Search Results for: Gulf Cooperation Council
The outlook of employee salaries in Gulf region for 2017
February 13th, 2017
Many companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region are not planning to change their compensation budgets for 2017, with employee salaries expected to continue at a relatively flat rate compared to a year ago. Recent data released by ...
A common currency in the Gulf Arab region?
October 31st, 2016
Gulf single currency ‘inevitable’, says Oman cenbank chief Hamood Sangour al-Zadjali is quoted as saying that the move is only a matter of time The creation of a single currency in the Gulf Arab region has become inevitable and ...
UAE, the new key role player in the Middle East
April 20th, 2017
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is likely to play a bigger role in the conflict-ridden Middle East due to its economic, military, and political influence. For most of the past four decades, the UAE has maintained a low-key role ...
Qatar sees Brexit as an opportunity
March 30th, 2017
Qatar sees Britain’s exit from the EU as an opportunity to boost supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the world’s fifth-largest economy and is open to investing in British energy assets, Qatar’s energy minister said. The Gulf state ...
Oil prices stumble after strong jump in U.S. crude stocks
January 12th, 2017
Crude prices slipped Thursday after data showed a stronger-than-expected increase in U.S. crude and distillate fuel stocks at a time when oil exports out of the Middle East are surging. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude ...
The dawn of financial technology in Islamic finance
December 23rd, 2016
Over the past decade, financial technology — widely referred to as FinTech — has grown primarily due to growing Internet access worldwide and the emergence of smartphones and apps. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report published last year, 70 ...
Russia & Saudi Arabia agree to stabilize oil market
October 25th, 2016
Moscow and Riyadh have found common ground on a possible agreement with OPEC and a plan to stabilize oil prices after a meeting in the Saudi capital. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak met with representatives of Saudi Arabia and ...
Tax Experts Wanted in U.A.E.
October 20th, 2016
U.A.E. Ministry of Finance advertising about 30 tax jobs Gulf Arab monarchies to impose value added tax by 2018 The United Arab Emirates is setting up a federal tax authority that will be in charge of collecting levies, as ...
Opec: No Deal Amid Saudi-Iran Stand-Off
June 2nd, 2016
Oil prices have remained flat in early Asian trading, as investors await the outcome of today’s Opec meeting in Vienna. Early this morning, Brent crude was trading at just under $50 a barrel – less than half the level ...
Saudi Arabia Has a Plan B to Try to Stop Iran’s Economic Rise
May 26th, 2016
The kingdom is mobilizing its Gulf allies to make sure that Iran’s opening-up to the global economy doesn’t go smoothly. Saudi Arabia couldn’t stop the Iran nuclear deal from being signed. Plan B is to limit Iran’s ability to ...
