DUBAI, UAE – Media OutReach – 7 August 2023 – A consolidated Mid-Year Economic update released provides key updates and significant progress made in delivering against the goals laid out in the Emirate’s D33 Economic Agenda. Key report findings 8.5+ million – Dubai recorded more than 8.5 million international visitors during the first half of 2023[1] The Region’s Wealthiest City – Dubai leads as the wealthiest city […]
BY James M Dorsey For Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, religious reform has long been a question of when rather than if. Bin Salman’s potential embrace of religious, not just social and economic reform, could have far-reaching consequences for the role of religion in Saudi Arabia and religious soft power rivalry in […]
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By Anjan Roy India is working out local currency trade deals with an increasingly larger group of countries, thereby avoiding invoicing in US dollars for every trade. This is a move towards internationalisation of the Indian currency when the country is opening up its external sector. India has agreed on local currency invoicing of trade […]
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By Nantoo Banerjee India has been put in a peculiar situation by Russian oil exporters as they prefer Yuan payment against the purchase of Russian crude by Indian importers. Of late, the latter are believed to be spending billions of dollars in buying Chinese Yuan to pay for Russian imports. This is despite the India […]
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By James M Dorsey A recent 27-year, four million-tonne liquefied natural gas (LNG) Qatari export agreement with China, the longest in gas export history, highlights different Gulf state approaches to navigating big power rivalry between the People’s Republic and the United States. Widely seen as giving China a grip on Qatari gas, the deal is […]
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Central Bank of UAE (CBUAE) yesterday signed two agreements in Abu Dhabi to establish a framework for cross-border transactions in local currencies and interlinking of payment and messaging systems. The agreements were exchanged between the two governors, in the presence of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and […]
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Over the past ten years, the true believers of the cryptocurrency revolution have turned what was once considered the gallery of the financial world into a new trillion-dollar asset class. Now they are ready to receive congratulations counting their digital coins. At the same time, even among entrepreneurs, not everyone has a clear idea of what cryptocurrency is and how to work with it. This is how […]
