Dubai’s Limitless To Pledge Revenues To Get $1.2bn Debt Deal – Sources

The state-owned property firm is on track to restructure the debt by the end of the year, when a payment worth a third of the total comes due.

Kuwait’s Burgan Bank To Start $353m Rights Issue On Nov 16

The lender, Kuwait’s third largest by assets, is issuing 216 million new shares.

Dubai Insulated From Oil Price Slide Due To Economic Diversification – S&P

Dubai’s diversification into sectors such as trade, tourism, real estate will ensure that it enjoys favourable economic conditions.

Shares In UAE’s UNB Down On MSCI Disappointment

Some analysts had predicted UNB might be added to the MSCI index, but it was not.

Stock News: Qatar, UAE Stocks Rise After MSCI Index Review

Shares in Dubai’s Emaar Properties and Dubai Islamic Bank, whose weightings also increased, rose 2.5 and 1.6 per cent respectively.

Abu Dhabi’s Waha Capital Q3 Net Jumps On Investment Income

Waha made a net profit of Dhs301.2 million ($82 million) in the three months to Sept. 30, up from Dhs107.1 million in the year-ago period, it said in a statement.

UAE’s Amanat Holdings Says IPO Oversubscribed

The company said in an emailed statement that it collected more than Dhs13.6 billion in its 16-day IPO.

Egypt Received $10.6 bn From Gulf Last Fiscal Year -Minister

Of about 74 billion Egyptian pounds of aid received in the 2013-14 fiscal year, 53 billion pounds was in the form of petroleum products, with the remaining 21 billion pounds coming as cash grants.

Canary Wharf Owner Songbird Rejects Qatar Fund Approach

Songbird’s chief executive said in a statement that the proposal undervalued the company and does not reflect the inherent value of the business.

Agility Eyes 35% Stake Buy In Kuwait Airways -Report

The firm’s chief executive said in an interview that Agility’s plan was based on his company’s strategy of expanding into aviation services.

Saudi’s Savola, Takween Extend Talks Over Potential Plastics Unit Sale

Talks about a potential deal between the two companies had been due to end on November 11 but announced an extension to allow more time to conclude due diligence and negotiations.

Abu Dhabi Fund Holding Off On Virgin Galactic Decision -Source

The backing of deep-pocketed Aabar Investments may be crucial to Virgin Galactic as it struggles to recover from the accident.

French Lawmakers Seek Clarity On Qatar Tax Breaks

Currently, Qatari investors are exempt from taxes on profits made when they sell properties purchased in France.

NASDAQ Dubai To Promote Egyptian Firms’ Dual Listings

The deal between NASDAQ Dubai and Misr for Central Clearing, Depository and Registry (MCDR) establishes technical ties that will facilitate dual listings.

Stock News: Saudi Mobily Shares Plunge For 3rd Day Since Earnings Shock

Mobily’s latest drop takes the stock’s losses to 27 per cent since resuming trading on Tuesday.

Amsterdam’s OCI To Spin Off Construction Business, List In Egypt, UAE

The new company is expected to be named Orascom Construction.

Egypt Receives $1bn Grant From Kuwait

Gulf countries have stepped in to help Egypt since the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last year.

Saudi Bank NCB’s $6bn IPO 23 Times Subscribed On Retail Side

A total of 1.25 million subscribers put up a total of SAR310.7 billion for the 300 million shares offered to retail investors.

Kuwait Budget Surplus At $21bn In April-June, Spending Lags

The country has undershot its budget plans repeatedly in recent years as political disputes have delayed budget approvals.

Saudi’s Arrow Offers To Acquire Egypt’s Arab Dairy

The offer is higher than a rival bid of 56 pounds per share from Pioneers Holdings announced on Tuesday.

MENA IPOs Raise $1.7bn In Q3 2014

There were a total of three IPOs in the MENA region during the third quarter with the Emaar Malls Group (EMG) listing being the largest in 2014, the report said.

RBS Says Reviewing Options After Middle East Corporate Loan Book Sale

The statement from the bank was issued following a Bloomberg News report about RBS hiring PricewaterhouseCoopers to sell its Middle Eastern corporate loan book.

UAE’s Etisalat Says Profit Cut By $44m Due To Mobily Earnings Debacle

Etisalat owns 27.5 per cent of Mobily, which on Monday cut its profits for 2013 and the first half of 2014 by a combined SAR1.43 billion ($381.2 million), citing accounting errors.

Bahrain’s Investcorp Buys Italian Retailer Dainese

Post the sale, the founder of Dainese will retain a minority stake in the company and will lend his expertise in its operations, Investcorp said.

Abu Dhabi May Reform Power, Water Subsidies – IMF Official

Subsidies and transfers accounting for nearly 20 per cent of annual expenditure in Abu Dhabi, according to the IMF.

Mubadala GE Capital To Sell Benchmark Five-Year Bond On Wednesday

Barclays and Citigroup are the joint global co-ordinators for the bond sale.

Stock News: Saudi May Stay Under Pressure As Oil, Mobily Worries Persist

The Saudi index tumbled 3.5 per cent to 9,785 points on Tuesday, its biggest drop since Oct. 16 .

Billionaire Nassef Sawiris To Ramp Up Egypt Investments After Tax Win

He said the first would be a multibillion-dollar project related to the power sector in partnership with a Middle Eastern group.

Dubai Holding Unit Picks Five Banks To Raise Dhs4bn Loan -Sources

The loan will have a lifespan of between seven and eight years and will have an amortising structure, the sources said.

Kuwait’s Americana Says Shareholder In Talks On Stake Sale

The company did not identify the parties but stressed that no final agreement had been reached and no binding commitments had been made.