[escenic_image id="5510075"] The Majalla: How would you characterize the scope and depth of economic recovery in Palestine? There has been a revival in the West Bank though not much of one in Gaza…

[escenic_image id="559620"]In a time where the dos and don’ts of financial markets are more widely discussed than football results, one issue has been curiously absent: Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)…

[escenic_image id="559397"]Two CEOS stand in an office examining a chart showing plunging world GDP. One turns to the other, and says, “We can only hope that it turns around before there’s time to…

[escenic_image id="558971"]Although the Gulf economies have weathered the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) relatively well, the same cannot be said about their financial centres. Stock markets in the…

[escenic_image id="558014"]Now that the global economy has apparently bottomed out, governments and private investors alike can shift away from emergency to forward-looking decisions that will better…

[escenic_image id="553694"]As Western nations again mull over whether to ratchet up sanctions on Iran, it helps to understand these punitive measures for what they are. Broadly speaking, sanctions…

[escenic_image id="555182"]By now it should be clear that the “de-coupling” of the global economy, far from the whimsy of radical salon economists, is an established fact. While the US and other…

[escenic_image id="554927"]If a really close friend advises buying shares in a company without offering any other details, a good investor would unearth them somehow, no matter who that friend is…

[escenic_image id="555217"]The current financial crisis described by Alan Greenspan as ‘once in a century credit tsunami’ has shaken the very foundations of the capitalist financial system. An urge…

[escenic_image id="555016"]In war and in business there is such a thing as a tactical retreat: a strategic pullback in the lull before the storm. And Bagdad’s apparent concession to Kurds in regards…