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Middle East Market Wrap 9 September: Gulf Mixed as Brent Tops 100 Dollars, Abu Dhabi Leads and Egypt Rebounds
Middle East equity markets were mixed on Wednesday even as crude oil pushed above 100 dollars a barrel, with Abu Dhabi’s FTSE…
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Commodities Wrap 8 September: Attacks on Saudi Energy Sites Lift Brent to a Six Week High Near 100 Dollars
Crude oil climbed to a six week high on Tuesday after attacks on energy facilities in Saudi Arabia threatened Gulf supply, with…
Read more →Middle East Market Wrap 8 September: Gulf Mostly Higher as Saudi Energy Sites Are Hit, Egypt Falls 0.80 Percent
Most of the Gulf rose on the day its largest economy's energy facilities were attacked. Abu Dhabi's FTSE ADX General closed back…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 7 September: Brent Settles at 97.31 Dollars as the US and Iran Trade Strikes
Brent crude settled at 97.31 dollars a barrel on Monday, up 1.03 dollars or 1.1 percent, after the United States and Iran…
Read more →Middle East Market Wrap 7 September: Kuwait Erases Its Losses Since 1 September as Saudi Slips and Egypt’s 4 Day Run Ends
The Gulf split for a second session, and this time Kuwait led it. Boursa Kuwait's All Share Index rose 94.55 points, or…
Read more →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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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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Kuwait caps brokerage commission discounts at 25 percent from January 2027
Kuwait's Capital Markets Authority issued Circular No. 16 of 2026 on 3 September, permitting licensed persons acting as qualified registered brokers on…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 4 September: The Jobs Print Turns the Metals Board Red as Diesel Sets a Record at the Pump
One economic release turned the whole metals board red, something no session this week had produced. Gold fell 1.44 percent to 4,474.70…
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US Payrolls Rise 162,000 in August, More Than 3 Times the Consensus, and September Hike Odds Rebuild
The United States labor market showed no sign of the slowdown forecasters expected. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 162,000 in August, the Bureau…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 3 September: Palladium Jumps 5.55 Percent as All 5 Metals Rise and Crude Stalls
The metals board went one way on Thursday: palladium jumped 5.55 percent, platinum 3.66, silver 3.04, gold 2.46 and copper 1.21, all…
Read more →Middle East Market Wrap 3 September: Kuwait Trades Through the Attacks and 7 of 9 Markets Rise
Kuwait's army said on Thursday it was confronting hostile missile and drone attacks from Iran, per CNBC, and Boursa Kuwait still opened,…
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