MENA Investors Shift Focus from UAE Residential to Hospitality Market
UAE's residential market continues to be the most preferred investment choice for MENA investors. According to JLL’s 2014 MENA Investors Sentiment Survey, the regional...
Regional markets close October on negative note despite slight rally
Stock markets in the MENA region closed October on a negative note with varying degrees of losses despite exhibiting a slight rally earlier in...
Is Dubai at risk?- Money Managers Talks
The recent news flow on Limitless and Dubai World highlights that the wave of restructured debt from 2015 onward is likely to be challenging...
Emaar Development IPO Seeks up to $1.5 Bln
Emaar Properties is looking to raise as much as $1.5 billion from the sale of shares in its development unit in Dubai's first major...
How Banking and Financial Software Are Changing The Game
Few industries are more complex or contain more moving parts than the financial and banking industries. On top of this complexity are higher stakes,...
Dubai Parks and Resorts Secures US$1.15bn Syndicated Finance Facilities
Dubai Parks and Resorts PJSC (under incorporation) (“Dubai Parks and Resorts” or “the Company”), a subsidiary of Meraas Holding LLC, has today announced that...
Innovation very important to 82 percent of executives in financial firms
Fifty-seven percent of global financial services executives believe regulation has enabled growth of their business, according to the results of Deloitte’s Staying Ahead of...
US Dollar gains from reduction in US federal deficit
A positive element to emerge from yesterday's economic events from the United States was a reduction in the Federal Budget Balance, from a deficit...
MENA Deal Value Declines in Q1 2016
2016 has gotten off to a fairly slow start in terms of M&A activity targeting companies based in the Middle East and North...
Global Institutional Investors’ Average Target Allocation to Real Estate Increases
The real estate asset class continues to experience growth in institutional capital allocations. In fact, 2017 represents an important milestone in this regard according...
Gold prices broadly expected to weaken next week, but…
Gold prices are expected to weaken in the coming week. This belief is mainly driven by investors concerns about what action the U.S. Federal...
Dollar weakness continues during the week
The euro came off its New Year's low following a rise in equities and a decision by Japan to buy European bonds that were...
Repositioning Private Capital: Money Movements Around The Globe
More than a tenth of the world’s ultra high net worth wealth is managed by Swiss banks and it is estimated at approximately CHF3...
Goldman revises gold price forecast for 2014
Gold prices will probably drop at least 15 percent next year as commodities face increased downside risks even as economic growth in the U.S....
FAB Wealth Sentiment Index down 2.2% in August
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions, has announced the latest score of its...
Valued over $1 trillion Saudi Aramco IPO could go global
As part of a privatization drive, Saudi Arabia is considering an IPO of Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest crude oil producer, deputy crown price...
2015 Market Outlook: Bull Market Slows to a Jog
Bullish on Stocks, Dollar, Volatility and Real Estate Opportunities to Be Found in Commodities and Emerging Markets
BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research today released its...
Investors Selectively Lowering Risk After Bond Sell-off
Global investors have less appetite for higher risk exposures, particularly in the U.S., according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for May.
While...