Markets review

Beirut SE   Review period: Jan 1, 2011 to Nov 24, 2011 >  Closed at 728.99 points                  Period change: -25.01% One has to wonder what is worse for the economically-minded living in the country once hailed as the Switzerland of the Middle East  — the muddled perspective on economic and fiscal policies by the national government, the slide of equity values on the Beirut Stock Exchange or the external risks of exposure to trade disruption and internal warfare in one neighboring country and to unabated dangers of intrusion and armed interferences from a second. Although there is a link between external risks to the reduction of total turnover on the BSE to $405 million in 47 weeks of 2011, from $1.4 billion in the same period in 2010, this is not the primary factor affecting the country economically. Amman SE   Review period: Jan 1, 2011 to Nov 24, 2011 >  Closed