Kuwait

BMI View: Banks will have been conservative in Q409 results to allow themselves to start 2010 with a clean sheet. However, nasty surprises, particularly from Dubai, could derail even... 2010-01-27

The proposed debt relief law requires the government to buy up all US$21.6bn of citizens' private consumer debt, reschedule the repayment of the principal in zero-interest instalments... 2010-01-15

A recent poll by Kuwait Times has revealed that 67% of Kuwaitis expect the government to be dissolved soon, in spite of the fact that the last election was as recent as May 2009,... 2009-11-20

BMI View: The opposition will gradually chip away at the government's position, improving democracy, highlighting corruption and potentially taking the country in a more Islamist... 2009-11-12

Against the backdrop of a tentative global recovery, the short-to-medium term growth outlook for Kuwait is broadly positive, but hampered by a negative political and business environment.... 2009-11-12

A Kuwaiti criminal court has fined two MPs KWD3,000 (US$10,500) each for issuing critical statements against top officials. Islamist MP Waleed al-Tabtabai was convicted for remarks... 2009-10-27

BMI View: With our latest oil price forecasts and early data for the current financial year, we now see Kuwait's government managing to remain in surplus throughout the forecast period,... 2009-10-21

The issue of the Islamic Development Bank's US$850mn sukuk - priced at a very reasonable 40bps over mid-swaps - has been hailed as a symbol of the credit markets' recovery . We are... 2009-09-10

Kuwait continues to insist that Iraq meets all the compensation requirements for the 1990 invasion, exasperating the Shi'a-led government in Baghdad, which argues that it was nothing... 2009-08-21

BMI View: Negative perceptions towards the Kuwaiti financial sector will persist, underlining a strong macroeconomic picture and delaying a recovery in private investment.