More than $1.4 trillion worth of mega projects are currently under execution in the Middle East and North Africa, according to a new report by Citi Research, a unit of …
Thomas Schellen
Thomas Schellen
Thomas Schellen is Executive's editor-at-large. He has been reporting on Middle Eastern business and economy for over 20 years. Send mail
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Political outrage may be good for news ratings but does not necessarily have much of an effect on stock markets. This was the week’s message if one scours the index …
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The largest securities market in the Middle East and North Africa, Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul, offered investors an avenue to take profit or redirect gains into new opportunities in week 12 …
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Three years on since the first protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and with the flow of refugees into neighbors countries in no way abating, aid organizations are struggling to …
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Benchmark indices of Arab stock exchanges retreated in the trading week between March 9 and March 14. Both markets in the United Arab Emirates shed around 150 points between the …
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As part of Executive’s ‘10 Ways to Save Lebanon’ issue, we asked leading figures from a range of fields to put the case for one major changes for the country. In …
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To step into the workplace of the retail banking leader in Lebanon, one passes through the hallways and anterooms of a busy lender’s back office operation. With a view, albeit …
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Last month, members of the national business community faced the tricky question of what to wear for the festive opening of a gas station. Total Liban, the Lebanese unit of …
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Today five years ago, spring birthed a new bull in global finance. Security market annals refer to March 9, 2009 as the point where the United States equity market bottomed …
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Private and corporate Lebanese investors showed faith in future domestic demand for cars by underwriting a new $15 million securitization deal for Rasamny Younis Motor Company (Rymco), the company announced …
