Egypt
Economy
The Egyptian pound looks set to continue trading in a tight sideways band against the US dollar in the near term. Having initially weakened from EGP5.8030/US$ in January to EGP5.9500/US$...
2011-11-01Economy
The Egyptian pound continues to trade in a tight sideways band against the US dollar, with ongoing intervention by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) in the foreign exchange market limiting...
2011-08-03Economy
The uptick in political risk in a number of MENA markets since the start of H2 has filtered through to higher spreads in select CDS markets, which we believe could widen even further...
2011-07-27Economy
Political risks continue to play a major factor in the performance of North African equity markets, in our view, and will likely keep regional indices from outperforming over the medium...
2011-06-30Economy
The Egyptian pound has posted slight gains against the dollar since mid-April, appreciating from EGP5.9665/US$ to EGP5.9365/US$ at the time of writing in mid-May. From a purely technical...
2011-05-11Political Risk
Since our last monthly market strategy update, technical indicators have improved for many of our regional favourites, and themes such as political risk and monetary policy remain dominant...
2011-04-13Economy
Our core views sees elevated volatility across Egyptian financial markets in the near term, and the FX market will be no exception. Having plunged through a key level of trendline support...
2011-02-17Economy
Volatility will remain a key risk across asset classes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as uncertainty over political risk in Egypt continues in the early part of February....
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