http://www.ft.com/home/middleeast Financial Times - Middle East Homepage en (PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1)) © Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2009. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:43 GMT Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:41:26 GMT client.support@ft.com (Client Support) 15 Newspapers http://www.ft.com/rss/home/middleeast http://im.media.ft.com/m/img/rss/RSS_Default_Image.gif http://www.ft.com/home/middleeast http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/e3da189c-da63-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast A lack of nformation about Dubai’s flagship government-owned holding company, made worse by a religious holiday in the Middle East, prompted indiscriminate selling of stocks linked to the region Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:34:14 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e3da189c-da63-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/554a5c30-da50-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast Global Markets Overview: Investors were spooked by the spectre of a default by Dubai and after a febrile foreign exchange market saw the yen surge to a 14-year high against the dollar Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:36:02 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/554a5c30-da50-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ad63b00-da79-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast The decision to ask bondholders of Dubai World to extend maturities from December to May 2010 was a bombshell and the emirate will pay the price for a long time to come Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:04:14 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ad63b00-da79-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d42b7ea-dac5-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast The world’s container ports industry is facing a sharp reversal in its fortunes as the sector’s first ever year-on-year fall in volumes forces an abrupt change from breakneck expansion to retrenchment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:03:24 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d42b7ea-dac5-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/393e551e-daaa-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast The rush by retail investors into gold has forced the US government to suspend sales of the world’s most popular bullion coin, the American Eagle, after running out of inventories Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:12:31 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/393e551e-daaa-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/569df540-dab6-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast US retailers will on Friday unleash a traditional barrage of post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping promotions, with the National Retail Federation expecting 134m Americans to head for the stores. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:02:43 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/569df540-dab6-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d2b99a0-da93-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast Technology glitch halted transactions across the market for three and a half hours and it feels Dubai fallout Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:17:12 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d2b99a0-da93-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/7821e6d8-da69-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast China made an important commitment to restraining the rise in its greenhouse gas emissions, announcing that it had set a target for reducing its carbon intensity by 40-45 per cent by 2020 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:47:26 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7821e6d8-da69-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/92d4c134-da4c-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast Anthony Bolton, the former star stock picker at Fidelity Investments, is to postpone his retirement and relocate from London to Hong Kong to set up a China-focused fund Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:36:01 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/92d4c134-da4c-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/27e8a9a6-da71-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Fhome%2Fmiddleeast After Germany’s armed forces chief, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, resigned after accusations that the military withheld information about an air strike in Afghanistan, attention has turned to Franz-Josef Jung, current labour minister Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:24:08 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/27e8a9a6-da71-11de-9c32-00144feabdc0.html