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Energy & Commodities · Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min read
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries lowered its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2026 to 380,000 barrels a day…
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Global · Sep 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Global space related revenues were estimated at 550 to 600 billion dollars in 2025, putting the industry within reach of the roughly…
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International Organizations · Sep 8, 2026 · 4 min read
The OECD published the first of three volumes of its 2025 student assessment on Tuesday, covering 91 countries and economies, more than…
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Macro · Sep 6, 2026 · 7 min read
S&P Global Ratings affirmed the United Arab Emirates at AA long term and A-1+ short term, in both foreign and local currency,…
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Macro · Sep 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Fitch Ratings affirmed Qatar's long term foreign currency issuer default rating at AA on 4 September 2026 and removed it from Rating…
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Energy & Commodities · Sep 5, 2026 · 6 min read
The Food and Agriculture Organization's food price index averaged 133.3 points in August 2026, up 2.5 points or 1.9 percent on a…
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International Organizations · Sep 3, 2026 · 14 min read
Banque du Liban said on 2 September 2026 that work had begun on a new audit of selected operations linked to its…
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Global · Sep 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Six multilateral development banks and international financial institutions, the African Development Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction…
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Global · Aug 29, 2026 · 7 min read
Trade among the Group of Twenty economies gathered pace in the second quarter of 2026. Merchandise imports rose 6.7 percent quarter on…
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Global · Aug 29, 2026 · 4 min read
UN Trade and Development, UNCTAD, highlighted on 28 August 2026 its upcoming ninth World Investment Forum, to be held in Doha, Qatar,…
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EU · Aug 29, 2026 · 8 min read
Fitch Ratings affirmed France's long term sovereign credit rating at A+ with a Stable Outlook on 28 August 2026, even as it…
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Jordan · Aug 29, 2026 · 7 min read
S&P Global Ratings affirmed Jordan's long and short term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at BB-/B on August 28, 2026,…
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World oil demand will fall by 2.5 million barrels a day in 2026, the International Energy Agency said, cutting its forecast by a further 940,000 barrels a day from last month. OPEC published its own monthly report a day earlier and cut its 2026 demand growth forecast to 380,000 barrels a day. The two agencies…
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 recent trend and continued to gain momentum in mid-2026. Five of the barometer’s six component indices were above their common baseline of 100. Electronic components produced the strongest reading at 104.9, supported by…
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries lowered its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2026 to 380,000 barrels a day in its Monthly Oil Market Report released on Thursday in Vienna, a figure the report’s own summary rounds to about 400,000. It was the fifth consecutive monthly reduction, per Bloomberg, and leaves the…
Global space related revenues were estimated at 550 to 600 billion dollars in 2025, putting the industry within reach of the roughly 620 billion dollar global semiconductor market in 2024, according to the OECD. The comparison puts a scale on an industry whose economic boundaries have long been difficult to measure. Beneath the headline number,…
The OECD published the first of three volumes of its 2025 student assessment on Tuesday, covering 91 countries and economies, more than 760,000 students and a population of about 33 million 15 year olds. Its average mathematics score fell from 485 points in 2015 to 463 in 2025 and reading from 489 to 461, which…
S&P Global Ratings affirmed the United Arab Emirates at AA long term and A-1+ short term, in both foreign and local currency, with a stable outlook, on 4 September. Nothing in the rating moved. The letter, the outlook and the AA+ transfer and convertibility assessment all stand where they were left on 6 March. The…
Fitch Ratings affirmed Qatar’s long term foreign currency issuer default rating at AA on 4 September 2026 and removed it from Rating Watch Negative, where it had sat for 158 days, on our calculation. The Outlook is Negative. The agency simultaneously forecast that the Qatari economy will contract by 18.8 percent this year on lower…
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index averaged 133.3 points in August 2026, up 2.5 points or 1.9 percent on a revised July reading, with every commodity group higher on the month. Sugar recorded by far the largest percentage increase of the five sub indices, rising 11.3 points or 11.9 percent to 106.4, its…
Banque du Liban said on 2 September 2026 that work had begun on a new audit of selected operations linked to its foreign assets, carried out by Alvarez & Marsal Middle East Limited. The engagement was awarded by public tender on 26 May, formally started on 17 August, and a launch meeting was held with…
Six multilateral development banks and international financial institutions, the African Development Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Bank Group, issued a joint statement on August 31, 2026, pledging to develop a coordinated roadmap for…