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It's been a difficult year again for stocks

Interior contracting, whether on iconic projects such as Burj Khalifa or the mundanities of infrastructure, is a cyclical and challenging business

Bringing companies to public listing might be demanding in the current environment, but there is hope and expectation that it would be worthwhile

Retail and Dubai are almost synonymous, and both have taken a buffeting

By comparison with other regions, mutual funds have only a limited presence in the Gulf, owing to a host of factors such as market liquidity and regulation. Clearly, institutional development is needed if this traditional way of diversifying exposure is to make much headway

Trading volumes on the UAE exchanges have been woefully insufficient to fill the sails of that elusive vessel known as investor confidence.