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The latest verified economic news, official data and analysis on Oman, from The Edge for Economic Consultancy.
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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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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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Riyadh's Tadawul All Share fell 1.74 percent on Wednesday with 252 of 273 stocks lower, a day after a strike that sources…
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Markets · Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Seven of the nine regional markets closed higher on Tuesday, and three of them ended long losing runs at once: Riyadh snapped…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Five of the nine Middle Eastern markets closed lower on Monday, while Doha's QE Index rose 1.15 percent to snap four straight…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Oman generated 37,481.8 gigawatt hours of electricity in the first 8 months of 2026. That is 4.3 percent more than the 35,935.3…
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Markets · Oct 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Cairo returned to trading on Sunday with the region's deepest move, the EGX 30 giving back 1.99 percent to 52,206.70 on its…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
On 7 October, the Egyptian Exchange welcomed Egypt's removal from FTSE Russell's Watch List, announced the previous evening, after the index provider…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 5 min read
Seven of the eight Middle Eastern markets that traded on Thursday closed lower, with Doha's QE Index down 2.21 percent in the…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Oman produced 270.0 million barrels of oil in the first 8 months of 2026, up 11.9 percent from 241.4 million a year…
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Markets · Oct 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Seven of the nine Middle East markets we track closed lower on Wednesday, led by Doha's 0.54 percent decline and Riyadh's 0.45.…
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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 6 min read
Riyadh's Tadawul All Share rose 1.05 percent to 10,589.95 on Tuesday, the board's strongest move on a day that split four rising…
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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…
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…
Riyadh’s Tadawul All Share fell 1.74 percent on Wednesday with 252 of 273 stocks lower, a day after a strike that sources told Reuters caused extensive damage to Saudi Aramco’s headquarters, and Kuwait lost 1.40 percent, while five of the nine markets rose, led by Amman’s 0.98 percent. The Houthis vowed further attacks on Saudi…
Seven of the nine regional markets closed higher on Tuesday, and three of them ended long losing runs at once: Riyadh snapped four straight declines, Abu Dhabi and Manama five each. Muscat’s 0.97 percent fall was the day’s deepest, with Cairo’s 0.68 percent decline beside it. Brent traded 1.65 percent below Monday’s settlement at 104.89…
Five of the nine Middle Eastern markets closed lower on Monday, while Doha’s QE Index rose 1.15 percent to snap four straight declines. Riyadh’s Tadawul All Share fell 0.74 percent in a fourth straight decline, with 57 gainers against 205 decliners on the exchange’s count, and Muscat’s MSX 30 ended its October winning run. Brent…
Oman generated 37,481.8 gigawatt hours of electricity in the first 8 months of 2026. That is 4.3 percent more than the 35,935.3 gigawatt hours of January to August 2025, according to preliminary data from the National Centre for Statistics and Information in a release dated 12 October. On our calculation, the country generated 1,546.5 gigawatt…
Cairo returned to trading on Sunday with the region’s deepest move, the EGX 30 giving back 1.99 percent to 52,206.70 on its first session since 7 October, the exchange having been shut Thursday for the holiday, while five of the seven markets that traded closed lower. Boursa Kuwait’s All-Share Index rose 0.08 percent to 8,639.30,…
On 7 October, the Egyptian Exchange welcomed Egypt’s removal from FTSE Russell’s Watch List, announced the previous evening, after the index provider kept the country as a Secondary Emerging market, ending a review for possible reclassification to Frontier. On the same day, the Oman News Agency said Oman’s entry to the Watch List, for possible…
Seven of the eight Middle Eastern markets that traded on Thursday closed lower, with Doha’s QE Index down 2.21 percent in the deepest fall. Riyadh’s Tadawul All Share lost 1.57 percent with 15 gainers against 249 decliners on the exchange’s count, and Muscat’s MSX 30, up 0.05 percent, was the only market to close higher,…
Oman produced 270.0 million barrels of oil in the first 8 months of 2026, up 11.9 percent from 241.4 million a year earlier, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information, an average of about 1.11 million barrels a day against about 0.99 million a year earlier, on our calculation. August alone came to…