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Qatar Registered 1.86 Billion Riyals of Property Sales in July and 4.97 Billion of Mortgages
Sale contracts registered with the Real Estate Registration Department at Qatar's Ministry of Justice totalled 1.86 billion riyals in July across 485…
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ADQ Plans a 6.25 Dirham Cash Offer for AD Ports Minority Shares at a 23 Percent Premium
AD Ports Group told the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange on 17 August that it had received notification of an intention to submit…
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UAE Banking Assets Reached 5.3 Trillion Dirhams as the Bad Loan Ratio Fell to 3.3 Percent
The Central Bank of the UAE published its Financial Stability Report for 2025 on 17 August. Total banking system assets rose 17.1…
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PIF Net Profit More Than Doubled to 17 Billion Dollars as Assets Passed 900 Billion
The Public Investment Fund published its 2025 annual report on 17 August. Revenue rose 9 percent to 120 billion dollars, net profit…
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Commodities Wrap 17 August: Brent Tops 90 as the Iran Deadline Runs Out
Energy led a broad commodities advance on Monday as the 60-day deadline under the June memorandum between the United States and Iran…
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Market Wrap MENA-Asia 17 August: Shenzhen Jumps 2.4 Percent, Gulf Slips, Egypt Fades
Gulf equities slipped broadly on Monday while China rallied, as the 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired with no…
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Market Wrap MENA-Asia 16 August: Egypt Adds 1.09 Percent and Saudi Arabia 0.89 as Asia Holds Friday Gains
Egyptian and Saudi equities led a broadly firm Sunday session across the Middle East and North Africa, with the EGX 30 climbing…
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Four Fifths of the UAE’s June Credit Growth Went Abroad
UAE banks added AED 24.7 billion to gross credit in June 2026, roughly double May’s AED 12.3 billion increase. Almost all of…
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Egypt Is Selling Stakes to Its Own Lenders: EBRD and IFC Line Up for 10 Percent of Two State Offerings
Two Egyptian state offerings are converging on the same structure and the same buyers, and the institutions involved are not new arrivals.…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 14 August: Wheat Jumps 3.1 Percent as Brent Adds 1.5 Percent
Commodities ended the week broadly higher, with agriculture producing the largest moves and crude rebounding. Wheat gained 3.11 percent to 689.00 cents…
Read more →Market Wrap MENA-Asia 14 August: Kospi Adds 2.4 Percent for a Fifth Straight Gain as Abu Dhabi Holds and Dubai Slips
South Korea's Kospi led Asia for a fifth consecutive session on Friday, closing 2.42 percent higher, while the region split and the…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 13 August: Palladium Drops 3.9 Percent While Sugar Is the Only Gainer
Commodities were broadly weaker on Thursday, with sixteen of the seventeen contracts tracked here quoted below their previous settlements, our calculation. Palladium…
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