Could the kind of mayhem that hit US markets last week make an appearance in the Middle East?

Which should business executives prioritize when making a strategic decision about office location: Potential for doing business or quality of lifestyle?

The final proof, for anybody still requiring it, that financial markets are totally divorced from the everyday world most people inhabit has come in the past week. Call it the Insurrection Boom.

“Rome was not built in a day,” the saying goes, and it is obvious that the challenges of building a new metropolis from scratch are enormous.

At Tadawul, the Saudi Stock Exchange, they might be forgiven for asking: “Crisis? What crisis?”

The oil world was abuzz at the end of last week on speculation that the UAE might be on the verge of pulling out of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

In the campaign to combat climate change, the biggest challenge is China. As the world’s most populous country and its biggest manufacturer, China’s indigenous energy resources are dominated by coal, the least environmentally friendly of the hydrocarbons.