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Oil and UAE asset values set to fall

by Matein Khalid | Mar 21, 2023 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters1

The big chill of recession and a banking panic now haunts black gold, exactly as it did in the last six months of 2008 when Brent crude plunged from $148 a barrel in July to barely $40 in December. Brent crude was $85 two weeks ago and plunged to a low of 71.4 on...

Through the Eyes of Greed

by Antony Davies | Mar 21, 2023 | The Analyst, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

When gas prices rose 150 percent from June 2020 to June 2023, politicians and the media didn’t hesitate to blame corporate greed. The evidence they offered was two-fold: rising prices and rising profits. Yet over the past six months, gas prices have...

Nobel economics prize

by Elena Carletti | Mar 14, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Economist

Insights into how financial contagion changed how central banks react during a crisis. This year’s Nobel prize in economics, known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, has gone to Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben...

Timing the market

by Andreas Calianos | Mar 14, 2023 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters2

Another instalment in a series of articles detailing how to design a secure, income-producing portfolio In my previous article, I mentioned the reality that investment advisors, especially those affiliated with a large financial institution, operate with a very...

SVB – what it might mean for Real Estate values

by Gavriel Merkado | Mar 14, 2023 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters1

How do you know when you’ve gone far enough? That must be the question starting to dawn on the minds of central bankers in their current rate hike cycle. But having drifted so far from the normal rules based policy of monetary loosening during the pandemic, their...