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...In San Francisco this month Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was eagerly promoting his country, known as a south-east Asian manufacturing hub and major commodity exporter....
...Chloe Cornish is the FT’s Middle East correspondent. Additional reporting from Beirut by Asser Khattab....
...Malaysia Airlines is the more important rival, he said, as it focuses on the same markets in south-east Asia, Australia, China and Japan....
...By the end of the week it was trading at about 266p per share, less than half of what it was in March....
...He gained experience in rice-trading working for Mitsubishi from 1942 to 1945 during the Japanese occupation of south-east Asia, and learned to speak his employer’s language....
...Gulf leaders and entrepreneurs, meanwhile, are as eager to find new customers and investment opportunities in the east as Indians are to secure oil supplies and attract capital from the Middle East – which...
...Many West Bank enterprises have head offices or are themselves registered in Israel proper....
..., the head of BCG’s financial institutions practice in the Middle East....
...DME contends that its futures contract could become a benchmark for trading in the Middle East....
...The banks are now back to the same lending levels as May 2009 when news started to emerge that two companies, Saad Group and Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers, had defaulted on debt....
...This will likely lead to further widening of credit spreads, especially considering that they had been trading at relatively tight levels.”...
...“The trading relationship between Saudi Arabia and India is among the most strategic bilateral bonds for both countries,” Mr Ahmad says....
...Exxon Mobil paid $600m just to renew leases it had operated for 40 years. Shell and Chevron are expected to follow suit. Other new operators are joining the fray....
...Nasser Al Kharafi, the family patriarch, is widely regarded as one of the Middle East’s savviest and wealthiest businessmen....
...Shares of Textron Inc soared 67 percent in premarket trading after a Kuwaiti newspaper reported that a consortium of Middle Eastern companies was closing in on a deal to buy the diversified U.S. manufacturer...
...Speculative trading and market manipulation is said to be widespread throughout the Middle East. Markets are dominated by retail investors, there is little transparency and regulation is often weak....
...Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, a member of the ruling family....
...The action relates to Saad Trading & Contracting Co. and its owner, Mr Sanea, as well as Algosaibi Trading Services and Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers, two bankers who have seen the circulars said....
...The troubled Saudi group owned by Maan al-Sanea is seeking talks with creditors in the UK and the Middle East as early as next week as it looks to restructure its debt....
...Few people know more about modern Dubai than the chairman of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, Ahmad Sharaf....
...So Pope Benedict XVI will receive an invitation, as will Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the UK. The grand mufti of Damascus, Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, is also on the list....
...The launch of the derivatives contract comes as steel prices reach record highs amid robust demand from emerging countries, particularly China and the Middle East, and surging production costs as a result...
...to analysts as the new chief executive of Exxon, the largest independent oil company....
...grow to 56 days of forward demand cover – a level the group had until recently seen as excessive....
...Enterprise Institute (AEI)....
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