“There may be concerns that the banking sector may not be able to achieve in 2006 what they achieved in 2005. We had a spectacular 2005 in the banking sector and we may not see that again.”
“Political risk is there in varying degrees in every transaction. But in this case one can ask 'Would this have happened if Dubai Ports World had not been an Arab company?'.”
“Yesterday we were down because of Saudi Arabia. In the past few days we have seen the fate of markets in the UAE becoming more related to the fate of the Saudi (market).”
