Dubai World has refused to offload assets at fire-sale prices to repay obligations, forcing it to seek the debt standstill that shocked markets, according to a newspaper report.
Abu Dhabi, capital of the UAE and one of the world's top oil exporters, will "pick and choose" how to assist Dubai, a senior Abu Dhabi official said Saturday.
Dubai debt default concerns rippled through world markets Friday but the exodus from equities and rush to the dollar slowed as investors discounted any broad crisis.
Friday, 27 Nov 2009 | Posted By:
Jeff Cox | Source: CNBC.com
"I would tell investors to sit tight and watch this play out," David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors told CNBC. "We raised a little cash before the holidays. Hopefully we'll get to employ it in the dip."
Dubai's debt woes may serve as a catalyst for a correction in stock markets but it does not signal a new crisis, investment manager Mohammed El-Erian told CNBC.
Banks outside the Gulf played down on Friday their exposure to Dubai debt, after fears the emirate could default and even derail world economic recovery prompted a sell-off in global markets.
The dollar's slide lower against the yen shows no sign of letting up and it could push toward 80 yen, which the pair would not have seen since 1995, Royce Tostrams, Technical Analyst at Tostrams Groep, told CNBC.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open for a holiday-shortened session Friday, mirroring losses in European and Asian markets after Dubai announced the first step of restructuring some of its debt.
Global stocks sold off sharply on Friday, with Asia's Kospi and Hang Seng indexes down over 4 percent, as concerns about contagion from Dubai's debt crisis curb investors' appetite for riskier assets.
Thursday, 26 Nov 2009 | Posted By:
Robin Knight | Source: CNBC.com
The worsening state of Britain's balance sheet means the country should be stripped of its 'great' title, as the British public are "sleepwalking" into major spending cuts, Andy Brough, fund manager at Schroders, told CNBC.
China's ballooning stock market bubble, fuelled by excessive liquidity, is likely to burst in the first half of 2010, punctured by economic concerns arising from higher-than-expected inflation, Morgan Stanley Asia Executive Director Jerry Lou said on Thursday.
Global stocks were lower on Thursday, with China's Shanghai Composite closing 3.6 percent lower, while gold hit another new record to $1,194.90 an ounce, as Debt problems in Dubai curbed investors' risk appetite.
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