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by James M. Dorsey The Middle East is at a crossroads. The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout confronts regional leaders with a stark choice: dial down tensions to open the door toward cooperation…
By James M. Dorsey A decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC producers like Russia to temporarily…
By Matein Khalid The US dollar is the traditional safe haven currency during times of geopolitical or financial stress even when…
By Matein Khalid I had published an article expressing my shock at the abysmal corporate governance and financial disclosure at NMC…
By Matein Khalid Thankfully, I was not in the global markets during the Black Death, the Great Plague and the Spanish…
By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Podbean, Audecibel, Patreon and Castbox. Saudi Arabia may have been getting more…
The following is a text of seven -year-old Soborno Isaac Bari’s prepared remarks to Mankind, delivered on January 6, 2020 at…
By Matein Khalid My tactical idea last week to recommend buying sterling against the US dollar (cable) at 1.30 for a…
By Matein Khalid NMC Health PLC, the UAE’s leading private operator of medical clinics and hospitals with a footprint in 17…
By Matein Khalid I had recommended buying the Tadawul ETF iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia (symbol KSA on NYSE) on November 30…
By Matein Khalid I had recommended SAP shares at €82 in the Gulf financial press in early 2018 as its then…
By Matein Khalid I first encountered Lebanon as a teenager after the fabled Choueifat College opened its first UAE campus in…
By Matein Khalid I literally laughed when I heard that Goldman Sachs put a valuation range of $1.6 to $2.3 trillion…
By Diyari Salih On the first of October, Iraq witnessed enormous protests against the government and the political elite in this…
Hassan Ali Mansoor Although the world is faced with geo-political and geo-strategic challenges that are destabilizing markets and economies across the…
By Hassan Ali Mansoor A noticeable trend around the world these days are media reports that paint a gloomy picture of…
By Matein Khalid So Boris Johnson was elected the leader of the Conservative Party by 66% of the Tory membership and…
By Matein Khalid George Soros once observed “the big money in emerging markets is made when things go from Godawful to…
By Matein Khalid The S&P 500 index trades at 2990 as I write. The risk-reward calculus on the broad index no…
By Matein Khalid Goldman Sachs shares traded at 190 when I wrote this article, way below its 52 week high at…
BY Aaditya Tangri We’ve all heard the dire warnings of our impending dystopian future. According to research by Deloitte, an estimated…
By Matein Khalid Thanks to the orchestrated bullishness of a dozen Wall Street sell side analysts and the mother of all…
By James M. Dorsey A public apology by a prominent Salafi scholar sheds a light on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s version…
By Matein Khalid Citigroup, the third largest US money center bank, owns subsidiaries in Latin America whose pedigrees go back almost…
By Manish Rai Recent attacks launched by Houthis rebels on critical installations of Saudi Arabia has demonstrated a significant leap in…
/By Matein Khalid/ Despite the global fame of its brand ambassadors Leonardo DiCaprio and Snoop Dog, Alternative faux meat specialist Beyond…
By Matein Khalid I had published a column in the UK/MENA press arguing that the Uber IPO was “absurdly valued” last…
/By Matein Khalid/Are we on the precipice of another spasm of intercontinental contagion in the emerging markets like 2018, or the…
