United Arab Emirates
The US Navy has fired at an Indian fishing boat off the coast of Dubai killing one Indian fisherman....
Dubai government-owned entity JAFZA has repaid a US$ 2 billion Islamic bond, five months ahead of schedule....
The UAE has started the operation of the so-called Hormuz bypass that allows the export of oil via a pipeline that bypasses the Straits of Hormuz....
The UAE have proposed laws to regulate buying controlling stakes in the stock markets. This will create greater transparency....
UAE legislators are proposing introducing a federal dress code. The proposal risks politicizing an issue that has galvanized conservative elements within society....
The failure of the GCC to accept or even negotiate a Saudi proposal for further integration is a blow to the Saudi regional position....
The escalation of rhetoric between the UAE and Iran continues and increases the overall risk of a diplomatic and possibly in the long-term a military confrontation....
Tensions have escalated between the UAE and Iran, after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the UAE island of Abu Musa, occupied by Iran....
Dubai Group has offered to restart talks with creditors to discuss payback of US$10 billion of debt....
Figures released by the UAE Central Bank indicate that bank deposits have reached their highest level in almost two years....
The relationships between the GCC and Iran have deteriorated on a number of fronts....
Dubai appears to be benefiting from the regional unrest as regional investors move funds to Dubai....
The UAE and the emirate of Dubai in particular are likely to experience a mini-boom as a result of the regional situation....
Qatar became the first Arab country to grant political recognition to the Libyan rebels....
Leading Dubai developer Union Properties posts massive losses in 2010, leading to a sharp decline of shares prices for other developers in the UAE as well. ...
Labour demonstrations in Dubai leading to the deportation of workers will increase pressure on the UAE to modernize its labour laws....
Reports that The World Island in Dubai is sinking, coupled by news of unprecedented retail vacancies in Dubai will add further pressure to the Dubai real-estate market....
Stock markets across the GCC have tumbled as a result of the demonstrations in Egypt....
Oman announced that it has uncovered a UAE spy ring, which the UAE denied. This is a most serious development to hit inter-GCC relations in recent years....
Negative news about two of the UAE’s leading companies threaten to shake economic confidence in the country....