Invest in Middle East

The Middle East is not a regional market in the European, North American, or even Latin American sense: Due to Western sanctions and local political instability, some Middle Eastern markets (e.g., Syria, Iran) are much more closed than many Western investors might otherwise expect.

Despite notoriously unstable national and regional politics, the Middle East does boast its share of success stories. Since 2005, equities markets in Kuwait and Lebanon have surged at a 25 percent annual rate. Dubai has achieved a more modest 20 percent growth rate even after a 200 percent-appreciation equities bubble burst in late 2005.

At the moment, the war in Iraq is a major determinant of economic well-being in Iraq, Iran and Syria, as well as Lebanon and Israel (via their ongoing battle with Syria/Hezbollah over the future of Lebanon, itself very closely correlated with the American-Iranian proxy war in Iraq). The Middle East is in the middle of momentous political change, and for most, its economic future will be little better than a guesstimate - but for a well-informed, risk-lusting few, it will be the opportunity of a lifetime.

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