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Keith Fitz-Gerald: The way I see it, U.S. and European energy traders will be lucky if the door doesn’t hit them in the backsides as everybody heads for the doors. Like so many Western investors, they still have their blinders on. Read more…
Tony Daltorio: The credit markets in the oil-rich Persian Gulf states have successfully weathered market storms in recent weeks, and the Arab Spring of revolutionary movements. Read more…
Larry D. Spears: Periodic eruptions of violence and instability make investing in the Middle East fairly tricky. But that doesn’t mean you ought to avoid the region entirely. Read more…
Investors have become familiar with the term “contagion” in recent years, but most are accustomed to hearing the phenomenon discussed in relation to sovereign debt defaults in Europe Read more…
Last week I warnedof a flare-up in Egypt and a reversal in oil and gold. The media are transmitting pictures of street scenes in Egypt that for the most part appear benign. However, riptides of anti Read more…
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CNBC’s Herb Greenberg is suggesting that investors should skip the Middle East. The biggest problem is that Read more…
ETF Digest goes into detail on an ETF discussing the Market Vectors Gulf States Index ETF (NYSE:MES) in a video. Read more…
An unexpected specter is haunting the streets throughout the capitals of North Africa and the Middle East. Although revolution has been quelled for many years, dollar devaluation has caused Read more…
Frontier market ETFs have been gaining investor attention as many seek to diversify portfolios and gain exposure to nations and regions that are up and coming and for good reason. Read more…
Frontier market ETFs have been gaining investor attention as many seek to diversify portfolios and gain exposure to nations and regions that are up and coming and for good reason Read more…
“Dubai World, an investment company in the desert emirate of Dubai, stunned investors around the world when it said it would move to renegotiate its mountains of debt Read more…
While most retail investors can’t locate Tunisia on a map (I couldn’t before last month), there are bound to be numerous substantial trading opportunities in the various sovereigns undergoing 
If you turned on your TV in the last week or so, you almost certainly saw coverage of the protests in Egypt. Almost overnight, the media narrative moved from Washington to Cairo. 
In trading ON Tuesday, the iShares MSCI ACWI ex US Materials Sector Index Fund ETF (AMEX:AXMT) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 5.2% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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