Middle East Markets Among World’s Best Performing Stock Exchanges

It has been a massive quarter for stock markets around the world. The S&P 500 - arguably the most influential indicator of global stock market health - had its biggest quarter since 1998. In the first three months of 2012, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 8.1%, the S&P rose 12% and the Nasdaq advanced 19%. READ MORE HERE

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