Call for bond market action as regional debts actually too low
Far from drowning in debt as the recent crisis over the Dubai bond repayment might suggest, the Middle East is woefully deficient in developing its bond markets and ought to be borrowing far more heavily…
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Should you arbitrage silver for gold now?
If financial markets are about to blow up as ArabianMoney suggests today, and for once we are in the company of much of the global media, then holders of precious metals are placed in an…
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Black Monday should be a great day for short ETFs
In Britain the fourth Monday of January is semi-officially known as the most depressing of the year, a combination of bad weather and the distance from Christmas perhaps. But this year that Monday is also…
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US banking reforms a major sell signal for global stocks?
Seldom has a more clear equity sell signal been made than President Obama’s move to ban proprietary trading by the banks. For at a stroke this will remove one of the biggest players from the…
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$1,200 per capita GDP leaves China among poorest nations
How about that for an alternative introduction to the latest soaring GDP figures from China?
OK so GDP is up 10.7 per cent in Q4 compared with a year ago, but what does that actually…
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No US recovery until 2012-3 says Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University has sobering words for those expecting a quick recovery in the US economy, like most of Wall Street?
Nasdaq Dubai volumes up 30% but gold ETF flops
Volumes on the Nasdaq Dubai share trading platform grew by 30 per cent to 3.1 billion shares last year, a rate of growth that could power this minor global exchange to prominence over the coming…
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Is shorting China the 'Trade of the Year'?
ArabianMoney in Dubai has been following Bill Bonner and The Daily Reckoning crew and their decennial declaration of Japanese stocks as the ‘Trade of the Decade’.
Mr. Bonner’s London office has golden balls on…
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China crisis threatens global financial markets
Already faltering after a record rally from the depths of last March, global financial markets are facing an unwelcome headwind from China where the authorities have unexpectedly tightened bank lending, leading to fears that the…
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Foreclosures threaten Dubai house prices despite Q4 rebound
Dubai residential property bounced back from the 50 per cent price haircut of the first year of the market crash and villa and town house prices rose by seven and 10 per cent respectively…
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