DUBAI / WAM Foreign investors purchased AED726.2 million worth of shares on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and sold AED664.4 million over the week, DFM said on Thursday. Net foreign investment on the market reached AED61.8 million as aggregate buy. Value of shares bought by foreigner investors comprised 48.1 percent of the total value of stocks traded during the ...

  Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Antigua and Barbuda is expecting to see a significant boost in investment and travel from the Middle East. An exclusive exposition style conference is set to take place in October 2016 at Dubai’s Palazzo Versace Hotel highlighting the islands’ exceptional investor and citizenship benefits. Antigua and Barbuda’s low-tax structure, offering investment free from personal income ...

  Aleppo / AFP Huge blazes erupted in Syria’s Aleppo as the city was rocked by fighting and air strikes on Thursday, ahead of last-ditch efforts by world powers to salvage a failed ceasefire. The truce deal brokered by Moscow and Washington fell apart earlier this week, ushering in a surge of fighting on all major fronts of Syria’s five-year ...