This is a guest post from Omar Darwazah, Director, Investor Relations at OCI N.V.
This is a common question asked multiple times by market practitioners and observers of Iran’s capital market. This is essentially due to the asymmetry readily witnessed by those who buy and…
Last night, MSCI, the world’s largest indexing firm, announced that it will not be adding China’s A shares as constituents of its widely followed EM index.
It has also made a number of comments which were of interest to global emerging funds following Pakistan…
Key Points
Over the weekend, one of the largest closed emerging markets became more accessible to foreign investors as financial sanctions were officially lifted. The ‘implementation day’ came somewhat sooner than expected following…
This time last week we presented at ARFI’s IR forum on the subject of investor opportunity in the Middle East. For the benefit of those who weren’t able to make the event, we thought it might be helpful to summarise the key messages.
Ending months of speculation, the US Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates at their historic low levels last week, as concerns for a fragile global economy overshadowed recent evidence of a strengthening US recovery.
Last week saw the resolution of a long-running saga in the emerging markets investment community: the inclusion of China’s restricted main market ‘A-shares’ in the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
Mainland China has two stock exchanges, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). As of June 2015, The total market capitalization of all stocks listed on these two exchanges exceeded $10trillion, making it one of the largest equity…