What we’re tracking this week: Cleopatra shares start trading, Piketty in Cairo, SODIC results call, OPEC meets.
Thursday is also shaping up to be an insanely busy day:
- The first annual EBRD Research Symposium on the Economics of the Middle East and North Africa is set to take place 2-3 June (Thursday-Friday) at EBRD headquarters in London.
- Shares of Cleopatra Hospital Company are due to start trading, opening at EGP 9.00, per the price announcement release last week.
- OPEC meets. Only one of 27 analysts polled by Bloomberg expects a deal to limit oil output.
- SODIC will hold its 1Q2016 results call at 16:00 CLT, hosted by Deutsche Bank. SODIC MD Magued Sherif will be leading-off the call.
- “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” author Thomas Pikettywill speak at 11:00am CLT at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University and at 6:00pm CLT at the American University in Cairo’s downtown Ewart Hall.
On Saturday: GB Auto investor relations officer Andre Valavanis will compete for the World Boxing Federation’s African welterweight title on a fight card scheduled for Saturday, 4 June 2016. Event details are here.