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Foreigner entry to fuel Saudi bourse growth(0)

News that Saudi Arabia would allow foreign investors to participate in the Tadawul market would give fresh impetus to the market and bring a number ofinternational money managers to the bourse. CONTINUE READING

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Bearish outlook keeps gold investors at bay(0)

Yellow metal investors have seen red over the past few days, as key market makers turned their backs on gold. CONTINUE READING

Transforming Middle Eastern Corporate Practices(1)

By Elza S. Maalouf, Founder & President Integral Insights Consulting, Member of the Evolutionary Leaders Organization

Corporations, like cultures, cannot skip a development stage. Life conditions in the Middle East have remained at tribal levels with egocentric overtones, which have resulted today in the sweeping revolutions of the Arab Spring. Corporate cultures in the Arab world were no exception to these values. Today visionary leaders, men and women, are changing these patterns and investing in human capacities that will outlast the Age of Oil.I have been working with Middle Eastern corporations for over a decade as a consultant and advisor to business founders and CEOs. Over the years, I have seen corporate training seminars delivered by Western consultants and trainers with the same exact content as it was delivered in the West as if the region were an extension of Anglo-Saxon values that just needed to catch up.

Even the best theories from management science fall short on achieving the intended results if they are not tailored to the memetic contours of each culture. In contrast to this one-model-fits-all approach, our consultancy honors all cultures, value systems and levels of development in society, and takes into consideration the environment and habitat in which they operate.

Specifically, the framework I use originated from the emerging science of memetics based on the seminal work of Professor Clare Graves and his successor and colleague Dr. Don Beck. A meme is like a gene that contains units of cultural information. Memes form into general groupings such as politics, language, economics, religion, education, health care, architecture, etc .The natural organizing principle that brings these groupings together is called a value-system or vMEME.
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Gulf stocks end Q1 with USD751bn market cap(0)

A 5.2% correction in the Dubai Financial Market in the month of March took the shine off an otherwise stellar quarter for the emirate and the wider Gulf markets. CONTINUE READING

Black swans 2013(0)

As businesses prepare their budgets for next year, many of them see a sea of trouble they must navigate through to get to profitability.
Here is a list of possible black swan events (or grey swan events, as some of them are visible on the horizon) that may upset their best-laid plans:
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MR Raghu: Oil price no longer driving Gulf stock market performance(0)

What’s so special about these 25 companies?(0)

By M.R. Raghu, Senior Vice President & Head of Research at Markaz (Kuwait Finance Centre)

MENA insurance: Stunted growth(0)

The Middle East North Africa regional insurance and takaful market is expected to rise just under 5% this year, despite tough economic conditions across the region. CONTINUE READING

Q3 Preview: Weak Quarter?(0)

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Egyptian and Emirati-listed companies are expected to lead strong growth in the third quarter, as both countries recover from their economic challenges. CONTINUE READING