UAE
16 September 2022
Our weekly analysis offering a strategic outlook for the coming week, along with key macro themes and trends impacting the GCC & Egypt region. The report also includes a recap on the past week, as well as a summary of the key data releases and macro events in the week ahead; along with macro chart packs covering the MENA & Global Markets.
Simon Ballard, Chief Economist
25 August 2022
In this report FAB’s Market Insights & Strategy team provide a snapshot of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from a macro-economic perspective, our current outlook for the oil market, and a summary of FAB’s MENA FX and rates capabilities.
Mohamed Ali AlShamsi, Analyst
22 July 2022
In what was a surprisingly hawkish move late yesterday, the European Central Bank executed its ‘lift off’ strategy with a larger-than-anticipated 50bp interest rate increase. More tightening may follow in the coming months as the monetary window narrows. As always, the devil was in the detail though and on this occasion the devil disappointed, in terms of the new crisis management tool – the Transmission Protection Instrument.
Simon Ballard, Chief Economist
06 July 2022
Our latest quarterly edition, in which we reviewed the key primary and secondary market developments of 1H 2022. The period witnessed record volatility and negative return for risk assets globally. The report provides a quick snapshot of market performance, relative value analysis, new issuance trend, overall size and composition of the GCC fixed income market etc.
Rakesh Sahu, Analyst
Chavan Bhogaita, Head of Market Insights & Strategy
21 June 2022
Despite the recent large-scale sell-off across most risk assets and a strong US dollar, oil prices remain entrenched above US$100 a barrel for now, driven by supply constraints and geopolitics, but headwinds are beginning to build. In this update, we discuss the current state of the crude market and highlight the issues to keep an eye on during the second half of 2022.
Glenn Wepener, Senior Strategist, Middle East & Africa
08 June 2022
As the global economy faces up to the challenges of historically high levels of inflation on the one hand and the economic consequences of central banks’ monetary tightening response on the other, the GCC region with its solid sovereign credit fundamentals, buoyed by the recent strength in the oil price, continues to offer investors a relative haven. Please read on…
Simon Ballard, Chief Economist
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