Shuaa lowers its growth forecast for the Emirates - Published 23/9/10

Shuaa Capital has downgraded its growth forecast for the UAE economy due to a weaker rebound from the global financial crisis than expected.

Smaller fiscal stimulus than expected from Abu Dhabi and surprisingly slowcredit growth in the first half of the year prompted the investment bank to revise its GDP forecast to 1.8 per cent from 2.5 per cent.

“Although we believe the UAE economy has emerged from recession in 2010, the recovery has probably not been as strong as we had anticipated at the start of the year,” Khatija Haque, the chief economist at Shuaa, wrote in a research paper."