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Euro Area Growth Revised Up to 0.6 Percent and Net Trade Supplied All of It
The euro area economy grew 0.6 percent in the second quarter, Eurostat said on Monday, revising up the 0.4 percent it estimated…
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Egypt’s June Trade Deficit Widens 58.5 Percent as Crude Imports Jump 141 Percent
Egypt's trade deficit reached 7.5 billion dollars in June against 4.7 billion a year earlier, a widening of 58.5 percent, the Central…
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German Industrial Production Falls 1.1 Percent as Carmakers Drop 9.2 Percent
German industrial production fell 1.1 percent in July from June, the Federal Statistical Office reported on Monday, and 1.6 percent against July…
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Asia Market Wrap 7 September: The Kospi Jumps 4.6 Percent to the Edge of 7,000 as Chips Lift Seoul, Tokyo and Taipei
Asia rose on Monday with Wall Street closed for Labor Day. South Korea's Kospi rose 308.18 points, or 4.61 percent, to 6,995.39,…
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Norway’s 2.3 Trillion Dollar Fund Rethinks Its Bonds and Warns on Concentration After a Record Half Year
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, the largest sovereign investor that publishes its value, has opened September with a set of strategy advice…
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Middle East Market Wrap 6 September: Egypt Extends Its Run to a Fourth Gain as the Gulf Splits After the US Jobs Surprise
The region's first session after Friday's United States payrolls surprise produced no verdict, only a split. Of the 7 headline market benchmarks…
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Seven OPEC+ Countries Hold October Required Production at 31.01 Million Barrels a Day
Seven OPEC+ countries met by videoconference on 6 September and decided to maintain September's required production for October. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq,…
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S&P Holds the UAE at AA With Its Liquid Asset Buffer 40 Points of GDP Lower Than in March
S&P Global Ratings affirmed the United Arab Emirates at AA long term and A-1+ short term, in both foreign and local currency,…
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Warsh Faces a 59.4 Percent Hike Bet and a 120 Basis Point Gap to the Target Index
Interest rate futures put the probability of a Federal Reserve increase at the 16 September decision at 59.4 percent on 5 September,…
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Prosecutors Seize 96 Percent of the Tax Loss France Estimates in the McKinsey Inquiry
France's national financial prosecutor had 65.2 million euros seized by the Belgian judiciary in the tax investigation into McKinsey & Company, an…
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Report: Kuwait’s New Debt Era: How Sovereign Borrowing Is Reshaping Fiscal Policy, Banking Liquidity and Kuwait’s Capital Market
Kuwait closed fiscal year 2025/26 with an actual deficit of 7.14 billion dinars as oil revenue fell 29.8 percent to 13.589 billion,…
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Egypt Targets 4.5 Billion Dollars in Refinery Investment as Its Fuel Import Bill Keeps Rising
Egypt is targeting around 4.5 billion dollars in investment to upgrade existing refineries and build new processing units, Petroleum and Mineral Resources…
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- Commodities Wrap 1 July: Precious Metals Rebound as Oil Drops Below US$70
- Market Wrap US-Europe 2 July: Dow Hits a Record and Europe Rallies as Soft US Jobs Data Reset Rate Expectations
- Market Wrap US-Europe 30 June: Wall Street Extends Gains and Europe Rises to Close the First Half
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