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UK Inflation Slows to a 15-Month Low of 2.6% Ahead of Next Week’s Bank of England Decision
UK inflation slowed more than expected in June to its lowest level in 15 months, easing pressure on households and reshaping the…
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Egypt Brings New Western Desert Gas Discovery Onstream at 40 Million Cubic Feet a Day
Egypt has started production from a new natural gas discovery in the Western Desert at an initial rate of 40 million cubic…
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Kuwait Raises KD 150 Million in Three-Year Bonds and Tawarruq as Demand Reaches 3.61 Times
Kuwait raised KD 150 million through a new three-year domestic public-debt issuance on Wednesday, with investor bids reaching more than three and…
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Market Wrap US-Europe 21 July: A Memory-Chip Surge Powers Wall Street Higher as the Chip Index Jumps 5.2 Percent, Nvidia’s Lead Over Apple Widens to About 200 Billion Dollars and Europe Inches Up Before Earnings
Wall Street turned Monday's tentative chip recovery into a decisive risk-on session on Tuesday, and closed near the day's highs. The Nasdaq…
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Commodities Wrap 21 July: Brent Touches 91.99 in a Five-Week High as the Houthi Blockade Turns Tankers Around and Silver Leads a Broad Rally at 3.8 Percent
Tuesday was the day the whole commodities board rallied at once, and the volatility gauge fell anyway. Brent climbed 2.11 percent to…
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The IEA Warns of Renewed Oil Supply Risk as Gulf Exports Stay Below Pre-War Levels and Brent Trades Above 91 Dollars
The International Energy Agency has warned that the security of oil supply has come under renewed strain, saying that an escalation in…
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Qatar Property Sales Broaden to 541 Deals in June 2026 Even as Mortgage Lending Falls From May
The value of real-estate sales in Qatar was about 1.69 billion riyals across 541 deals in June 2026, according to the monthly…
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ADNOC Approves a 6.2 Billion Dollar Investment to Develop the Umm Shaif Gas Cap Offshore Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has taken a final investment decision worth about 6.2 billion dollars, roughly 22.6 billion dirhams, to develop…
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ECB Survey Shows Euro Area Firms Facing Higher Loan Rates in the Second Quarter of 2026 as Wage and Price Expectations Ease
Euro area companies reported a marked rise in borrowing costs in the second quarter of 2026, according to the European Central Bank's…
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China Holds Its Loan Prime Rates for a 14th Straight Month After Second-Quarter Growth Slowed to 4.3 Percent
China left its benchmark lending rates unchanged for a fourteenth consecutive month in July, with the one-year loan prime rate held at…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 21 July: Cairo Touches 54,000 in a Second Straight Record and Qatar Extends Above 10,000 as Asia’s Chip Complex Snaps Back With Taiwan Up 4.2 Percent
Tuesday belonged to the rebound, with two Gulf exceptions. Asia's chip complex snapped back violently, Taiwan's Taiex jumped 4.20 percent, Shenzhen 4.81…
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US States Led by California Win a Court Order Halting the 110 Billion Dollar Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
A coalition of United States states led by California won a court order on Monday temporarily halting Paramount Skydance's roughly 110 billion…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 20 July: Wall Street Fades Oil’s Round Trip to a Near-Flat Close as Nvidia’s Lead Over Apple Widens to About 120 Billion Dollars and the FTSE Gives Back Friday’s Gain
Wall Street spent Monday trading a war that briefly repriced and a diplomacy headline that repriced it back, and closed almost where…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 20 July: Brent Touches 91.42 Dollars Then Fades on a 10-Day Ceasefire Proposal as Gold Defends the 4,000 Line and Copper Rebounds 1.45 Percent
Oil's first session after the weekend's escalation was a round trip of more than five dollars that ended with a strikingly small…
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China Is Exporting About 20 Percent Fewer Rare-Earth Magnets to the United States Despite the Trade Truce
China is exporting about 20 percent fewer rare-earth magnets to the United States despite a trade truce between the two countries, according…
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The EU Fines AliExpress 550 Million Euros in Its Biggest Digital Services Act Penalty to Date
The European Commission has fined AliExpress, the online marketplace owned by China's Alibaba Group, 550 million euros for breaching the European Union's…
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Saudi Real Estate Prices Rise 3.0 Percent in the Second Quarter of 2026 as Residential Land Leads the Rebound
Saudi Arabia's real-estate prices returned to growth in the second quarter of 2026, led by a sharp rise in residential land values,…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 20 July: Qatar Reclaims 10,000 and Cairo Closes Above 53,000 While Muscat Drops 3.44 Percent and Seoul Returns to the Chip Rout Down 4.46 Percent
The escalation's second Monday sorted the region into winners and casualties with unusual clarity. The Qatar Stock Exchange's second session back took…
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DeepSeek Seeks Fresh Funding at a Valuation Near 74 Billion Dollars as It Prepares a Shanghai Listing
The Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek is in early talks over a new funding round of up to 50 billion yuan, about 7.4…
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From a 450 Dollar Patch of Grass to a 32,970 Dollar Seat: How the 2026 World Cup Final Became a Complete Revenue Platform
Spain are world champions. They beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time, through a Ferran Torres goal, in Sunday's 2026 World Cup final…
Read more →MENA Markets Wrap 19 July: Qatar Returns at 9,955 and TASI Holds Flat as the Gulf Prices an 88 Dollar Brent, a Global Chip Crash and the IMF’s Contraction Call
The Gulf opened the escalation's second week with three pieces of weekend homework and marked them calmly. The Qatar Stock Exchange returned…
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IMF Sees Euro-Area Growth Slowing to 0.9 Percent in 2026 as an Energy Shock Lifts Inflation
The International Monetary Fund projected euro-area growth slowing to about 0.9 percent in 2026 and 1.2 percent in 2027, down from 1.4…
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Report: Who Is Really Winning the Global AI Race, With 725 Billion Dollars of Spending Planned for 2026 and the Model Gap at 2.7 Percent
The Edge for Economic Consultancy has published a special report, "The 725 Billion Dollar Question: Who Is Really Winning the Global AI…
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IMF Projects Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq to Contract in 2026 on the Strait of Hormuz Disruption, With Double-Digit Growth Rebounds Seen in 2027
The International Monetary Fund expects several Gulf economies, including Kuwait, to contract in 2026 as the disruption to shipping through the Strait…
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