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Dubai Consumer Confidence Index remain above average

Overall consumer confidence in Dubai remained robust during the second quarter of 2012, driven largely by a positive outlook on personal finance and strong...

Dubai Economic Outlook forum outlines growth prospects

Second ‘Dubai Economic Outlook’ forum brings together key public and private sector strategists and policy-makers in wide-ranging debates

UAE inflation 4.9pc at the end of April

The UAE Ministry of Economy released its first-ever monthly inflation data and said inflation in the second-largest Arab economy was an annual 4.94 per...

GCC Economic Development and Outlook 2013

GCC nominal GDP reached about US$ 1.56 trillion in 2012, up from US$ 1.44 trillion in 2011; UAE economy to grow by 3.2% in...

UAE among world’s 25 Rapid Growth Markets

25 Rapid Growth Markets (RGMs) to grow by an average of 6.2% this year and by 5.9% in 2012, compared with 1.6% growth for the Eurozone this year falling to 0.6% next year.
H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri announced that the first edition of the Emirates Investment Summit ‘Investopia’

Emirates Investment Summit ‘Investopia’ to Link Economy of the Present to...

Inaugural edition of the Summit falls under the ‘Projects of the 50’ H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, UAE Minister of Economy, announced that the...

UAE’s Consumer Price Index Down in February 2013

The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropped 0.15% to 117.24 in February from 117.41 in January 2013, and with comparison with the base year...

Inflation in Dubai slows to 5.4pc

Dubai's inflation rate slowed to 5.4 per cent in the first five months of 2009, compared to 8.7 per cent a year earlier, the...

UAE is boosting its economic achievements through economic diversification

Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, has said that United Arab Emirates is working to enhance its successful economic...

Licenses issued in Dubai rose 14% in May 2012

The number of trade licenses issued by the Department of Economic Development (DED) in May 2012 reached 1,542, an increase of 14 per cent...

“Just a little inflation” does not exist

Some people think that a little inflation is all the economy needs to break out of the doldrums. However, what they don’t realize is...

UAE focused on joint efforts to strengthen Arab economy

The UAE Minister of Economy His Excellency Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri stressed that joint efforts to further strengthen the Arab economy...

Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey finds Economic Optimism

Highest since 2003 as investors put cash to work Questions over imbalances in early stages of recovery Investor optimism about the global economy has soared...

Optimism about Businesses in Dubai in Q4 on The Rise

Businesses in Dubai expect a stronger performance in the last quarter of 2011, according to the findings of the most recent quarterly survey conducted by the Department of Economic Development.

Dubai inflation rose 0.4 percent

Dubai inflation rose to 0.4 percent on an annual basis in January. However, the living costs in the emirate fell slightly from the previous month...

UAE Banks will continue financing the economic sector

Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, State Minister for Financial Affairs, has directed the banks to continue financing basic economic sectors, in order to help sustain...

Abu Dhabi’s inflation drops 1.2% in first nine month

Statistics Center- Abu Dhabi (SCAD) issued this week its first detailed report on consumer prices index (CPI) and the rate of inflation in the...

Dubai may open up business for Gulf residents

DED committee to study allowing GCC nationals to form foreign partnership firms without locals The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai has formed a...