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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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Rosneft Starts Pumping Oil Through New Vostok Arctic Pipeline, Targeting 50 Million Tonnes by 2030
Oil has begun flowing through a newly completed pipeline carrying crude from Rosneft's Vostok Oil fields in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region to the…
Read more →Kuwait’s non oil PMI reaches 53.6 in August as employment rises for the first time in 6 months
Kuwait's non oil private sector grew at its fastest pace since February in August, with the S&P Global Kuwait PMI climbing to…
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Suez Canal tonnage rises 22.4 percent in the fiscal year as tankers displace container ships
Traffic through the Suez Canal rose to 590.7 million net tons in the fiscal year ended 30 June 2026, up 22.4 percent…
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Fitch clears Qatar’s Rating Watch and affirms AA while forecasting an 18.8 percent contraction
Fitch Ratings affirmed Qatar's long term foreign currency issuer default rating at AA on 4 September 2026 and removed it from Rating…
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Sugar jumps 11.9 percent as the FAO food price index rises to 133.3 points in August
The Food and Agriculture Organization's food price index averaged 133.3 points in August 2026, up 2.5 points or 1.9 percent on a…
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