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Commodities Wrap 15 July: Oil Goes Flat at 85 Dollars as the Blockade Premium Stalls, Platinum Jumps 2.3 Percent and the VIX Sinks 4.7 Percent
The oil rally stopped climbing on Wednesday and simply held. Brent was effectively unchanged at its settlement window, quoted up 0.02 percent…
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Report: Britain’s Economy as Burnham Takes the Keys, Growth Near 1 Percent and Debt at 95.1 Percent of GDP
The Edge for Economic Consultancy has published a special report examining the economy Britain's next prime minister will inherit, as Andy Burnham…
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Market Wrap MENA-Asia 15 July: Gulf Barely Moves Through Fresh Hormuz Strikes and Cairo Adds 0.5 Percent as Seoul Surges 6.2 Percent and China Slows to 4.3 Percent
Asia set the pace on Wednesday and the Gulf answered with its calmest session since the escalation began. Seoul's Kospi surged 6.24…
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Saudi Inflation Holds at 1.8 Percent in June as Rents Stay the Main Pressure
Saudi Arabia’s annual inflation held at 1.8 percent in June, unchanged from May and among the lowest rates of any major economy,…
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Egypt Lifts Exporter Arrears Repayments 55 Percent to 28 Billion Pounds
Egypt paid down 28 billion pounds, about 553 million dollars, of money owed to exporters in the 2025/26 fiscal year, a 55…
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Kuwait Holds Its AA- Credit Rating as Sovereign Net Foreign Assets Near 600 Percent of GDP
Kuwait retains one of the strongest sovereign credit profiles in the world, holding an AA- rating with a stable outlook at both…
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China’s Growth Slows to 4.3 Percent in the Second Quarter as Investment and Property Drag
China’s economy grew 4.3 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, its slowest pace since late 2022 and short of…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 14 July: Stocks Shake Off the Oil Shock as US Consumer Prices Fall 0.4 Percent, Goldman Jumps 9 Percent and IBM Craters 25 Percent
Wall Street closed higher on the coolest monthly US inflation print in six years and a rebound in the chip complex, and…
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Egypt’s Parliament Approves a New Sovereign Fund as the Existing Fund Reports Over 90 Percent Asset Growth
Egypt’s House of Representatives gave final approval on Tuesday to a law that restructures the state’s Future of Egypt Authority into an…
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US Consumer Prices Fall 0.4 Percent in June as Gasoline Slides and July Hike Bets Tumble
US consumer prices fell 0.4 percent in June from May, their sharpest monthly drop since the pandemic shock of April 2020, as…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 14 July: Oil Holds Near 85 Dollars as US Consumer Prices Fall 0.4 Percent and Gold Rebounds Above 4,050
The commodities board flipped from Monday's panic to Tuesday's recalibration. Brent crude traded at 85.07 dollars a barrel in late New York…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 14 July: Saudi Leads Gulf Lower and Cairo Slips as Asia Rebounds and Oil Nears 87 Dollars
Asia rebounded on Tuesday while oil kept climbing and the day's hardest number landed in Beijing. Seoul's Kospi closed 0.73 percent higher…
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Egypt’s Pound Eases Past 50 to the Dollar amid an Oil Surge and Renewed Regional Tensions
The Egyptian pound has eased back past 50 to the dollar, trading at 50.52 to 50.62 at the National Bank of Egypt…
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China’s Exports Jump 27 Percent in June, the Fastest Pace Since 2021
China’s exports jumped 27 percent in June from a year earlier, their fastest pace since 2021, as an artificial-intelligence-driven boom in chips…
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Egypt’s Foreign Direct Investment Climbs to 13 Billion Dollars in Nine Months
Foreign direct investment into Egypt rose to about 13 billion dollars in the first nine months of the 2025/26 fiscal year, up…
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Saudi PIF and I Squared Sign an MoU Targeting Up to 2 Billion Dollars for Infrastructure
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has signed an agreement with the global manager I Squared Capital to channel up to 2 billion…
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Moody’s Says a Smaller US Role and 5 Percent NATO Target Would Pressure Europe’s Ratings
A diminished US role in NATO would put downward pressure on European sovereign credit ratings, Moody’s has warned, as governments across the…
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Egypt’s Transit Trade Grows 40 Percent Since March as Suez Canal Receipts Climb 22 Percent
Egypt’s transit trade is extending a rebound that took hold earlier this year, as more goods move through the country’s ports and…
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A Fed Rate Increase Returns as a Live Risk as Inflation Climbs Ahead of Warsh Testimony
A US interest-rate increase has returned as a live policy risk as inflation climbs. The Federal Reserve’s first semiannual report to Congress…
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Masdar Reaches Financial Close on the World’s First Gigascale Round-the-Clock Renewable Project
Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has reached financial close on what it calls the world’s first gigascale round-the-clock renewable-energy project, a 6.1 billion dollar…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 13 July: Wall Street Slides as Oil Tops 82 Dollars on the Iran Shipping Blockade While Europe Closes Higher
Wall Street closed lower on Monday under two converging pressures: a global semiconductor selloff that weighed on technology shares, and President Trump's…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 13 July: Oil Jumps More Than 8 Percent as Trump Moves to Reinstate the Blockade on Iranian Shipping and Gold Sinks to the 4,000 Dollar Line
Oil surged and almost everything else in the commodities complex fell on Monday after President Donald Trump announced that the United States…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 13 July: Seoul Crashes Nearly 9 Percent and Oil Jumps as Gulf Markets Hold Their Ground and Cairo Rises
Monday distributed the weekend's escalation unevenly. Seoul's Kospi collapsed 8.95 percent to 6,806.93, a fall Korean media reported was deep enough to…
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OPEC Cuts Its 2026 Oil Demand Growth Forecast to 0.8 Million Barrels a Day
OPEC trimmed its forecast for global oil demand growth this year to about 0.8 million barrels a day, down from around 1.0…
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