Dubai World’s biggest creditors are the British banks and half of them are effectively state-owned after the financial crisis. This is the contagion link between an isolated debt problem, albeit… more →
ArabianMoney.NetPeter Cooper wrote 10 hours ago: Dubai World’s biggest creditors are the British banks and half of them are effectively state-o … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 12 hours ago: The UAE Central Bank is making fresh liquidity available to its banking system today to meet an expe … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 1 day ago: Will the Gulf stock markets decide to close and take an extra day for their Eid holiday on Monday? C … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 1 day ago: Next week financial markets will be looking for some pretty speedy answers from Dubai after the sudd … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 2 days ago: To say the debt moratorium declared by Dubai World last week rattled global markets is an understate … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 4 days ago: Emerging stock markets around the world will undergo a risk reassessment after the news of a $59 bil … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 5 days ago: Abu Dhabi risks repeating the building moratorium policy error of the late 1990s in cutting back on … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 5 days ago: Listening to several of the region’s top economists over the last few days has convinced me th … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 5 days ago: The City of Gold is reeling from a collapse in demand for the yellow metal brought on by higher pric … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 1 week ago: Standard Chartered Bank economists today insisted that the UAE will see negative growth of one per c … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 1 week ago: The sudden termination of financial facilities and plunging value of property that has crashed real … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 1 week ago: One of the big stories in the UK press last week was The Daily Mail scoop about the number of tanker … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 1 week ago: Swiss bank UBS published a controversial report late last week which predicts an additional 30 per c … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 1 week ago: This weekend Dubai is hosting a plenary session for the World Economic Forum that sculpts the agenda … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 2 weeks ago: Next week delegates for the annual Private Equity World conference run by Terrapinn will gather agai … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 2 weeks ago: When stock brokers decide to sell their business that is usually the best signal of a market top. Al … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 2 weeks ago: UAE consumers have been revealed as the most optimistic in the region, and well above the global ave … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 3 weeks ago: Artificially low US interest rates are fuelling up asset inflation in emerging markets through the d … more →
Peter Cooper wrote 3 weeks ago: This week a number of major US retailers will report earnings. But stock watchers looking for a forw … more →