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Egypt · Aug 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Non-resident holdings of Egypt's local currency government debt reached 36.4 billion dollars by 24 June, recovering most of the ground lost in…
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Global · Aug 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Economic growth across the OECD area edged up to 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 from 0.4 percent in the…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 24, 2026 · 3 min read
The International Energy Agency is not discussing a second coordinated release of emergency oil stocks for now, Executive Director Fatih Birol said…
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Egypt · Aug 15, 2026 · 6 min read
The IMF published its 148 page Egypt seventh review staff report on 13 August, projecting inflation of 16.7 percent in the second…
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Rating Agencies · Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Fitch affirmed the United Kingdom at AA- with a stable outlook on 14 August 2026, citing debt and debt interest to revenue…
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Rating Agencies · Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Fitch Ratings affirmed the long-term foreign-currency and local-currency issuer default ratings of the United States at AA+ with a stable outlook on…
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OPEC · Aug 13, 2026 · 9 min read
OPEC expects world oil demand to grow by about six hundred thousand barrels a day this year, the organization said in its…
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International Organizations · Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Median government debt across African economies stood at fifty seven percent of gross domestic product in 2025, about ten percentage points above…
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IEA · Aug 12, 2026 · 6 min read
World oil demand will fall by one point six million barrels a day in 2026, a deeper contraction than the one million…
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World Bank · Aug 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Artificial intelligence could meaningfully raise productivity in sixteen point two percent of jobs in developing economies, close to the eighteen point seven…
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IMF · Aug 9, 2026 · 6 min read
The eighth and final review of Egypt's programme with the International Monetary Fund is expected to be completed in November, Mohamed Maait,…
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World Bank · Aug 9, 2026 · 4 min read
The World Bank has approved a one hundred million dollar grant to modernise Syria's financial system, its Board of Executive Directors clearing…
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Trade among the Group of Twenty economies gathered pace in the second quarter of 2026. Merchandise imports rose 6.7 percent quarter on quarter in current US dollar terms, seasonally adjusted, up from 5.2 percent in the first quarter, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a statistical release published on 28 August…
UN Trade and Development, UNCTAD, highlighted on 28 August 2026 its upcoming ninth World Investment Forum, to be held in Doha, Qatar, from 25 to 27 October 2026, under the theme “Investing in the Future,” against the backdrop of its World Investment Report 2026, which showed global foreign direct investment rose 6 percent to 1.6…
Fitch Ratings affirmed France’s long term sovereign credit rating at A+ with a Stable Outlook on 28 August 2026, even as it forecast French government debt climbing to 122.7 percent of gross domestic product by 2028, up from 115.7 percent in 2025 and, in the agency’s own words, more than double the median for countries…
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, keeping the outlook stable. The agency said trade rerouting through the Red Sea port of Aqaba, where cargo volumes have risen 16 percent year on year in 2026, along with resilient remittance inflows…
Non-resident holdings of Egypt’s local currency government debt reached 36.4 billion dollars by 24 June, recovering most of the ground lost in a sharp reversal earlier this year but still short of the record 39.1 billion dollars reached in February, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest review of Egypt’s program, published 13 August. From…
Economic growth across the OECD area edged up to 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 from 0.4 percent in the first, according to provisional estimates published in Paris on 24 August by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The modest acceleration in the aggregate coincided with a pronounced rebound in Europe, even…
The International Energy Agency is not discussing a second coordinated release of emergency oil stocks for now, Executive Director Fatih Birol said on Monday, even as the agency’s latest assessment shows observed global inventories have fallen by 410 million barrels since the end of February. Birol told reporters at an energy conference in Norway that…
The IMF published its 148 page Egypt seventh review staff report on 13 August, projecting inflation of 16.7 percent in the second half of 2026 and delaying target convergence by about a year.
Fitch affirmed the United Kingdom at AA- with a stable outlook on 14 August 2026, citing debt and debt interest to revenue each around double the AA peer median.
Fitch Ratings affirmed the long-term foreign-currency and local-currency issuer default ratings of the United States at AA+ with a stable outlook on 13 August 2026, leaving the rating where it has stood since the agency’s downgrade from AAA in 2023. Fitch attributes the rating to the size of the economy, high income per head, a…