The article originally appeared in The National | Business.Some sectors are more stressed than others and the brokerage sector in the UAE is one of them. Just as the UAE is overbanked, it is also over...
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The article originally appeared in Wealth Monitor.The housing market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) continues to face the crisis of supply shortage and ever-increasing demand. High population gr...
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The article originally appeared in The National | Business.The GCC is raining debt issuances. From almost nothing a few years ago, all we hear and read these days is the jumbo-sized bond issuances fro...
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However, the current low oil price environment has transformed the financing landscape in the region as traditional methods of financing such as bank loans are being fast replaced with alternatives su...
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Selling pressure created by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) led to the fall in the Muscat index, while sharp fall seen in the Dubai index was attributed to profit booking, due to volatility in ...
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Although the oil price rose by over 4 per cent, on the back of the OPEC agreement to limit crude output, Saudi index fell considerably after the Saudi government announced that it was reducing salarie...
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Cash flows, ownership structure and free float shares of the company combined affect the dividend policies of the company. Industries Qatar for instance is majority owned by the government of Qatar. T...
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This increasing reach, twinned with the growing presence of young people on social media, has opened up new avenues for companies to interact with their customers of the industries that are currently ...
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Blue Chips were mixed in August with DP World and Ooredoo gaining 8.8 percent and 8.1 percent respectively. Four of the top five gainers were from Qatar, with Qatar National Bank and Industries Qatar ...
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Total earnings in 1H16 came in at USD 32.8 billion, partly supported by telecom and financial services sector. Among sectors, telecommunications and financial services posted positive earnings growth,...
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Blue chips drove Qatar’s index surge, with real estate (8.52%), telecoms (7.94%) and banking stocks (7.1%) performing well in July. The recently announced Qatar’s fuel subsidy reform will also hel...
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ROE is one of the important parameters that is used to evaluate the strength of the company as well as the return the company generates for the equity holders. ROE is also a measure of efficiency of f...
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Though the idea is enticing and could – assuming a flat-rate remittance tax of 10 per cent – add US$10 billion to the non-oil income of the GCC region on an aggregate basis, the introduction of su...
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S&P GCC rose marginally by 1.1% in June, to close at 91 points. Global investor reaction to the Brexit outcome had unnerved GCC investors, and speculation over a possible contagion in Europe had l...
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Corporate profits and net margins at an aggregate level have been on a clear downward trend but the aggregate profit margin conceals diverging performances between the different sectors.Profit margins...
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