Click outside menu or press ESC to close
Markets · Aug 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Wall Street closed lower on Monday as oil held near 91 dollars following the expiry of the 60-day deadline between the United…
Read more →
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…
Read more →
Global · Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
The Public Investment Fund published its 2025 annual report on 17 August. Revenue rose 9 percent to 120 billion dollars, net profit…
Read more →
Energy & Commodities · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Energy led a broad commodities advance on Monday as the 60-day deadline under the June memorandum between the United States and Iran…
Read more →
Egypt · Aug 17, 2026 · 6 min read
Gulf equities slipped broadly on Monday while China rallied, as the 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired with no…
Read more →
EU · Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Five European Central Bank economists published a post on The ECB Blog on 17 August arguing that a correction in US technology…
Read more →
China · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
The China to Europe Arctic container express route entered regular weekly operation on Saturday 15 August, Xinhua reported. The vessel Dubai Tower,…
Read more →
Global · Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than 7 billion dollars, Bloomberg reported on 16 August. Neither company has confirmed the…
Read more →
Markets · Aug 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Egyptian and Saudi equities led a broadly firm Sunday session across the Middle East and North Africa, with the EGX 30 climbing…
Read more →
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…
Read more →
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.…
Read more →
Markets · Aug 16, 2026 · 6 min read
SpaceX's first quarterly report as a public company, together with a cluster of ownership filings lodged in the past week, provides the…
Read more →
Wall Street closed lower on Monday as oil held near 91 dollars following the expiry of the 60-day deadline between the United States and Iran, per CNBC. The S&P 500 fell 0.52 percent to 7,745.06, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.51 percent to 53,459.78 and the Nasdaq Composite 0.32 percent to 26,644.91, per CNBC, a…
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…
The Public Investment Fund published its 2025 annual report on 17 August. Revenue rose 9 percent to 120 billion dollars, net profit more than doubled to 17 billion, and assets under management passed 900 billion. The asset trajectory is the number to hold. Assets under management stood at about 150 billion dollars in 2015 and…
Energy led a broad commodities advance on Monday as the 60-day deadline under the June memorandum between the United States and Iran expired with Tehran ruling out an extension, per CNBC. ICE Brent for October was quoted at 90.98 dollars a barrel in late trading, up 2.78 percent after touching 91 dollars, with WTI for…
Gulf equities slipped broadly on Monday while China rallied, as the 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired with no official negotiations or deal in sight, per CNBC. Shenzhen jumped 2.44 percent to lead Asia, Qatar fell 1.52 percent and Kuwait 0.90 percent to lead the region lower, and Egypt touched a record…
Five European Central Bank economists published a post on The ECB Blog on 17 August arguing that a correction in US technology valuations should be expected, and the argument does not rest on the claim that today’s prices are wrong. The authors write that economic research on past technological revolutions points to what they call…
The China to Europe Arctic container express route entered regular weekly operation on Saturday 15 August, Xinhua reported. The vessel Dubai Tower, operated by Zhejiang Seaport Logistics Group, sails from Ningbo-Zhoushan Port to Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Gdynia across the Northeast Arctic Passage, and the operator advertises a transit of approximately 20 days. What is…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than 7 billion dollars, Bloomberg reported on 16 August. Neither company has confirmed the transaction. Stripe’s newsroom and OpenRouter’s blog carry no announcement, Stripe does not comment on rumours, and Bloomberg notes the final price may vary. What follows treats it as an agreed deal that has…
Egyptian and Saudi equities led a broadly firm Sunday session across the Middle East and North Africa, with the EGX 30 climbing 1.09 percent to 55,854.74 and Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index adding 0.89 percent to 10,919.68. Asia, the United States and Europe were closed, and their Friday closes are carried for reference throughout….
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…