EghtesadOnline: Dubai International Airport expects to become the world’s busiest within this decade, overtaking Beijing and Atlanta, spurred on by the expansion of Emirates airline.

EghtesadOnline: Ride-hailing service Uber is under pressure in Dubai, one of the Middle East's major markets, after the emirate's transport regulator signed an agreement with local rival Careem and warned other such firms that they must do the same.

EghtesadOnline: On the surface, Dubai is plowing ahead with the kind of ambitious, eye-catching projects that turned the sheikhdom into the Persian Gulf’s business hub and playground. At the tip of its palm-shaped island, a swimming pool suspended between two towers will hover 170 meters (560 feet) above the ground. Closer to the city center, “water homes” on stilts will line an artificial canal dotted with floating restaurants and gondolas.

EghtesadOnline: Dubai is seeking $2.5 billion in loans to finance a 15-kilometer (9-mile) extension of its above-ground metro line to the World Expo site, according to two people with knowledge of the plan.

EghtesadOnline: Dubai Financial Group LLC is working with Citigroup Inc. to find a buyer for its stake in Omani lender Bank Muscat SAOG after the sale was triggered by an agreement with creditors, according to people familiar with the matter.

EghtesadOnline: Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com, known as the Amazon of the Middle East, is planning to sell a stake of about 30 percent that would give the company a value of at least $1.2 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.

EghtesadOnline: Dubai’s Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group, owner of the world’s largest indoor theme park, is considering a 2017 initial public offering as it seeks to raise funds for the project, according to people familiar with the matter.