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Macroeconomic Forecast UAE

September 2009 | Macroeconomic Forecasts

We currently forecast the UAE to turn out small current account and fiscal deficits in 2009. However, the relative buoyancy in the oil market of late means that there are upside risks to our 2009 OPEC Basket oil price forecast of US$55/bbl.

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