Along with other GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, Bahrain has cracked down hard on internet activism.
This makes GCC equities more appealing and likely to deliver above-average returns, says Barclay's Koon Chow.
The GCC comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
After several weeks of maneuvering, Saleh finally signed the GCC power transfer agreement in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
It was in response to requests from the GCC and the Arab League.
Other emerging markets have a 90% correlation, making GCC investments a better bet.
The GCC is made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman.
The ICC, anticipating such a claim by the GCC, had already withheld payments due to the three cricket boards concerned.
Back to the GCC, should you still manage to start a business and achieve some success, you may wish to expand.
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Even if the GCC has yet to have widespread sports involvement from women, this is a beginning that should be commended.
Including GCC interests in your portfolio adds a protective layer of diversification.
In tests on normal oesophagus and stomach tissue, GCC was not present.
The researchers suggest this means the presence of GCC could be a sign of early molecular changes associated with the development of cancer.
These tragic events underscore the need for President Saleh to sign the GCC-brokered transition proposal and to begin the transfer of power immediately.
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The GCC Foreign Ministers confirmed the illegality of the current Libyan regime, calling for staging contacts with the transitional National Council in Libya.
GCC's six member states and long the most hostile to Iran, invited Mr Ahmadinejad to take part in the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca.
In time, all seven emirates -- and all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries -- will be linked by a coastal high-speed rail network.
But if the GCC's claim is upheld, there would still be a shortfall of more than 50% of the money that it is seeking.
In 2008, GCC countries should post 6% growth--a modest slowdown but much better than estimated global growth rates of 3.7%, as measured by purchasing power parity.
And since Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) troops entered Bahrain in March 2011 and helped crushed the uprising, the prime minister has held the upper hand.
The idea of integrating the GCC nations into one entity -- and replacing what exists now as simply a cooperative -- was first floated by Saudi Arabia in December.
Again, actions not just by the West, but indeed by the entire international community, including a full range of regional actors -- the Arab League, the African Union, GCC.
Because the Jefferson team knew GCC was expressed in normal intestinal cells, they decided to examine if it was expressed in the oesophagus or stomach in patients with intestinal metaplasia.
In the last five years, gross domestic product in GCC countries has risen an average of 7%, according to Koon Chow, senior emerging markets strategist at Barclays Capital in London.
In November, protesters forced President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, as part of a deal brokered by the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC).
Citigroup Middle East and Africa equity strategist Andrew Howell pegs the region's correlation to world markets at about 40%, which means the GCC is unlikely to follow U.S. equities' downward trend.
We're going to be seeking actual support by those nations -- the Arab League, the GCC and the African nations -- to participate in any of these efforts as they go forward.
The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries-- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--channel their oil wealth into homeland economies and mammoth infrastructure projects.
As part of our close consultations with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) partners, Mr. Brennan next goes to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for meetings with government officials to discuss options to address the deteriorating situation in Yemen.
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Twenty years ago, or thereabouts, young Arabs in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), for example, would find it easier to go into a role with government where life was not entirely strenuous and where they could get good money.
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