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Stoyan Bojinov: The aftermath of the most recent financial crisis has yet to be fully resolved as much of the developed world is still plagued by the weight of its own debt. In Europe, lawmakers are struggling to ensure stability as many of the largest economies in the region Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Throughout the past couple of years, investors have witnessed just how far and how deep the Euro Zone’s debt crisis has spread throughout the global financial Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Investors on Wall Street have endured a grueling week as political turbulence in the overseas currency bloc paved the way for volatile trading and rampant profit taking. On the product development front, ArrowShares Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: One important question that is often overlooked when discussing the price of oil is asking who exactly profits (aside from seasoned futures traders) when fossil fuel prices rise. As you might have expected, the answer to the previous question has more than a handful of correct responses; one of Read more…
David Fry: When an investor’s thinks about the Middle East, there’s no doubt one thing that looms large in their mind: oil. Oil (NYSEARCA:USO) makes the world go round, and the Middle East is awash Read more…
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…
NASDAQ:GULF, NYSE:EGPT, NYSE:EIS, NYSE:EZA, NYSE:GAF, NYSE:MES
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…
NASDAQ:GULF, NYSE:DBC, NYSE:EGPT, NYSE:EIS, NYSE:GAF, NYSE:MES, OIL
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…
NASDAQ:GULF, NYSE:DBO, NYSE:GAF, NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:MES
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. 
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