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Saudi Arabia: GASTAT data, SAMA, Tadawul, Aramco and Vision 2030 economics, verified at source and analysed.
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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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
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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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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Macro · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read
63,076 Saudi families moved into their first homes in the first six months of 2026, and the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF)…
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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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Macro · Oct 12, 2026 · 4 min read
Saudi Arabia's small and medium-sized enterprises logged their fastest growth in new orders for seven months in September, and the Riyad Bank…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Saudi Arabia signed 3 energy memoranda of understanding in Riyadh with Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt on 11 October, the day the 17th…
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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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Macro · Oct 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Saudi Arabia's non-oil industrial activity grew 1.2 percent in August from a year earlier and 1.4 percent from July, taking its index…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Saudi Arabia and the UAE signed a memorandum of understanding in Riyadh on Thursday to cooperate on connecting their power grids, exchanging…
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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…
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…
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) said, staying below 2 percent for a ninth consecutive month as rent increases slowed. Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels rose 3.6 percent, food and beverages 1.4 percent and transport 2.3 percent,…
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…
63,076 Saudi families moved into their first homes in the first six months of 2026, and the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) helped 329,000 citizens into jobs over the same period, 23 percent more than a year earlier. Minister of Media Salman bin Yousef Al-Dossary set out both results at the 37th government press conference…
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…
Saudi Arabia’s small and medium-sized enterprises logged their fastest growth in new orders for seven months in September, and the Riyad Bank Saudi Arabia SME PMI, compiled by S&P Global and released at 04:15 GMT on 12 October, read 53.8. That puts the index 3.8 points above the neutral 50.0 value, on our calculation, and…
Saudi Arabia signed 3 energy memoranda of understanding in Riyadh with Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt on 11 October, the day the 17th International Energy Forum ministerial meeting, IEF17, concluded. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Energy and Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, signed all 3, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The Kuwait…
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,…