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Unsteady Undertow As market observers attempt to explain the recent drop in US equities, the risks of geopolitical factors have garnered considerable attention. Potential US retaliation over the recent disappearance of a Saudi journalist has only added fuel to the fire of worrie...

Global Cross Asset Strategy – Year Ahead The Trump inflection Investment Strategy 30 November 2016 Corrected Key takeaways • Market response to Trump is logical but moves have been frontloaded. We now see USD & rates only modestly higher next year. • We see higher growth and inf...

… December 8, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/how_bahrain works washington/; Akbar Shahid Ahmed, “How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washington Influence Game,” Huffington Post, September 2, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arab-gulf-states-washington_us_55e62be...

…y supported it in backroom dealings, quietly authorizing facilities support and air, land, and sea access. But if Arab Gulf states were quietly supportive in the past, their opposition to American military force is likely to grow in the future. They read the aftermath of the Ara...

…ready successful survived the worst period and resiliently adapted itself during the most critical times. PAUL STOBER, Gulf News What are the main strengths and weaknesses of the UAE, as it faces the challenge of the global economic slowdown? What are the particular challenges...

…cross the causeway that separates the two countries. They came representing a special contingent under the aegis of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a league of Sunni-led Gulf states, but the Saudis were the major driver. The Saudis publicly announced that 1,000 troops had entered B...

…ese conventional capabilities provide Iran a substantial ability for a local fight in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and along its borders.10 Iran “leans” on the Persian Gulf states from a military and political perspective. Shi‘a populations in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia c...

… Bahrain," he was quoted as saying. The intensified wrangling across the Persian—or, as the Saudis insist, the Arabian—Gulf has strained relations between the U.S. and important Arab allies, helped to push oil prices into triple digits and tempered U.S. support for some of the p...

strengthening some of the Jewish State's sworn enemies. The Gulf kingdom of Qatar has done more than simply buy into the Rawabi paradigm: It's also funding two-thirds of the project, to the tune of over $600 million. This is enough money to single-handedly finance the Fatah-domi...

…cles. They tried to steer the report’s producers away from any misleading interpretations of its content. PAUL STOBER, Gulf News The government has taken significant steps to support the financial services and property industries in the UAE. Are you happy with the results so fa...

…ds oil, it could end up on tankers to China; and the US will end up importing more of its energy needs from the Persian Gulf and Venezuela. Could misperceptions about wind, solar and biofuel® feasibility explain why some people are opposed to this extension? Unclear. The art of...

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growing danger similar to Iraq after the First Gulf War (or