Saudi surplus may soar by 28 times
Saudi Arabia's budget surplus could rocket by nearly 28 times in 2012 as revenue will likely be far higher than...
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Lebanon has significant natural gas wealth
Explorers will very likely find substantial quantities of natural gas and possibly oil off the Lebanese coast, according to a...
Iraq’s 2012 foreign commercial activity
Dunia Frontier Consultants tracks foreign commercial activity (FCA) in Iraq, defined as investments, service contracts or any other form of...
Qatar to acquire stake in Heathrow airport for US$ 1.4 billion
Qatar Holding announced that it will purchase a 20% stake in BAA Ltd., owner of London’s Heathrow Airport, for US$...
Qatar buys 22% stake in China’s CITIC Capital
A unit of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has bought a 22 percent stake in CITIC Capital Holdings, linking one of...
$66.4 billion sukuk issued globally in 2012
The volume of sukuk issued globally during the first half of the current year reached $ 66.4 billion, according to...
Jordanian company launches largest Arabic online encyclopedia
An Amman based company is about to launch the largest Arabic encyclopedia, TAGpedia, with about 500,000 articles going on line...
GCC petrochem capacity set to rise to 113MTPA
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) petrochemical capacity is estimated to increase from 77.3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 113MTPA...
Revenues of the port of Beirut up by 8.7%
The latest statistics of the Port of Beirut showed that its revenues reached a cumulative US$ 100.5 million in the...
Jordan planning ahead
The early August approval of a $2bn loan by the IMF to Jordan has once again brought the Kingdom’s financial...
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