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Qatar Exchange regains further ground as bellwether Industries Qatar approaches key resistance level
February 23, 2012--The QE 20 Index added half a percent to close at 8,732.75 points.
The Doha-based market measure is the only gauge in the GCC which has not reached break-even year-to-date, but has gained 2.2% during the least week. Market bellwether Industried Qatar advanced 1.40%. The share has bottomed out in a w-formation end of 2011 is constantly approaching a key resistance level at QR150 it failed to crack three times last year.
Etisalat closes even, starts legal procedures in India
February 23, 2012--The Abu Dhabi market gauge ADXGI advanced for the sixth consecutive day, closing 0.20% higher at 2,539.20 points. At the ADX, some 160.6m shares were traded, valued at Dhs191.3m. Dana Gas fell two percent to Dhs0.48. Market bellwether Etisalat closed even at Dhs9.56.
Earlier in the day, Etisalat announced it has filed "proceedings of civil action in the Bombay High Court against Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka and Majestic Infracon Private Limited, the former promoters of Swan Telecom, for fraud and misrepresentation." Etisalat had to shut down its operations in India, running under the name Etisalat DB, for allegedly violating rules related to the sale of wireless, according to The National.
DP World consolidates above $11 at NASDAQ Dubai
February 23, 2012--The FTSE NASDAQ Dubai UAE 20 index closed at 1646.44, up 0.60%, from the previous close. DP World declined 0.88% to $11.30.
Jewelry trader Damas finished unchanged at $0.37. Some 132,000 shares were traded, value at $290,000.
Dubai market ends week on a high note
February 23, 2012--The DFM General Index rose by 1.50% Thursday, closing at 1,632.27 points.
Arabtec Construction surged 3.74% to hit Dhs3.05. With today's trading action, the DFM increased its year-to-date gain to 20.61%. Emaar Properties slipped 0.33% to Dhs3.04. According to Gary Dugan, CIO Private Banking Emirates NBD, "the days of investors hiding in 100% cash or near cash are behind us. Central banks have collectively provided such significant amounts of stimulus to the global economy that some risk taking by investors bored with near zero interest rates was inevitable. The cash continues to seek higher yield in bonds and equities driving prices higher." Some 564.4m shares were traded, valued at Dhs440.34m.
DP World consolidates above $11 at NASDAQ Dubai
February 23, 2012--The FTSE NASDAQ Dubai UAE 20 index closed at 1646.44, up 0.60%, from the previous close. DP World declined 0.88% to $11.30.
Jewelry trader Damas finished unchanged at $0.37. Some 132,000 shares were traded, value at $290,000.
Etisalat closes even, starts legal procedures in India
February 23, 2012, 13 hours ago
The Abu Dhabi market gauge ADXGI advanced for the sixth consecutive day, closing 0.20% higher at 2,539.20 points.
At the ADX, some 160.6m shares were traded, valued at Dhs191.3m. Dana Gas fell two percent to Dhs0.48. Market bellwether Etisalat closed even at Dhs9.56. Earlier in the day, Etisalat announced it has filed "proceedings of civil action in the Bombay High Court against Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka and Majestic Infracon Private Limited, the former promoters of Swan Telecom, for fraud and misrepresentation." Etisalat had to shut down its operations in India, running under the name Etisalat DB, for allegedly violating rules related to the sale of wireless, according to The National.
Qatar Exchange regains further ground as bellwether Industries Qatar approaches key resistance level
February 23, 2012--The QE 20 Index added half a percent to close at 8,732.75 points.
The Doha-based market measure is the only gauge in the GCC which has not reached break-even year-to-date, but has gained 2.2% during the least week. Market bellwether Industried Qatar advanced 1.40%. The share has bottomed out in a w-formation end of 2011 is constantly approaching a key resistance level at QR150 it failed to crack three times last year.
UAE remains largest Arab market
Country overtook Saudi Arabia but remains second exporter
February 23, 2012 --The UAE retained its position in 2010 as the largest market in the Arab world, with its imports of goods and services accounting for nearly 28 per cent of the total Arab imports, according to official data.
But the country remained second to Saudi Arabia in terms of exports despite an increase in its exports of goods and services in 2010, showed the figures by the Abu Dhabi-based Arab Monetary Fund (AMF).
The AMF, an IMF-style regional establishment affiliated to the Cairo-based Arab League, gave no data for 2011 but the UAE’s commercial exchange is expected to have sharply grown during that year because of a surge in crude prices and business upturn following a downturn in 2009.
Tadawul index shaves 7,000 resistance level as Sabic hits six-months high
February 22, 2012--The Saudi Stock Exchange's benchmark index Tasi advanec 0.93% Wednesday to reach 7,031.26 points as oil prices (U. S. crude) consolidatet at $105 per barrel.
Saudi Basic Industries or Sabic, the petrochemical bellwether, reached a six-month high at around SR100.50 (up 1.26%). Saudi Automotive Services Co. lost the most (off five percent). Eighty-eight shares advanced and 36 fell.
Muscat Securities Market gains slightly, Omani Minister calls for more economic integration in GCC
February 22, 2012--The MSM-30 Index added 0.11% Wednesday, closing at 5,672.87 points. The Omani stock market gauge is close to break even this year (off 0.39% year-to-date).
Earlier in the day, His Excellency Sheikh Saad Ben Hamad Almardouf Alsaidi, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Chairman of the Capital Market Authority, said in a speech at at the Thomson Reuters Accelus 6th GCC Regulators' Summit hosted in association with Oman Centre for Corporate Governance: "It is extremely urgent and necessary that the GCC countries adopt a unified economic, financial and legislative stand within the international organizations particularly IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions) so that they could positively influence the region." His Excellency said this would in turn "develop the legal and regulatory frameworks for the financial markets and adapt them according to the markets' needs and circumstances in line with the interest and requirements of the Gulf common market."
