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UAE Sets a 5.06 Percent Profit Rate on Its Second Retail Treasury Sukuk
The UAE Ministry of Finance set the annual profit rate on the second issuance of its sovereign retail Treasury Sukuk at 5.06…
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Bank of Korea Consumer Sentiment Rises to 106.6 in September
South Korea's composite consumer sentiment index stood at 106.6 in September, 2.1 points higher than in August, the Bank of Korea reported…
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US Wrap: The Nasdaq Takes a Second Straight Record as Oil Slides
The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.45 percent to a second straight record close, at 27,244.28, on Tuesday, per the network's closing report, while…
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Commodities Wrap: Gas Jumps and Metals Rise as Trump Talks an Iran Deal
Crude barely moved on Tuesday while the rest of the board did. Brent traded 69 cents lower at 99.65 dollars a barrel…
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Europe Wrap: Amsterdam Leads a Split Board as Brent Rebounds
Europe took Monday's relief surge and split it down the middle on Tuesday. Amsterdam's AEX led the board at 0.78 percent higher,…
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Alibaba's New AI Chip Triples Performance as Shares Jump 5.1 Percent
Alibaba Group unveiled a new AI chip that it said triples the performance of its predecessor and outlined plans for an AI…
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Middle East Wrap: Abu Dhabi Rebounds 1.25 Percent
The Gulf split down the middle on Tuesday, and both halves traded oil. Abu Dhabi's FTSE ADX General led the region at…
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Asia Wrap: A Taipei Record and a Fade as Brent Slips Under 100 Dollars
Asia took Wall Street's record close and handed most of it back by the bell on Tuesday. South Korea's Kospi opened 2.20…
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China's Gold Imports Already Top 1,000 Tons, Beating All of 2025
China's gold imports through August 2026 topped 1,000 tons, already surpassing the country's full year import total for 2025, according to customs…
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Eurosystem Launches Pontes for Tokenised Asset Settlement
The Eurosystem launched Pontes on Monday, a solution that lets wholesale transactions in tokenised assets settle in central bank money, the European…
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QIA Signs an MoU for a 20 Billion Dollar J.P. Morgan Partnership
The Qatar Investment Authority and J.P. Morgan Asset Management have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a 20 billion dollar strategic…
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Paramount Skydance Settles With 12 States Over Warner Bros.
Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, resolving their antitrust…
Read more →US Wrap: The Nasdaq Closes at a Record on an AI Surge as Yields Slide
Wall Street turned last week's caution into a record on Monday: the Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.26 percent to close at 27,122.09, its…
Read more →Commodities Wrap: Crude Settles at a Fourth Straight Loss
Crude settled at a fourth consecutive loss on Monday, with WTI falling through the 100 dollar line: WTI closed 4.5 percent lower…
Read more →Europe Wrap: Every Index Rises as Brent Breaks Below 100
Every index on our Europe board rose on Monday, the mirror of Friday's board on which every index fell: the FTSE MIB…
Read more →Middle East Wrap: Egypt's Pound Firms Below 52
7 of the 9 indices on our Middle East board fell on Monday: Abu Dhabi's FTSE ADX General lost 1.61 percent on…
Read more →Asia Wrap: The Kospi Reclaims 7,000 With Japan Shut and Oil Under 101
Asia opened the week higher without Japan. South Korea's Kospi rose 1.65 percent to close at 7,007.72, back above the 7,000 line…
Read more →Middle East Wrap: Every Index on the Board Closes Lower
Every index on the Middle East board closed lower on Sunday, the first Sunday on which every index on the board has…
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Kuwait Adds Government Sukuk as Its Domestic Debt Book Grows
Kuwait has added a sharia compliant instrument to its sovereign funding toolkit. Law 90 of 2026 on government sukuk was issued on…
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Anthropic's Annualised Revenue Is Expected to Pass 100 Billion Dollars
Anthropic is expected to reach an annualised revenue run rate above 100 billion dollars this year as it prepares for a stock…
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The Week Ahead: Flash PMIs and Three Central Bank Decisions
The week after three central banks decided is the week the data answers back. Wednesday's flash purchasing managers' surveys for the euro…
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Kuwait's Holdings of US Debt Reach a Record 69.23 Billion Dollars
Kuwait held 69.23 billion dollars of US government debt at the end of July, the highest monthly figure in the published record…
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Bank of America: Position for a Policy Rate Above 5 Percent
Rates strategists at Bank of America have told clients that the interest rate market is underestimating where the American tightening cycle ends,…
Read more →US Wrap: A Split Close to Fed Week as Buffett Gives Up the Chair
Wall Street closed its Fed week split down the middle. The Nasdaq 100 rose 0.67 percent to 29,644.17 and the S&P 500…
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