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Egypt To Join Russia-Led Eurasian Free Trade Zone
Egypt has established a free trade zone with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, president Sisi of Egypt announced at a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We have reached an agreement to establish a free trade zone between Egypt and the Eurasian Economic Union,” Egyptian President … Continue reading
Moscow And Cairo To Drop Dollar, Use National Currencies In Bilateral Trade: Putin
Russia and Egypt might soon exclude the US dollar and use their national currencies in the settlement of accounts in bilateral trade, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview to Egyptian media ahead of his Monday visit to the country. The issue of abandoning the dollar in trade is “being actively discussed,” Putin told … Continue reading
Sisi Promises Investment Opportunities For Economic Summit Guests
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised several investment opportunities for potential participants at the major economic summit. Egypt will host the event in March to attract investors and is expected to present its economic strategy (investment options) to a top tier group of world leaders and business figures. The conference is scheduled for 13-15 March in Sharm … Continue reading
The Ghost Of Mubarak Returns To Egypt – Four Years After Tahrir – OpEd
By Carl Finamore The most powerful example of people’s power among all the “Arab Spring” uprisings will observe its fourth anniversary on Jan. 25, 2015, still officially proclaimed Revolution Day since the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 2011. But for those commemorating the thousands who shed blood in the name of democracy and … Continue reading
Swiss Policy, China Reserves, Peru and Egypt Surprise
By EM Bits When we thought the day had enough excitement from central banks after India and the SNB, Peru and Egypt also surprised markets. China released its FX reserve figures yesterday showing another sharp decline. Using a back-of-the-envelope calculation, it seems like likely still strong. When we thought the day had enough excitement from … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight (19-Dec-2014)
By ETFalpha Global Emerging Markets expressed as iShares MSCI EM ETF (EEM) have been remaining in both negative trend and momentum. However, if the recent market bounce appears to be sustainable during the week commencing December, 21st we may see momentum turing into positive territory. Assuming that’s the case we would be recommending to increase … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight
By ETFalpha Contact(at)ETFalpha.uk What an interesting week for global stocks and Emerging Markets. The levels of volatility jumped significantly with the VIX Index reading increased by more than 78% for the week! Both Emerging and Frontier Markets lost around 6% predominantly due to plummeting oil and generally commodity prices. Technically things look awful as both … Continue reading
Your Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation (Iconographic)
Emerging and Frontier Markets are an asset class itself these days and offer investors amazing opportunities. The challenge is to harness the amount of volatility relatively bigger versus the other equity asset classes. Also the universe of ETFs in that space is pretty big and any successful asset allocation approach has to follow a well … Continue reading
