UAE market news & discussions
for 24 March 2009
A happy day in the UAE today with solid gains and several of the more actively traded stocks seeing gains of 10% or more. The Abu Dhabi market had a solid 4.5% rise to 2534 points, and turnover also up, to AED 267m worth. Dubai saw a similar gain, of 4.1% to 1622 points, and markedly improved volumes at AED 1.4 billion worth from over 1 billion shares. Were punters listening to Mark Mobius of Templeton Asset Management who reportedly said emerging markets were at the start of a bull run? Or the US Government announcing plans to up their bailout fund to $1 trillion (which is about six times the UAE GDP)? On the Nasdaq Dubai at 14:30 UAE time, DP World is up another 2 cents today, to $0.23, ahead of their FY results announcement tomorrow, Depa is unchanged, a couple of Emaar derivatives have been traded, up 10.6%, Boulder Steel has plunged 25% (but that's only one cent), and GOLD is down 1.6% on a single trade.
- Taqa bought back 6 million shares today
- Dubai Islamic Bank board will discuss a capital increase of AED 3 billion
- Aramex and First Gulf Bank were rated buys in a couple of different reports this week.
- UAE fourth quarter results - table of financial results so far, with dividend and AGM information
- UAE financial news - latest news from Reuters, Bloomberg and UAE media
- Sharewadi calendar - important dates (today and tomorrow below)
Tuesday 24 March 2009
- ADNIC AGM? 50% cash dividend? unconfirmed.
- AWNIC AGM 08FY, 10% cash dividend proposed (unconfirmed)?
- EMAAR AGM postponed to new date (to be announced)
- FBICO record date for 10% share and 10% cash dividends (if approved at AGM)
- MASQ ex-dividend date
- NIH BOD meeting
- SICO AGM? Date not confirmed, possibly 10% cash & 10% share dividend?
- TABREED AGM, no dividends proposed
- UPP 08FY financial statements (DFMw, am), preliminary results 25 Feb 2009
- WARE (Agility) 08FY preliminary results (DFM, during trading)
- AGTHIA 2:30pm BOD meeting discuss 08FY results, dividends, AGM date
Wednesday 25 March 209
- AHI 4:30pm BOD meeting, routine business matters
- AHI AGM, proposed cash dividend 110%
- AKIC BOD meeting
- CBD last trading day for dividend eligibility
- DHAFRA last trading day for dividend eligibility
- DANA 11:00am BOD meeting review 08FY results
- DIB 4:00pm BOD meeting - Tier II capital conversion and AED 3 bn capital increase
- DIB AGM 08FY, 25% cash & 5% share dividend proposed
- DNIR AGM & EGM (proposed dividends unknown), date changed from 16 Mar 2009
- DPW 10:00am 08FY financial results announcement press conference
- DPW 2008 FY financial results due (DPW press release)
- EIB last trading day for dividend eligibility
- ENBD AGM, 20% cash, 10% share dividend proposed.
- INVESTB AGM, maybe 5% cash dividend (unconfirmed)
- MASQ record date 10% cash dividend & 10% bonus shares
- NBQ last trading day for dividend eligibility (unconfirmed)
- NBS SIB AGM, agenda not supplied. Rescheduled to 21 Mar 2009 (unconfirmed)?
- SCIDC last trading day for dividend eligibility? Unconfirmed.
- SOROUH last trading day for dividend eligibility
- TKFL last trading day for dividend eligibility
- UCC AGM 08FY, 10% cash and 5% share dividend proposed
- UCC 9:30am BOD meeting, agenda includes review Jan-Feb 2009 results and AGM agenda
Dubai Financial Market
Emaar Properties (EMAAR) topped both the gainers and traded value lists with a big 10.5% rise to 2.42 from over AED 300m of trading. Dubai Financial Market (DFM) shares were not too shabby either, taking second spot on turnover with AED 276m worth and a 7.3% rise to 1.32. Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) rose almost as much as Emaar, up 10.3% to 2.79 and traded over AED 100m worth. Arabtec (ARTC) and Air Arabia (AIRARABIA) were the other two stocks with more than AED 100m of turnover, rising by 6% and 2% respectively. Most other stocks rose between 1% and 5%. There were only two losers, the two Bahrain bank secondary listings, on low turnover. And Drake & Scull (DSI), Ajman Islamic Bank (AJMANBANK), and Dubai Investment Company (DIC) were unchanged.
Abu Dhabi Securities ExchangeSorouh Real Estate (SOROUH) closing trades were 10% limit up at 2.57, and topped the turnover list with AED 56m worth of deals. Other stocks with final trades going through at 10% limit up prices included First Gulf Bank (FGB) and Aldar Properties (ALDAR), both with no sellers in the queue at the end of the session, along with a few others on thin trading. Emirates Telecom (ETISALAT) saw a solid 8% rise to 13.65 and was faily busy. Arkan Building Materials (ARKAN) was up 6.8%, Abu Dhabi National Energy (TAQA) 5.6%, Union National Bank (UNB) 5.1%, and the remainder by less than 5%. There were 7 losers, none with turnover of more than AED 1m. |
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