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Commodities Wrap 24 July: Brent Retreats Below 97 Dollars as Diplomacy Hopes Cool the Oil Spike While Gold and Silver Firm
The risk premium came out of oil. Brent crude fell about 3.9 percent to below 97 dollars a barrel and West Texas…
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Kuwait Raises 6 Billion Dollars in a Three Tranche Bond in July 2026, With Orders Topping 18 Billion Dollars
Kuwait raised 6 billion dollars from a three tranche international bond sale, the Ministry of Finance said on 23 July 2026, in…
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Report: All Ten Saudi Banks Grew Profit in the Second Quarter of 2026, With Combined Net Profit Up 8.2 Percent to 24.87 Billion Riyals
The Edge for Economic Consultancy has published a special report, "The Clean Sweep: All Ten Saudi Banks Grew Profit in the Second…
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FAB Leads on Reported Profit, QNB on Assets and Lending: MENA’s Two Largest Banks by Assets Compared in the First Half of 2026
First Abu Dhabi Bank and Qatar National Bank have both reported for the first six months of 2026, and the results present…
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Market Wrap US-Europe 23 July: Wall Street and Europe Sell Off as Brent Tops 100 Dollars and the Oil Shock Revives Inflation Fears
The oil shock finally caught Wall Street. US stocks fell across the board on Thursday as Brent crude topped 100 dollars a…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 23 July: Brent Tops 100 Dollars on Red Sea Tanker Attacks as Fuels Follow While Precious Metals Reverse Lower
Oil broke above 100 dollars for the first time in the current confrontation. Brent crude jumped about 7.6 percent to just above…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 23 July: Brent Climbs Above 99 Dollars on Red Sea Tanker Attacks While Korea’s Chip Surge Leads Asia and Gold Retreats
Oil dominated a second day, but the safe-haven trade broke with it. Brent crude jumped about 5.7 percent to above 99 dollars,…
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European Union Fines Google 890 Million Euros for Breaching Digital Markets Act Rules
The European Commission has fined Alphabet's Google 890 million euros for breaching the European Union's Digital Markets Act, in what stands as…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 22 July: Europe Rises on Commodity Stocks While Wall Street Stalls as the Oil Surge Revives Fed Rate-Hike Bets
The two sides of the Atlantic split. Europe closed broadly higher, led by a commodity-stock rally as oil and metal prices climbed,…
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Abu Dhabi Launches the 100 Billion Dirham Marsa Al Saadiyat Waterfront Development on Saadiyat Island
Abu Dhabi has launched Marsa Al Saadiyat, a waterfront development with an investment value of 100 billion dirhams, about 27 billion dollars…
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Gold Climbs to a Two-Week High Above 4,100 Dollars an Ounce Ahead of the Federal Reserve Meeting in July 2026
Gold rose to a two-week high on 22 July 2026, with the metal trading up about 1.3 percent at around 4,130 dollars…
Read more →Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a Cybersecurity AI Model, as the AI Race Intensifies in July 2026
Google has launched a new artificial-intelligence model focused on cybersecurity, called Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, describing it as a lightweight system built…
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OpenAI Says Its Models Breached Test Isolation and Reached Hugging Face Systems in a July 2026 Cyber Evaluation
OpenAI has disclosed that a combination of its most advanced artificial-intelligence models breached the isolation of an internal test environment and reached…
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The Japanese Yen Falls to Its Weakest Since 1986, Near 163 to the Dollar, as Tokyo Pledges Decisive Action
The Japanese yen has fallen to its weakest level since 1986, with the dollar reaching around 163 yen, prompting the government in…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 22 July: Brent Jumps Above 94 Dollars and Gold Reaches a Two-Week High on Hormuz Supply Risk as Saudi Leads a Split Gulf Board
Wednesday belonged to oil. Brent jumped 3.83 percent to 94.50 dollars, touching 95.47 in a near six-week high, after an eleventh consecutive…
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Saudi Arabia Extends Its Debt Maturities With About 17 Billion Riyals of New Sukuk and a Matching Buyback on 21 July 2026
Saudi Arabia completed a domestic sukuk transaction of about 17.2 billion riyals on 21 July 2026, using the deal to extend the…
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UK Inflation Slows to a 15-Month Low of 2.6% Ahead of Next Week’s Bank of England Decision
UK inflation slowed more than expected in June to its lowest level in 15 months, easing pressure on households and reshaping the…
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Egypt Brings New Western Desert Gas Discovery Onstream at 40 Million Cubic Feet a Day
Egypt has started production from a new natural gas discovery in the Western Desert at an initial rate of 40 million cubic…
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Kuwait Raises KD 150 Million in Three-Year Bonds and Tawarruq as Demand Reaches 3.61 Times
Kuwait raised KD 150 million through a new three-year domestic public-debt issuance on Wednesday, with investor bids reaching more than three and…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 21 July: A Memory-Chip Surge Powers Wall Street Higher as the Chip Index Jumps 5.2 Percent, Nvidia’s Lead Over Apple Widens to About 200 Billion Dollars and Europe Inches Up Before Earnings
Wall Street turned Monday's tentative chip recovery into a decisive risk-on session on Tuesday, and closed near the day's highs. The Nasdaq…
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The IEA Warns of Renewed Oil Supply Risk as Gulf Exports Stay Below Pre-War Levels and Brent Trades Above 91 Dollars
The International Energy Agency has warned that the security of oil supply has come under renewed strain, saying that an escalation in…
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Qatar Property Sales Broaden to 541 Deals in June 2026 Even as Mortgage Lending Falls From May
The value of real-estate sales in Qatar was about 1.69 billion riyals across 541 deals in June 2026, according to the monthly…
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ADNOC Approves a 6.2 Billion Dollar Investment to Develop the Umm Shaif Gas Cap Offshore Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has taken a final investment decision worth about 6.2 billion dollars, roughly 22.6 billion dirhams, to develop…
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ECB Survey Shows Euro Area Firms Facing Higher Loan Rates in the Second Quarter of 2026 as Wage and Price Expectations Ease
Euro area companies reported a marked rise in borrowing costs in the second quarter of 2026, according to the European Central Bank's…
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