A different animal
Investors find that the Nasdaq Index is a very different animal to the days of the dot com bubble 15 years ago [...]
Analysis
The great US divide
Oil’s slide to the lowest price in more than five years is carving a divide between US shale drillers who heavily hedged future production, and those who didn’t [...]
Brick, sustainability and mortar
Green infrastructure could be a solution to growing urbanisation and inefficient energy use in the region [...]
Policies under scrutiny in East Africa boom
With major oil producers looking nervously at the markets, Uganda and Kenya are well poised to attract investment if their governments offer improved terms [...]
On the brink of all-out conflict
Yemen is still struggling to adapt to life after former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, with multiple forces at play threatening to plunge the poor country into all-out war [...]
All quiet on the eastern front
Jordan’s stability and security is vital to Israel as a bulwark against the most volatile states in the region [...]
Lessons learned
Still haunted by its failed attempt to prevent a steep drop in oil prices by slashing production by almost three quarters in the 1980s, Saudi Arabia is determined not to repeat the mistake [...]
Cash-rich economies take turn for worse
The sluggish growth of major world economies is a continued headache for policy makers [...]
Rocket science
The variety and range of Hamas’ rocket arsenal have steadily improved since it emerged as an underground militant group in 1987 [...]
Local solutions to global terrorism
Exhausted by military spendings in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has set up to a new fund to train local forces in counter-terrorism [...]
Projects
