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Qatar GDP Contracts 7 Percent in Q1 as a 25.8 Percent Hydrocarbon Slump Overwhelms 3.5 Percent Non Hydrocarbon Growth
Qatar's real economy contracted 7 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2026 as hydrocarbon activity fell 25.8 percent, overwhelming…
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AMAK’s Jabal Qaran Estimate Reaches 14 Million Tonnes, With 11.3 Million Tonnes JORC Classified
Saudi Arabia's Almasane Alkobra Mining Company, known as AMAK, has reported approximately 14 million tonnes of mineralised material at its Jabal Qaran…
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Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for 12.9 Billion Dollars, Nearly Triple Its 2023 Valuation
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars, a transaction that would extend…
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Syria’s H1 2026 Deficit Reaches 1 Billion Dollars as Spending Already Exceeds All of 2025
Syria recorded public revenues of about 2.7 billion dollars in the first half of 2026 against expenditure of about 3.7 billion dollars,…
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Oil Jumps More Than 2% as US Strike on Iran’s Larak Island Lifts Brent Back Above $90
Oil prices jumped more than 2 percent on Monday, with Brent crude back above 90 dollars a barrel, after United States forces…
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Saudi Satellite Trial Hits 2,514 Mbps as Digital Economy Reaches 139 Billion Dollars
Saudi Arabia's telecom regulator, the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST), has been testing satellite and hybrid satellite-cellular technology to extend broadband…
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Middle East Market Wrap 30 August: Saudi large caps lag for a second session with 5 of 7 indices lower
The MSCI Tadawul 30 fell 0.82 percent on Sunday against 0.71 percent for the Tadawul All Share, the second consecutive session in…
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Egypt’s 5 Largest Listed Banks Earn Combined 71.9 Billion Pounds in Standalone First-Half Profit
Commercial International Bank Egypt (CIB), QNB Egypt, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Egypt (ADIB Egypt), Suez Canal Bank and Faisal Islamic Bank of…
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The Week Ahead 30 August to 5 September: the last monthly jobs report before the Fed decides
The August employment report lands on Friday 4 September, and it is the last monthly United States employment report the Federal Open…
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Commodities Wrap 28 August: silver falls 4.31 percent as the 2 year Treasury yield rises 14 basis points after Warsh speech
Silver was down 4.31 percent at 66.44 dollars an ounce and gold 3.30 percent at 4,510.00 dollars an ounce in a snapshot…
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US Market Wrap 28 August: Two Year Yield Jumps 14 Basis Points as Warsh Puts September in Play
The two year Treasury yield rose 14 basis points to 4.34 percent on Friday, the largest move at any point on the…
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Europe Market Wrap 28 August: all 12 European indices rise as autos gain 2.48 percent
Every one of the 12 European benchmarks in this wrap closed higher on Friday, on our calculation, led by the CAC 40…
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Asia Market Wrap 28 August: Kospi falls 1.79 percent as 7 of 10 Asian benchmarks rise
The Kospi fell 1.79 percent to 6,788.88 on Friday, the steepest decline on a board where 7 of the 10 Asian benchmarks…
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Nvidia Adds 442 Billion Dollars in a Day, Second Biggest Gain in Stock Market History
Nvidia added 442 billion dollars to its market value on Thursday, according to Bloomberg, which called it the second largest one-day gain…
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Egypt’s Foreign Holdings of Local Debt Recover 64 Percent From April’s Trough but Stay Below February’s Record
Non-resident holdings of Egypt's local currency government debt reached 36.4 billion dollars by 24 June, recovering most of the ground lost in…
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Alphabet Shares Fall About 17 Percent From Their May Peak as an AI Leadership Reshuffle Meets a 205 Billion Dollar Spending Plan
Alphabet shares have fallen sharply from their spring peak as investors weigh a wave of senior AI departures at Google against a…
Read more →US Market Wrap 27 August: Technology Stands Alone as Nvidia and Earnings Beats Lift the Nasdaq
Technology was the only one of the 11 S&P 500 sectors to close higher on Thursday, rising 3.40 percent while the other…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 27 August: Brent gains 2.22 percent and cocoa 6.89 percent as 12 of 16 commodity contracts rise
Brent crude rose 2.22 percent to 89.79 dollars a barrel in quotes captured at 18:46 GMT on 27 August, while 12 of…
Read more →Europe Market Wrap 27 August: Nvidia Lifts Technology as French Budget Concerns Hit Banks and the CAC 40
Twelve of the fourteen European benchmarks The Edge tracks finished lower on Thursday. Germany's DAX and Finland's OMX Helsinki were the only…
Read more →Middle East Market Wrap 27 August: Dubai leads a split session as three markets shut and Saudi large caps fall 0.32 percent
3 of the region's exchanges did not open on Thursday. Boursa Kuwait, The Egyptian Exchange and the Muscat Stock Exchange were all…
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Report: The $40 Trillion Era: How America’s Rising Interest Bill Is Reshaping Growth, Markets and the Global Economy
The United States crossed $40 trillion in total public debt outstanding on 18 August 2026, with the Treasury recording $40.047 trillion —…
Read more →Asia Market Wrap 27 August: Korea Leads as Nvidia Lifts Chips and Bank of Korea Hikes Again
South Korea led Asian equities higher on Thursday as Nvidia's stronger than expected results lifted chip stocks across the region at the…
Read more →US Market Wrap 26 August: Industrials Lead and Health Care Falls as Nvidia Beats After the Close
The S&P 500 closed Wednesday at 7,675.70, down 0.02 percent, effectively flat on a session that priced a sticky inflation reading against…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 26 August: Gold Falls as US Inflation Data Lifts Rate Hike Bets While Wheat Hits a 52 Week High
Gold fell 1.00 percent to 4,647.50 dollars an ounce on Wednesday, a day after prices touched their highest level since 14 May,…
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