The NASDAQ Dubai exchange is the region’s premier market for financial trading. Now, a company known for its position in the brokerage industry is helping government parties launch a new equity futures market for investors.
The two largest airline carriers in the Emirates, Emirates Airlines and Abu-Dhabi based Etihad Airlines, are facing layoffs and budget cuts as a result of lower demand.
Financial experts are reporting on a liquidity crunch in Dubai as the Emirates continue to manage a fast-growing national economy.
Although Saudi Arabia has an active space exploration program — even in the post-oil age — the Saudis have agreements in place to finance joint international efforts focused on establishing…
A new study in the UAE is showing consumer ambivalence when it comes to driverless cars.
The government in the United Arab Emirates has a message for the many people who fled the country in the financial recession of the last decade, leaving behind bad debt…
To add vitality to its national economy, the Gulf Coast country of Oman is getting proactive about opening up real estate to a range of investors, for the purposes of…
A move by OPEC to restrict the supply of oil from participating countries has led to higher oil prices across energy markets.
In partnership with a company called Miral Asset Management LLC, Sea World Entertainment now has plans to open its first attraction outside of North America.
A major real estate firm in the Gulf country of Qatar is focusing some attention on an emerging market, the Philippines, as a way to diversify its business.
Next week, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is due to meet with GCC leaders at a summit in Bahrain to talk about what the post-Brexit future will look like for…
To visitors in downtown Dubai, the results of rapid innovation are evident: smart city infrastructure blinks behind glass windows.
A new e-commerce platform from IKEA Saudi Arabia will help regional customers get furniture products from the popular Swedish store directly to their doorsteps.
A real estate community in the emirate of Ras al Khaimah is attracting a lot of attention from overseas investors and others looking to settle on the Persian Gulf coast.
Observing the efforts of countries around the world to keep up their infrastructure, experts are noticing that these kinds of investments tend to pay off very well.
New advances in clean energy are making big headlines in the GCC, as United Arab Emirates (UAE) leaders discover they have reached the critical mass point where it is now…
The time-honored Muslim holiday of Ashura still has quite an effect around the globe: on Wednesday, Oct. 12, Islamic communities and individuals observed this holy day, the 10th day of…
While consolidating the city’s position as a vibrant cosmopolitan regional hub — aiming for various green energy and sustainability standards and generally modernizing the quality of life in this coastal…
As the gulf country of Qatar gets a look at first quarter numbers for 2016, officials are finding that the GDP rose in that time period by only 1.1 percent,…
A company called Vincitore Real Estate Development LLC is making a grand entrance into the city of Dubai with the Vincitore Palacio project, a 135 million AED residential community with…
Egyptian citizens are decrying the quick monetary changes implemented by the federal government, and the impact they have on their lives.
A pilot project in Qatar aims to address the fight against diabetes and other serious health conditions in the region.
A new national privacy and data protection law is in the works for the Gulf nation of Qatar.
As GCC countries start looking at the real impact of the coming Value Added Tax (VAT), planned for the beginning of 2018, the country of Oman is realizing that it…
Hospitals, medical resellers and patients in the country of Egypt are having big problems.
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