Word: nahayan
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...these guys, anyway? Dubai's Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Qatar's Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Abu Dhabi's Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan are sons of gulf royalty. But these are not their fathers' investments. Gulf money 20 years ago was being sunk into safe-bet, low-yield U.S. Treasury bonds--or the arms bazaar. Some recent deals--Dubai's brief holdings in DaimlerChrysler and Madame Tussauds, for example--have been opportunistic. But Dubai's bid for NASDAQ is part of a vision for positioning the city-state as a world-class business center...