Winners and Losers Aspecter is haunting the Middle East. A little more than a quarter century after the Shah’s fall, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s wildest dreams seem to be coming true …
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Instead of the post-Ramadan surge which many of the region’s financial analysts and traders had augured during the slow days of summer, important Middle Eastern stock markets converged to a …
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The race to host a central bank for the western Gulf region sees Bahrain and the UAE emerging as the top two candidate nations and, barring any more fanciers, one …
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Speaking at the MENA Economic Forum in Kuwait in November 2007, Ibrahim Dabdoub, CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait, declared that the “Arab banking landscape is being transformed” by …
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looks good for 2007 Simply put, the economic outlook for the Middle East in 2007 is good. Investment flows, GDP projections, and international demand forecasts for the region’s export commodities, …