Frontier Market Scout Cairo

June 5,2012

The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) believes Egypt will remain a strategic market for its activities and is optimistic over the Egyptian economy’s potential and promise. Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reports NBK CEO Sheikha Al-Bahar as telling a seminar in Kuwait City on Monday that amid the tough challenges facing Egypt at present, the Egyptian US dollar bond is a wise tool to help citizens and investors support the Egyptian economy.

http://www.cpifinancial.net/news/post/14321/nbk-optimistic-over-egyptian-economic-potential

June 5,2012

Egyptian major stocks dropped to a 19-month low on Tuesday as revived protests ahead of mid-June’s presidential runoff and a ban on foreign trading for brokerages spurred investors into offloading stock.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/43939/Business/Economy/Market-Report-Egypt-stocks-fall–pct-as-Tahrir-pro.aspx

June 5 ,2012

Injaz Egypt is pleased to announce that our annual Dare To Dream: Empowering Egypt’s Young Entrepreneurs competition for schools will be held June 11th from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. in partnership with the American University in Cairo at their new premises in Kattameya.

http://www.ameinfo.com/injaz-egypt-announces-june-11th-2012-302751

June 5,2012

Recently, Egyptians went to the polls to participate in the first presidential election since President Hosni Mubarak’s downfall in February 2011. Going forward, the new president, who will be elected in a second phase of elections in June, should look to examples from other countries that have undergone successful democratic transitions.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2012/Jun-05/175718-for-many-egyptians-one-eye-is-on-the-turkish-model.ashx#axzz1zxvfZ6EZ

June 5,2012

What the United States Can Do to Help

The palpable optimism that permeated Egypt in the immediate aftermath of the revolution after the ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak is starting to fade as more than a year later, the country continues to struggle with an unwieldy political transition and a stagnant economy.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/06/egypt_economic_transition.html