UAE in Talks With US for Possible Financial Lifeline, WSJ Says

What's this, more taxpayer money going overseas?

Surprising for the UAE to be in need of a currency swap, especially with their trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund

I thought the UAE promised to invest hundreds of billions in the USA according to Trump? I guess they don’t have the money now.

I thought the UAE was rich af

Trump has actually damaged economies across the globe with this totally unnecessary “not a war” ,… what if they all start lining up asking for help ?

Im sorry conservatives, did America First mean funding other nations? I thought Yrump was going to make life more affordable? Now we are giving Iran 20 billion, giving Israel unlimited funds and now funding UAE?

What? Did they run out of slaves?

Thiel can pay it

I'm sick of these billionaires stealing from us and ruining people's lives around the world. They are parasites and should be treated as such.

sounds like another robbery

F***, why not bail out the Saudis while’re at it. 

Wait UAE needs our help? Are we sure it isn’t the other way around?

Oh yeah we definitely have the money let me just go water the money trees. 

It's really no surprise.. when Iran shuts off the UAE money spigot, that their economy goes south. Their "burn rate" is fantastic, and when someone puts a kink in the money hose, they go from rolling in dough to paupers in seconds. Worse yet, their sovereign wealth fund is probably heavily invested in US Treasury certificates. If they decide to solve their liquidity crisis by dumping US T bills, for pennies on the dollar, tRump is going to have to hock his ballroom, and give back the Qatari 747! Why tRumps crypto currency may even crash! It will be fun to see.

I don't know if they've been thanking the US for all it jas been doing lately in the region... but they most definitely never wear a suit.

Would be nice if we had affordable healthcare, housing & reliable transportation for all.

The irony of Trump is that the US is obviously still paying money to other countries. Except instead of paying for Ukraine's weapons and things such as WHO and climate co-operation, it's now bankrolling crackpot dictators and bullshit Middle East wars. All because Trump is such a shitty businessman he needed loans from the worst of the worst and now he has allegiances to those people instead of actual western allies like Canada or Europe.

Good thing Donald Trump stopped all those overseas wars that cost taxpayers money! /s

For us or for them???? Seriously.

Qatar wants their plane back

I read the news about UAE being angry at US and negotiating to change from US$ to Yuan, but it disappeared. Why not all GCC countries decouple from the PetroDollar to other currencies? What are the risks for them? Displeasure of the US?

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What if i say no?

The line is made of the best material ever. Original all-American hemp-based line that you will never see the likes of again. People keep asking me: "Why don\`t you toss out these life-lines more?" I wish I could, I really wish I could, but there are too many whale corpses that are gathering up around all the windmills, so the lines just get entangled in them, and so we just stick with all American metals chains made from the "Titanic", allegedly. But who knows? Nobody really knows. Anyways, we are going to bomb "muhammedamis" with their walking tent-wives. They will soon call it "little-Somalia" because there are so few pirates. At least there are no more whales, am I right!?

Like what money do we have? Let me swap some 1’s and 0’s in a digital ledger for you and viola.

Make America Dependent Again; that was the original slogan, right?

Are they gonna cover our healthcare, Donald says we’re too broke…oh wait money for them? I thought we were broke…

Print'em US dollars!! The American people ought to get use to the fact that Trump is gonna crash their petro-dollar ordained fiat currency! It's happening!

Trump will sign over the entire country and argue that it’s not a treaty and needn’t be approved by the Senate !

MAGA remember America first. Haha

The US started this war and therefor should help protect those most severely affected by it

Swap line is not giving money away

paywall. lame.

paywall. 

Just make them the 56th state! After the other places he's going to take.

It seems this is more of a liquidity problem to be managed in the short term than a financial crisis. Why is everyone cheering for a failure of a gulf state? It doesn’t affect those you think it affects. It impacts the 80% expats who are dependent on these for their livelihood. This is similar to you hoping for a Texas or Alaskan failure. The war was not of their making but they are suffering due to Trump and Netanyahu. Article: The United Arab Emirates is quietly negotiating a dollar swap line with the United States, a remarkable shift for a nation built on oil wealth now strained by seven weeks of conflict with Iran. UAE Central Bank Governor Khaled Mohamed Balama met with Federal Reserve and Treasury officials, including Secretary Scott Bessent, in Washington last week to float the idea of a currency swap line. The Emiratis have not filed a formal request, but the very fact these conversations are happening tells you something about the financial pressure building in the Gulf. This is a country that controls one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth portfolios, now seeking the kind of emergency liquidity facility usually reserved for distressed economies. Since the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran began on February 28, the UAE has absorbed more than 2,800 missiles and drones, according to Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy. The bombardment has damaged energy infrastructure, but the far bigger economic wound is the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil shipments through the chokepoint have plummeted, severing the steady stream of dollar income that Abu Dhabi and Dubai depend on to fund everything from government budgets to real estate development. The International Monetary Fund has already flagged the Middle East conflict shock as a persistent headwind through 2026, with Gulf economies bleeding an estimated $50 billion in lost exports. For the UAE specifically, the compounding costs are striking: active military participation in the coalition to reopen Hormuz, the collapse of logistics revenue at hubs like Jebel Ali, and now the real risk of capital flight as international investors reassess the safety of Dubai’s financial center. As the Wall Street Journal recently observed, Emirati leaders believe they have so far avoided the worst economic fallout, but they also recognize the situation could deteriorate rapidly without a U.S. backstop. Why a Swap Line Matters A currency swap line with the Federal Reserve would give the UAE central bank access to U.S. dollars in exchange for dirhams, effectively guaranteeing that Emirati banks can meet dollar-denominated obligations even if reserves run thin. During the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed extended similar facilities to central banks in South Korea, Singapore, and Brazil. More recently, swap lines were deployed at the onset of the pandemic to prevent a global dollar shortage. The UAE’s request is different in degree, if not in kind. This is not a developing economy on the brink of default. Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds, anchored by entities like Mubadala and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, hold assets estimated well above $1 trillion. The problem is liquidity, not solvency. Sovereign wealth portfolios loaded with private equity, real estate, and long-duration infrastructure stakes cannot be converted to cash quickly enough to cover short-term dollar obligations when trade revenues dry up overnight. Evidence of that liquidity crunch is already visible. The UAE recently pressed Pakistan to repay a $3.5 billion loan, ultimately accepting roughly $1.5 billion when Islamabad could not manage the full amount. Saudi Arabia and Qatar stepped in with $5 billion in fresh support to prevent a broader regional contagion. For Abu Dhabi to recall capital from an ally rather than extend grace tells you the timeline they are working against. Strategic Calculus in Washington From the American perspective, denying the request carries risks that likely outweigh the cost of granting it. The UAE hosts U.S. military assets, has committed to joining combat operations to force Hormuz open, and holds trillions in U.S. Treasuries and other dollar assets. A financial collapse in the Emirates would not only hand Tehran a strategic victory but could trigger a disorderly sell-off of those holdings, rippling through global fixed income markets. The first six days of the Iran war cost the Pentagon $11.3 billion, a figure the U.S. defense establishment can absorb without breaking stride. The UAE operates on a different scale. Its defense budget is a fraction of Washington’s, and the simultaneous loss of trade income creates a double squeeze that no amount of long-term asset wealth can immediately resolve. There is also the diplomatic backdrop to consider. Earlier this year, reports about a UAE intelligence officer’s secret stake in a company linked to the Trump family prompted a congressional probe and a round of uncomfortable headlines. Those tensions have been shelved, at least for now, by the shared imperative of countering Iran. A swap line would formalize that cooperation in financial terms. What This Means for Markets Oil traders are watching the Washington talks as a proxy for how long the Hormuz disruption might last. A U.S. commitment to backstop the UAE financially would signal that the coalition intends to sustain and likely intensify military operations, which could keep crude prices elevated in the near term but reduce the tail risk of a sudden Gulf financial meltdown spreading to global credit markets. For investors with exposure to Middle Eastern equities or Dubai real estate, the lesson is straightforward: sovereign wealth does not equal short-term safety. When trade flows freeze, even asset-rich nations need liquidity partners. Expect Gulf states to accelerate diversification of funding sources in the coming months, and expect the Federal Reserve to weigh the precedent of extending wartime swap lines to a region that just became an active combat zone.