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Tunisia’s Raw Revolutionary Sentiments

Tunisian stocks on the third Arab Spring anniversary ended with a 10 percent MSCI index loss, with heavyweight bank listings ...

Dubai’s Exponential Revival Reverie

UAE shares up 90 percent further dominated the Gulf cohort as Dubai won the host competition for World Expo 2020 ...

Iran’s Suspended Sanctions Believers

The Tehran Stock Exchange extended its post-Rouhani election advance and the currency firmed from 30,000 to the dollar on a ...

Egypt’s Counterintuitive Counterrevolutionary Count

Egyptian stocks moved toward positive as S&P raised the sovereign rating to B after nonstop post-Mubarak downgrades in recognition of ...

Iraq’s Reconstructed Bond Argument

The Iraqi Prime Minister began a US visit as post-military pullout security already suffering from regular Baghdad bombings was aggravated ...

North Africa’s Dusty Machinery Machinations

North African stock markets struggled to overcome single-digit losses as other main and frontier index components turned positive or consolidated ...

The Gulf’s Rich Sovereign Wealth Welter

With Gulf financial markets standing out in the region and broader universe heading into the last quarter, sovereign wealth fund ...

The Middle East’s Suspended Syria Senses

Regional capital markets tentatively retraced as a US-threatened military operation against selected Syrian targets was put on hold pending a ...

Iran’s Rowhani Rowboat Leaks

The Tehran stock exchange continued its double-digit advance as perceived reformer Rowhani, with a sudden youth and former “green” movement ...

Tunisia’s Importuning Immolation Pact

Tunisian stocks were ambivalent as a 2-year $1.75 billion IMF standby was reached by the Islamic party-led government just prior ...

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