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International Organizations · Sep 20, 2026 · 3 min read
A staff team from the International Monetary Fund that visited Lebanon from 15 to 18 September has told the Lebanese authorities that…
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International Organizations · Sep 20, 2026 · 4 min read
3 economists writing for the International Monetary Fund have compared the sovereign credit ratings of S&P, Moody's and Fitch against what a…
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Global · Sep 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Private capital mobilised by the World Bank Group reached 112 billion dollars in the 2026 financial year, up from 35 billion dollars…
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Kuwait · Sep 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Kuwait's amended Future Generations Fund law, in force since 1 September, lets the government borrow from the sovereign wealth fund to support…
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Global · Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Global services exports totalled 9.6 trillion dollars in 2025 and made up almost 28 percent of world trade on a balance of…
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International Organizations · Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min read
The OPEC Fund for International Development has approved 645 million dollars in new financing since its last Governing Board session, backing projects…
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Energy & Commodities · Sep 16, 2026 · 4 min read
LNG exports from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates fell by 43 billion cubic metres year on year between March and July,…
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Global · Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
A strengthened multilateral trading system would raise global GDP by 2.9 percent and global exports by 17.9 percent by 2050 against the…
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International Organizations · Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Saudi Arabia's economy contracted 4.8 percent in the second quarter against the first, after a 1.4 percent contraction in the first quarter,…
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Rating Agencies · Sep 12, 2026 · 8 min read
S&P Global Ratings affirmed Saudi Arabia's long and short term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at A+ and A-1 on…
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Energy & Commodities · Sep 11, 2026 · 5 min read
World oil demand will fall by 2.5 million barrels a day in 2026, the International Energy Agency said, cutting its forecast by…
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Global · Sep 10, 2026 · 4 min read
The World Trade Organization's Goods Trade Barometer rose to 102.0 from 101.7 in June, signalling that global merchandise trade remained above its…
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A staff team from the International Monetary Fund that visited Lebanon from 15 to 18 September has told the Lebanese authorities that the order in which losses are allocated must be respected, and that depositors should not absorb losses ahead of the people who own and lend to the banks. The statement, issued on 18…
3 economists writing for the International Monetary Fund have compared the sovereign credit ratings of S&P, Moody’s and Fitch against what a simple model of debt and forecast primary balances would imply, and found that the ratings diverge from it in 3 specific ways. The paper was published on 18 September and runs to 48…
Private capital mobilised by the World Bank Group reached 112 billion dollars in the 2026 financial year, up from 35 billion dollars in 2022 and the highest in its history, the group said on 17 September. Combined with its own financing, that took total financing and mobilisation in developing economies to well over 200 billion…
Kuwait’s amended Future Generations Fund law, in force since 1 September, lets the government borrow from the sovereign wealth fund to support the General Reserve Fund, and Fitch Ratings said on 17 September that the change strengthens the state’s financing flexibility. Outstanding borrowing is capped at 10 percent of the fund’s audited net asset value,…
Global services exports totalled 9.6 trillion dollars in 2025 and made up almost 28 percent of world trade on a balance of payments basis, a record share, WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on 17 September at the launch of a report on services export promotion written with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America…
The OPEC Fund for International Development has approved 645 million dollars in new financing since its last Governing Board session, backing projects across 14 partner countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. The package splits into 435 million dollars for public sector projects and 210 million dollars for private sector operations, which is 67.4…
LNG exports from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates fell by 43 billion cubic metres year on year between March and July, the International Energy Agency said on 15 September, a decline the agency puts at more than half of Germany’s annual gas consumption in 2025. The cause it names is shipping disruption through the…
A strengthened multilateral trading system would raise global GDP by 2.9 percent and global exports by 17.9 percent by 2050 against the baseline, the World Trade Organization said on 15 September in its World Trade Report 2026. A world where multilateral rules are replaced by a network of free trade agreements would cut GDP by…
Saudi Arabia’s economy contracted 4.8 percent in the second quarter against the first, after a 1.4 percent contraction in the first quarter, and the OECD attributes the fall mainly to a sharp decrease in oil activities. The organisation published its G20 quarterly national accounts on Monday. G20 output as a whole grew 0.7 percent in…
S&P Global Ratings affirmed Saudi Arabia’s long and short term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at A+ and A-1 on 11 September 2026 with a stable outlook, and in the same release replaced the 4.4 percent growth it had forecast for the kingdom on 13 March with a contraction of 0.9 percent. That…