Financial Markets of the Middle East and North Africa: The Past and Present.

Homework 1 Financial Markets of the Middle East and North Africa: The Past and Present Middle East negative impact on the global market and North African (MENA) stock markets and brought the region's Economies to a standstill. When the U.S. military conflict May have had a compounding impact on foreign direct investment and other foreign-based income, the root of the problem precedes the war, going back to the political regimes and economic policies that dominate …

…Index. The study examines the effectiveness of trading techniques in the Israeli market and Compares its weak- form market efficiency to that of the S&P 500 They Find that the MA method beats the BH policy for the Tel-Aviv 25 Index yielding higher returns. For The longer MA period, the returns proved to be lower than when using The BH method. For the S&P 500 the MA method yielded substantially Lower results.