JANUARY 2009

The new beast of burden

Shoes, footprints and carbon tax
December's news anything but pedestrian

How the West was humbled
UK & US beg fir financial aid from once-shunned SWFs

Iraq’s northern Cinderella
Kurdistan spins economic fairytale from war

History’s famous footwear
The greatest shoes ever flung, swung and put in collection

Success and challenge for family business in the GCC
Family business in the GCC

Internal communication and corporate inner peace
Attaining corporate inner peace

CREDIT SUISSE
Oil‘s recent price dip a blip in a long-term upward trend

Exposing the roots of the world‘s economic crisis
Roots of the financial crisis

Lebanon in the eye of the storm
Lebanon basks in the calm eye of the financial storm

EM Leadership Center
Shifting the CEO paradigm

Where luxury lives
Homes built with class and taste frame a thriving realty market

Sunset to the west
Twilight fading on hopes Ankara and EU can bridge the divide

Lebanon – The orient’s goldsmith
A storied past and splendorous present crafting precious metal

The Arab job market
Myths debunked and truths revealed about employment in the MENA

Paved with good intentions
Failures, ineptitude and structural unfairness spur calls for fund’s reform

Trimming the fat
In cost cutting to survive the financial crisis, companies shed executive staff

Return to earth
CEO and management earnings entering era of normalization

Same work, different pay
Nationality, gender discrimination economically inefficient and unfair

Pink slips all around
The human toll of the costs companies cut

Sovereign losses
Gulf clamps down in crisis as billions worth of investments vanish

As transparent as oil
Cartel’s pricing power tanked by the barrels unaccounted for

The honeymoon’s over
Global crisis makes immature markets grow up fast, hard and mean

Real estate – Only the strong survive
In the plummeting markets, debt-laden, over-extended firms will parish

In pursuit of power
Both hydrocarbons and renewables fuel new national strategies

A momentum to maintain
How Maghreb can sustain growth

Black gold’s dark side
South tries to end the human suffering oil has left in its wake

Lebanon – Revenue remits
Cash streams from diaspora slimming to a trickle in 2009

UAE – The crisis hammer
Global economic turmoil nails hay days of growth

Investment – Past the wreckage
Financiers cautiously feel out the future

IPO Watch – Close to nothing
Market virtually disappeared in fourth quarter 2008

Money Matters by BLOMINVEST Bank

Company bulletin

Global economic data
Thinkforce, women & politics, doctor training and debt

Free markets – Liberty’s loss
Democracy drive shelved as states coddle economies