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Middle East Economic Intelligence
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section provides a quarterly 360 degree view of the Middle Eastern economies
to help CEOs, their boards and investors with their quarterly strategic planning review. The
purpose of this report is not to provide real-time news but to
summarize key events and reveal quarterly trends, emerging risks and
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Middle East Economic News Briefing > Q3 / 2009
- Obama: "Time To Move Forward" With Israeli-Palestinian Peace
- The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will increase financing
for Islamic countries by +30% over the next two years to US$ 4.3
billion, with 33% earmarked for road and transport projects
- Qatar had the highest economic growth in the world in 2009
- Qatar to finalize 25 year master plan for economic development
- Oil prices on the rise
- Boosts GCC Recovery Prospects
- Despite the current market situation, the value of projects planned
or under way in the MENA region is increasing tremendously (GCC
alone has doubled to more than USD $ 2 trillion
- UAE likely to rejoin Gulf monetary union
- Middle East Invest in Latin America
- Foreign direct investment in Qatar rises by 43pc
- GCC to establish investment bank
- Bahrain foreign direct investment rises 2pc
- The UAE and Switzerland led the global wealth ranking with
millionaire households accounting for 6.1 per cent of all households
in both countries - almost 9 times the global average, according to
the latest Global Wealth report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
- Confidence in real estate markets in Gulf at all time low
- GCC Monetary Union accord approved
- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have
lost as much as $350 billion in 2008
- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank is close to completing the sale of
$1.1 billion worth of conventional bonds to international
investors, the bond is mainly sold to U.S. and European
investors
- Dubai stocks hit 10-month high
- Foreign ownership in UAE-listed firms rises
- S. Korea predicts oil prices to rise to 75 USD per barrel in 2010
- Kuwait Central Bank Gov Sees Improved Economy and Credit Growth
- Gulf companies have issued some $12.8 billion in conventional bonds
over the 12 months to June 2009, a 15%jump from last year's $11.2
billion
- IMF Expects Lebanon's Economy To Grow 7% In 2009 - Report
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD
predicts that Israeli gross domestic product would shrink by only 2%
in 2009 and rise by 0.2% in 2010
- Israel CPI slips to 3.1 percent rate in August
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