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WAM/TF
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Posted by Gilmour Poincaree on January 1, 2009
Thursday, January 1st, 2009, 3:06 am ET
WAM/TF
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Posted by Gilmour Poincaree on December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008, 12:06 am ET
by Andy Varoshiotis – Financial Mirror
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Posted by Gilmour Poincaree on November 14, 2008
Vol XXXI – NO. 239 – Friday, 14th November 2008
AMMAN: Qatar is ready to set up a fund worth at least $1 billion to acquire diversified investments in Jordan spanning real estate to industrial projects.
Jordan’s Prime Minister Nader Dahabi, who visited Doha earlier this week, said senior Qatari officials were ready to bolster investments in the kingdom and raise at least $1bn to take advantage of any attractive opportunities available from tourism, real estate, agriculture, industry to services.
“We learnt from the Qataris they would put in this proposed investment fund an amount that is not less than $1bn,” Dahabi said.
A top-level investment team would be sent soon to Qatar to discuss specific investment projects, including those that could be set up in the country’s free trade industrial zones, Dahabi added.
Qatar already has millions of dollars of investments in Jordan, including a 33.2 per cent stake in the country’s second largest lender, Jordan Housing Bank for Trade and Finance.
Jordan had been seeking to attract Gulf financial funds along with strategic investors seeking regional opportunities.
Many Gulf states have already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the Jordanian property market, attracted by relatively lower prices with other regional markets.
But officials are worried the global financial crisis will reduce the large inflows of remittances and investments from the oil rich region which had contributed to booming economic growth in recent years.
Bankers already cite a drop in investments but officials hope they can still attract select bargain hunting by savvy Gulf investors hit by turbulence in Western markets and now turning to regional opportunities that are perceived safer.
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Posted by Gilmour Poincaree on October 31, 2008
31 October 2008
AMMAN (Petra) – Earnings from potash exports rose to JD301.4 million during the first eight months of this year, according to the website of the Central Bank of Jordan. Exports during the January–August period of last year amounted to JD148.2 million. Potash ranked second among the country’s exports, after garments. The increase in earnings were attributed to higher potash prices and a slight rise in exported quantities. India, Malaysia and China were the principal importers of Jordan’s potash as they accounted for two-thirds of the exports.
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