Laura Martorano is the chief executive officer of Leo Sterling, the brokerage firm she founded in Dubai at the beginning of 2009. Previous to this, Martorano had been the CEO …
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Beirut SE Current year high: 1,200.49 Current year low: 991.49 > Review period: Closed July 23 at 1010.55 points Period change: -5.2% The MSCI Lebanon index continued trending flat with …
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Lebanon’s debt closes in on $50 billion Lebanon’s official gross public debt inched closer to $50 billion, reaching $49.9 billion at the end of October 2009, according to the latest …
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After Abu Dhabi pledged $10 billion to help Dubai World pay off its $4.1 billion sukuk (an Islamic bond) commitments, global markets revived and the Gulf seemed to breathe a …
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In early December, Finance Minister Raya Hassan announced that Lebanon had successfully issued $500 million in Eurobonds in an effort to refinance the country’s staggering public debt. Before the …
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Crises purify markets,” pronounced Fadi Khalaf, the recently appointed secretary general of the Union of Arab Stock Exchanges (UASE) in his opening remarks to the organization’s first public meeting …
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At the Union of Arab Stock Exchanges (UASE) conference in Cairo last month, Executive spoke with leading figures from different bourses around the Arab world about the impact of …
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In 2009, markets were battered by a seemingly never-ending series of financial crises — burst bubbles, financial meltdowns, soaring oil prices, credit crunches and falling home equity. These crises have …
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The recession is over,” says Bill O’Neil, portfolio strategist at Merrill Lynch’s Chief Investment Office in London. That is the sentiment one gets when reading Merrill Lynch’s “Year Ahead …
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"Earth-shattering” events are relatively par for the course in Lebanon, with war, political upheaval and any number of social revolts rarely outside the realm of possibility at any given …