- THE BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2004
HEADNOTE Emerging markets are poised to post their strongest growth in 20 years. Global Finance has picked the banks in 73 emerging market countries and four regions that have best been able to help their clients benefit from the upturn. All regions of the developing world enjoyed a sharp increase ......
- Banks Prove Resistant to Regional Turmoil
HEADNOTE The banking industry in the Middle East is confounding pessimists and enjoying a broad-based growth surge. When the Middle East's major banks began announcing their 2003 results, manu an-alysts were predicting that the reports would make grim reading. They were spectacularly wrong. The war in Iraq failed to derail ......
- Franchising in the Middle East, Dubai and beyond: with more than 120 nationalities residing in the city, and an extensive tourist component in the GCC's commercial hub, Dubai, has been coined a "window...
The Arabian Gulf, sometimes referred to as the Persian Gulf, is at the very heart of the Middle East and North Africa region, a powerful economy consisting of a combined population of 1.4 billion people and a staggering combined Gross Domestic Product of $1.9 trillion. The merger of the six ......
- News
With oil prices hovering at $50 a barrel, contractors with large fleets of earthmoving and other construction equipment are expected to be especially hard hit by soaring diesel fuel costs. But what's bad news for contractors is good news for the oil producers. According to the New York Times, for ......
- Detailed statistics tables: imports of crude oil and
petroleum products: country of origin.
Table 37. Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products into the United States by Country of Origin, February 2005 (Thousand Barrels) Liquefied Pentanes Petroleum Country of Origin Crude Oil (a) Plus Gases OPEC 140,587 1,245 1,604 Algeria 6,132 695 815 Indonesia 302 0 0 Iran 0 0 0 Iraq 14,635 ......
- Detailed statistics tables: imports of crude oil and
petroleum products: country of origin.
Table 37. Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products into the United States by Country of Origin, January 2005 (Thousand Barrels) Liquefied Crude Oil Pentanes Petroleum Unfinished Country of Origin (a) Plus Gases Oils (a) OPEC 148,809 1,234 1,625 2,312 Algeria 4,541 679 991 1,637 Indonesia 674 0 0 0 ......
- Detailed statistics tables: imports of crude oil and
petroleum products: country of origin.
Table 37. Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products into the United States by Country of Origin, April 2005 (Thousand Barrels) Liquefied Crude Oil Pentanes Petroleum Unfinished Country of Origin (a) Plus Gases Oils (a) OPEC 148,592 1,301 2,719 2,048 Algeria 6,973 681 1,777 1,474 Indonesia 747 0 0 0 ......