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...Andrew EnglandIt’s the second-largest listed stock in the Gulf region after Saudi Aramco, the state oil giant. Michela TinderaAndrew’s the FT’s Middle East editor....
...In the dying days of Boris Johnson’s government, he even held one of the great offices of state, serving as chancellor of the exchequer for two months....
...Credit spreads, eh. Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...“[South Korea et al] probably don’t belong in an emerging market index, particularly on the debt side,” added Mr Huebler, who said EM investors generally think they are targeting “countries that have a risk...
...Nicely depicted by Gallo and team as follows: We’ve explained this before, but as Gallo et al sum up, during the boom years oil-exporting countries found themselves needing to invest around $700-800bn a...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...But today, six years after the project began, Marsa al-Seef is a victim of the global credit crunch and Bahrain’s strife-ridden economy....
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...The name of his game, already evident in all the earlier Whitewater et al investigations which he encouraged, was to delegitimise Mr Clinton....
...Pearls, long associated with wealth and royalty, are also one of the mainstays of Gulf Arab history and culture, having formed one of the Gulf states’ main income streams before the discovery of oil....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...A similar 2009 study by Mikael Höök et al. found a production-weighted average decline rate of 5.5 percent per year. Other estimates have ranged as high as 8 percent....
...Moreover, banks are doubly exposed via the property market that Dubai Holding et al. abandoned from 2009 to 2010. Property prices have halved in the emirate since 2008....
...His financial, political, and personal stature in the Middle East enables him to meet with heads of state and court and get courted by a unique pool of prospective investors....
...Fadi al-Said of ING Investment Management is also bullish on Egypt, pointing to the potential of a variety of sectors that fund managers find attractive....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...www.cassina.com 5 TV Sofa Bokja One of my personal highlights from December’s Design Miami was a preview of the Al-Sabah Art & Design Collection, the new design venture from Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah of Villa...
...Months into this financial crisis, we are by now used to government rescues of banking and insurance behemoths, but to see a city-state that needed a bail-out you have to travel to Dubai....
...Who wants to see Bolton v Wigan when you could be watching a geopolitical face-off between ancient rivals? The trend also offers hope for greater financial literacy....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...But while the Gulf’s economic hyperactivity marks a remarkable contrast to the gloom in western capitals, where bankers and governments have been reeling from the credit crunch and bracing for recession,...
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