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Energy & Commodities · Jul 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Qatar has moved to channel its abundant gas into a new wave of downstream industry, with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry…
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EU · Jul 6, 2026 · 4 min read
New orders in German manufacturing rose 1.9 percent in May from the previous month, seasonally and calendar adjusted, the Federal Statistical Office…
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Macro · Jul 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Saudi Arabia's licensed tourism hospitality facilities rose 22.7 percent year on year to 6,122 in the first quarter of 2026, according to…
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Macro · Jul 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Oman's economy expanded by 2.6 percent in real terms at market prices in the first quarter of 2026, with gross domestic product…
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EU · Jul 5, 2026 · 5 min read
The euro area's private sector stopped shrinking in June, as growth in manufacturing offset a still weak services sector and pulled overall…
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Kuwait · Jul 5, 2026 · 6 min read
The Gulf's non-oil economies ended June on sharply different tracks, according to the latest S&P Global purchasing managers' surveys released on 5…
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Egypt · Jul 5, 2026 · 9 min read
Egypt is preparing for a new phase of economic policy after the completion of its current programme with the International Monetary Fund.…
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Macro · Jul 4, 2026 · 7 min read
Filings for US unemployment benefits fell to 215,000 in the week ended 27 June, the Labor Department reported on 2 July, a…
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Macro · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
British firms' expectations for inflation a year ahead held steady at 3.7 percent in June, according to the Bank of England's Decision…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Global food prices fell for a second consecutive month in June, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, as ample…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Gold recorded its first weekly gain in five weeks and the US dollar headed for its biggest weekly loss since April, after…
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EU · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Unemployment in the euro area held at 6.2 percent in May 2026, unchanged from April and down from 6.3 percent a year…
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French consumer price inflation slowed to 1.8 percent in June from 2.4 percent in May, the statistics office INSEE confirmed on Friday, matching its flash estimate. The EU-harmonised measure eased to 2.0 percent from 2.8 percent. On the month, consumer prices fell 0.3 percent, with the monthly CPI change revised down 0.1 point from the…
German exports rose 0.9 percent in May from the previous month to 137.9 billion euros on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis, while imports fell 2.5 percent to 118.8 billion euros, widening the trade surplus to 19.1 billion euros from 14.7 billion euros in April, the federal statistics office Destatis said on Thursday. The swing…
Japan’s corporate goods price index rose 7.1 percent in June from a year earlier, the fastest annual pace since March 2023, accelerating from a revised 6.6 percent in May and beating market expectations of about 6.8 percent, Bank of Japan data showed on Friday. On the month, producer prices rose 0.4 percent. Energy and metals…
The Central Bank of Egypt kept its key policy rates unchanged on Thursday, extending the pause in its easing cycle for a third consecutive meeting as policymakers waited for clearer evidence that disinflation is becoming durable. The Monetary Policy Committee held the overnight deposit rate at 19 percent, the overnight lending rate at 20 percent,…
Remittances from Egyptians working abroad rose 31.2 percent to about 43.1 billion dollars in the first eleven months of fiscal year 2025/2026, covering July 2025 through May 2026, up from around 32.8 billion dollars in the same period a year earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt said on Thursday. On a monthly basis, inflows reached…
Global foreign direct investment rose about 6 percent to 1.6 trillion dollars in 2025, ending two years of decline, but the recovery was unevenly spread and left many developing economies behind, the United Nations trade and development body UNCTAD said in its World Investment Report 2026, published on 7 July. The report described a global…
Oman and Jordan have established a joint investment company with capital of 38.5 million Omani rials, about 100 million dollars, to expand economic cooperation and channel capital into a range of productive sectors, the two countries announced. The venture pairs the Oman Investment Authority, the sultanate’s sovereign wealth fund, with Jordan’s Social Security Investment Fund,…
Qatar’s total international reserves and foreign-currency liquidity rose to 262.1 billion riyals, about 71.7 billion dollars, at the end of June, up 1.24 percent from a year earlier, the Qatar Central Bank reported. The modest headline rise masked a marked shift in the composition of the reserves, as a build-up in gold and deposits with…
Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s 16 and 17 June meeting, released on 8 July, showed a policy committee that was unanimous in holding interest rates steady but divided in its outlook, with some officials seeing a case for higher rates ahead as inflation stayed elevated. The Federal Open Market Committee left its benchmark rate unchanged…
China’s consumer inflation remained weak in June even as factory-gate prices surged to their strongest in nearly four years, underlining a widening gap between soft household demand and firmer industrial costs. The consumer price index rose 1.0 percent from a year earlier, easing from 1.2 percent in May, while the producer price index jumped 4.1…