VOL. XLIV

No. 04

22-January-2001

OMAN

Greater Liquidity Fails To Boost Muscat Securities Market

Various government measures aimed at propping up Omans faltering bourse have failed to give any significant boost to performance and the government has now said that there will be no further intervention. Three major steps have been taken in the past few months to boost the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) but have had little impact on the market, which fell 19.6% in 2000 and which closed at 200.6...