Iran’s Offsetting Oil Anguish Salve
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The Tehran Stock Exchange local index hit the record 200,000 mark despite harsher US sanctions aiming to eliminate oil exports ...
Israel’s Blunted Blue and White Whirl
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Israeli stocks and bonds now featuring in developed world indices maintained solid gains with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s surprise coalition re-election ...
Egypt’s Punctuated Lavish Praise
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Egyptian bonds and stocks, the latter up 15% on the Morgan Stanley Capital International core emerging markets index in the ...
Algeria’s Layered Liberation Lament
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Thirty years after a popular revolt against one-party military-guided rule that may have been an Arab spring precursor, Algerians took ...
The Middle East’s Integrated Introspection
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Unlike most other emerging stock markets enjoying a bounce this year, as reflected in Bank of America’s latest asset allocation ...
Lebanon’s Battered Bank Bulwark
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Following a year with Middle East stock markets down aside from tiny Tunisia, ratings agencies repeated a gloomy banking sector ...
The Gulf’s Cracked Finance Facade
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Gulf stock markets were mixed, with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait with 10-25% gains, Bahrain flat, and Oman and the ...
The Middle East-Central Asia’s Wayward Aim
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Middle East and Central Asian financial markets are under immediate fire from souring emerging economy sentiment and the Turkey crisis ...
Yemen’s Bank Catastrophe Call
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As the US and UK call for a ceasefire and reconsider military support for the Saudi-backed Yemeni government’s campaign against ...
Iran’s Premium Pressure Valve Valuation
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The Tehran stock exchange was up 40% in local currency terms in September, although its annual decline was the same ...