Capital Market

GCC Equity Research: Key Questions

Introduction It’s time for GCC economies to embrace equity research. We will tell you why. Let’s begin by looking at how these markets have performed in 2014.br/> Country Index Performance 2014 UAE Dubai’s DFM Index + 11.99% UAE Abu Dhabi Stock Market Index +  5.56% Saudi Arabia TADAWUL All Share Index -   3.16% Qatar QE All Share Index + 18.36% Kuwait KWSE Weighted Index -    3.09% Oman MSM Index -    7.70% Bahrain BSE Index + 14.23% Source: Reuters, Markaz Research Among...

GCC: Smartphones storm stock market – Way To Go

If you want to trade stocks while on the move, look no further than your smartphone for help. Yes, thanks to the advent of mobile trading, you can buy and sell stocks with your smartphone, without being chained to your desktop or your laptop.   Nowadays, many brokerage firms offer mobile share trading service as a significant value addition to the client. Online stock trading removes the middleman and helps you to actively manage your portfolio. This means you have...

Unified Stock Exchange for GCC

Several factors argue for the case for a unified stock exchange in the GCC region including increased trade volumes, improved liquidity and lower trading costs on back of economies of scale (MENA Asset Management Policy Perspectives, Markaz Research) . However, the first step towards such unification of stock exchanges requires the union of currencies and harmonizing of monetary operations undertaken by the GCC central banks. Initially proposed in the early 2000 after the successful adoption of the Euro, the approval...