Tomohiko Taniguchi SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS Brexit was a bolt out of the blue, one with strategic, economic, and political implications not just for countries across the Atlantic, but also for ones in the Asia-Pacific, particularly Japan. On the strategic front, as Britain begins to determine how to move forward while exiting the European Union, if indeed it will, ...

  Ibu Sanjeeb Garg SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS The Indian government recently arrived at a decision to privatize 12 small oilfields in Assam. This, as part of the new policy that will privatize 67 small oil fields in India, has drawn understandably strong reactions from the vocal civil society of Assam. Assam has had a long checkered history with oil, ...

  BLOOMBERG Egyptian stocks had the biggest advance in almost four months, leading gains across most Middle Eastern markets, as traders speculated the country may devalue its currency as early as Tuesday. The EGX 30 Index jumped 4.7 percent at the close in Cairo, with trading volumes on the main gauge 157 percent above the average of the past 20 ...