Emaar lifts Dubai index to 20-week high Arab News | Arab News | JEDDAH/DUBAI: Emaar Properties lifted the Dubai index to a 20-week closing high yesterday as most Gulf markets advanced on surging global sentiment and oil's climb to a new six-month peak. | Further gains are expected today, providing US stocks hold firm overnight, traders said. | Emaa...
Big potential seen for retail business Arab News | Mohammed Rasooldeen | Arab News | RIYADH: Despite the economic downturn, the retail sector in the Middle East is projected at $500 billion by 2010 with the GCC accounting for more than 60 percent of the total retail in the region, said Gautam Hari Singhania, chairman and managing director of Raymo...
Emaar lifts Dubai index to 20-week high Arab News | Arab News | JEDDAH/DUBAI: Emaar Properties lifted the Dubai index to a 20-week closing high yesterday as most Gulf markets advanced on surging global sentiment and oil's climb to a new six-month peak. | Further gains are expected today, providing U...
UAE retailers expand into Oman Gulf News | Muscat: Medium-sized supermarkets are vying to replace fast disappearing small convenience stores (groceries) in Muscat. | After Lu Lu, Safeer and KM Trading, Al Maya Group has started making inroads into the Omani market by opening two supermarket...
Oil and the Middle East: Four prices - four scenarios A look at how Gulf ... Globe and Mail | Gulf Arab states could face economic turbulence or prosperity depending on where oil prices go in this year's global recession with prices of about $60 (U.S.) a barrel offering some room for optimism. | Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporte...
Big potential seen for retail business Arab News | Mohammed Rasooldeen | Arab News | RIYADH: Despite the economic downturn, the retail sector in the Middle East is projected at $500 billion by 2010 with the GCC accounting for more than 60 percent of the total retail in the region, said Gautam Hari ...
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Arroyo pitches for OFWs on UAE visit Arab News | K.T. Abdurabb | Arab News | DUBAI: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who is currently visiting the UAE, said that there would be more than 200,000 new jobs for skilled and profe...
The making of Maggie The Guardian | She found it easy to charm men ... women simply didn't count She was the grocer's daughter with a stong moral conscience who ruled with an iron fist - or so the story goes. In fa...
Big potential seen for retail business Arab News | Mohammed Rasooldeen | Arab News | RIYADH: Despite the economic downturn, the retail sector in the Middle East is projected at $500 billion by 2010 with the GCC accounting for mor...
Muscat calls for political unity in addressing financial turmoil Independent Online Opposition leader Joseph Muscat yesterday called for national and political unity in the drive to address the current global and Maltese economic ailments, as the international financial meltdown continues to transform itself into a global recession....
Oman oil output, exports reverse years of decline Gulf News | Muscat: Oman last Friday reported a sharp increase in crude oil exports during the first four months of this year, reinforcing a trend in rising production after years of declining output. | Exports of crude oil, which along with gas constitutes the mainstay of the country's revenue earnings, climbed by 10.8 per cent to 79.68 million barrels duri...
Oil hovers above $66 after weak jobs data Tulsa World Oil prices hovered above $66 a barrel Friday in light holiday trading a day after grim unemployment numbers from the U.S. and Europe sent prices tumbling. | By mid-afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for August delivery was down 16 cents to $66.57 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Thursday, it fell $2.58, nearl...
