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Fitch Follows Moody's By Downgrading Oman

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Even before the virus outbreak and declines in oil prices, Oman was already among the most vulnerable economies in the s... Read more

Chinese Oil Giant CNPC Eyes BP's $1.5bn Stake In Oman Gas Field

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State-owned CNPC in advanced discussions with BP for 10% stake in Khazzan natural gas field Read more

Oman Offers Emergency Interest-free Loans For Firms Hit By Virus

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The Gulf nation has already trimmed its budget spending and announced liquidity support Read more

Oman Set To Introduce 50% Tax On Sweetened Drinks

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Oman will introduce a 50% levy on sweetened drinks from October 1 next. Read more

Oman Tells Banks To Free Loan Repayments For Three-months

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The decision will come into effect in May. Read more

Market Devouring Record Gulf Bonds Won't Touch Oman, Bahrain

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Oman and Bahrain are all but shut out from bond funding, waiting for their yields to retreat before wading into the mark... Read more

Oman Overcome Hong Kong To Reach T20 World Cup Finals In Australia

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Oman and Scotland join Namibia, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea and Ireland Read more

Top Level DIFC Delegation Completes Mission To Indian State

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Dubai International Financial Centre chases more Indian FinTech businesses during trip to Maharashtra Read more

Dubai's Liv Says Customers Rush To Open Accounts To Win Private Island

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Digital-only lifestyle bank by Emirates NBD reveals it has seen 44,000 new accounts opened since launch of competition t... Read more

UAE's Mubadala Says $19bn Spent On Expansion Plans In 2018

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Abu Dhabi wealth fund says it invested in new areas such as medtech, pharma and agribusiness last year Read more

India's Largest Commercial Bank Cuts Interest Rates

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State Bank of India's move may affect millions of Gulf-based non-resident Indians Read more

Abu Dhabi's ADCB Quarterly Profit Drops 11% On Cost Of Funds

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Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank combined with local rivals Union National Bank and Al Hilal Bank to create the Gulf region's f... Read more

DIFC Bucks Global Trend With Double-digit Growth In Companies

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Malaysia's Maybank Islamic Berhad, Cantor Fitzgerald and Australia's Atlas Wealth Management were among the financial fi... Read more

Abu Dhabi's Al Jazira Recruits City Football Group Exec To Head Commercial Operations

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Nick Pinder joins Al Jazira from City Football Group where he was responsible for partnerships and commercial activity a... Read more

Opinion: Discrimination Continues To Blight The Beautiful Game

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Apart from a significant pay gap compared to the men's team, the US women's soccer team play more games Read more

Egan Bernal To Become Youngest Tour De France Winner In More Than A Century

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Bahrain Merida's Italian captain Vincenzo Nibali won the penultimate stage Read more

Dubai's DSA Investments May Join Bid For Mines Once Owned By Guptas, Glencore

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The venture would be between Orchid Mining, a unit of DSA, and Nehawu Investment Holdings Read more

UAE Islamic Banks See Slower Financial Growth

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Fitch Ratings predicts asset-quality metrics for Islamic banks in the UAE will remain under pressure for 2019 Read more

KIPCO Raises Over $312 Million From Rights Issue

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Issue saw a 17 percent oversubscription for 452,748,662 ordinary shares Read more

Saudi's Qiddiya In Talks With Investors To Fund Entertainment, Sports City

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CEO Michael Reininger says Qiddiya is looking at joint ventures, land leasing and privatisation to fund the project Read more