MENA stock tips, November 2012

Markets appeared to be on the downward slope of the rollercoaster last month. After rallying following monetary easing measures in the United States and in Europe in September, markets have headed back down as companies report their third-quarter earnings, with some corporates guiding the market lower. Executive sat with Abdulla al-Hosani, general manager of Emirates NBD Securities, the brokerage arm of Emirates NBD, and Nadim Kabbara, head of research at FFA Private Bank for investment recommendations.    Abdulla Al Hosani In which markets would you buy? Hosani would invest in three regions: South America, for its significant growth and increasing population, the Far East (mainly China), which he says is still booming, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), where Hosani is seeing investor demand coming back. For more developed markets, he prefers to wait for now. Hosani is mostly concerned about the unresolved European issues.    Key concerns with these