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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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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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Oman · Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The value of securities traded on the Muscat Stock Exchange reached six thousand nine hundred and twenty three point four zero three…
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Oman · Aug 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Brent crude settled at 82.49 dollars a barrel on 6 August 2026, up 3.04 dollars or 3.83 percent, and West Texas Intermediate…
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Jordan · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Oman and Jordan have established a joint investment company with capital of 38.5 million Omani rials, about 100 million dollars, to expand…
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Macro · Jul 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Oman's economy expanded by 2.6 percent in real terms at market prices in the first quarter of 2026, with gross domestic product…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 5, 2026 · 5 min read
A group of seven producers within the OPEC Plus alliance, including Kuwait, agreed on Sunday to raise their combined oil output by…
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Global · Jun 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Oman Investment Authority and SeaTown Holdings International, a unit linked to Singapore's Temasek through its Seviora asset management group, have joined Vietnam…
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Markets · Jun 22, 2026 · 3 min read
Oman ended 2025 with a smaller than planned budget deficit, as stronger oil and gas revenue lifted public income above the approved…
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Bahrain · Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Gulf economies strengthened their standing among the world's most competitive in the 2026 IMD World Competitiveness Ranking, with the United Arab Emirates…
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Bahrain · Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read
The economies of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council are expected to contract this year before staging a sharp recovery in 2027, as…
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Bahrain · Jun 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE keep interest rates steady after the US Federal Reserve holds rates, while Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman…
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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…
Consumer prices in the Sultanate of Oman rose 3.2 percent in July 2026 against the same month a year earlier, according to the Consumer Price Inflation Report published by the National Centre for Statistics and Information on 13 August 2026. The index is calculated on a 2018 base year. The headline figure understates what households…
The value of securities traded on the Muscat Stock Exchange reached six thousand nine hundred and twenty three point four zero three million Omani rials in the first half of 2026, up six hundred and fifty four point eight percent on the same period a year earlier, the National Centre for Statistics and Information said…
Brent crude settled at 82.49 dollars a barrel on 6 August 2026, up 3.04 dollars or 3.83 percent, and West Texas Intermediate settled at 77.29 dollars, up 2.07 dollars or 2.75 percent, as traders weighed competing accounts of how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen. In Asian trading on 7 August Brent was…
Oman and Jordan have established a joint investment company with capital of 38.5 million Omani rials, about 100 million dollars, to expand economic cooperation and channel capital into a range of productive sectors, the two countries announced. The venture pairs the Oman Investment Authority, the sultanate’s sovereign wealth fund, with Jordan’s Social Security Investment Fund,…
Oman’s economy expanded by 2.6 percent in real terms at market prices in the first quarter of 2026, with gross domestic product at constant prices rising to 9.685 billion rials from 9.442 billion rials a year earlier, according to preliminary data from the National Centre for Statistics and Information. The same data show GDP at…
A group of seven producers within the OPEC Plus alliance, including Kuwait, agreed on Sunday to raise their combined oil output by 188,000 barrels a day in August, continuing the gradual unwinding of voluntary production cuts first announced in April 2023. The decision, taken at a virtual meeting on 5 July 2026, keeps the same…
Oman Investment Authority and SeaTown Holdings International, a unit linked to Singapore’s Temasek through its Seviora asset management group, have joined Vietnam Oman Investment in a US$255 million private credit financing for Vinpearl JSC, the hospitality and leisure arm of Vietnam’s Vingroup. The financing will support Vinpearl’s long term expansion plans. According to the deal…
Oman ended 2025 with a smaller than planned budget deficit, as stronger oil and gas revenue lifted public income above the approved budget and helped offset higher spending, according to final budget figures released by the Ministry of Finance. Public revenue reached about RO 12.122 billion, equivalent to roughly US$31.5 billion, around 8 percent above…
Gulf economies strengthened their standing among the world’s most competitive in the 2026 IMD World Competitiveness Ranking, with the United Arab Emirates holding a place in the global top five and four Arab economies — the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain — ranking inside the top 20 of the 70 economies assessed. The results…