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MSCI ponders reclassifying Nigeria, Egypt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... other Standalone Markets are Argentina, Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. On June 14 the Central Bank of Nigeria announced operational changes to the FX ...

MSCI, FTSE Russell drop Russia from indexes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... indexes for Argentina, Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Malta, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, and Palestine. Ukraine is also classified as a Standalone Market by MSCI. "The reclassification decision will be implemented ...

Opportunities in EM debt rebound: Eaton Vance

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... to remain on lockdown and we are seeing continued re-openings, for better or worse." It identifies "trouble spots" as Lebanon, Argentina, Zambia, Ecuador and Sri Lanka, and expects further EM countries to be added to the list.

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... Espiritu Santo (again), there's increased geo-political risks - Putin and the Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc - and rising volatility, there's the IMF "advising" China to slow its economic growth, there's the US economy growing strongly ...

EM corp bonds better than US: CFSGAM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... for the first time in 25 years. "You could virtually throw darts at a board last year and get a positive return. Even Lebanon, which was war ravaged for much of the year, was able to make investors money." While Williamson concedes that last year is ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... overheating. Geopolitics. Here belongs the recent flare-up of tension between the two Koreas and more recently the Israel-Lebanon incident. Japan. It's Prime Minister resigned yesterday just after less than nine months in office, presenting another uncertainty ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... and Afghanistan and Saddam and Iraq. Last night, screens were flashing red again with geo-political risk on reports that Lebanon fired at Israeli warplanes. So what if two Middle Eastern countries blow each other to smithereens? Just like the European ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... president of Index Services. Standard and Poors also launched five more Arab Shariah country indices in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. These form part of the S&P/IFCG emerging market series. All S&P Shariah Indices are screened by Kuwait-based ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... 42 years respectively, whereas brides born in Italy had the highest median age at marriage of 41 years and those from Lebanon had the lowest median of 25 years. Chinese men had the lowest median age at marriage at 29 years.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... has now fallen about $12 a barrel to $US66 a barrel from a record high in July as a result of the easing of the Israel-Lebanon conflict, the increase in oil flowing as a result of the partial recovery from the March shutdown of the major US oil field ...
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