After Dubai’s benchmark stock index lost almost half its value in the past five years, it’s starting to attract investors looking for bargains. Hobbled by a...
Investors are starting to tune out the noise of the billions of dollars that flowed into Saudi bonds and stocks in the first half of the year after the...
The Gulf is proving to be fertile ground for debt investors. Yield-hungry global funds are plowing into regional bonds at the expense of local stock markets,...
Bahrain and Oman may have missed a golden opportunity to lock in cheap foreign financing. Ever since tensions between Iran and its Arab neighbors began...
Before Oman succumbs to the temptation of selling Eurobonds, some analysts say the sultanate will first need to convince the market it’s pushing through...
The hefty premium investors demanded to hold Oman’s Eurobonds rather than those of lower-rated Bahrain is shrinking. The sultanate’s plans to slash its...
Bond investors rattled by Bahrain’s fiscal woes last year are bracing for the next potential crisis in the Gulf region: Oman. The cash-strapped...
For Saudi equities, 2019 may be a story of two halves. The kingdom’s stocks are set to rally in coming months as billions of dollars gush into the market...
The list of potential pitfalls for Middle East investors next year is long. With oil in a bear market, pressure on energy exporters is mounting. Saudi...
While billions of dollars will flow into Saudi Arabia with its inclusion in MSCI Inc.’s emerging-market benchmark in June, don’t be counting on the passive...
A slump in stocks followed by an unexplained rebound. A bond market that appeared to be driven by an entirely different narrative. And at the end of it all, a...
Traders are running out of reasons to stay in Dubai’s stock market as it heads for its worst year since the 2008 debt crisis. Dubai’s main equities gauge has...
The Arab world’s biggest bourse is losing its appeal to foreigners just two months after it won inclusion in MSCI Inc.’s emerging-market index. That’s because...
Bondholders’ relief over a Gulf pledge to prop up Bahrain’s struggling economy has given way to anxiety now that three weeks have passed without any sign aid...
Franklin Templeton Investments has cut back its debt holdings in Bahrain, citing the “very serious” threat that the cash-strapped nation will experience an...
For all the concern that there’s a crisis brewing in some developing economies, emerging markets showed resilience going into the final week of May, thanks to...
Investors are punishing markets where policymakers haven’t done enough to stem deteriorating current-account balances, ballooning inflation and a run on their...
Greylock Capital Management LLC, a hedge fund that holds the distressed bonds of Mozambique and Venezuela, says Bahrain is its next potential target. The...
While tens of billions of dollars stream into Saudi Arabia on a potential MSCI (Modern Index Strategy) Inc. upgrade to emerging market status, it will take...
Investors’ appetite for risk is back, but most of the issues that soured the mood across emerging markets last week are a tweet away from flaring up again....