{"id":600543,"date":"2019-02-03T04:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/02\/03\/what-were-tracking-on-3-february-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-02-03T04:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T04:01:03","slug":"what-were-tracking-on-3-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/02\/03\/what-were-tracking-on-3-february-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re tracking on 3 February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

** Our 2019 Enterprise CEO Poll kicks off this morning.<\/b> We\u2019ll have 12 top executives speaking over the course of this week in industries ranging from financial services to health, education, construction, energy and law. We are running the interviews all week long in the place of our industry news section, which will return next week.<\/p>\n

Egypt has been doing well in 2018 relative to its regional peers<\/b>, but much more needs to be done. CEOs are looking at the macro challenges in particular, paying considerable attention to inflation, interest rates and foreign direct investment. With many seeing further subsidy cuts this year and inflation remaining a challenge, many are not as optimistic for interest rate cuts this year. Nonetheless, the CEOs see a number of sectors growing, particularly food and consumer goods, while expressing optimism for the tourism sector. And yes, all are giving raises to their teams this year.<\/p>\n

The format:<\/b> Each CEO answered roughly the same set of questions, tailored only for their industry. The Q&A interviews have been condensed and edited for clarity and are presented in \u201cas told to\u201d format \u2014 that\u2019s journalism speak for \u201cin their own words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s participants are:<\/p>\n