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Tunisia’s Jasmine Fragrance Fumes

As Egypt completed presidential elections and moved to secure billions of dollars in bilateral and multilateral lines to address its ...

Egypt’s Modest Morsi Mission Mobilization

In an early gesture to reassert civilian supremacy over the military welcomed by investors with good bond auction and stock ...

The IMF’s Arab Spring Leaps

Mideast stock markets which have mostly struggled this year were buoyed by the resumption of negotiations for an IMF loan ...

Lebanon’s Numbing Neighborhood Knocks

Lebanese shares were down 3 percent on the MSCI frontier roster through July after a sovereign outlook demotion to negative ...

Dubai’s Dry Dock Berthing Maneuver

The UAE beat Gulf peers with a 10 percent advance in the first half as DIFC Investments and the Jebel ...

Egypt’s Beguiling Brotherhood Feelings

Muslim Brotherhood candidate Morsi won a narrow presidential election victory over former regime stalwart Shafiq a week after the military ...

Lebanese Banks’ Damascus Road Rut

Lebanese shares tipped into negative position as US Treasury and foreign counterpart enforcers aggravated Syrian deposit outflow stress with warnings ...

Egypt’s Debatable Post-Depreciation Direction

Egyptian stocks retraced their 40 percent YTD gain as the two main presidential candidates held a televised debate, the Saudis ...

Saudi Sukuks’ Well Gusher

Saudi Arabia blazed onto the Islamic debt scene with a Gulf-leading $6.5 billion in issuance in Q1, with the sudden ...

The West Bank-Gaza’s Bleary Blockades

Despite a blip in Palestine Stock Exchange interest mainly from Gulf investors exiting Egypt, the World Bank’s annual West Bank ...

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