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January 31, 2017

According to تأسست شركة المركز المالي الكويتي “Markaz” report on GCC stock & debt market outlook 2017, Boursa Kuwait has started this year on an explosive note. The much followed price index gained 16% while the weighted index gained by 11% as...

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January 29, 2017

The article originally appeared in The National | Business. Cash is still king in the GCC. But that is soon to change. The beauty of disruptive technology is it disrupts, no matter what. Either companies adapt quickly, or get swamped...

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January 22, 2017

Recently I unearthed two interesting but opposite views on Amazon: Amazon is a great company and is poised for more success as success begets success Amazon’s numbers are inflated, its over-valued and it’s time to jump ship. Since I am...

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January 5, 2017

According to Marmore’s recently released Monthly Market Review, MENA bourses had a positive month in December, with all markets ending the year in green. Morocco’s Casablanca Index led the charge rising 9.1 per cent, followed by Egypt’s HRMS index (7.2...

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December 22, 2016

The article originally appeared in The National | Business. Some sectors are more stressed than others and the brokerage sector in the UAE is one of them. Just as the UAE is overbanked, it is also overbrokered. Built on soaring...

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December 20, 2016

The article originally appeared in Wealth Monitor. The housing market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) continues to face the crisis of supply shortage and ever-increasing demand. High population growth and rising per capita income fuelled the growth of...

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November 30, 2016

The article originally appeared in The National | Business. The GCC is raining debt issuances. From almost nothing a few years ago, all we hear and read these days is the jumbo-sized bond issuances from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Abu...

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November 17, 2016

However, the current low oil price environment has transformed the financing landscape in the region as traditional methods of financing such as bank loans are being fast replaced with alternatives such as bonds, private equity, crowdsourcing and IOU’s. The report...

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November 7, 2016

Selling pressure created by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) led to the fall in the Muscat index, while sharp fall seen in the Dubai index was attributed to profit booking, due to volatility in the international commodities and currency market. In...

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October 6, 2016

Although the oil price rose by over 4 per cent, on the back of the OPEC agreement to limit crude output, Saudi index fell considerably after the Saudi government announced that it was reducing salaries and allowances for public sector...

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