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Dubai Faces Debt Challenges a Year After Dubai World

Topix - Business News  Fri, 11/26/2010 - 19:23

Nov. 26 -- A year after Dubai's corporate flagship stunned global markets with plans to freeze payments on $25 billion in loans, the emirate is struggling to reduce a total debt load more than four times that amount.


 

Dubai World's debt freeze 'carefully planned'

Newsvine - business  Fri, 11/27/2009 - 05:10

A top Dubai finance official said the emirate fully expected fallout from its debt problems and assured foreign creditors that Dubai World's request to postpone payment on some of its $60 billion in debt was "carefully planned."