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ING IM target resource rich states

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... He said European and Middle Eastern economies would remain strong despite an impending US economic slowdown. "The Middle East and Eastern Europe have become much more important over the last few years and they'll play a bigger factor going forward because ...

Money changes hands

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
... dismiss an online poll like this, the growing power of the Euro and rise of emerging markets, which now includes the Middle East, is no idle or isolated perception. Witness the courageousness of the Europeans in imposing a $1.4 billion fine on Microsoft ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... oil-rich Middle Eastern countries as suppliers of capital to the world, along with the rise of new financial hubs in the Middle East to complement the rapidly growing hubs in London and Asia." But while the fall in US economic power has leapfrogged ahead ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... bonds, they're now expected to aggressively take over companies. The sharp rise in GCC fortunes is expected to reignite Middle East's sovereign wealth funds stakes in Wall Street banks. But rather than injecting foreign capital now, there's growing concern ...

Oil rich city pours $17.1b in SRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... alternative energy after investing $17.1 billion in sustainable future energy projects across North Africa and the Middle East. Launched at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi this week, the investments will be guided by the Masdar Initiative ...

Blair joins JPMorgan Chase

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... as British prime minister for three terms spanning ten years, he was praised for his diplomatic involvements in the Middle East process but criticised for joining the United States-led war against Iraq. JPMorgan Chase operates in more than 50 countries ...

Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Government of Singapore Investment Corp and an unidentified Middle Eastern investor (rumoured to be a state controlled fund from Oman) have chipped in $11.6 billion in capital into UBS to lift it out of the sub-prime funding jungle. This is the latest ...

Move over BRICs, Middle East is coming

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... potential in BRIC economies remains high yet will stabilise as China exhibits 'bubble' characteristics, but if the Middle East continues to liberalise it will offer even bigger potential. Speaking at the FPA conference last week, Allan Conway, head of ...

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
Record high oil prices is fuelling the Middle East to export nearly as much capital as they do oil, tying their economies to that of the west and acting as a brake on ever higher fuel prices. Saudi Arabia produces about one-third of the world's oil ...

Portfolio Partners predicts 30-year resources boom

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... relatively low level of Chinese urbanisation and population growth in emerging economies like India, Russia and the Middle East would result in a sustained Australian resources boom. The comments come only two weeks after Schroder's head of Australian ...