Leading stories of the day
Arabian Post Staff The first bitcoin futures ETF will begin trading this week, marking a milestone in the development of crypto industry. The futures product has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission.…
Arabian Post Staff Africa is set to power the world’s digital transformation with its huge young talent base powering an offshore…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly set to allow Bitcoin futures exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to begin trading. According…
Arabian Post Staff Malaffi, the region’s first Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform and a strategic initiative of the Department of Health…
Bakkt, a digital asset marketplace that enables consumers to buy, sell, send and spend digital assets, has announced a partnership with…
James M Dorsey Gulf states are in a pickle. They fear that the emerging parameters of a reconfigured US commitment to…
Matein Khalid My periodic please-all summer asking my friends to accumulate energy stocks on the 77-65 Brent sell off in July…
Arabian Post Staff The Dubai World Trade Centre Authority (DWTCA) today announced new regulations to encourage family businesses to establish Single…
K Raveendran Big financial institutions recognize the superiority of blockchain technology, but are intimidated by the prospects of bitcoin replacing them,…
Arabian Post Staff Oil prices are currently ruling at such levels that they carry quite some risk for traders, with today’s…
K Raveendran There is a certain confrontation developing between Airports Council International, the umbrella boy of airports, and the International Air…
Arabian Post Staff The United Arab Emirates Space Agency announced the commencement of a new Emirati interplanetary mission, designed to further…
James M Dorsey On their way from Tel Aviv airport to Jerusalem in 1977 then Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin…
Arabian Post Staff During September, the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) once again registered a high monthly Average Open Interest…
Arabian Post Staff The new water feature is a star attraction at Dubai Expo 2020. Thunderous music, climbing and falling water…
Arabian Post Staff Expo 2020, which just got under way with the kind of fanfare typically characteristic of Dubai, is expected…
Arabian Post Staff IMF has forecast a gradual recovery by the UAE economy in 2021, supported by the country’s early and…
Arabian Post Staff Residential property values in the UAE’s two largest cities, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, have expanded at their fastest…
Huobi Global, one of the major crypto exchanges that caters to customers on mainland China, has said it will close all…
Virgin Hyperloop revealed that they will be showcasing a full-scale hyperloop cargo pod and a cutaway passenger pod as part of…
Arabian Post Staff Dubai’s non-oil external trade surged 31 percent in the first half of 2021 to reach AED722.3 billion from…
Matein Khalid Brent crude has now reached a post-pandemic high of $77 and reinforced my conviction that energy will be the…
Financial regulators in the United Arab Emirates have reached an arrangement to officially allow and support cryptocurrency trading in an economic…
Matein Khalid My call to buy the US stock market last night when the Dow was down 850 to 950 points…
Matein Khalid I came into our latest mini Black Monday with a large net short position in my global equities portfolio…
James M Dorsey Indonesian religious affairs minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas set the bar high for President Joko Widodo as well as…
Arabian Post Staff The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee for the Covid-19 Pandemic has approved home quarantine without the…
Matein Khalid The sheer scale of the Federal Reserve’s post-Lehman quantitative easing experiment can be gauged by the fact that its…