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The intervention of global economic and financial crisis over two years ago, and certain amount of localised trauma in the region, may well have upset the strategic thinking of the UAE's leading banks. If we assume the green shoots of recovery, what might they do?

It's roughly more of the same, according to three quarters' data, but there is also a glimmer of hopeful times lurking in the conflicting numbers

A mixture of the soft domestic economic environment and hard times in some developed overseas domains is tending to keep the non-bank sectors within familiar bounds, while some cases suggest clear signs of business turnaround

Banking and finance have until recently been a relatively secondary activity in the context of Malaysia's ever-evolving economy, but especially in the Islamic element have become part of a primary policy objective of strategic economic renewal

The varied industrial applications of copper have made it a very desirable commodity, attracting investors along the way

Results for the first half of this year show mixed fortunes within the UAE's banking sector.