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Gold coins or faceless money

What the history of ancient gold coins says about Europe's kingless, faceless money today... So when Vespasian was proclaimed Emperor by the legions in...

Consumer Spending in Islamic Economy Sectors Totals US$2.2 Trillion

Islamic economy registers 5.2 per cent growth over previous year UAE ranks first across five of seven Islamic economy sectors Investments in Islamic...

Dubai’s Real Estate Market Leader IPO Set for Early November

Emaar Properties board chairman Mohamed Alabbar on Saturday said he expects that a 30% stake of Emaar Development will be offered for public subscription...

Twitter is estimated to be worth $9 billion before IPO

Twitter Inc. was valued at about $9 billion after early employees sold $80 million in shares to a fund managed by BlackRock Inc. This...

Dubai to Host 2021 World Forum for Foreign Direct Investment

Conway, Inc. announced that it has awarded the Dubai Investment Development Agency the opportunity to host the 18th World Forum for Foreign Direct Investment...

MENA could issue over USD 80 billion of debt in 2019,...

• JP Morgan EMBI inclusion (31 January) likely to attract more than USD 30 billion in inflows to GCC bonds • Local and hard currency...

Growth and Profitability Fears after Oil Price Spike

Following the recent oil price spike, investors fear for corporate profitability and global growth, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers...

FDI Global Cities of the Future 2021/2022: Dubai Ranks 3rd Globally

The vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, helped...

Oil & Gold in the Investor’s Spotlight in 2022

Not only commodities markets but also the derived financial and capital markets are undergoing a wave of revived interest by both long-term investors and...

GCC equity markets benefit from increased global investment inflows

Frontier markets outperforms emerging markets over the past 2 years

Soaring Demand Drives Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency Listing

A gold-backed digital asset has been added to a financial advisory and fintech organisation’s cryptocurrency app. deVere Group added Pax Gold (PAXG) to deVere Crypto...

FAB Issues Five-year USD 500 Million Sukuk

Lowest-ever yield on any five-year MENA bank USD issuance Issued at MS+90bps (all-in yield of 1.411%) Three times over-subscribed with total orderbook of circa USD 1.5...

Emaar will hold an Extraordinary General Meeting on November 8 ...

Emaar Properties PJSC (Emaar) will hold an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the company’s shareholders today (November 8), 5pm, at The Address Dubai Marina...

Dubai ranks first globally in attracting FDIs for artificial intelligence and...

Dubai ranked first globally in attracting foreign direct investments, FDIs, for artificial intelligence and robotics; while the UAE ranked sixth in the global Smart...

Global Gold Demand Reinforced by Asian Consumers

The World Gold Council published a market update recently, which examines the effect of the recent fall in the gold price. The report also provides...

FAB Wealth Sentiment Index up 1.56% in June

Index score increases from 1038.28 in May, to 1054.52 in June 2017 First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the UAE’s largest bank and one of the...

Brent, corn and gold investments to perform well in 2012

Commodities had an eventful year all-together, but ended the 2011 roughly unchanged. The energy-heavy MLCX TR and S&P GSCI TR indexes returned -2.6% and -1.2%...

Dubai Investments Q2 profit falls 32 pct

Dubai Investments PJSC (“DI”), the largest investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market, today announced its financial results for the six-month period ended...