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Curve Equity Exposed Fund Stock markets hover between the official and the unofficial ones. The intent is there to modernize and infrastructuralize, but the approach is piecemeal.If you would like to receive late breaking news on stocks covered by AXcess News then you need to subscribe. By joining, you can stay ahead of the pack and receive the latest news in your email in-box first.Print This Page

(MTC) acquired Fastlink in what was considered the largest single acquisition in the Middle East area, and the largest private sector investment in Jordan.

Equity Income Funds Oct 25, 2004 (AXcess News/AN) London - Stock markets hover between the official and the unofficial ones. The intent is there to modernize and infrastructuralize, but the approach is piecemeal. The perception is that there is an absence of a holistic approach to policy making and plans and projects are revised almost on an on-going basis.

By Freddie Mooche Middle East financial analysts expect stock markets there to continue to rise due to the availability of cash pouring into the markets by speculators there. Visit our AXcess News Forum and add your comments on this story. Try your hand at writing, the best story will be published on our news network. Take our business poll too! Print This Page July 31, 2004 (AXcess News) Middle East financial analysts expect stock markets there to continue to rise due to the availability of cash pouring into the markets by speculators there.

Capital Casebook Equity Whatever legislation and policies are in place are heavily skewed toward nationals first, and then GCC citizens.

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Private Investment In Public Foreigners, for instance, can only invest in a limited way on the Tadawul Stock Exchange in Saudi Arabia through local mutual funds and not directly. This anomaly has disqualified Saudi Arabia from inclusion in Dow Jones-DIFC Arabia Titans 50 Index, which aspires to be the benchmark and basis for investible products in the Middle East region. Qatar recently announced that it is allowing foreigners to invest up to 25 percent in any particular stock quoted on the Doha Securities Market. Yet, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) markets are currently experiencing a boom in primary public offerings through IPOs, fueled in turn by a liquidity boom thanks largely to the sharp rises in world oil prices over the last year.

Viridian, the holding company for Northern Ireland's electricity, is in talks over a .62billion bid by Bahraini private equity firm Arcapita Bank.

Equity Mutual Funds Some fifteen IPOs in sectors ranging from telecoms, utilities, transport, insurance and banking, manufacturing, and retail are being planned over the next two months in the GCC to raise almost $10 billion to capitalize on a primary equity investment market boom reminiscent of the dotcom boom of the 1990s. The fact is that many Gulf investors and institutions burnt their fingers badly during the dotcom bubble, losing millions of dollars.

Birmingham Contact Equity These include several IPOs planned for Saudi corporates including Al-Bilad Bank, the new Islamic bank approved in the Kingdom which plans to sell 50 percent of its shares to raise $400 million; NCCI (the National Company for Cooperative Advertisement

Private Equity Investment Firm Insurance) similarly plans to sell 50 percent of its equity stake to raise $133 million; Maaden (Saudi Arabian Mining Company);
The National Commercial Bank, which plans to sell a 30 percent stake for $4.8 billion - by far the largest offering; and Marafiq (the Power and Water Utilities Company for Jubail and Yanbu). Global Investment House (GIH), the Kuwait-based investment bank, in its September 2004 GCC Market Review, stresses that in the traditionally cash and real-estate dominated GCC markets, equity culture and investments are fast growing, resulting in huge demand for investment products from retail as well as institutional investors. The booming stock markets in the GCC countries, since the last two-to-three years, have also paved the way for the government-owned companies and family-owned businesses to divest their stakes.

Complying Deal Equity Funds By the end of 2003, according to GIH, the GCC stock markets had 435 listed stocks with a total market capitalization of $302 billion. During the first six months of 2004, the number of listed stocks had risen to 458, with the total market capitalization rising by 23 percent to reach $374 billion.

Equity Msn Private Wyoming The privatization process, though started, is at best limited in the offerings, and some times even politically expedient. Many corporates are still not adhering to stringent disclosure and transparency norms, which would make it easier for them to go public in future.

American Equity Investment The single most spectacular IPO was the AED412.5 million one for Amlak Finance, the Islamic property financing subsidiary of the UAE

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