From Bloomberg: Islamic bond sales should climb 50 percent to $30 billion this year, driven by low interest rates and spending by governments on infrastructure programs aimed at supporting growth, KFH Research Ltd. said.
About $20 billion of Islamic bonds announced last year are expected to be issued in 2010 and “another $10 billion or more could potentially enter the pipeline,” KFH Research senior analyst Tursina Yaacob said in a phone interview from Kuala Lumpur today......................................Full Article: Source
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