1.3 trillion euro refinancings to tip over eurozone bond market
The eurozone has only managed to raise 150 million euros for a proposed 200 million euro IMF bailout scheme and the 500 billion Euro Stability Mechanism will not be ready for months. But there is…
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Pentominium and Marina 101 now the only stalled super-towers in Dubai Marina
It’s a testament to how Dubai has quietly gotten on with completing its buildings over the past three years since the global financial crisis that only two super-tower projects in the Dubai Marina are still…
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Buying Air Berlin stake a clever game changer by Etihad Airways to get to the heart of Europe
Abu Dhabi’s state-owned airline Etihad is cleverly expanding its feeder network in Europe’s richest nation through the acquisition of a 29.2 per cent stake in Air Berlin, a massive jump on its previous 2.99 per…
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Emaar’s $1bn loan shows refinancing should not be a problem for Dubai in 2012
The ability of Emaar Properties to close a $980 million syndicated loan from three banks yesterday suggests that refinancing a $10 billion debt pile for Dubai Government and related entities should not be a problem…
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News Feeds introduced on ArabianMoney.net
ArabianMoney wanted to introduce something new for our growing readership for 2012 and after extensive market research we noted a strong demand for real-time news.
It is not really within our resources to provide a…
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Will Prince Alwaleed’s $300m Twitter stake revisit his dot-com crash turkeys?
Legendary Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed has bought a $300 million stake in the Twitter micro-blogging site jointly with his Kingdom Holding Company. This appears to be a repeat of the dot-com investment folly to which…
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Trying to market time a volatile gold and silver market is a fool’s errand
OK so it is all now painfully obvious what the future holds for gold and silver. Deflationary forces are taking over. There will be a credit implosion in the eurozone and China. Commodities prices will…
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Deflationary shock the most likely outlook for the world economy in 2012
The forces of inflation are abating in the world economy with a credit contraction evident in the eurozone and imminent in China.
Money printing is less and less effective at stimulating demand. This probably adds…
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Finance is the only sector still really depressed in the UAE
Coming up towards the end of 2011 and the UAE can point to a year of substantial recovery thanks to record oil revenues and safe haven status in the Arab Spring. Its $340 billion GDP,…
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Gold is the thing to buy and not sell with euro-geddon upon us
Precious metals investors are counting their losses this weekend but should remember that we saw the same kind of sell-off and then recovery in 2008. If you have no stomach for such volatilty you should…
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