While major markets around the world show signs of intense anxiety over the prospect of a US-led attack on Iraq, across most of the Middle East it is business as usual.
Gold has reached new heights as investors look for safe havens and Brent crude futures have climbed on fears that a war would raise the price of oil still further.
Meanwhile, in the Gulf, a region not famed for vast amounts of capital market activity, record deals are getting done.
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