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• IMF concerned about Dubai debt expansion to $142bn

  
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  The International Monetary Fund has warned that Dubai is risking another boom-to-bust business cycle by pushing up its debt to boost short-term growth at the cost of the medium term outlook, in a statement concluding its annual mission to the UAE. The global central bank highlighted an increase in debt at Dubai ...
  5 days ago

• Central banks won’t be able to stop printing money like in 1994 so buy gold

  
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  It’s curious to hear economists like ex-Goldman Sachs chief Jim O’Neill talking about the bond market having the same feel as in 1994 when the Fed also tightened monetary policy, but it is just not going to happen this time. Why? Because the world is addicted to the crack cocaine of cheap money and the global ...
  6 days ago

• Asian shares crash again as World Bank slashes economic growth forecasts

  
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  Asian stocks crashed again with Japan down more than five per cent and Chinese bourses losing the most in six months and Wall Street also struggled to digest an increasingly bleak global economic outlook. The World Bank cut its global growth forecast for this year after emerging markets from China to Brazil slowed ...
  6 days ago

• Investor Group Ends Bid for British Water Utility

  
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  An effort by an investment consortium to buy the British water utility Severn Trent fell apart on Tuesday as the two sides failed to enter into talks before a deadline.
  1 week ago

• Reality of the serious Chinese economic slowdown the next big problem for the US and eurozone

  
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  Half of Mercedes S-Class cars are sold in China. General Motors is more of a Chinese than a US company these days. What’s bad news for China is therefore bad news for Germany and North America, and of course the commodity producers who supply the manufacturing heart of the planet. ArabianMoney noted on a tour of ...
  1 week ago

• DealBook: British Water Utility Rejects $7.7 Billion Takeover Offer

  
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  The British water utility Severn Trent has rejected a second takeover offer from a consortium of investment firms, which included the sovereign wealth fund Kuwait Investment Authority.        
  2 weeks ago

• British Water Utility Rejects $7.7 Billion Takeover Offer

  
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  The British water utility Severn Trent has rejected a second takeover offer from a consortium of investment firms, which included the sovereign wealth fund Kuwait Investment Authority.
  2 weeks ago

• New UAE Companies Law offers nothing to foreign investors but is that such a bad thing?

  
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  Foreign investors hoping that the new UAE Companies Law would allow them to own more than 50 per cent of non-freezone companies will be very disappointed by the new law that was finally passed yesterday by the Federal National Council after 10 years of deliberation. Perhaps not so surprisingly the FNC has voted to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Upward pressure on the US dollar is an extremely serious problem for economic recovery going forward

  
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  Strategists at Pimco, the world’s largest bond fund are talking about the yen hitting $1.20 and sterling falling to $1.37. Currency experts also expect a weaker euro with dollar parity possible within the next three to five years. The US dollar is also now gaining sharply against commodity currencies like the Aussie ...
  2 weeks ago

• Investors making more on real estate and stocks in Dubai than anywhere else in the world

  
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  Dubai is a city that likes to be the biggest and best and indeed the Guiness Book of Records has opened an office here. And currently investors are making more on real estate and stocks in Dubai than anywhere else in the world, as the only independent investment newsletter for the region published by ArabianMoney ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are foreigners buying into China stocks at the wrong time again?

  
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  Even the brightest of foreign investors generally make a hash of buying Chinese stocks. They are now back in force.In today’s ‘Global Outlook,’ Bloomberg’s David Ingles looks at Chinese equities. He speaks on Bloomberg… Read more »
  3 weeks ago

• Double bottom in prices and the escalation of war in Syria points to higher precious metal prices

  
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  To lift the precious metals market out of its current funk there needs to be something to pop the stock market bubble and bring investors back down to earth. S&P 500 profits and revenues have barely changed in the past year and have peaked. The good news on housing and confidence is down to asset inflation only. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Abu Dhabi Investment Authority boosts long-term returns and increases exposure to emerging markets

  
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  The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dubai Investment Authority has published data showing that its US dollar-measured returns over 20 years were up from 6.9 to 7.6 per cent over the past year, while 30-year returns averaged 8.2 versus 8.1 per cent. ADIA does not report annualized returns. ‘The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Publishes 2012 ADIA Review

  
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  The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) today published its 2012 ADIA Review, providing a thorough overview of its activities over the past year while further enhancing understanding of its approach to investing. Established in 1976, ADIA is a globally-diversified investment institution that prudently invests funds ...
  3 weeks ago

• Japanese stocks drop sharply again, gold and silver prices gain

  
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  Japanese stocks fell for the fifth session in a row with the Nikkei down three per cent while both gold and silver prices advanced. However, most Asian markets held their ground. Bourses in the US and UK are closed for a holiday this Monday. Official reassurance from the Bank of Japan seemed to do little to calm ...
  3 weeks ago

• Japan’s new economic policy is a disaster that will bring destruction down upon us all

  
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  What chance is there of money printing ever solving the economic woes of a major nation? Just about zero if you look at historical precedents. Are the Japanese so clever that they will find a way? If you are a betting man then this is what they call a dead cert with insider knowledge. It is not going to work. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bosses drive their companies into debt promoting risky share buybacks to boost their annual bonuses

  
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  US firms have authorized $275 billion in stock repurchases this quarter, according to Bloomberg, the highest level in five years. This is the major source of buying that is keeping the stock market up while the global economy is slowing down. But why are companies willing to go into debt now to buyback their own ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chinese manufacturing data from HSBC shows a contraction for the first time this year

  
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  The latest manufacturing data from China sent Asian shares into a funk today with an unexpected fall. This confirmed the anecdotal evidence reported by ArabianMoney on a tour of China last month that the economy is slowing down faster than the official figures would indicate. The preliminary reading of 49.6 for the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bernanke triggers market sell-off with hints that money printing will be scaled back soon

  
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  Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke yesterday triggered a market sell-off though not a correction with his carefully prepared remarks to a Congressional committee that indicated a willingness to wind down money printing as soon as this autumn if unemployment improves. This is not the oxygen markets were looking for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sovereign Wealth Funds allocate new assets to private equity

  
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  20% of Sovereign Wealth Fund new assets allocated to private equity Property and infrastructure are not the big SWF ‘alternative investment’ story Major sovereign governments and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the Middle East are increasingly considering new private equity models for investment, according to the ...
  4 weeks ago

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