Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are swooping in to buy shares in national companies, while also demanding economic reform and greater transparency
Statistics bureau shows annual inflation at 21.9% last month, up from 19.2% in November, with fruits and dairy products seeing highest spikes among food items
Hours before announcement of agreement, central bank hikes key interest rates by 2%, implements more flexible exchange rate system, as Cairo commits to initiate reforms
Cairo prefers to underscore the newly expanded waterway's present-day contributions to the country - $5.9 billion in annual revenue - rather than its history of colonialism and war
2015 expansion of the canal first opened in 1869 has cut transit time from 22 hours to 11 and opened the vital waterway to the largest container ships in the world
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