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Thursday, 2 June 2016

What we’re tracking today: Piketty in Cairo, SODIC results call, OPEC meets

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– We have rolled out new search and archive functionality. You can now peruse our archives by month. And search actually returns reasonably meaningful information — plus you can re-cut search results by day / week / month, year. We’ll be rolling some other tweaks to search and to the look and feel of Enterprise in the days to come.

– Tomorrow’s Weekend Edition is the last Weekend Edition until after El Eid. It will return on 15 July.
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HEAT WAVE: Temperatures will be in the low-to-mid 40s through Monday.

The last Thursday before Ramadan is looking packed, ladies and gentlemen:

Egypt is set to receive its first Mistral-class helicopter carrier from France today according to Ahram Online. Defense Minister Sedky Sobhi and his French counterpart will attend the handover ceremony in Toulouse. The ship is expected to be named after Gamal Abdel Nasser.

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.

OPEC meets. Only one of 27 analysts polled by Bloomberg expects an agreement to limit oil output. That hasn’t prevented the WSJ from reporting that members are “reviving talk of a production ceiling” in closed-door talks ahead of today’s official sit-down.

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.

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