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Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... turkey! Put that cork back into the champagne bottle! Thanksgiving has been hijacked! If you don't standstill, we sink. Dubai World reportedly intends to ask its creditors to "standstill" and extend maturities of its about US$59 billion debt mountain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... cent, to settle at 2,176.05. LONDON - Europe's major stock markets plunged by more than three per cent on Thursday after Dubai's shock call to suspend the debt of a key state company fuelled anxiety over heavy public borrowing. London trading also was ...

Gulf wealth to engulf stockmarkets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... reserves could be as much as $40 trillion - worth more than all the stockmarkets in the world combined. The figure is from the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFCA), which this month released a study telling investors that the size of ...

Macquarie eyes Middle East with JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... shares are actively traded on the London Stock Exchange (GDR), the Kuwait Stock Exchange, the Bahrain Stock Exchange and the Dubai Financial Market.

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... catalyst for insulating, to some extent, stock markets in the GCC region from market disturbances." Gentilini added that while Dubai and Saudi Arabia have adjusted their GDP growth estimates following the global financial crisis, both states still project ...

Dubai to swoop in bad market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Dubai International Financial Sector governor believes the global financial crisis will strengthen the United Arab Emirates' position as an economic and investment hub. Speaking at the Financial Times /Dubai International Financial Centre World ...

Deutsche extends MENA services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... Honegger, Deutsche Bank head of global markets for MENA. The bank recently relocated three of its MENA executives from London to Dubai including Alex Ells, MENA head of trading, Carl Hayes, MENA head of equity sales trading and Christopher Laing, co ...

JPMorgan buys DME stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
JPMorgan joins a number of global financial institutions and energy firms as an equity stakeholder in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). The global investment bank joins Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vitol, Concord Energy, Casa Energy Trading and ...

AXA APH appoints Asia Life CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... Asia Life. Perkins previously worked as chief executive of Aviva, working across the firm's life business in Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore. He was also Korean chief operating officer, Malaysian chief executive at Aviva. "I am pleased we have secured ...

Women dropping out of financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... cent to meet escalating competition from established centres such as Hong Kong and Singapore and emerging centres such as Dubai and Shanghai." Roy Morgan found that the percentage of employed Australians in the financial services industry grew from nine ...