Palestine Gets FTSE Frontier Market Status For First Time
September 25th, 2016
Courtesy of Lebanon’s Daily Star, a report on Palestine: The Nablus-based Palestine Exchange began trading as a frontier market for the first time in its two-decade history. The classification by index provider FTSE Russell came into effect this week. While none of the 49 publicly traded companies have been granted the same status, the move […]
Read more »Venezuela Crises Compound as Oil Industry Falls Into Disarray
September 20th, 2016
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting look at Venezuela’s crisis: One oil rig was idle for weeks because a single piece of equipment was missing. Another was attacked by armed gangs who made off with all they could carry. Many oil workers say they are paid so little that they barely eat and have to keep watch […]
Read more »Why Pakistan’s Market Beats China’s And India’s
September 17th, 2016
Via Forbes, interesting commentary on Pakistan: Pakistan’s equity market has been outperforming China’s and India’s markets by a big margin in recent years. In the last twelve months, Global X MSCI MSCI +% Pakistan ETF was up 20%, beating India’s and China’s comparable ETF’s by almost two to one – see table. That may come as […]
Read more »Iran: Potential To Become A Strategic Metal Producer
September 17th, 2016
Via The Iran Project, a look at Iran’s mining potential: Iran’s first titanium production plant will be up and running in the next six months, the manager of the Kahnuj titanium pilot project says. The plant with a capacity to produce 2 tonnes of titanium pigments per day is at the phase of equipment installation in […]
Read more »Axis Of Data: Iran To Carry Internet Traffic Between East And West
September 9th, 2016
Via TechRasa, an article on Iran’s ambitions to become a data transit hub: Iran is planning to further develop its infrastructure in order to become an internet transit hub between the east and west. During the Iran Connect 2016 conference, Mahmoud Vaezi, Iran’s Minister of Communications announced that the country is looking forward to the new opportunities […]
Read more »Egypt: The Eastern Mediterranean’s Next Natural Gas Hub?
September 5th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), interesting analysis of Forecast The eastern Mediterranean will attract great interest from international oil and natural gas companies over the next decade. Egypt, hoping to take advantage of that interest, will try to position itself as the region’s energy hub. Though Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has made energy reform […]
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