongest performing assets, gold and oil, are unlikely to replicate these returns in 2012.

Dubai inflation rate increases to a three-month high

In October, annual inflation rate in Dubai increased to a three-month high of 0.3 percent.

Precious metals lose ground

Commodities futures tumbled sharply on Thursday as the dollar rallied in the wake of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s bond-swap program and pessimistic economic data...

UAE business activity hits 15-month low in August

Growth of the business activity in the private sector in UAE slowed to a 15-month low in August, according to the HSBC UAE Purchasing...

UAE inflation at 2.5% over the first seven months of 2011

Statistics Center - Abu Dhabi issued its periodic report on the consumer price index (CPI) and the inflation rate in the Emirate of Abu...

Inflation slows in UAE on declining housing, oil prices

In July, inflation in UAE slowed to 1.3 percent, as residential and oil prices had their biggest monthly drop in more than a year. Inflation...

Gold may settle at around $2,400 an ounce

Adjusted for inflation, gold would have to settle somewhere near $2,400 an ounce to supplant a record around $850 an ounce reached in January...