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Macro · Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
The Central Bank of the UAE published its Financial Stability Report for 2025 on 17 August. Total banking system assets rose 17.1…
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Germany · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
German companies invested 4.3 billion euros directly in the United States in the first half of 2026, the lowest level since 2023,…
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China · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
China's July activity data disappointed on every headline measure. Industrial value added grew 4.5 percent from a year earlier, down from 5.3…
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Global · Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Japan's economy grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter, an annualised 1.1 percent, according to the first preliminary estimate published by the…
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Macro · Aug 16, 2026 · 4 min read
UAE banks added AED 24.7 billion to gross credit in June 2026, roughly double May’s AED 12.3 billion increase. Almost all of…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Oman's merchandise trade surplus widened 37.2 percent in the first five months of 2026, to OMR 3.368 billion from OMR 2.455 billion…
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Egypt · Aug 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Two Egyptian state offerings are converging on the same structure and the same buyers, and the institutions involved are not new arrivals.…
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Egypt · Aug 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Egypt's merchandise trade deficit widened by $9.5 billion in the first nine months of the 2025/2026 fiscal year, and roughly seven-tenths of…
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Global · Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
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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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EU · Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Euro area growth held at 0.4 percent in the second quarter while the EU energy trade deficit widened to 30.4 billion euros…
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Global · Aug 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Taiwan grew 12.93 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2026 and raised its full-year forecast by 1.41 points to…
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The Central Bank of the UAE published its Financial Stability Report for 2025 on 17 August. Total banking system assets rose 17.1 percent to 5.3 trillion dirhams, the loan portfolio grew 17.8 percent, and net profits rose 11.7 percent to 90.8 billion dirhams. The asset quality trend is the finding. The non-performing loan ratio fell…
German companies invested 4.3 billion euros directly in the United States in the first half of 2026, the lowest level since 2023, according to calculations by the German Economic Institute reported by Reuters on 16 August. The figure is down by nearly two thirds from the same period a year earlier and by nearly 80…
China’s July activity data disappointed on every headline measure. Industrial value added grew 4.5 percent from a year earlier, down from 5.3 percent in June. Retail sales of consumer goods rose 0.6 percent, down from 1 percent. Fixed asset investment excluding rural households fell 6.7 percent across the first seven months, having fallen 5.7 percent…
Japan’s economy grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter, an annualised 1.1 percent, according to the first preliminary estimate published by the Cabinet Office on 17 August. That undershot the 2.0 percent annualised rate expected in a Reuters poll of economists and followed 0.5 percent growth in the first quarter. Two rows further down the…
UAE banks added AED 24.7 billion to gross credit in June 2026, roughly double May’s AED 12.3 billion increase. Almost all of it went outside the country. Foreign credit rose AED 19.9 billion, or 3.5 percent on the month, to AED 582.4 billion. Domestic credit rose AED 4.8 billion, or 0.2 percent, to AED 2.175…
Oman’s merchandise trade surplus widened 37.2 percent in the first five months of 2026, to OMR 3.368 billion from OMR 2.455 billion a year earlier. The headline is strong. The composition is where the interest lies. National Centre for Statistics and Information data show total merchandise exports rising 10.1 percent to OMR 10.589 billion from…
Two Egyptian state offerings are converging on the same structure and the same buyers, and the institutions involved are not new arrivals. They are the incumbent creditors. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation intend to acquire 10 percent of Banque du Caire through its planned listing on the Egyptian…
Egypt’s merchandise trade deficit widened by $9.5 billion in the first nine months of the 2025/2026 fiscal year, and roughly seven-tenths of that came from goods that have nothing to do with energy. The Central Bank of Egypt’s balance of payments release for July to March shows the merchandise trade deficit rising 24.6 percent to…
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
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.