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Market Wrap US-Europe 14 July: Stocks Shake Off the Oil Shock as US Consumer Prices Fall 0.4 Percent, Goldman Jumps 9 Percent and IBM Craters 25 Percent
Wall Street closed higher on the coolest monthly US inflation print in six years and a rebound in the chip complex, and…
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Commodities Wrap 14 July: Oil Holds Near 85 Dollars as US Consumer Prices Fall 0.4 Percent and Gold Rebounds Above 4,050
The commodities board flipped from Monday's panic to Tuesday's recalibration. Brent crude traded at 85.07 dollars a barrel in late New York…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 14 July: Saudi Leads Gulf Lower and Cairo Slips as Asia Rebounds and Oil Nears 87 Dollars
Asia rebounded on Tuesday while oil kept climbing and the day's hardest number landed in Beijing. Seoul's Kospi closed 0.73 percent higher…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 13 July: Wall Street Slides as Oil Tops 82 Dollars on the Iran Shipping Blockade While Europe Closes Higher
Wall Street closed lower on Monday under two converging pressures: a global semiconductor selloff that weighed on technology shares, and President Trump's…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 13 July: Oil Jumps More Than 8 Percent as Trump Moves to Reinstate the Blockade on Iranian Shipping and Gold Sinks to the 4,000 Dollar Line
Oil surged and almost everything else in the commodities complex fell on Monday after President Donald Trump announced that the United States…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 13 July: Seoul Crashes Nearly 9 Percent and Oil Jumps as Gulf Markets Hold Their Ground and Cairo Rises
Monday distributed the weekend's escalation unevenly. Seoul's Kospi collapsed 8.95 percent to 6,806.93, a fall Korean media reported was deep enough to…
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The Week Ahead: OPEC Answers the IEA, US Inflation Tests the Fed, and the Big Banks Open Earnings Season
The coming week compresses the quarter's biggest catalysts into four days: OPEC's monthly report opens the week, the first full post-escalation US…
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Beijing Reportedly Set to Let Top Chinese AI Firms Buy Nvidia H200 Chips, With Approvals Capped Below 200,000 Units
Chinese officials have told Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek in recent weeks that they may soon receive permission to buy Nvidia H200 chips,…
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S&P Sees Slower Growth but Continued Resilience for Gulf Banks, With Kuwait Among the Markets Anchored by Public-Sector Liquidity
The war and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty are likely to slow growth among Gulf banks, S&P Global Ratings analysts said in the agency's…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 10 July: SK Hynix Soars 13 Percent in its Nasdaq Debut as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Cap a Turbulent Week Higher and Europe Ends Mixed
Wall Street closed higher on Friday, capping a week of sharp swings with a memory-chip milestone, as SK Hynix jumped 13 percent…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 10 July: Oil Slips as the IEA Sees the First Demand Decline Since 2020, Capping a Week of Sharp Swings
Commodities ended a turbulent week quietly on Friday, with crude oil edging lower as a bearish demand outlook from the International Energy…
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e& Agrees to Sell Its Entire Vodafone Stake for 5.95 Billion Dollars, Unlocking a 1.3 Billion Dollar Net Cash Return
UAE technology and telecommunications group e& has signed a binding agreement to sell its entire shareholding in Vodafone Group for approximately 21.8…
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Jordan’s Housing Bank Issues the Kingdom’s First Blue Bond With 100 Million Dollars From the EBRD
The Housing Bank for Trade and Finance issued Jordan's first blue bond on Wednesday, a 100 million dollar loan note subscribed by…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 9 July: Wall Street and Europe Rebound as a Semiconductor Rally Lifts the Nasdaq and Volatility Recedes
US and European equities rose on Thursday, recovering from the previous session's risk-off tone, as a powerful rally in semiconductor shares lifted…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 9 July: Oil Retreats on Mediation Hopes as Precious Metals Rebound Across the Board
Commodities reversed course on Thursday, with crude oil giving back part of two days of sharp gains while the entire precious-metals complex…
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Central Bank of Egypt Holds Rates at 19 Percent for a Third Straight Meeting
The Central Bank of Egypt kept its key policy rates unchanged on Thursday, extending the pause in its easing cycle for a…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 9 July: Asian Equities Rally and Egypt Firms as Gulf Bourses Drift Lower
Asian equities powered higher on Thursday, led by mainland China and Japan, while Gulf markets ended a quiet session mostly in the…
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QNB Profit Rises 3.2% as Abu Dhabi’s FAB Keeps Its Lead by Assets
QNB Group, the Qatari lender locked in a long-running contest with First Abu Dhabi Bank to be the Middle East's biggest bank,…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 8 July: Europe and the Dow Fall Sharply in a Risk-Off Session as Technology Lifts the Nasdaq
US and European equities fell on Wednesday, with Europe leading the declines and the Dow dropping sharply, though technology shares held up…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 8 July: Oil Extends Its Climb on Strait of Hormuz Supply Fears as Precious Metals Sell Off Sharply
Commodities split sharply on Wednesday, with crude oil extending its climb while the entire precious-metals complex sold off, as a firmer dollar…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 8 July: Asian Selloff Deepens and Drags the Gulf and Egypt Lower as Hong Kong Bucks the Trend
Most Asian and Gulf equity markets fell on Wednesday as a renewed global risk-off move deepened, with heavy losses across Asia led…
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Bank of England Warns of Stretched Markets, AI Financing and Private-Credit Risks in Its Financial Stability Report
The Bank of England warned that high equity-market valuations, a rapid build-up of leverage and fast-growing financing tied to artificial intelligence pose…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 7 July: Wall Street and Europe Fall as Hormuz Tensions Return and Technology Leads Lower
US and European equities fell on Tuesday as the return of geopolitical tensions around the Strait of Hormuz hit risk appetite, with…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 7 July: Oil Jumps on Renewed Strait of Hormuz Tensions as Precious Metals Retreat
Commodities were split on Tuesday, with crude oil jumping sharply on a return of geopolitical tensions while precious metals pulled back, a…
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