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 »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 »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 »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 […]
Read more »Via The East African, an interesting graphic on oil and gas production schedules for East Africa
Read more »Via Business Insider, an interesting report on Jim Rogers’ interest in North Korea: Jim Rogers is nothing if not a contrarian, and one of his boldest moves is trying to bet on North Korea. The famous investor, who cofounded legendary hedge fund Quantum with George Soros, spoke to Real Vision TV and said North Korea is where China was […]
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