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Macro · Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
The number of people facing hunger around the world fell for a third consecutive year in 2025, to about 645 million, or…
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Markets · Jul 21, 2026 · 5 min read
The International Energy Agency has warned that the security of oil supply has come under renewed strain, saying that an escalation in…
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Macro · 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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Macro · 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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Macro · Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min read
The OECD projects that United Kingdom economic growth will slow temporarily to 0.9 percent in 2026, down from 1.4 percent in 2025,…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 13, 2026 · 4 min read
OPEC trimmed its forecast for global oil demand growth this year to about 0.8 million barrels a day, down from around 1.0…
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Macro · Jul 12, 2026 · 4 min read
Fitch Ratings affirmed Saudi Arabia's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating at A+ with a stable outlook late on Friday, saying the kingdom's…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Global oil supply rebounded by a sharp 4.1 million barrels a day to 98.8 million barrels a day in June as tanker…
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International Organizations · 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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Macro · Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Global foreign direct investment rose about 6 percent to 1.6 trillion dollars in 2025, ending two years of decline, but the recovery…
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IMF · 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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Macro · Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Labour markets across advanced economies remain robust but pay is failing to keep pace, the OECD said in its Employment Outlook 2026,…
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Macro · 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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Macro · Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
China's economic growth is projected to slow to 4.4 percent in 2026 and ease further to 4.3 percent in 2027, the World…
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Macro · 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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Macro · 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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Macro · Jul 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Consumer price inflation across the OECD rose to 4.6 percent in the year to May, up from 4.4 percent in April, as…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Kuwait's oil production is set to reach 2.660 million barrels a day in August under the latest OPEC+ agreement, Oil Minister Tareq…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 5, 2026 · 5 min read
A group of seven producers within the OPEC Plus alliance, including Kuwait, agreed on Sunday to raise their combined oil output by…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
OPEC crude oil output rose sharply in June as Gulf producers restored shipments and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz returned to…
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Macro · Jul 2, 2026 · 5 min read
The World Bank has reclassified Jordan as an upper-middle-income economy in its annual income classifications effective 1 July, a milestone that coincides…
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Macro · Jul 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$700 million loan for Jordan to help convert macroeconomic stability into stronger…
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IMF · Jun 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Egypt has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund on the seventh review of its Extended Fund Facility arrangement and…
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Markets · 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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Markets · Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank for International Settlements has warned, in its Annual Economic Report 2026, that record-high public debt has created a new fiscal-financial…
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Markets · Jun 27, 2026 · 4 min read
The artificial intelligence boom could add to inflation through more channels than the cost of advanced chips, according to IMF chief economist…
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Markets · Jun 27, 2026 · 4 min read
S&P Global Ratings has affirmed the United States' long-term sovereign credit rating at AA+ and its short-term rating at A-1+, with a…
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Macro · Jun 26, 2026 · 4 min read
The global economy is absorbing the shock from heightened regional tensions without tipping into a broad slowdown so far, the International Monetary…
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Markets · Jun 25, 2026 · 5 min read
The Bank for International Settlements has warned that today's stablecoins fall short on the key properties that sustain trust in money, and…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Global gas flaring rose for the third consecutive year in 2025, climbing to 167 billion cubic metres and wasting an estimated US$54…
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Markets · Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read
The OPEC Fund for International Development is preparing a new initiative aimed at fragile states, offering long term financing with maturities of…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 22, 2026 · 3 min read
Libya's crude oil production has climbed to about 1.44 million barrels a day, its highest level since 2013, the National Oil Corporation…
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Markets · Jun 19, 2026 · 7 min read
Egypt has unveiled the draft of a more ambitious second edition of its State Ownership Policy, the framework that defines where the…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 19, 2026 · 4 min read
OPEC and the International Energy Agency have collided publicly over the direction of the oil market, with OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read
OPEC reaffirmed its long-held view that there is no peak in oil demand on the horizon, raising its long-term forecast as it…
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Macro · Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read
The global economy is so far absorbing the shock of the conflict in the Middle East without tipping into a slowdown, but…
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The International Monetary Fund’s credit outstanding plus undrawn commitments stands at 240 billion dollars, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told the plenary of the 2026 Annual Meetings in Bangkok on 16 October, and its concessional lending, at 36 billion dollars, is roughly four times its historical average. She said unused lending capacity is roughly three times…
Strong balance sheets continue to underpin the credit ratings of the higher-rated Gulf sovereigns, Fitch Ratings said on Thursday 15 October, with investment income from sovereign wealth funds providing “additional fiscal support” and the UAE’s non-oil economy set to grow 6.1 percent in real terms in 2027. Oman is the one member of the 6-state…
The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council are set to grow 9.1 percent in 2027, and the recovery of Qatar’s gas capacity will now take a year and a half rather than three years, Jihad Azour, Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, told a regional briefing in Bangkok on 15 October….
Employment across the OECD area reached a record 70.4 percent of people aged 15 to 64 in the second quarter of 2026, and the labour force participation rate set its own record at 74.2 percent, according to figures released on 15 October. The member-wide unemployment rate was 5.0 percent in August, up from 4.9 percent…
The 32 member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) have released approximately 330 million barrels of emergency oil stocks under the collective action agreed in March, and the total will now exceed the 400 million barrels originally pledged, the agency’s Governing Board said on 15 October. The Board agreed to accelerate the remaining volumes,…
The economies of the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan are projected to grow 6.6 percent in 2027, with oil exporters rebounding as production and trade gradually return to normal after the disruption caused by the war in the region, Jihad Azour, Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, told a press…
UAE GDP growth is “expected to accelerate to around 10 percent in 2027”, Central Bank of the UAE Governor Khaled Mohamed Balama said in the country’s keynote address at the IMF and World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bangkok, citing the rapid expansion of non-oil activity, continued infrastructure investment and increased production capacity in the…
Crude oil exports from Gulf producers, led by Saudi Arabia, surged by 4.4 million barrels a day to 13.9 million in September, reaching more than 75 percent of pre-war levels, the International Energy Agency said in its Oil Market Report on 14 October. Global oil supply rose 2.5 million barrels a day on the month…
OPEC raised its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2027 to 2.55 million barrels a day, from 2.36 million a month earlier, in its Monthly Oil Market Report for October, while trimming its 2026 estimate to 180,000 barrels a day from 380,000. Crude production by the countries in the Declaration of Cooperation rose by…
Global public debt is expected to exceed 100 percent of world gross domestic product by 2030, a level last reached in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the International Monetary Fund said in a blog published on 14 October with its October Fiscal Monitor, titled Taxing Better to Boost Growth. The average 10-year government…