He made a fortune in 2007, buying Chinese, Indian and Gulf States stocks and non-U.S. currencies.
No surprise that those include visitors from China, the Gulf states and the former Soviet republics.
Straw's visit to Doha came on the second day of a tour of Gulf states.
Buyers included Indians, Chinese and Russians, as well as many from the Gulf states.
Few of those groups would exist without cash injections from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
But they will not want to be outflanked by Gulf states on their own doorstep.
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Washington seems to want Beijing to revalue, but the Gulf states to keep their pegs.
Indeed, there are serious questions about how well Gulf states can share information and act in concert.
The Arab Gulf states are home to some of the most spectacular high-rise towers in the world.
The two Gulf states see ousting President Assad as a sectarian as well as a strategic matter.
At the weekend, six pro-American Gulf states issued a strong condemnation of the coalition's treatment of prisoners.
Instead it sold a stake to sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf states of Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
The influence of foreign religious organisations seems to be growing along with rising government loans from Gulf states.
Zogby International has hosted businessmen from the Gulf States, union leaders from Australia and Sweden and journalists from Hungary.
Like the Gulf states, Jordan and Morocco are monarchies and their kings at least have the legitimacy of succession.
The two Gulf states have announced the bans on some functions of the Blackberry mobile phone, claiming security concerns.
It is fast making friends with the Arab Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia.
American pressure on the Gulf states is likely to rein in the more enthusiastic displays of solidarity with Syria.
It offers a liberal model for other Gulf states, but faces increasing internal political strife and an uncertain future.
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His military identity saw him serving in some of the world's hotspots, including Sierra Leona, Pakistan and the Gulf States.
The plaintiffs in the civil case that opened Monday include five Gulf states, individuals, businesses and the federal government.
The Brotherhood has sought to reassure Gulf states it has no plan to push for political change beyond Egypt's borders.
Certain resource rich Gulf States can, with the current high price of oil, afford to bathe the youth in financial largesse.
So far, plaintiffs' attorneys have requested venues in Alabama, Florida and other of the Gulf States with most seeking New Orleans.
By repegging their currencies to the dollar at a higher rate, the Gulf states would alleviate some of today's inflationary pressure.
But, outside of that world is the growing emergence of government debt in Asia, Chile, Brazil and the Persian Gulf states.
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Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister, wants countries with big surpluses, such as China and the oil-rich Gulf states, to contribute more.
He asserted that if Iran develops a nuclear arsenal it will use it to attack Israel, the Gulf states and Europe.
Given its testy relationship with the other Gulf states, Iran has a hard time persuading them to play ball over smuggling.
Dr. FRAZER: I think that, very clearly, there were many countries, including in the Gulf states, Arab countries, that were not comfortable with 1706.
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