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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Egypt's country compact with the World Bank Group targets 9.8 billion dollars of metals and minerals-related exports by 2040 and a 6…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Foreign direct investment inflows into Saudi Arabia rose 33.5 percent to 159.1 billion riyals in 2025, from 119.2 billion in 2024, and…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min read
Egypt's Ministry of Finance began paying the third instalment of the cash half of exporters' overdue support dues on Thursday 15 October,…
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Rating Agencies · Oct 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Strong balance sheets continue to underpin the credit ratings of the higher-rated Gulf sovereigns, Fitch Ratings said on Thursday 15 October, with…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min read
The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council are set to grow 9.1 percent in 2027, and the recovery of Qatar's gas capacity…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session's settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Eight of the nine Middle East markets fell on Thursday as the Houthis threatened more attacks on Saudi Arabia, while Cairo's EGX…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
The economies of the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan are projected to grow 6.6 percent in 2027, with oil exporters rebounding…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
UAE GDP growth is "expected to accelerate to around 10 percent in 2027", Central Bank of the UAE Governor Khaled Mohamed Balama…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Saudi Arabia's annual inflation rate rose to 1.9 percent in September from 1.8 percent in August, the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT)…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
China's central bank and the central banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will further advance local-currency cooperation, deepen cooperation in cross-border…
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Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian supplies, while all five metals rose, platinum and silver up near 1.6 percent and gold 0.72 percent higher at 4,200.10 dollars an ounce as the dollar headed for a weekly fall. The crude…
Egypt’s country compact with the World Bank Group targets 9.8 billion dollars of metals and minerals-related exports by 2040 and a 6 percent minerals contribution to GDP by 2030, under plans announced in Bangkok on 16 October. Egypt was one of 8 countries to announce compacts or partnerships there, alongside Argentina, Bolivia, India, Kazakhstan, Malawi,…
Foreign direct investment inflows into Saudi Arabia rose 33.5 percent to 159.1 billion riyals in 2025, from 119.2 billion in 2024, and the stock of foreign direct investment in the Kingdom reached 1,058.8 billion riyals at the end of the year, up 8.3 percent, the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) said in its annual FDI…
Egypt’s Ministry of Finance began paying the third instalment of the cash half of exporters’ overdue support dues on Thursday 15 October, a week ahead of the 22 October date it had announced, with 2,054 exporters receiving approximately 8 billion pounds. That is more than the 6 billion pounds the ministry said in August it…
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….
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session’s settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the settlements and the crude benchmarks parted ways into the close: December gold settled 62.20 dollars, or 1.51 percent, higher at 4,170.10 an ounce as the dollar and Treasury yields slipped, while WTI settled…
Eight of the nine Middle East markets fell on Thursday as the Houthis threatened more attacks on Saudi Arabia, while Cairo’s EGX 30 rose 1.52 percent as the only gain, closing at its session high. Dubai’s four-session winning run ended with a 1.05 percent fall, and Qatar’s QE Index lost 1.35 percent to a level…
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…