Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 21 - 30 of 63 results for "Egypt"

No change to Korea, Taiwan status: MSCI

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... almost 40 consecutive business days during the recent political turmoil, MSCI said. The index provider is not reviewing Egypt's membership of the emerging market index as it does not believe Egyptian stock market accessibility or investibility has been ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index covering second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. While it will lead to the peaceful ousting of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan strongman Qaddafi would fight tooth and nail to retain power, dragging the instability in the MENA region for longer ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... said, pointing to demographics that show the population of the region was overwhelmingly young. "It's a youth revolution." "Egypt just had its best decade of growth and it still had mass unrest." Turtelboom said the conditions in the Middle East were ...

More to emerging markets than Asia

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... Fidelity is 'relatively sanguine' on that topic and believes that the move towards democratic governments in Tunisia and Egypt will be beneficial to future investment conditions. Furthermore, Africa is largely a cash based economy, as opposed to the ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... perhaps now making other protesters think twice. It was ok at first with the relatively bloodless revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, but not now. China's 1989 Tiananmen Square incident for instance, had not been repeated to this day. Besides, dictatorial ...

Greeks, chips and slicks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... looks far-fetched given today's headlines, but did anybody see the Jasmine Revolution coming until it's bitten Tunisia and Egypt's presidents in the bum?

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... been through this before haven't we? Perhaps not Tunisia, but when the Jasmine Revolutionaries marched on the streets of Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Iraq, Morocco, Djibouti, Jordan, Oman, etc. financial markets have already factored in that the unrest would ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... prices? Don't get me wrong but it's not the violence in Libya per se that's sending oil prices higher. Like Tunisia and Egypt, international financial markets couldn't care less if Libya is vapourised along with its two per cent contribution to daily ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... defense of his throne has sent oil prices spiralling upwards. He will not go peacefully like his counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt. And oil as we know it ladies and gents is the lifeblood of all economies the price of which has topped US$100 a barrel ...