Finance

As all Arab equity markets scaled the first quarter of 2014 with some index gains, optimistic share-buying secured a good start to the second quarter for Gulf equities, with new …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

International investors have been shifting part of their attention from emerging markets to those classified as frontier markets. This attention is in the form of cash, mind you, and thus …

Nouriel Roubini, the famous economist nicknamed Dr. Doom, was predicting the collapse of the world economy in 2013 as he foresaw a perfect “economic storm” for the year. Fortunately, the …

The investment banking sector in Lebanon is staggeringly small. With Lebanon’s history of maintaining a strong financial sector despite periods of crisis, one would expect its finance professionals to be …