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Middle East Market Wrap 13 September: Saudi Slides 1.30 Percent and Egypt 1.09 Percent Before the Fed
Saudi Arabia led the Middle East lower on the region's first session after crude's Friday retreat. The Tadawul All Share closed down…
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Report: Egypt’s Debt Equation: Can Growth, Primary Surpluses and Lower Inflation Outrun the Financing Burden?
Egypt has stabilised and the stabilisation has now survived a regional war, but the arithmetic that was driving its debt ratio down…
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Global Rate Risks Shift Higher as the Fed and Bank of Japan Move Into Focus After the ECB Hike
A renewed inflation shock is pushing interest rate risks higher across major advanced economies, but the shift is not a synchronised tightening…
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Lagarde Says Inflation Shock Will Last Longer as Wage Pass-Through Stays Limited
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the inflation shock facing the euro area is likely to last longer than previously expected,…
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BRICS New Delhi Declaration Pushes Cross-Border Payments, Local Currencies and Energy Security
BRICS leaders adopted their New Delhi Declaration on Saturday with an economic agenda built around more efficient cross border payments, greater use…
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Anthropic Calls for Slower Frontier AI as US Senate Weighs Power to Block Unsafe Model Releases
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has called for slowing the rate at which the most capable artificial intelligence models improve, just as…
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US Budget Deficit Nears 2 Trillion Dollars as Net Interest Tops 1 Trillion Dollars
The US Treasury Department reported on Friday, 11 September, that the federal budget deficit had approached 2 trillion dollars in the first…
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S&P Cuts Saudi Arabia’s 2026 Growth Forecast by 5.3 Points and Holds the Rating at A+
S&P Global Ratings affirmed Saudi Arabia's long and short term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at A+ and A-1 on…
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The Week Ahead 13 to 19 September: 4 Central Bank Decisions, China Activity and Saudi Prices
Four central banks decide between Wednesday and Friday. The Federal Reserve goes first with a new set of projections attached to its…
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US Market Wrap 11 September: Dow Adds 509 Points to Snap a 4 Session Slide as Oil Eases
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 509.19 points, or 0.98 percent, to close at 52,573.29 on Friday, ending a run of 4…
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Commodities Wrap 11 September: Brent Settles 2.81 Percent Lower on Hormuz Talks Report
Brent crude settled at 104.61 dollars a barrel on Friday, down 3.02 dollars or 2.81 percent, and West Texas Intermediate finished at…
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Europe Market Wrap 11 September: FTSE MIB Jumps 1.36 Percent as Oil Retreats and Banks Rebound
European shares rose on Friday after 4 sessions of declines on the Stoxx Europe 600, which closed 0.49 percent higher at 639.10…
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