Al-Ahram Weekly Online   12 - 18 May 2011
Issue No. 1047
Economy
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Omar Effendi back again
Five years after its inking, the contract selling Omar Effendi has been scrapped, Niveen Wahish reports
Frustrated expectations
Egyptians who expected the 25 January Revolution to end their economic frustrations and improve their lives are still waiting for that to happen, Nesma Nowar reports
A lengthy process
Switzerland has frozen LE2.8 billion of funds owned by former president Mubarak and 14 of his family members and aides and it is now the turn of local authorities to prove the illegal nature of these funds to regain them back. Sherine Abdel-Razek listens to Swiss officials talking about the expected fate of those assets
A careless reaction
The sectarian unrest in Egypt added another reason for the stock market woes. Al-Ahram Weekly looks at the market's reaction to Imbaba's incident, Sherine Abdel Razek reports

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