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			<title>Gulf bond issues signal debt market recovery - HSBC</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bank was one of the arrangers for IDB's $850m sukuk and Taqa's $1.5bn bonds.]]></description>
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			<title>IDB to start $1.5bn bond roadshow on Sept. 2</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Saudi lender aiming to offer min $500m in first tranche, depending on market conditions.]]></description>
			<category>Islamic Finance | News</category>
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			<title>Sovereign funds buddy up for top returns</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SWFs are working in concert to make joint strategic investments in order to reduce risks and maximise returns.]]></description>
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			<title>UAE cbank rejigs interbank rate panel to spur lending</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Central bank hopes change in panel will lower rates and spur lending.]]></description>
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			<title>Abu Dhabi power project said close to $1.1bn loan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sponsors of Shuweihat 2 power generation project said to have lined up 12 banks.]]></description>
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			<title>Global Investment House slumps to $101m Q2 loss </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 1: Kuwait firm misses analyst forecast that had been looking for a profit.]]></description>
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			<title>HSBC Mideast sees H1 profits fall 35%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Profits slump at Mideast unit of UK banking giant reflects surging loan impairment charges across the region.]]></description>
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			<title>West cautious on Gulf, sovereign funds plug gap</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sovereign wealth funds look to add stimulus to local markets rather than invest overseas.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK starts marketing sukuk - report</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sheikdom reported to have started investor meetings to sell Islamic bonds, say two bankers and an investor.]]></description>
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			<title>MENA Infrastructure Fund buys 32.8% of United Power</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Purchase follows auction process after watchdog required GDF Suez to sell stake.]]></description>
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			<title>Credit Suisse traders keep rockin’ through firings</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Keep swinging with the former Wall Street workers swapping music for money.]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Features</category>
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			<title>Saad picks adviser on $6bn debt talks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Troubled Saudi group puts forward Credit Suisse as an adviser to its bank lenders, say sources.]]></description>
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			<title>Abu Dhabi’s IPIC plans bond sale - bankers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi gov’t investment arm looking to issue bonds in Q3 to fund acquisitions.]]></description>
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			<title>Trustee seeks clarity from Saudi's Saad on $650m sukuk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Citicorp Trustee Co. confirms request to Saad for funds to secure against liabilities.]]></description>
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			<title>Bahrain sukuk priced at lower end of expectations </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Fund manager says tight pricing will limit liquidity of sovereign sukuk issue.]]></description>
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			<title>Private Saudi firm Saad Group to restructure debt</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 1: News follows freezing of chairman Maan al-Sanea's accounts.]]></description>
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			<title>Dolphin seeking to refinance $3.45bn loan - sources</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi-based Dolphin Energy looking to replace 4-year debt maturing this year.]]></description>
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			<title>HSBC ME's profits rose 34% last year</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The bank suffered a deterioration in credit quality in the last quarter of 2008 in wake of global crisis. ]]></description>
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			<title>HSBC set for £12.6bn cash call </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UK bank, in which Dubai International Capital and Saudi's Saad are major shareholders, set for huge rights issue.]]></description>
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			<title>Buying versus leasing in the UAE</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With scandals involving regional real estate tycoons, the recent chaos in the US housing market and the global financial crisis, people are wondering how the Middle East is going to be affected; more specifically how the real estate and property market will be influenced and whether it can retain the confidence of potential investors.]]></description>
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			<title>UAE scores poorly in HSBC expats survey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bank's Expat Explorer poll sees Gulf nation rooted at bottom of table, alongside China, out of 14 countries.]]></description>
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			<title>Hedge funds prowl Japan's Ashiya City</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Why the place is a feeding ground for hedge funds tapping the wealth of people like Kunihisa Sagami.  ]]></description>
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			<title>From flippers to floppers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One has to feel for the now extinct species of property pundits known as ‘flippers’. They came, they saw, they coined it. ]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai villa prices fall 19% in Sept</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 1: HSBC report shows property prices in emirate fell 4%, while in Abu Dhabi prices dropped 5%.]]></description>
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			<title>HSBC: AED20,000 monthly salary needed to get loan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Bank doubles minimum amount someone in UAE must earn to qualify.]]></description>
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			<title>Google and HSBC back Ob3 satellite Internet project</title>
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			<description><![CDATA['Other 3 billion' project is expected to cost $650mn and has now raised $65mn in equity.]]></description>
			<category>Technology | News</category>
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			<title>Oil price drop will not dent Gulf economic boom</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Even at $70 a barrel Gulf exporters still booking windfall returns, analysts say.]]></description>
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			<title>UAE most luxurious country in world for expats</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Luxury lifestyle helps make Gulf state number two in global rankings - survey.]]></description>
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			<title>Residents suffer, house price climb unrelenting</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Prices soar 61% in Abu Dhabi, 37% in Dubai during H1, rents climb 58% and 22%.]]></description>
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			<title>Abu Dhabi housing shortage forces Dubai commute</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Shortage so severe people moving to Dubai, making hour and a half journey every day.]]></description>
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