VOL. XXXI

NO. 15

18-JANUARY-1988

Financial and Banking News

INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES

Kuwaiti Financial Sector Sees Two Mergers

Mergers between Kuwait-based investment companies and largely Kuwaiti-owned'Gulf companies' in the financial sector have been on the cards ever since thecollapse of Kuwait's unofficial stock market, the infamous Suq al-Manakh, in1982. However, valuation difficulties brought on by the continuing decline ofequity prices, together with a bad debt crisis affecting banks, have...