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Cairo, Riyadh to sign 12 investment deals on Jan. 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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…
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