Topic: Middle East

Want to move the oil market these days? Fire off a headline about Iran, and, with the help of instant messaging, tweeting, blogging, and some old fashioning phone calling, you get a significant rally.    Read More

This morning the National Association for Business Economics released its latest survey, covering the outlook for 2012 and 2013. NABE Survey Chair, Shawn DuBravac, chief economist at the Consumer Electronics Association, talked to C-Suite about the results.   Read More

Oil has been rallying. But how long will it last?   Read More

Pulitzer prize winning author Daniel Yergin, Chairman of IHS CERA, shared an excerpt on Iran from his latest book “The Quest: Energy Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.” The piece describes how the balance of power in the Gulf region could shift should Iran obtain nuclear weapons.    Read More

Now that the "Arab Spring" is turning into the "Arab Winter" the former prime minister writes, "the challenge emerging from the changes taking place is so big that we had better put in place a common Western strategy or we'll find that national approaches are totally irrelevant to shape events there."   Read More