DUBAI: Wessal Capital, a Moroccan fund backed by oil-rich Gulf Arab countries, expects construction on a 530 million euro ($735 million) project to develop...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan risks upending the lira’s best run in more than a year. Erdogan’s victory in the March 30 local election spurred...
Saudi Arabia’s drive to make Qatar abandon its embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood may founder because of the limited leverage the Saudis and their allies can...
One million nationals of oil-rich Gulf Arabs states may be jobless or seeking careers in a bloated public sector by 2018 unless measures are taken to create...
Iran’s central bank Governor Valiollah Seif said he’s reversing policies introduced under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that led to a surge in money...
With war in neighboring Syria, unrest at home and one of the world’s highest debt burdens, Lebanon doesn’t look like a safe haven – unless...
Mohammad Kamel and dozens of other engineering graduates have gathered outside Egypt’s Oil Ministry and a state-run energy company in Cairo for months,...
Less than three years after it was criticized for endorsing policies that deepened economic disparity under Arab autocrats, the International Monetary Fund is...
Abraaj Group, the Dubai-based private equity firm with $7.5 billion in assets, is among Gulf investors targeting acquisitions in North Africa as a surging...
Qatar Telecom QSC raised $12 billion to finance its bid for a majority stake in Maroc Telecom SA as it seeks to expand through acquisitions, its chief...
When two Egyptian banks refused to give Ahmad al-Rifai the dollars his digital media company needed to pay Facebook Inc. last month, he turned to a more...
Egyptian consumer prices last month posted the biggest increase in more than two years after the pound weakened to a record and foreign reserves slid. Prices...
Qatar National Bank SAQ, which agreed to buy Societe Generale SA’s Egypt unit, is set to become the first Arab lender with assets exceeding $100 billion...
The Egyptian pound weakened to the lowest level in eight years and stocks the most in a week as the country’s worst unrest since last year’s...
Egypt’s benchmark bond yield dropped to the lowest level in almost two years and shares rallied after the nation signed an initial agreement with the...
Murad Hasan, who owns a stationary shop in Cairo, doesn’t keep his money in a bank, and says expanding Shariah-compliant finance under Egypt’s new...
Jordan may need to offer investors more than lower-rated Lebanon when selling as much as $1.5 billion in bonds as regional unrest strains its budget and...
Egypt’s benchmark index rose to the highest since January 2011, leading gains in the Middle East, as the U.S. Federal Reserve’s plan to buy...
Lebanese bond yields had their biggest monthly jump in more than three years in July as the revolt in neighboring Syria hobbled tourism, the country’s...
Egypt raised 6.9 billion pounds ($1.1 billion) from the sale of domestic debt as yields extended their declines from records, helped by central bank measures...
Egypt’s benchmark stock index dropped the most in three weeks and dollar bonds fell after President Mohammad Mursi reinstated parliament, reversing the...
Egypt will push ahead with talks on a $3.2 billion International Monetary Fund loan after Mohammad Mursi takes over as president in a country suffering from...
Egypt’s dollar bonds tumbled and the nation’s default risk surged to the highest in more than three years after election results were delayed and...
Habib Haddad says when he needed money three years ago to fund Yamli, an online Arabic transliteration service, he had to sell his furniture. His deal with...
Lebanon’s credit rating can absorb sporadic bouts of unrest similar to this week’s clashes in the most-indebted Arab country, Fitch Ratings Ltd....