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Egypt · Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Reports circulated on 31 July and 1 August that Egypt had raised household electricity prices by an average of 12 percent while…
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Global · Jul 31, 2026 · 8 min read
The IMF reports global current account balances widened in 2025, with oil exporter surpluses shrinking and excessive imbalances accounting for a larger…
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IMF · Jul 30, 2026 · 6 min read
The International Monetary Fund expects Saudi economic growth of 1.7 percent in 2026 before a rebound to 5.5 percent in 2027, as…
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Bahrain · Jul 30, 2026 · 11 min read
Five Arab economies are projected to carry general government gross debt above 80 percent of gross domestic product in 2026, according to…
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Egypt · Jul 29, 2026 · 5 min read
The IMF Executive Board takes Egypt on 30 July, with SDR 2,226.03 million undrawn under an Extended Fund Facility that expires in…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read
The International Monetary Fund projected euro-area growth slowing to about 0.9 percent in 2026 and 1.2 percent in 2027, down from 1.4…
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Global · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read
The International Monetary Fund expects several Gulf economies, including Kuwait, to contract in 2026 as the disruption to shipping through the Strait…
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Global · Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization said the…
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Egypt · Jul 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Egypt's two main inflation gauges both stood at 14.3 percent in June, but they arrived there from opposite directions. Annual core inflation…
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Global · Jul 8, 2026 · 4 min read
The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global growth this year to 3.0 percent and lifted its inflation projection, in a…
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Egypt · Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Egypt's net international reserves rose to a record US$55.07 billion at the end of June, the Central Bank of Egypt reported, in…
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IMF · Jul 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Algeria's economy is projected to keep growing at a robust pace of about 3.8 percent in 2026, the International Monetary Fund said…
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Reports circulated on 31 July and 1 August that Egypt had raised household electricity prices by an average of 12 percent while holding the lowest consumption bracket unchanged. No August 2026 tariff schedule is published on the regulator’s site as of 1 August: EgyptERA’s August page returns a 404 and the current published schedule remains…
The IMF reports global current account balances widened in 2025, with oil exporter surpluses shrinking and excessive imbalances accounting for a larger share of the total.
The International Monetary Fund expects Saudi economic growth of 1.7 percent in 2026 before a rebound to 5.5 percent in 2027, as disruption to shipping and oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz gives way to a recovery in both oil and non-oil activity. The Fund’s Executive Board completed its 2026 Article IV consultation with…
Five Arab economies are projected to carry general government gross debt above 80 percent of gross domestic product in 2026, according to the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook database published in April 2026. Sudan and Bahrain lead the ranking, followed by Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan. Together the five are projected to owe the equivalent…
The IMF Executive Board takes Egypt on 30 July, with SDR 2,226.03 million undrawn under an Extended Fund Facility that expires in December.
The International Monetary Fund projected euro-area growth slowing to about 0.9 percent in 2026 and 1.2 percent in 2027, down from 1.4 percent in 2025, as it concluded its 2026 Article IV consultation on common policies for the currency bloc in a press release dated 16 July 2026. The Fund put headline inflation at roughly…
The International Monetary Fund expects several Gulf economies, including Kuwait, to contract in 2026 as the disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz weighs on oil output and export routes, before a sharp recovery in 2027, according to its July World Economic Outlook Update. The Fund cut projected growth for the wider Middle East…
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,…
Egypt’s two main inflation gauges both stood at 14.3 percent in June, but they arrived there from opposite directions. Annual core inflation rose to 14.3 percent in June, up from 13.8 percent in May. Annual headline urban inflation eased to 14.3 percent in June, down from 14.6 percent in May. The two measures, which had…
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…