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Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Pay More Than 7 Billion Dollars for a Company Valued at 1.3 Billion in May
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than 7 billion dollars, Bloomberg reported on 16 August. Neither company has confirmed the…
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Market Wrap MENA-Asia 16 August: Egypt Adds 1.09 Percent and Saudi Arabia 0.89 as Asia Holds Friday Gains
Egyptian and Saudi equities led a broadly firm Sunday session across the Middle East and North Africa, with the EGX 30 climbing…
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Japan Lifted Rare Earth Mud From 5,569 Metres. The Hard Part Starts Now.
Minamitorishima is about 1.51 square kilometres of flat Pacific land, roughly the size of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace grounds, some 1,950 kilometres southeast…
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Four Fifths of the UAE’s June Credit Growth Went Abroad
UAE banks added AED 24.7 billion to gross credit in June 2026, roughly double May’s AED 12.3 billion increase. Almost all of…
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Oman’s Trade Surplus Jumped 37 Percent as Non-Oil Exports Grew 1.5 Percent
Oman's merchandise trade surplus widened 37.2 percent in the first five months of 2026, to OMR 3.368 billion from OMR 2.455 billion…
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Egypt Is Selling Stakes to Its Own Lenders: EBRD and IFC Line Up for 10 Percent of Two State Offerings
Two Egyptian state offerings are converging on the same structure and the same buyers, and the institutions involved are not new arrivals.…
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Egypt’s Oil Bill Is the Risk, Not the Main Driver: Non-Oil Trade Accounts for 71 Percent of the Deficit Widening
Egypt's merchandise trade deficit widened by $9.5 billion in the first nine months of the 2025/2026 fiscal year, and roughly seven-tenths of…
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Who Owns SpaceX: Four Holders, $229 Billion, and One Man’s 84.8% of the Votes
SpaceX's first quarterly report as a public company, together with a cluster of ownership filings lodged in the past week, provides the…
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Gold Rises for a Second Week and Is Still 18.8 Percent Below Its January PM Fixing High
Gold fixed at 4,390.70 dollars on 14 August after a second consecutive weekly gain, leaving it 0.52 percent higher for 2026 and…
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Pony.ai and Uber Plan More Than 2,000 Robotaxis Across Five European Cities
Pony.ai and Uber announced plans for more than 2,000 robotaxis across five European cities on 13 August 2026, with the expanded partnership…
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Japan Producer Prices Rise 0.1 Percent While Petroleum Subtracts 0.20 Points
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
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IMF Puts Egypt Inflation at 16.7 Percent for the Second Half of 2026 and Delays Target Convergence by a Year
The IMF published its 148 page Egypt seventh review staff report on 13 August, projecting inflation of 16.7 percent in the second…
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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