Investment
The stock market capitalization of listed companies in Oman was valued at $15,269 million in 2005 by the World Bank.
Oman is one of those countries with little or no national debt, but national wealth, managed via a number of sovereign wealth funds. The most significant of those is the State General Reserve Fund, or SGRF.
Read more about this topic: Economy Of Oman
Famous quotes containing the word investment:
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
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