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onsdag, februari 23, 2011

Libya Protests: Is It Time for the Markets to Panic Yet? (Institutional Investor)


Hopes that the upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa will reprise the “Velvet Revolution” that freed the Czech Republic in 1989 are starting to fade. Of course, the revolutions that started in Tunisia and Egypt and now have engulfed Libya will play out differently from one country to the next.

But should the conflict spread in earnest to Saudi Arabia or Iran, it’s a good bet that the government response will model that of Libya’s Col. Muammar (“Fight to the Last Drop of Blood”) el-Qaddafi more closely than that of Egypt’s deposed Hosni Mubarak, who appears almost statesmanlike in contrast. And protesters well may take up their leaders on the offer of a fight to the death.

Read more (Institutional Investor):
http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/global_markets/Articles/2773762/Libya-Protests-Is-It-Time-for-the-Markets-to-Panic-Yet.html

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