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Cairo, Riyadh to sign 12 investment deals on Jan. 5
December 31, 2015
Cairo, Riyadh to sign 12 investment deals on Jan. 5
Egypt and Saudi Arabia will sign 12 memorandums for Saudi investments in Cairo as a joint committee by both countries…
Egypt’s current account deficit soars in first quarter
December 30, 2015
Egypt’s current account deficit soars in first quarter
Egypt's current account deficit more than doubled to US$4 billion in the first quarter of its financial year as tourism…
Mideast stocks: Saudi Arabia little changed, broad rise in Egypt
December 30, 2015
Mideast stocks: Saudi Arabia little changed, broad rise in Egypt
Dec 30 Saudi Arabia's stock index moved sideways early on Wednesday as a negative reaction to austerity measures in the…
Global growth will be disappointing in 2016: IMF’s Lagarde
December 30, 2015
Global growth will be disappointing in 2016: IMF’s Lagarde
Global economic growth will be disappointing next year and the outlook for the medium-term has also deteriorated, the head of…
Saudi economic shake-up shows it is planning for cheap oil
December 29, 2015
Saudi economic shake-up shows it is planning for cheap oil
Saudi Arabia's planned cuts in spending and energy subsidies signal that the world's largest crude exporter is bracing for a…
Dollar gains vs euro on risk appetite, oil gains lift ruble
December 29, 2015
Dollar gains vs euro on risk appetite, oil gains lift ruble
The US dollar gained against the euro on Tuesday after greater risk appetite hurt demand for the shared currency and…
Govt sale of public companies’ assets a possible backdoor to privatization
December 29, 2015
Govt sale of public companies’ assets a possible backdoor to privatization
The government, through the Investment Ministry, is apparently going through a backdoor to privatization policies by expanding in selling lands…
Egyptian yields buck rate hike with modest rise at auction
December 29, 2015
Egyptian yields buck rate hike with modest rise at auction
Yields on Egypt's Treasury bonds rose only modestly at an auction on Monday, shrugging off an official rate rise, and…
Oil down 3 percent; Brent near 11-year low as oversupply worries return
December 29, 2015
Oil down 3 percent; Brent near 11-year low as oversupply worries return
Oil fell more than 3 percent on Monday, with global benchmark Brent back near 11-year lows as last week's short-covering…
Wall Street in 2016: What could possibly go wrong?
December 29, 2015
Wall Street in 2016: What could possibly go wrong?
By all rights, 2016 should be a good year for the US stock market. The Federal Reserve's recent rate hike signals…