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Quite contradictory with this... Who's telling the truth?
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Quite contradictory with this... Who's telling the truth?
S&P are more credible then all those GCC politicians or central bank governors or whatsoever inside these countries.....

Dubai will always claim that they are recovering but in reality they are not...

If they are recovering this means Abu Dhabi is buying everything in Dubai.....maybe they will name it Abu Dubai.....:)
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Quite contradictory with this... Who's telling the truth?
Seeing is believing.
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DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--The economic crisis in the oil-rich Gulf states is over and the region has not experienced any systemic risks, a top United Arab Emirates official said Tuesday.

"We're in a position to declare with a great deal of confidence that the region has successfully passed through the worst of the crisis without experiencing any systemic risks," said Omar Bin Sulaiman, the governor of the Dubai International Financial Center who is also the vice chairman of the U.A.E. Central BankU.A.E. Central Bank.

Bin Sulaiman, speaking at a conference in Dubai, added that Gulf countries hold massive hydrocarbon reserves. He called the reserves "transformative" because they have the ability to ensure long-term financial stability.

Referring to a study done by the DIFC Authority's economic unit, Bin Sulaiman said that the present value of oil reserves belonging to the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries stands at $18.3 trillion, larger than the gross domestic product of the U.S. in 2008. "If the price of oil averages at $100 a barrel and the price of gas at $9, this will bring revenues of $37.7 trillion, equal to the world's total stock market capitalization."

Expanding on a speech given last week by the country's Central BankCentral BankCentral Bank of the United Arab Emirates Governor, Bin Sulaiman called for the formation of a regional debt market.

The "Middle East banks, with their close proximity to Asian markets, are ideally positioned to link up with partners in China, India, Central Asia and other areas to provide the financing that will fuel the strong growth anticipated in emerging markets for years to come," Bin Sulaiman said.
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here some of the presentations in conferences made by the DIFC about the financial crisis, many nice documents are there.
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لا يخفى على أحد التخبط الواضح الذي تعيشه امارة دبي من خلال الازمة المالية العالمية التي تمر بها ، واشرت في كثير من مقالاتي بأن دبي وقت الأزمات يقف المواطن والوافد أمامها حائرا مذهولا مصدوما مما يلمسه من عجز يتمثل في الهروب منها بطرق كثيرة واختفاء الوجوه التي لا تفهم في الاقتصاد ولكن برز وجهها من خلال الظهور الاعلامي المكثف وهي السياسة المتبعة للشيخ الجليل لتضليل الناس ليظهروا لنا على صورة كبار رجالات الاقتصاد والاستثمار وهم مجرد آداة لـــ شيخ جاهل صدق نفسه فجأة بأنه من

أجتهد في علمه ليخرج لنا بنظريات اقتصادية لا يفهم فيها ولا يعرف ماهو اصلا الاقتصاد كتعريف موجز..

الازمة الاقتصادية بما فيها من سلبيات ألقت بظلالها على كل العالم لها سلبياتها التي لا تخفى على أحد اما ايجابياتها فهي اكثر من سلبياتها ، فقد كشفت لنا الأزمة كشعوب عربية مدى صدق رؤيتنا وايماننا بأننا متخلفون بحكامنا مهزومون بطريقة تفكيرهم ، ومهاجرون ومنفيون في جميع أنحاء العالم بفضل قياداتهم الرشيدة التي يتغنون بها على ابواب جحيم شعوبهم لتحسين صورتهم على حساب شعوبهم والتي فضحت الازمة مدى العجز الكلي الذي أخفقوا هذه المرة في التعتيم عليه ، وبالرغم من انعدام الشفافية في كل الامور الا ان الازمة المالية اصبحت سيدة نفسها في كل المواقف ، وقفت لتكشف الباطل وتخترق جدار عزلة الاقتصاد المزيف لدول الخليج وبالذات امارة دبي التي تعتبر نفسها مركز مالي عالمي قام على اساس مباني مزخرفة على آخر طراز وتديره عقول لا تفهم حتى الفرق بين الاقتصاد والاستثمار اللهم نعمة مفاجئة هبطت عليهم م ن السماء لم يحافظوا عليها وانقلبوا الى اكبر مركز للدعارة وغسيل الاموال والمتاجرة بالنساء والاطفال وسياسية التمييز العنصري المقيتة التي خلقت اجيالا لا تفهم الا كلمة انا مواطن وانا اقول لــ محمد بن راشد ( وماذا بعـــد!!!))

كل يوم ومنذ بدء الازمة المالية تحولت بريطانيا وكثير من الدول الاوروبية التي سافرت اليها خلال رحلات عمل كـ خلية نحل ، يتحدث الصغير والكبير عنها ، الموظف والمستثمر ، كل شاشات التلفاز تجديد للاخبار وتحليل وايضا الدخول في الخط لكشف معاناة المواطنين ممن خسروا وظائفهم والبعض تجارتهم وتشعر بأن رئيس الوزراء البريطاني لا يغمض له جفن ولا يهدأ وكل اللوم والسب والتتكيل له في جميع وسائل الاعلام البريطانية لا تهدأ ولا تتوقف..

الازمة العالمية ليست وليدة اليوم يامحمد بن راشد بل هو مخطط عالمي كبير خُطط له منذ سنوات طويلة قبل ان تظهر امارتك الصغيرة على سطح الخليج ، علماء وخبراء ومفكرين يخططون لقيام حكومة عالمية موحدة يدمر الشرق الاوسط ويلغي نظام الدولة الواحدة والحاكم الواحد ، الازمة العالمية يابن راشد نظام عالمي مخطط لالغاء بما يسمى بنظام النقد والسيولة في العالم والاعتماد فقط على البطاقات الالكترونية ، الازمة العالمية يابن راشد يامحلل النظريات لن تنتهي في غضون سنة او سنتين او حتى ثلاثة بل سنوات طويلة حتى تحقق أهدافها المرجوة ، الازمة العالمية يابن راشد قد بدأت تؤتي بثمارها ووقعت وانت والمغفلين امثالك في فخ الديون وهبوط سعر النفط لتكونوا أداة سهلة في يد صندوق النقد الدولي الذي سيملي عليكم يادول الخليج شروطه ، الم يخبرونك خبراءك الذين يتقاضون الملايين شهريا بهذه الازمة ومخططاتها وأهدافها ونتائجها العكسية على دول الخليج في المقام الأول وهي المستهدفة لان حكامها بقر من النوع الحلوب الذي يكتفي بالشراء والصرف والبذخ وتدخل هذه الاموال الى جيوب الغرب والعقول المفكرة وهم جالسون على كراسيهم يستخدمون عقولهم وأنتم فقط جيوبكم بدون اعتراض ولا كرامة ولا شرف ولا عزة ياعربان الألفية !!!! ومن ثم يكفي ان تضحكون العالم عليكم

فهذه الصورة المشرقة التي تدّعونها لــ دبي لم تكن الا فقاعة صابون ومن المفترض ان تتدارك الموقف بنشر الوعي ونشر سياسة الشفافية في المعلومات والاحصائيات والارقام الصحيحة وان يكون هناك شخص يتكلم بشكل رسمي بالنيبابة عن حكومة دبي وقت الازمات ، شخص لا يلمعه الاعلام بل عقله وخبرته وثقافته وان يتمتع بمصداقية وكاريزما يجعل الامور تهدأ في هذه الدويلة التي غرقت في سماء الابراج الشاهقة التي توقفت والبحيرات التي تعفنت والعمال الذين تشردوا والسيارات التي اصبحت تتكدس بها البلد بدون اصحابها والمترو الجديد اركب فيه انت وعيالك وشلة حسب الله المكتومية واولهم ضاحي سكسوكة الخرفان ..

أضحكوا من هذا الخبر : نشرت التايمز تقرير عن امارة دبي قالت فيه الناس هربت والسيارات مكدسة وكلامها صحيح ونشر في احد المواقع الالكترونية بعد ترجمته ، قام ضاحي خرفان ولم يقعد متهما الموقع بترجمة التقرير بالخطأ ( قال شو ؟ قال ضاحي بيفهم عنجليزي وسيقوم بعقد مؤتمر صحفي ليكذب التقرير (( صحيح اللي اختشوا ماتوا وضاحي خرفان فسخ الحياء وبات يصرخ كالنســاء !!! ..

فهل سمعتم وشاهدتم في حياتكم مسؤول ببدلة عسكرية في اي دولة في العالم يستنكر ويتحدث ويحلل في امور بعيدة عن مجال عمله وتخصصه ؟ الا في دبي كل شي غير وبالمقلوب ولا يوجد رجل رشيد بينهم كلهم يتخبطون في بحر من الوهم والأحلام الوردية الكاذبة (( هييييييية وماذا بعد ؟)) سنرى!!! ياناس ياعالم ياهو ، ما دخل ضاحي في الاقتصاد؟ مادخل هذا الشايب العايب الخرفان في تقارير التايمز والازمة العالمية ، اين العقول العبقرية التي تتصدى لمثل هذه التقارير يابن مكتوم؟ اين الذين يتفاخرون بك بأنك انت من حول دبي الى مركز عالمي واليوم نراه ماجنته يداك تتحول الى مدينة للاشباح والسنوات القادمة لن يبقى غيرك انت وشلتك يابن مكتوم والزمن بيننا دوار..

على فكرة يابن راشد هناك تقرير مصور في احدى القنوات الاجنبية تم بثه عن دبي تحت عنوان دبي بين الحلم والكابوس / تحدث فيها الكثير من الشخصيات الاجنبية الذين خسروا وظائفهم في دبي ومنهم من قال لازلت مصدوم ليس لاني خسرت وظيفتي ولكن لاني ظننت بأن هذه الامارة اقوى من كل الازمات ولكن سقطت من اول ضربة فلماذا لم تحتجون على ذلك ؟ ولماذا فقط فرد عضلاتكم على عرب خلق الله؟ وان كان لكم حق الرد فهو الرد على جريدة التايمز نفسها ولكنكم أجبن من ان تقولوا لا للغرب ياجبناء!!

مثال بسيط على عجز ممن سموا أنفسهم فرسان وهم خرسان (( العالم يحلل ويحل ويخطط لتجاوز الأزمة وقنوات دبي تخرج لنا بولي العهد حمدان واخوانه يتفاخرون بشعرهم وبأمجادهم والبقر تصفق على كل كلمة مع اننا لم نسمع كلمة ولا تحليل ولا تطمينات من فرسان آخر زمن ، تركوا البلد للخبراء الاجانب يغرقونها بالتقارير المظللة على حساب المواطن والمقيم وبن مكتوم وعياله الافاضل لازالوا يعيشون عصر الجاهلية في قرض الشعر وركوب الخيل وقصورهم مكتظة بالجوارى والنساء متباهون بغبائهم وقلة حيلتهم .. (( رجال آخر زمن ويا أُمة ضحكت من جهلها الأمم حتى أُغمى عليها)) وللحديث بقيــــة

ملحوظة : ذكرت صحيفة التايمز اللندنية في اخر تقرير لها من دبي أن هناك أكثر من 3 آلاف سيارة تقف في مطار دبي تركها أصحابها وهربوا من دبي على أثر الأزمة المالية الإقتصادية العالمية، وعلى أثر الديون التي تراكمت عليهم



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Regardless of who wrote that article, the content of it is true, what 'she' claimed is true, but the DIFC and the local officials always paint a nice picture
oh well as they say what goes around comes around. (no need for elaboration)
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UAE banks face $11 bln liquidity shortfall

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DUBAI - Banks in the United Arab Emirates are facing a liquidity shortfall of up to $11 billion and are suffering from bad debt due to unsecured lending, a Standard Chartered executive said on Tuesday.

Shayne Nelson, the bank's chief executive in the Middle East, told a conference the country's lenders were coping with a liquidity shortfall of 30-40 billion dirhams ($8.2-$10.9 billion).

"Liquidity is still short. It's 30-40 billion dirhams short. (This is) the difference between advances and deposits. Straight math," Nelson said, adding access to capital was improving for the larger banks.

"Capital markets are opening up for good names to bring in liquidity, bond issues are bringing in liquidity at a faster pace," Nelson told reporters. He said the performance of banks was hurt by an increase in bad debt, in particular as a result of unsecured lending.

Some 13 banks in the UAE have exposure to troubled Saudi groups Saad and Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Bros that are restructuring billions of dollars in debt.

Nelson declined comment on whether Standard Chartered would be interested in acquiring a stake in Saudi Hollandi bank.

"But I will say that Saudi is a market that we have been serving out of Bahrain for a long time and it is a market we continue to be interested in," he said.
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Dubai Developers Expect Prices to Fall Further

By Zainab Fattah

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Property prices in Dubai, which fell the most during the global recession, will probably drop further, a survey by Colliers International showed.

Only 25 percent of the 28 real-estate developers surveyed by Colliers said the market has bottomed out, according to a report from the Boston-based property broker published today. Seventy-one percent predicted that prices will extend their decline and 4 percent didn’t comment.

House prices have tumbled by about 50 percent from their peak and may drop 20 percent more this year, Deutsche Bank AG said in June. The market’s collapse followed a construction boom that created thousands of homes just as demand began to evaporate.

“Current trends in the Dubai residential market are characterized by negative investor sentiment and a downturn in actual demand met with increased market supply,” Colliers said in the report.

The emirate’s office capacity will double by next year, according to Colliers. There are currently about 3 million square meters (32 million square feet) of office space, and vacancy rates for both residential and commercial properties stand at about 25 percent.

“The country is certainly economically depressed and in a recession,” JP Grobbelaar, Dubai-based corporate director at Colliers, said in an interview. “That doesn’t bode well for the absorption into the market of the additional space.”

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Dubai is home to 1.5 million people, Colliers said, citing government figures. About 34,300 residences will be built in the sheikhdom over the next two years, bringing the total number of homes to as many as 370,000, Grobbelaar said.

Saud Masud, a real estate analyst in Dubai for UBS AG, said last month that Dubai house prices would undergo a slump of about 33 percent in about three months because of increased supply and restrictions on mortgages.

“It’s very difficult to project where it’s going to end and I don’t want to commit myself to a number,” Grobbelaar said in reference to property prices. “But a further 20 percent certainly isn’t unrealistic.”
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UAE recovery to take longer than other Gulf states: bank

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 14, 2009 (AFP) - Economic recovery in the United Arab Emirates is expected to be slower than in other Gulf states due to high debt levels and its struggling real estate market, a Kuwaiti bank said on Wednesday.

Forecasting the UAE to record its first budget deficit in five years, the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) said the Emirati economy is expected to contract by 4.6 percent this year before rebounding by 3.6 percent in 2010.

"The presence of high debt levels, weak bank lending, lower company profits and struggling real estate markets will continue to weigh on the economy for at least another year," Kuwait's largest bank said in a special report.

"After being one of the region's most vibrant economies over the past five years, the UAE may now be set to endure a period of relatively slow growth compared to some of its GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) neighbours," it said.

"Spending growth is likely to be much reduced this year ... and combined with a drop in oil revenues, the government could record its first budget deficit in five years," NBK added.

Dubai, part of the seven-member UAE, has been hard hit by the global economic downturn due to its high exposure to the global credit markets to finance massive construction projects, many of which have now been delayed.

Abu Dhabi, the largest and richest emirate, was also hit by the crisis due to the sharp fall in oil revenues and reported huge losses in its sovereign wealth fund holdings overseas.

Nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will drop to 213 billion dollars this year from 254 billion dollars in 2008, a contraction of 16.4 percent. It is however forecast to grow to 225 billion dollars in 2010, NBK said.

The main engine of the recovery next year will come from the oil sector, which is expected to grow by five percent in real terms in 2010 after shrinking nine percent this year.

Non-oil sector is forecast to contract one percent in real terms this year and to be followed by a moderate growth of 2.5 percent in 2010.

Bank lending is likely to remain weak next year, while oversupply will remain in some parts of the real estate sector, indicating that "property prices are unlikely to bounce back any time soon," NBK said.

The absence of access to short-term financing will continue to create problems for refinancing operations and could force changes to entire business models at some firms, it said.
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The economy is so bad that:
  • I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
  • I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, “Can you afford fries with that?”
  • CEO’s are now playing miniature golf.
  • If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
  • Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
  • Parents in Beverly Hills have fired their nannies and learnt their children’s names.
  • A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.
  • Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
  • Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.

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Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh, great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!

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Dubai, Abu Dhabi Need 150,000 Jobs to Fill Homes, Nomura Says


By Zainab Fattah

Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai and Abu Dhabi need to create about 150,000 white-collar jobs to provide enough buyers for the houses and apartments being completed in the next two years, Nomura Holdings Inc. said.

An estimated 65,000 residential units will be built in Dubai and 15,000 more in Abu Dhabi by 2011, even as the number of foreign workers declines, Chet Riley, a Dubai-based analyst at Nomura, said in a note to clients today.

“We estimate around 100,000 white-collar jobs at least would need to be created in Dubai and 50,000 in Abu Dhabi alone to satisfy oncoming supply,” Riley said in the note. “This is in an environment where jobs (still real estate and construction related) are being cut.”

Dubai’s majority expatriate population may drop 8 percent this year and 2 percent in 2010, UBS said in March. The United Arab Emirates’ population will contract 5.5 percent in 2009 as foreigners lose jobs and are forced to leave the country because of visa restrictions, according to EFG-Hermes Holding SAE.

Dubai’s residential market currently has a 25 percent vacancy rate, compared with less than 5 percent in Abu Dhabi, Riley wrote. Rents are expected to drop a further 10 percent, the report added.

“Capital values are stabilizing in Dubai, but growth is not expected until the latter part of 2010,” Riley wrote.

Dubai home prices have tumbled by about 50 percent from their peak and may drop a further 20 percent this year, Deutsche Bank AG said in June. The market’s collapse followed a construction boom that created thousands of homes just as demand began to evaporate.

About 20 million square feet (1.9 million square meters) of commercial space is expected to come on to Dubai’s market by 2011 and Abu Dhabi will see an additional 10 million square feet of office space developed during the same period, Nomura said.

Dubai-based Emaar Properties PJSC is the U.A.E.’s biggest developer, while Aldar Properties PJSC and Sorouh Real Estate Co. are Abu Dhabi’s largest builders.
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