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Egypt · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Egypt's exports to the economic blocs it belongs to rose 16.8 percent in 2025 to 54.4 billion dollars, from 46.6 billion the…
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Macro · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Growth in the United Arab Emirates non-oil private sector slowed to its weakest in more than five years in June, though activity…
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Macro · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Saudi Arabia is opening property ownership to non-Saudis under executive regulations approved by the Council of Ministers on 23 June, with reporting…
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Egypt · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Egypt has approved a second package of tax measures aimed at lowering costs for businesses, encouraging companies to list on the stock…
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Macro · Jul 4, 2026 · 4 min read
On 4 July 2026 the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, and the economic distance travelled is difficult…
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Macro · Jul 2, 2026 · 5 min read
US employers added just 57,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent, down from 4.3 percent in…
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Macro · Jul 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Saudi Arabia's unemployment rate fell in the first quarter of 2026, with the overall rate dropping to 3.1 percent and the rate…
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Macro · Jul 2, 2026 · 5 min read
The United Arab Emirates began the pilot phase of its national electronic-invoicing system on 1 July, with voluntary participation by a selected…
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Jordan · 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 · 4 min read
Saudi Arabia's foreign-currency reserves and money supply both rose over the past year through May, according to the latest monthly data from…
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Egypt · Jul 2, 2026 · 5 min read
Egypt's state budget for fiscal year 2026/27 came into force on 1 July, targeting total revenues of about 4.1 trillion Egyptian pounds,…
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Jordan · 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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Japanese household spending fell in May from a year earlier for a second straight month, but by far less than expected and with a solid rebound on the month, in a mixed reading on whether rising wages are yet reaching consumers. Real spending by households of two or more people dropped 0.4 percent from a…
Labour markets across advanced economies remain robust but pay is failing to keep pace, the OECD said in its Employment Outlook 2026, published on 7 July under the theme Geographic Disparities in Jobs and Incomes. The organisation reported that unemployment across its member countries held at 4.9 percent in May, close to record lows, even…
The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global growth this year to 3.0 percent and lifted its inflation projection, in a World Economic Outlook Update published on 8 July that portrays a world economy caught between two opposing forces. The Fund titled the update Global Economy in Crosscurrents of War and Technology, describing a…
France’s trade deficit widened to about 6.9 billion euros in May, from around 5.4 billion in April, as a drop in exports outweighed a smaller rise in imports, according to French customs data. The deficit widened by roughly 1.5 billion euros on the month, our calculation, ending a brief improvement in April. The deterioration was…
China’s official foreign-exchange reserves fell to about 3.416 trillion dollars at the end of June, down roughly 26 billion dollars on the month, as a stronger US dollar reduced the value of holdings denominated in other currencies, according to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. At the same time, the central bank extended its run…
The US trade deficit widened sharply in May, to 77.6 billion dollars from a revised 54.6 billion in April, as imports rebounded and exports fell, according to the Commerce Department. The gap widened by 23.0 billion dollars in a single month, or about 42 percent, our calculation, reversing part of the earlier narrowing that had…
Japanese workers saw their real wages rise for a fifth consecutive month in May, as nominal pay growth stayed above 3 percent, in a further sign that the country’s long-awaited cycle of rising wages is taking hold. Nominal labour cash earnings rose 3.2 percent from a year earlier, extending a run of increases to a…
German industrial production rose 0.9 percent in May from the previous month, beating expectations and pointing to a tentative recovery in the euro area’s industrial heartland, led by a rebound in carmaking. The increase, reported by the federal statistics office, followed a modest 0.2 percent rise in April and was driven by a 3.6 percent…
The Bank of England warned that high equity-market valuations, a rapid build-up of leverage and fast-growing financing tied to artificial intelligence pose risks to financial stability, in its July Financial Stability Report. The central bank’s Financial Policy Committee said the vulnerabilities it had flagged previously persist and have in some ways become more pronounced. The…
Americans’ near-term inflation expectations rose in June to their highest in almost three years, according to the New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations, a reading that lands just as investors await the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June meeting. The one-year-ahead median inflation expectation increased 0.2 percentage point to 3.7 percent, the highest…