Dubai: The Dubai government will access the debt capital markets through a dirham-denominated issue under its recently established Dh15 billion medium-term note (MTN) programme. The objective of the issuance is to fund the local infrastructure needs of the government and simultaneously contribute to the development of the domestic bond market. Sami Al Gamzi, director general …
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Dubai: The UAE’s foreign exchange reserves surged 50 per cent to $75 billion in November, data showed yesterday, shedding new light on central bank concern that month about the dirham currency’s dollar peg. The data for November, the latest available, showed reserves growing at their fastest pace in at least 18 years, increasing inflation pressures …
Dubai: Burj Dubai has surpassed the United States’ KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota to become the world’s tallest man-made structure. Burj Dubai is now 629 metres high while KVLY-TV, which held the record for the world’s tallest supported structure since 1963, has a height of 628.8 metres. Burj Dubai is already the world’s tallest building, …
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Dubai: A Formula One race in Abu Dhabi from 2009 won’t undercut the $548 million Bahrain generates from hosting a Grand Prix, the head of Bahrain’s Economic Development Board said. « We view this as a complement and not competition, » chief executive officer Shaikh Mohammed Bin Eisa Al Kalifa said. « It brings the eyes of the …
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Cairo: Mohammad Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, yesterday received Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Presidential Affairs. The meeting was attended from the Egyptian side by Rashid Mohammad Rashid, minister of trade and industry and from the UAE side, by Mohammad Bin Dha’en Al Hamili, Minister of Energy and Sultan Bin Saeed Al …
Dubai: Arabian Gulf shares fell on concern that a possible recession in the US will deter investments in the region and as investors await first-quarter results. Dubai’s main index dropped almost three per cent, posting its sharpest one-day decline in two months, to 5,248.88 led by Emaar Properties and Dubai Financial Market Co (DFM). Abu …
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s WCT Engineering said on Wednesday it has won an extra 800 million ringgit ($252 million) contract for its Formula 1 race-track project in Abu Dhabi, raising the total contract value to 2.1 billion ringgit. Executive director Loh Siew Choh said the project would now be completed in June 2009, six months later …
Dubai: Gulf banks and individual investors are planning to set up a $3 billion Islamic investment bank and an Islamic stock exchange in Bahrain by 2009, the chief executive of Al Baraka Banking Group said. « It will be the largest bank in the region for the issuance of sukuk and will create a secondary market …
Dubai : The general assembly of Etisalat has approved a 35 per cent cash dividend of the nominal share value for the second half of 2007 to be distributed to shareholders. This brings the total cash dividend distributed in 2007 to 60 per cent of the nominal share value. In its meeting on Monday, the …
Dubai: Abu Dhabi government-owned Ipic and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) will invest $2 billion in a new fund for global acquisitions, the managing director of Ipic said yesterday. « We plan to invest in all sectors, including oil and petrochemicals, » Khadem Al Qubaisi said. The fund could thus mark a new direction for the International Petroleum …
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