Jordan

The outlook for Jordan's Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) continues to look bleak. Stubbornly high energy prices, political instability - both domestic and regional - and a soaring fiscal... 2011-09-22

We stand by our view that high commodity prices will keep inflationary pressures relatively elevated in Jordan throughout 2011. Although we expect food price inflation to keep headline... 2011-06-09

Although not officially linked to the idea of GCC expansion, the US$400mn grant that Saudi Arabia offered Jordan in early June is supportive of this move. For the time being, no such... 2011-06-07

On the back of a hurting tourism sector and a weakening investment drive (both domestic as well as foreign) in Jordan, we have revised down our real GDP growth forecasts for 2011 to... 2011-05-27

With soaring food prices and social unrest continuing across the Middle East and North Africa, we expect Jordan's government to increase expenditure in 2011 in a bid to pre-empt protest... 2011-05-26

We forecast consumer price inflation in Jordan to come in at 5.5% y-o-y in 2011, up from 5.1% in 2010. Higher global commodity prices will feed through into higher consumer prices,... 2011-03-28

We believe that strong private consumption coupled with an increase in government spending will bolster Jordan's economy in 2011. Despite tensions in the MENA region having escalated... 2011-03-10