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Amazon reportedly re-starts negotiations to acquire Souq.com

Zooming out to a regional scale: Amazon could be buying Souq.com after all. Seattle-based Amazon has reportedly restarted talks to…

M&A WATCH- Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)’s Swiss unit is seeking to buy a stake in Egyptian sweeteners-maker National Company for…

Egypt’s next set of economic reforms should “focus on making its bureaucracy more transparent for investors,” World Bank MENA Vice-President…

Do bank shares point to reduced political risk in Egypt? That’s the contention of BloombergGadfly’s Christopher Langer, who writes that…

Average yields on Egypt's one-year and six-month treasury bills dropped at an auction on Thursday, according to Reuters. The 182-day…

Inflation is now easing month-on-month despite having broken the 30% barrier on a y-o-y basis,according to data from the CBE,…

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Wall of shame: Egyptian men could be holding back women’s progress in the labor market. Men younger than the age…