Saudi equity market ambitions may prove elusive
The stock market's opening to FDI aims to provide significant benefit to the local economy as well as foreign investors
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- Benefits for Saudi economy
- Transition to a knowledge economy
- Improving private sector performance
- Oil price volatility
- Longer-term obstacles to investment
- Labour reforms
- Patronage
- Transparency
- Political sensitivity
- Emerging market status?
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_350.jpg "Investors talk as they monitor screens displaying stock information at the Saudi Stock Exchange in Riyadh (Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser)")