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			<title>Gulf Finance House swings to Q3 loss on lower income</title>
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			<title>Bahrain's GFH announces major shake-up</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Islamic investment bank splits company into two, aiming for 'new period of growth'.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Finance House sees earnings recovery in H2</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Islamic lender eyes recovering after suffering three consecutive quarterly losses.]]></description>
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			<title>Fresh appetite for Gulf IPOs seen after Ramadan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Investors seen more willing to support region's companies after market drought.]]></description>
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			<title>GFH, Macquarie set for strategic tie-up</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Macquarie Group to invest $100m in Bahrain’s GFH ahead of providing Islamic products across ME. ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar mulls Poland shipyard buy after deal fails</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 2: Poles under pressure to sell yards to stave off thousands of job losses.]]></description>
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			<title>The view from the top</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf Finance House founder and chairman Esam Janahi’s talks strategy, recovery and oil prices.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Finance House sees Q2 loss on income slump</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 1: Bahraini Islamic bank misses forecast with third straight quarterly loss.]]></description>
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			<title>Bahrain central bank okays GFH capital hike</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain-based Islamic investment bank wins nod to hike its capital by $300m to $500m.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Finance House expects to raise $500m-$800m in 2009 – chairman</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bank expects to raise less than half of $1.8bn it raised two years ago.]]></description>
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			<title>GCC to continue with US currency peg - analyst</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf Finance House says US dollar is undisputed reserve currency for GCC nations.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Finance House announces new CEO</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lebanese-born Ahmed Fahour will take over the reigns at the Bahrain-based Islamic lender.]]></description>
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			<title>Bahrain's Gulf Finance House denies merger talks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Islamic investment bank not to merge with Kuwait's First Investment Bank.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Finance House set to appoint new CEO</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Former CEO of Bahrian bank left in Dec, replacement to be named in weeks.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Finance House posts $37.7m net loss Q109</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain-based Islamic Finance House says loss due to provisions on investment portfolio.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf Finance House seeks $600mn for energy projects</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain-based Islamic bank looking to finance Libyan and Kazakh projects.]]></description>
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			<title>First Energy set for further investment in energy sector</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain-based Islamic investment bank eyes oil exploration and drilling services deals.]]></description>
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			<title>Bahrain's Gulf Finance House eyes buyouts this year</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Islamic investment bank mulls acquisitions as valuations of potential targets face pressure.]]></description>
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			<title>GFH announces 2008 profit fall </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain-based investment bank reveals year end profits dropped 14 percent compared to 2007.]]></description>
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			<title>S&amp;amp;P cuts outlook for GFH to negative</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ratings agency affirms BBB-/A-3 long and short-term counterparty ratings for the Islamic investment bank.]]></description>
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			<title>Energy City Libya plans revealed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain's Gulf Finance House (GFH) has unveiled the conceptual master plan for its US $5 billion (BHD1.9 billion) Energy City Libya development.]]></description>
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			<title>Libya to host $5 billion energy hub</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain's Gulf Finance House unveils Energy City Libya, following sites in Qatar, India and Kazakhstan.]]></description>
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			<title>How liquidity can solve the MENA water shortage</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The MENA region has quite a thirst but little to quench it. Geography dictates that water in the region is a scarce commodity; more so than in any other region of the world.]]></description>
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			<title>The business hub of the Middle East</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bahrain Financial Harbour is one of the Middle East's most exciting property developments and a natural extension of the kingdom's heritage, the project has been designed to address every single need of the highly diverse international finance sector.]]></description>
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			<title>Rocking the Kasbah</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tipped to be the biggest emerging international market Morocco has much to aspire to. Elspeth Hoare examines the country's current plans for growth, and what's to come.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf investors launch $2.8bn in new Islamic firms</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf Arab consortium aims to set up three Islamic financial firms to tap opportunities.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf finance turns attention to steel</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf Finance House establishes HadeedMENA to exploit regional building boom.]]></description>
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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>US $5bn firm will boost steel supply</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf  Finance House is establishing a US $5 billion (BHD1.8 billion) steel firm with five partners in an effort to shore up the gap between supply and the increasing demand for steel in the Middle East.]]></description>
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			<title>$5bn Gulf steelmaker planned</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Islamic investment bank Gulf Finance behind company to acquire existing, build new plants, mines.]]></description>
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