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EU · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Opening the European Central Bank's annual forum in Sintra, President Christine Lagarde defended this month's interest rate increase as a data-driven move…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Gold fell and natural gas dropped sharply on Monday while crude oil firmed, as an easing of risk aversion pulled safe-haven metals…
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Global · Jun 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Gulf and Egyptian markets closed lower on Monday even as Wall Street and Asian equities staged a broad rally, a divergence driven…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read
QatarEnergy's flagship US gas venture has moved a step closer to higher output after the Golden Pass LNG terminal in Texas received…
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Global · Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Saudi Arabia's services exports rose 7.9 percent quarter on quarter to 71.3 billion riyals in the first quarter of 2026, supported by…
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EU · Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Euro-area money and credit growth strengthened in May, adding to evidence that liquidity conditions are gradually firming across the bloc. The broad…
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Global · Jun 29, 2026 · 18 min read
Britain's next prime minister will inherit an economy that is no longer in acute crisis, but remains boxed in by weak trend…
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Global · Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read
Jordan has launched a 35 million euro programme to strengthen its industrial sector and support small businesses, in a fresh push to…
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China · Jun 29, 2026 · 4 min read
China's central bank is adding an overnight tenor to its open-market operations, a technical but significant step in a multi-year effort to…
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Egypt · Jun 29, 2026 · 7 min read
Gulf and Egyptian markets opened the week on a mixed note on Sunday, with gains in Oman, Bahrain and Qatar offset by…
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Egypt · Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Egypt is accelerating its state-asset sale programme, listing more government-owned companies on the Egyptian Exchange and moving closer to unlocking about 1.6…
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Egypt · Jun 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Egypt's package of wage and pension increases takes effect on 1 July, raising incomes for state employees and retirees as the new…
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German exports rose 0.9 percent in May from the previous month to 137.9 billion euros on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis, while imports fell 2.5 percent to 118.8 billion euros, widening the trade surplus to 19.1 billion euros from 14.7 billion euros in April, the federal statistics office Destatis said on Thursday. The swing…
Japan’s corporate goods price index rose 7.1 percent in June from a year earlier, the fastest annual pace since March 2023, accelerating from a revised 6.6 percent in May and beating market expectations of about 6.8 percent, Bank of Japan data showed on Friday. On the month, producer prices rose 0.4 percent. Energy and metals…
The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization said the global economy “has been broadly resilient” to the shock from the war in the Middle East, but warned that the impacts remain highly uneven across energy supplies, food security, commodities and economic activity,…
Global foreign direct investment rose about 6 percent to 1.6 trillion dollars in 2025, ending two years of decline, but the recovery was unevenly spread and left many developing economies behind, the United Nations trade and development body UNCTAD said in its World Investment Report 2026, published on 7 July. The report described a global…
Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s 16 and 17 June meeting, released on 8 July, showed a policy committee that was unanimous in holding interest rates steady but divided in its outlook, with some officials seeing a case for higher rates ahead as inflation stayed elevated. The Federal Open Market Committee left its benchmark rate unchanged…
China’s consumer inflation remained weak in June even as factory-gate prices surged to their strongest in nearly four years, underlining a widening gap between soft household demand and firmer industrial costs. The consumer price index rose 1.0 percent from a year earlier, easing from 1.2 percent in May, while the producer price index jumped 4.1…
Japanese household spending fell in May from a year earlier for a second straight month, but by far less than expected and with a solid rebound on the month, in a mixed reading on whether rising wages are yet reaching consumers. Real spending by households of two or more people dropped 0.4 percent from a…
Labour markets across advanced economies remain robust but pay is failing to keep pace, the OECD said in its Employment Outlook 2026, published on 7 July under the theme Geographic Disparities in Jobs and Incomes. The organisation reported that unemployment across its member countries held at 4.9 percent in May, close to record lows, even…
The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global growth this year to 3.0 percent and lifted its inflation projection, in a World Economic Outlook Update published on 8 July that portrays a world economy caught between two opposing forces. The Fund titled the update Global Economy in Crosscurrents of War and Technology, describing a…
France’s trade deficit widened to about 6.9 billion euros in May, from around 5.4 billion in April, as a drop in exports outweighed a smaller rise in imports, according to French customs data. The deficit widened by roughly 1.5 billion euros on the month, our calculation, ending a brief improvement in April. The deterioration was…