Tuesday 29 March 2011

Bahrain exchange considers a tie-up - The National

Bahrain's stock exchange is considering a tie-up with another bourse to halt a decline in liquidity, the market's director says.

Low levels of trading have long afflicted the Bahraini market, the second-smallest in the Gulf after Muscat, but volumes have declined further recently with the unrest that has closed most of Manama's financial district and dampened investor confidence across the region.

"It will be important to bring in a strategic partner but all the options are open right now," said Fouad Rahman Rashid, the director of the Bahrain Bourse. "We have to find ways to see an improvement in liquidity [and] we are addressing this."

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