Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Jordan’s Council of Ministers announced a series of steps aimed at reinvigorating the Amman Stock Exchange and stimulating the Jordanian economy. They called on banks to ease credit restrictions which would help more people invest in the stock market, and to consider granting tax incentives to institutional investors in the financial market. The Jordanian stock market has been in decline since 2008, the minister said, losing more than half its value. Jordan’s economy has been battered by the Syrian civil war, and the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who have flooded into Jordan.