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Market Watch
 Arshad Ali/Gulf News
The Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) has rebranded its market as Nasdaq Dubai as of Tuesday.
Banking and Finance
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday received Chairman of Citigroup Inc Sir Winfried Franz Wilhen Bischoff.
Economy
The UAE and the Gulf region are affected by the current global financial crisis, Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, told the media on Tuesday.
General
The new US Ambassador to the UAE, Richard Olson, has said the two countries will develop their relationship further on various political and economic levels in spite of the change in the leadership and administrative teams in America.
Market Watch
World stock markets fell on Tuesday ahead of expected further losses on Wall Street amid gloom about prospects for the world economy and the banking system.
Oil & Gas
Oil rose above $55 a barrel on Tuesday after a slide to a new 22-month low earlier in the session, depressed by the gloomy outlook for the world economy.
Banking and Finance
Barclays PLC bowed to shareholder protests on Tuesday, saying it will let existing stockholders in on a share issue originally earmarked for private Middle Eastern investors.
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Columns/Business
This week's bold expectation in a public statement by Pakistan's prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, hoping that the country will succeed in overcoming its ongoing economic crisis with the support from the so called friendly countries, squarely demonstrates a failure to understand the depth of the crisis.
Columns/Business
Many executives in our team complain of being overworked and hence stressed out.
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