Markets At the start of last week, the US-China trade truce reached in Buenos Aires sparked optimism throughout global equities. By midweek investors realized that the optimism was hardly justified... Read More
Economic Commentary
View all Articles, Op-eds & Blog Posts
View all
The article titled “Preparing for the next global financial crisis” appeared in The National’s print edition on 1st October, 2018 and is... Read More
Latest tweets
1
Recent & Upcoming Events
Dec 12: Panelist at the Arab Strategy Forum (Dubai)
Nov 28: Guest speaker at a LIFE Lebanon event (Dubai)
Nov 27: Speaker at the MENA –OECD Working Group on Investment and Trade (Amman)
Nov 26: Keynote Speaker & Panelist at EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Jordan Forum – the Path to Economic Prosperity (Amman)
Nov 19: Speaker at AlShall Investment Holding Group Seminar (Kuwait, closed session)
Nov 18: Speaker at the 10th year anniversary of University Saint Joseph Dubai (Dubai)
Nov 7: Moderator at the IRU World Congress 2018 (Muscat)
Publications / All
The MENA-OECD Working Group on Investment and Trade‘s 2018 meeting was... Read More
Dr. Nasser Saidi participated in the Talk-Debate “Africa in the... Read MoreIn the Media
In the 4th November, 2018 edition of Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East, Dr. Nasser Saidi comments on the US mid-term elections, central bank -FED/BOE/BOJ/PBoC policies, UST yields & the dollar. Watch the interview, as part of the full episode, below. The original link to the full episode: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-11-04/bloomberg-daybreak-middle-east-full-show-11-4-2018-video
In the 7th October, 2018 edition of Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East, Dr. Nasser Saidi comments on the importance of Saudi Crown Prince’s interview with Bloomberg (the delayed Aramco IPO, diversification policies, managing of expectations re Vision 2030 etc.), US unemployment rates, and the ongoing US-China trade wars. Watch the interview below. The original link to the full episode (Dr. Nasser Saidi speaks from 07:30 onwards): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-10-07/bloomberg-daybreak-middle-east-full-show-10-07-2018-video
The article titled “Preparing for the next global financial crisis” appeared in The National’s print edition on 1st October, 2018 and is posted below. Click here to access the original article. Preparing for the next global financial crisis Public debt in advanced economies rose by more than 30 percentage points of GDP, with total global debt reaching some $250tn by the second quarter of 2018 The Fed’s quarter point rate increase to 2.25 per cent last week is the eighth hike in the past two years, a continuing reversal of the unprecedented monetary easing following the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) as the regulator pivots to a course of higher interest rates and Quantitative Tightening (QT). The... Read More
Dr. Nasser Saidi’s article titled “Lebanon Needs a Digital Revolution to Leap Forward” was published on 27 September 2018 in a special issue of the daily An Nahar newspaper with the American University of Beirut. The article is posted below. Click to download the original article in English and Arabic. Lebanon is in deep economic malaise, suffering from stagflation: dismal economic growth, high budget deficits, debt, unemployment and inflation. Lebanon’s recovery and its future growth prospects are highly dependent on developing a new economic development model, renewed investment in physical infrastructure and in soft infrastructure, including human capital and rebuilding political capital which has been depleted by mal-governance, the... Read More
Dr. Nasser Saidi discusses emerging markets and the fall of their currencies in the Money Map show aired on Dubai TV. The interview (in Arabic), which aired mid-September 2018, can be viewed here.
