Global investors find a bond boom in the gulf
By Bloomberg
02 June 2019 |
7:00 am
The desert states of the Gulf are proving to be fertile ground for bond investors. Yield-hungry global funds are plowing into regional bonds at the expense of local stock markets, where liquidity has dwindled following the 2014 oil-price crash.
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