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Tag Archives: finance
Iraq’s 2010 budget; the missing pages
Despite the presence of the budget assigned to the three presidential entities [president, Prime Minister and parliament] in the index, scrolling through the released document of 2010 budget [Arabic, link corrected], pages and tables from chapter 4 are missing. According … Continue reading
Corrupt Sheik Mo
The dummy Sheik Mohammed Al-Maktoum (who never finished his school) banned the UK newspaper Times from his corrupt Emirate after publishing a cartoon shows the Sheik sinking in his debts. Newspapers, magazines wrote many pages about UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) financial … Continue reading
Saudi Arabia not in FT list
Saudi Arabia is really upset about the absence of Saudi Arabia from the Financial Times top 50 ranks, while the Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad Bin Jasam included in the list, Saudi Elaph says: This list is not a trustworthy; there … Continue reading
Is this some kind of fake Saudi — U.S. arms deal?
July 2007 Saudi Arabia made $20 billion arms deal with Bush administration, and today we learn that there is a new $15 — $20 billion arms deal with the U.S. Navy. Few weeks ago, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa reported [on this blog … Continue reading
Arab’s conditional help to the west
Under the title “Sorry Mr. Brown”, Saudi newspaper Al-Watan wrote: The Saudi Kingdom received the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is touring the Gulf to raise funds to increasing the capacity of the International Monetary Fund plan to help … Continue reading
U.S. economy: The worst is yet to come
This is what the team wrote, back in February and this is what they are saying about the U.S. summer 2009. This prophecy will be back as #1 in the Top 20.
American pressure on the Gulf-States to save Wall Street
Gulf diplomatic sources in New York, told Al-Akhbar that they are concerned about the U.S. pressures on the Gulf-countries to absorb the currency liquidity available in their banks. The United States sent harsh messages to its Gulf allies demanding serious contribution … Continue reading
The real reason behind the rise of oil-prices after Bhutto’s assassination
Few minutes after Bhutto’s assassination, the media told us that oil-prices rose at least $1, although Pakistan is not oil-producer country, but the media didn’t explain why this rise, the nearest “convincing” explanation was “Shockwave” [from the CNN], but a … Continue reading
Another US-created “coincidence” in Sudan
Check this out: Is it not a strange coincidence that Bush signs Sudan divestment bill and one US diplomat killed today in Sudan only after four days from Sudan Central Bank issued a statement to stop dealing with the US … Continue reading
Confusing reports about GCC Dollar-linked currencies
There were many confusing reports about the GCC decision to keep their currencies related to the dollar and final announcement doesn’t explain it all. Before the summit, UAE newspaper emaratalyoum reported [same report on Reuters..Arabic] that Arab Monetary Fund called on … Continue reading