VOL. XLII

No 21

24-May-1999

KUWAIT

New Companies Added To Kuwaits Futures Market But ActivityRemains Low

Despite the addition of three companies to the list ofstocks available to investors in the futures market of the Kuwait StockExchange (KSE), demand for future trades in the Gulf state remains low,according to Kuwaiti economists. The companies that have been added this yearto the futures market, which initially had only authorized 10 companies (MEES,10 May), are the National Bank of Kuwait,...