Search Results for: Middle East
This new Arab Bitcoin community plans to push adoption of digital currency across the Middle East and North Africa
April 11th, 2016
AskBitcoiner is the First Major Arab Bitcoin Community This new Arab Bitcoin community plans to push adoption of digital currency across the Middle East and North Africa in the coming years. Bringing the culture of Bitcoin and blockchain technology ...
Multinational law firm to cut 15% of Europe and Middle East partnership
March 24th, 2016
Asia-headquartered global firm King & Wood Mallesons is cutting 15% of partners in its Europe and Middle East practice as part of a restructuring. The cut will mean that up to 24 of the firm’s 160 partners will depart. ...
The Financial Apocalypse Accelerates As Middle East Stocks Crash To Begin The Week
January 18th, 2016
It looks like it is going to be another chaotic week for global financial markets. On Sunday, news that Iran plans to dramatically ramp up oil production sent stocks plunging all across the Middle East. Stocks in Kuwait were ...
US oil boom reduces Middle East influence on oil price
January 7th, 2016
The US oil boom has changed the world’s geopolitics of energy, reducing the influence of the Middle East on oil prices, the American Petroleum Institute (API) said on Wednesday. “The American energy renaissance” is the key reason why the ...
Gold price firmer on pick-up in Middle East tensions
January 4th, 2016
Chinese equities circuit breakers kick-in after 7 percent fall in the CSI Precious metals are mixed with gold and silver prices up around 0.9 percent with the gold price at $1,070, while the industrial precious metals are weaker with ...
The Middle East Could Face A Historic Crisis By Century’s End
November 10th, 2015
Regarding the Middle East and its oil, the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saed Al Maktoum, longtime Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, once famously remarked: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, ...
We Aren’t Nearly As Worried About The Middle East As We should Be
October 7th, 2015
What’s the opposite of a gift that keeps on giving? A mistake that keeps metastasizing. Which pretty much sums up the US role in the Middle East. Beginning with the CIA’s 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected president and ...
IG Group opens first Middle East office in Dubai
September 11th, 2015
New office will give UAE investors 24 hours a day access to over 10,000 financial markets Two thirds of UAE residents want to learn more about trading financial markets IG Group (‘IG’), the world’s leading online trading company, announces ...
Time for state energy companies in Middle East to rethink overseas strategies
July 6th, 2015
The long, hot summer is usually a quiet period in the Arabian Gulf. But this season marks some dramatic changes for Middle East state energy companies and their overseas ventures. The falling oil price creates opportunities for some, problems ...
Herbert Smith Freehills shuts Abu Dhabi office as firm consolidates Middle East presence
June 18th, 2015
Reduced to just one partner in Abu Dhabi, Herbert Smith Freehills is shutting the office and shifting its five-lawyer team to Dubai just six years after opening. Having launched the office in 2008 amid the sharp crash in the Middle East ...
