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The market capitalization of the Saudi Arabian stock market is currently around USD 400bn and the IPO of Aramco could add further USD 100bn to the market capitalization (Financial Times). Inclusion of Saudi Aramco in energy sector would increase its...

This new breed of investment advisory services currently has close to $100 Bn of Assets under Management (AUMs) in the US market which has a size of close to $30 Tn. At its current adoption rate, Deloitte predicts that robo-advisory...

In the West, governments play the role of facilitator in terms of policy and regulation, and in providing the right environment for innovation to flourish, leaving it to the private sector to come up with solutions. However, in the GCC,...

Gulf markets have been gaining for the past couple of months, on the back of strong oil market performance, with the belief that the oil price movements have turned a corner. Investor focus has now shifted to the corporate earnings...

Expenditure on the transportation sector in Saudi Arabia has primarily been focused on road networks. Larger land area and higher density of vehicles per Km are one of the important factors behind the increased investments in transport and infrastructure over...

According to an analysis by Marmore MENA Intelligence (www.marmoremena.com), a research house specialized in MENA economies and business issues with the focus on providing actionable solutions, out of a total of 121 UAE-listed stocks (comprising of ADX’s 65, Nasdaq Dubai’s...

Most GCC countries are pegged to the US dollar to avoid currency fluctuation and eliminate uncertainties in international transactions (Kuwait is pegged to a basket of currencies dominated by the US dollar). This comes at the expense of monetary policy...

According to Marmore’s recently published report on Kuwait Projects, in 2015, Kuwait awarded projects worth KWD 10bn, an increase of 20% compared to 2014. The aggregate value of projects awarded during 2014 and 2015 was KWD 18bn. However, this is...

Compared to most developed and emerging markets, the Gulf Cooperation Council’s stock markets suffer from poor research coverage.   The four largest GCC equity markets together enjoy less than a third of the research coverage of other regions, with that...

Egypt’s stocks rose in March, as the country’s central bank devalued its currency and stated that it would adopt a more flexible exchange-rate policy, to ease an acute dollar shortage that is hurting the economy. The devaluation, along with other...