Lebanon’s Delusional Default Designs
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Lebanese stocks at the bottom of the MSCI frontier market pack last year continued to slide through March as the ...
The Arab World’s Smudged Small Business Patchwork
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Amid the hype over Saudi Aramco’ s 1.5% sale as the $25 billion world’s largest IPO corralling institutional and retail ...
MENA’s Capricious Capital Flow Flare
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The IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia October economic snapshot highlighted changing capital flow patterns from direct to portfolio inflows ...
Tunisia’s Overdue Aid Revolution
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Since instigating the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia has been held up by the international community, which plowed in billions ...
Lebanon/Turkey’s Rearguard Refugee Roundup
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Media and law enforcement reports that thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Turkey, out of the millions fleeing there ...
Iran’s Raucous Sanctions Romp
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After a 20% gain in the fiscal year first quarter ending in June, the Tehran Stock Exchange local index added ...
Tunisia’s Testing Turnaround Trickle
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Tunisia joined other Middle East frontier markets Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco with flat to negative results on the Morgan Stanley ...
Iran’s Battered Bank Switch Spirits
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Amid worsening stagflation, currency depreciation and the comprehensive US sanctions campaign moving the past month from oil to other exports ...
Sudan’s Dire Deployment Design
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After ousting three-decade ruler Omar al-Bashir and beginning negotiations for civilian government transition with demonstrators loosely grouped under a “professionals ...
Bahrain’s Contradictory Conference Agendas
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Bahrain stocks, on a 20% roll through April on the MSCI Frontier index, looked for further grounding as the oil ...