Beirut Stock Exchange

It bears repeating that being decoupled from every other market is not a win-win. At best it makes you a functional zero, irrelevant to all but yourself. The truth of…

An initial public offering, or IPO, is a company’s first offering of its equity to public investors; its main objective is for the company to raise capital. It is generally…

As Lebanon’s banking sector continues to be as solid as a rock the financial sector is perhaps its deprived younger cousin. However, many financial firms and boutiques do stake it…

Although the MSCI EM and EFM indices implied a bad month for emerging and frontier markets, with losses of 7.6 percent and 7.4 percent respectively for September, and although both…

This article is part of an Executive special report on wealth management and private banking. Read more stories as they’re published here, or pick up September’s issue at newsstands in…

Arab markets trended up or flat with positive bias at a rate of three to one in the 35th week of the year. Indices were intonating pretty much the same…

Arab markets continued to grow in week 17 of 2014, performing better than the previous week – with five of the twelve markets improving and only three dropping when compared…

Overview The United Arab Emirates and Qatar were lead performers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) last week, showing gains of above three percent for Abu Dhabi Exchange,…

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…