Bahrain
Finance
The Dubai Financial Market General Index (DFGMI) may have rallied over the past few days in anticipation of the US$22bn debt restructuring deal that Dubai World is expected to...
2010-03-09Finance
The Saudi and Omani bourses continue to be regional favourites of ours. Here we focus on two other GCC markets that have caught our eye in recent weeks: Bahrain and Kuwait.
2010-02-24Economy
A spate of bad news concerning the liquidity crisis of
2010-02-08Economy
Testing times continue for equity markets worldwide, with some bourses, including, worryingly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, having broken below medium-term trendline support...
2010-01-26Economy
We have been burned before trying to call the recovery in the Bahrain All-Share Index (BASI), whose illiquidity makes it difficult to predict, but we do note that it has potential...
2010-01-21Finance
With the recent release of disappointing Q409 banking results in Saudi Arabia having had a negative impact on the Tadawul All-Share Index (see 'Banking Results Pain For TASI', January...
2010-01-12Finance
As 2009 comes to a close, we examine the relative performance of Middle Eastern stock markets over the year, and offer some initial thoughts on what to expect in 2010. A number of...
2009-12-31Finance
Abu Dhabi's bailing out of Dubai today (December 14 2009) via a US$10bn cash injection has had an immediate positive effect on all GCC markets, though we are cautious regarding their...
2009-12-14




