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MSCI ponders reclassifying Nigeria, Egypt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... 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 Market effective ...

MSCI, FTSE Russell drop Russia from indexes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... 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 in one step ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... and social media stocks; Putin and Crimea and Ukraine (which by the by, made us worry about RISING oil prices); Israel/Palestine war, ISIS and QE end. Now them, they were true causes for fear and loathing. But cheaper oil prices? Yes, Virginia, there ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... the possibility of sending a humanitarian mission to the eastern city of Luhansk". The very same day that Israel and Palestine ceased their ceasefire. I wonder, wonder who's gonna play humanitarian there? So are the US/EU and Russia ready to kiss and ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... ground troops and tanks into Gaza. It didn't faze financial markets over the past few days when Netanyahu was bombing Palestine- Hamas militants or not. And these exclude the murdering still going on in Iraq and Syria. The rational investor in me takes ...

NZ Super fund kicks out companies

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... $20 billion New Zealand Superannuation Fund's investment portfolio for allegedly breaking international laws in Palestine. Listed companies Africa Israel and its subsidiary Danya Cebus, Elbit, Shikun & Binui in which the fund had small allocations ...

You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... couldn't be these that are spooking markets. Perhaps it's the renewed violent military hostilities between Israel and Palestine? That's' a new one... not on the radar, totally unexpected. But the Jews and the Arabs had been at each other's throats since ...

End of the world

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... Jones index fell 3 per cent overnight or by 358 points. NASDAQ fell 3.4 per cent and the S&P500 fell 3 per cent. The Palestine Stock Exchange index however dropped back only 0.59 per cent but on thin trading involving only 54 transactions. By 11am the ...
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