Economics
The Economics section is at the forefront of trends responsible for shaping the world post-Credit Crunch.
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Monday, 29 Jun, 2009
If a really close friend advises buying shares in a company without offering any other details, a good investor would unearth them somehow, no matter who that friend is. Especially under current market volatility. But what do you do in Gulf Co-Operation Council markets, a region with so much cash and growth potential, but so little oversight and information? You read the writing on the wall. And here’s the headline: buy long, not short. Gulf equities offer some of the best outperforming odds ...
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Monday, 22 Jun, 2009
The current financial crisis described by Alan Greenspan as ‘once in a century credit tsunami’ has shaken the very foundations of the capitalist financial system. An urge to reap excessive profits at the organizational level in an unregulated environment led to innovations that introduced new products and changed the financial structure. The traditional financial intermediation model in which depositors provided funds to the banks for investment was replaced by raising funds from the market...
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Monday, 15 Jun, 2009
In war and in business there is such a thing as a tactical retreat: a strategic pullback in the lull before the storm. And Bagdad’s apparent concession to Kurds in regards to oi...
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Tuesday, 2 Jun, 2009
Manifestations of the global economic crisis began to unfold in early October 2007 and since then the crisis has been affecting the economies of most countries of the world. It cr...
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Monday, 25 May, 2009
Nations should think of this recession as a backdraft (if you missed the 1991 movie starring Robert De Niro, that occurs when a fire sucks up all the oxygen until suffocating). Th...
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Gulf stock markets suffered severe losses during 2008 with a loss average of 45%, against the backdrop of the global economic crisis and its repercussions in the countries of the ...
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Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
Do not be fooled by the recent surge in share prices. The depths and breadth of the current recession is as yet unfathomable for even the shrewdest of economists and investors. Un...
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Sunday, 12 Apr, 2009
With the clear intention to prevent the reproduction of the last century’s economic debacle, the leaders of the 20 richest world economies met in London on April 2, 2009 in orde...
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