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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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Egypt · Aug 14, 2026 · 7 min read
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Egypt meets on Thursday 20 August 2026, the fifth of eight scheduled meetings…
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Oman · Aug 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Consumer prices in the Sultanate of Oman rose 3.2 percent in July 2026 against the same month a year earlier, according to…
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UAE · Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Real estate transactions in Abu Dhabi reached AED 117 billion in the first half of 2026, an increase of 112 percent on…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Egypt meets on Thursday 20 August 2026, the fifth of eight scheduled meetings this year and the first since the bank’s own inflation series showed prices flat on the month with core inflation close to the headline rate. The committee has moved once in 2026 and…