Author: ReutersID: 1579593076731924400Tue, 2020-01-21 05:21DUBAI: The government of Saudi Arabia started marketing on Tuesday US dollar denominated bonds split into tranches of seven, 12 and 35 years, a document showed.The kingdom is offering i…
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Tue, 2020-01-21 10:35DAVOS: Global business chiefs are more pessimistic about prospects for the world economy than for many years, and senior executives in the Middle East are among the most gloomy, according to the annual survey of chief executive…
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Tue, 2020-01-21 10:07DAVOS: A new organization to develop leadership expertise has been launched under the guidance of Arab businessman Khalid Abdulla Jahani on the eve of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.The Maryam Forum was ina…
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Tue, 2020-01-21 00:10DAVOS: Some 3,000 leaders from the worlds of business, public policy, culture and technology are due to arrive in the Alpine town of Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which begins on Tuesday.The…
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Tue, 2020-01-21 00:42DUBAI: It would be fair to say that in 1996, even after 25 years of its glittering annual gatherings, the World Economic Forum (WEF) rarely troubled the front pages — or indeed any pages — of the British tabloid press.Wh…
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Tue, 2020-01-21 00:56LONDON: Davos is about framing narratives. If you run a company or country and you want to look forward to the big sweep of history before it happens, this is the place to start.Recent meetings of the World Economic Forum (WE…
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Author: Tue, 2020-01-21 01:08LONDON: A majority of people around the world believe capitalism in its current form is doing more harm than good, a survey found ahead of this week’s Davos meeting of business and political leaders.This year was…
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Author: Tue, 2020-01-21 01:03LONDON: Move over revenue growth and dividend payouts: It’s time to take your portfolio’s temperature.Policymakers are pushing investors to do more to ensure their choices help to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement t…
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Author: Tue, 2020-01-21 00:44BEIRUT: As banks have rationed working with dollars, refrained from exchanging Lebanese pounds into the US currency and vice versa, and decreased cash flow to customers, the Lebanese money changers’ market has recov…
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Author: Mon, 2020-01-20 23:41NEW DELHI: Indian imports of Middle Eastern oil plunged to a four-year low in 2019, tanker data shows, as the energy-hungry nation diversifies its supplies to cut costs and shield itself from geopolitical tensions.…
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Emerging states must re-orientate their investment efforts to increasingly target those with an outsized social impact
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Egypt is well on the way to establishing a diversified economy, claims Hala El Saeed, minister of planning and economic development 
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FDI levels have already fallen throughout Iran's main sphere of influence in the region. 
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Togo won a record number of greenfield investment projects last year.
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The Gulf region is making extensive reforms to its foreign investment landscape in an effort to attract foreign investors to sectors outside oil and gas, according to a recent report by PwC. 
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The Egyptian capital Cairo led Africa in 2018, attracting 10 foreign business services investment projects, in its strongest performance since 2012. Joshua Crawford reports.
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The chief executive of Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ), shares his views over the perks of free zones in emerging markets. 
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Despite companies such as M-Pesa being pioneers in the mobile payments sector, Africa's tech scene is considered to be lagging its global peers. It hosts a thriving start-up scene, however, with a lack of capital being its chief downfall.
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Having opened new production facilities in Rwanda and South Africa, Mara Phones is looking to alter Africa's mindset from being a 'consumer' to being a 'manufacturer'. 
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The EU is considering a broader mandate for the EBRD, and its president, Sir Suma Chakrabarti, believes its model would work in sub-Saharan Africa.
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US president says he has turned a stagnant economy into ‘a roaring geyser of opportunity’
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Stocks fall as Beijing confirms human-to-human transmission ahead of Chinese new year
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Senate Republican leader’s resolution raises bar for the introduction of evidence
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Authorities suggest agents posed as tradesmen in order to bug world leaders
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Push for anti-subversion bill likely to inflame anti-government sentiment in territory
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Spain takes the biggest hit in fourth quarter, ECB’s quarterly bank survey shows
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Investment bank struggles add to pressure on chief executive Sergio Ermotti
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Ride-hailing group exits market after failing to win against domestic competitors
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Antitrust, privacy issues and ‘technology for good’ feature on World Economic Forum agenda
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Firm wants culture ‘where everyone feels respected and cared for’
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Millions of Russian tourists will no longer be soaking up the sun in Turkey and supermarkets across Russia will soon stop carrying Turkish produce after economic relations between the two countries further deteriorated on Monday. Russia prevented 1,2…
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Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday, announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are alre…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Turkey on Saturday issued a travel warning to its citizens, asking them to avoid all non-urgent travel to Russia, as diplomatic tension between the two countries escalates over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey earlier this week.The Turkish…
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UPDATED 9:45 a.m. EST: Russia will suspend visa-free travel agreement with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. The action takes effect Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
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Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting".In an escalating war of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -- Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public-relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic pressures on the kingdom. Riyadh has the tools available to pro…
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One particular sentence spoken by the Russian foreign minister Tuesday has Turkish officials feeling particularly uneasy: “We do not recommend that our citizens travel to Turkey for tourism or any other reason,” Sergey Lavrov said. He was in So…
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Saudi Arabia and Angola both beat out Russia as the largest crude oil suppliers to China in October, Bloomberg reported Monday. The huge China market is one arena where the world’s suppliers continue to compete for share amid a global oil glut, a…
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European leaders are planning to crack down on the use of bitcoin, prepaid credit cards and other methods of anonymous payment in response to the Paris attacks last week, Reuters reported Thursday. It's part of a crisis plan that aims to dismantle…
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SULTAN QABOOS of Oman left little to chance. Long before he died he sealed two envelopes containing the name of his chosen successor—and a back-up, just in case. Hours after his death was announced on January 10th, relatives gathered to open the en…
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SO UPSET WERE they over the crash of a Ukrainian passenger jet that not one but two officials in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including its leader, said they wished they were dead. The IRGC, the regime’s Praetorian guard, sh…
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FROM WEAPONS purchases to energy deals to Syria, the presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have had no shortage of things to ponder in the past couple of years. At a meeting in Istanbul on January 8th, they added a…
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IN THE EARLY days of Islam, mosques were modest affairs. The first ones had neither domes nor minarets. The Prophet Muhammad used his courtyard as a prayer hall. But Arab autocrats now see things differently. Many hope to leave a legacy in stone in k…
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ISABEL DOS SANTOS lives modestly these days. Or so the billionaire daughter of a former Angolan president, José Eduardo dos Santos, says. She arrived on foot to meet your correspondent at a smart hotel in London; and at the end of the interview she…
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WHAT IS IT like being a taxman in Africa? “A lot of sleepless nights,” says Yankuba Darboe, the Gambia’s top revenue official, describing the pressure to meet targets. Politicians across Africa are asking ever more of their tax collectors, with…
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TOURISTS VISITING Kenya’s lovely Lamu archipelago are normally stirred from their slumber by pleasant sounds, such as gently lapping waves or the call to prayer drifting across the water. But on January 5th some were woken by the less melodious rat…
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WHEN ALICIA THOMPSON was a student in Johannesburg before the end of apartheid, she would often walk past the beautiful cars parked outside a club she was not allowed to join. It was not by chance that the Rand Club, the oldest private-members’ clu…
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Bernie attacks Joe for even considering entitlement reform.
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The trade war hits consumers and exports, two more papers say.
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The Supreme Court weighs tax credits and a 19th-century bigotry.
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Will the post-impeachment president steal a page from Bill Clinton?
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Or at least that’s how populism’s rise feels to those at the World Economic Forum.
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Sanders supports the Jewish state’s right to exist. Is that too much for his backers?
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Follow the speaker’s own advice: reject a partisan and unconvincing case against the president.
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The 1973 law is likely unconstitutional and routinely ignored. A better proposal already exists.
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State-sanctioned marijuana shops are contributing to the rise in lung illnesses and deaths at a higher rate than previously believed.
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The ruling has empowered small-dollar donors and political outsiders, not corporations.
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