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Saudi Arabia's May trade surplus rose sharply as oil exports increased and imports fell, while weaker non-oil exports show where the next test lies.
Jul 29, 2026
The IMF and UNCTAD describe a widening split: economies tied to chips and AI infrastructure are gaining momentum while many energy importers absorb the war shock.
Aug 2, 2026
DIFC's first international expansion of the Dubai FinTech Summit arrives in Pakistan on August 18 and 19, testing a new model for Gulf-South Asia financial innovation.
Aug 3, 2026
A jailbreak report and a same-day export order took Claude Fable 5 offline for weeks, testing how fast a frontier AI company can lose and regain access.
Jul 1, 2026
The kingdom's sovereign fund and America's export credit agency have agreed a memorandum worth up to fifteen billion dollars. What it is not is a committed investment.
Aug 6, 2026
Ali al-Zaidi met Ahmed al-Sharaa in the first such visit since Assad fell, with the Baniyas pipeline on the table as Hormuz stays disrupted. No deal, timetable or financing was announced.
Oct 29, 2026
Pezeshkian told Putin the region can solve its problems without the US, Putin backed Qatar's mediation, and Iran's army said a tanker was damaged crossing a zone Tehran had not authorised.
Oct 27, 2026
The G7 pledged to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months and not to ban fuel exports, as diesel hits record prices during the Iran war.
Oct 2, 2026
Moonshot AI published the weights of a 2.8 trillion parameter model at no cost. The barrier that decides who can actually run it sits in a fab, not a licence agreement.
Aug 3, 2026
Logs are no longer enough when coding agents choose tools and revise plans. Teams need traces that explain goals, actions, evidence, cost and escalation.
Jul 27, 2026
Allies will add maritime patrol aircraft, radar and counter-drone teams after ships were hit off Romania and Bulgaria, though nobody in the alliance has named Russia as the attacker.
Oct 21, 2026
A reduced growth forecast meets strong property activity, startup funding and recovering energy exports in the UAE's mixed July economic picture.
Jul 29, 2026
One of the largest drone raids of the war set fire to a Baltic export terminal on Sunday. Washington's reaction exposed how little is left of the week-old energy truce.
Oct 19, 2026
Saudi Arabia is attracting partnerships in mining, AI, finance and infrastructure. The strongest Vision 2030 outcome will be skills, productive firms and exports that endure.
Jul 31, 2026
The IMF sees Saudi growth recovering as maritime flows normalize. Diversified export routes, domestic demand and Vision 2030 investment are central to the resilience case.
Aug 2, 2026
McDonald's Korea launched a gochujang butter menu fronted by G-Dragon on 17 September, part of a wider push a 23 September report says has pushed gochujang exports up 10 per cent this year. This ten-minute noodle dish uses the same pairing.
Sep 27, 2026
The donation bin is the end of the story for the person using it and the beginning of a long one for everybody else. What happens next is a functioning trade, a genuine livelihood, and a waste problem nobody exports a solution for.
Aug 20, 2026
Solar power, smarter grids, water systems and new fuels can help the Kingdom build exportable expertise while strengthening energy resilience at home.
Jul 28, 2026
52.8 per cent against reopening accession talks, on a turnout of 82.5 per cent. Fishing is 8 per cent of GDP and 40 per cent of exports, and the Common Fisheries Policy is the one thing membership would not have let Iceland keep.
Aug 31, 2026
Brent settled at $115.32 after the Houthis claimed a missile hit on Saudi Arabia's biggest refinery, which Riyadh has not confirmed, while US crude stocks fell and gasoline stayed tight.
Oct 28, 2026
Trump gave Xi a rare planeside welcome on Wednesday ahead of Thursday's formal arrival ceremony, the first state visit by a Chinese leader to Washington since Xi's 2015 trip. The two governments extended their trade truce to January and put AI on the agenda.
Sep 24, 2026
The Kingdom’s most important economic story is the ecosystem forming across tourism, logistics, manufacturing, technology and clean infrastructure.
Jul 28, 2026
The UAE enters the next period with diversified trade, services and investment buffers. Energy and shipping volatility still make credit quality and project selection important.
Aug 2, 2026
Goods and services trade added about $2 trillion in the first half of 2026. Much of the rise reflects higher prices, leaving a more uneven volume story underneath.
Aug 2, 2026
The temporary loss of major Gulf LNG volumes sent gas prices sharply higher. Power systems able to switch fuels, store energy and shift demand handled the shock better.
Aug 2, 2026
The latest World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum connected women-led enterprise with green, blue, creative and digital industries, producing investment commitments as well as policy language.
Aug 3, 2026
Higher concentrations, heavier notes, oud at the centre and fragrance treated as something you layer rather than spray. The global market has moved toward a regional habit, and Middle Eastern houses are no longer the niche option.
Aug 21, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
Roughly six trillion dollars of sovereign wealth now sits behind the region's funds. What that money buys, and where it is deployed, matters more to the next ten years than the oil price does.
Aug 8, 2026
A Chinese startup's R1 model wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia's value in a single day, exposing how fragile the AI spending story had become.
Jan 29, 2025
After a Camp David meeting, the Pentagon chief said Iran has 'literally gotten nothing through' the strait. Shipping data tell a messier story, and Tehran says talks should rest on lifting sanctions, not new pressure.
Oct 5, 2026
Crude shipments through the Gulf have recovered sharply, yet refineries and fuel supply remain constrained. That gap explains why cheaper oil may not quickly reach consumers.
Jul 31, 2026
CENTCOM named the five crude carriers it disabled after two missile attacks on one of its warships. Iran answered at Al-Azraq, where Jordan says it intercepted eighteen of twenty missiles, and claimed strikes on ten ships. Brent closed at 101 dollars.
Sep 10, 2026
Brent's renewed jump toward $100 reflects Middle East shipping danger, while IEA and EIA forecasts point to demand destruction and lower prices if supply routes normalize.
Jul 25, 2026
The seventieth season began on 13 August. Crysencio Summerville to Al Hilal at 64.5 million euros is the summer's largest move, and the shape of the spending says more about the league's direction than the total does.
Aug 24, 2026
Shipping disruption is pushing up the cost of imported produce and packaging, and Gulf restaurateurs are running out of room to absorb it quietly.
Apr 9, 2024
Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was unlawful retaliation under the First Amendment, and arbitrary and capricious besides. The label had told every federal agency to stop buying.
Aug 30, 2026
After two years of shocks, Gulf dining is rebuilding around homegrown brands and confident local concepts rather than imported franchise names.
May 19, 2026
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
One viral chocolate bar turned pistachios into the food world's hottest commodity, and the ripple effects have reached lattes, croissants, and ice cream.
May 14, 2025
Solar, nuclear, storage, efficiency and hydrogen are being combined to support growth while building a more resilient and lower-carbon energy system.
Jul 28, 2026
Government services, healthcare, transport, education and advanced industry are giving the Emirates a real-world platform for responsible AI deployment.
Jul 28, 2026
The Kingdom’s transformation becomes durable when independent firms turn national investment into local services, specialist knowledge and lasting jobs.
Jul 28, 2026
Ports, airports, rail, digital customs and local manufacturing are turning geography into a coordinated economic advantage under Vision 2030.
Jul 28, 2026
WSTS is due to publish its second-quarter forecast update on August 3 after raising the 2026 semiconductor outlook. AI demand is strong, but concentration is the central risk.
Aug 2, 2026
Scatec's proposed two-year investment program spans batteries, desalination, wind, solar and green data centers, revealing how Egypt wants clean power to support industry.
Aug 3, 2026
The currency hit a new low on Tuesday, just 27 days after the previous one, as a US naval blockade on Iranian oil and fresh sanctions compound the damage of seven months of war.
Sep 30, 2026
The concluded UK-GCC free-trade agreement could reshape services, procurement and investment, but companies should focus on implementation details rather than celebratory totals.
Aug 3, 2026
Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy while Ukrainian strikes on refineries and industrial sites in Krasnodar killed six, as Trump urged Zelensky to settle with Putin.
Sep 27, 2026
Free accounts will be limited to Flash-Lite, the smallest model, and the $4.99 AI Plus plan loses Pro, according to Google's support pages, a change that pushes heavier users towards paid tiers.
Oct 5, 2026
Growth beat forecasts and accelerated from 2.2 percent, while September inflation held at 3.6 percent, a pairing that keeps a December Fed hike in play.
Oct 29, 2026
The Elysee says the UAE and Bahrain will each add 100,000 tonnes of monthly diesel, lifting French commitments to 295,000 tonnes, about a tenth of consumption, after a weekend of fuel-price riots.
Oct 21, 2026
Homeland Security has used a supply-chain security law for the first time against an AI company, barring civilian agencies from buying or running DeepSeek and anything built on it.
Oct 22, 2026
The eight-point agreement reached during Xi Jinping's visit also extends the trade truce two months past its November deadline, sets up a bilateral trade council and creates a channel for reporting AI-related incidents.
Sep 27, 2026
The Dow and S&P 500 slipped 0.7 and 0.8 per cent and the Nasdaq fell 1.1 on Wednesday as the ten-year yield climbed to about 5.11 per cent. Nvidia dropped 1.5, Broadcom 2.6 and Micron 2.2 as investors took profit after the prior week's chip rally.
Sep 24, 2026
Gemini's expansion in Chrome and OpenAI's Atlas retirement point toward browsers that summarize, compare and act across tabs and connected services.
Jul 31, 2026
The Singapore-based AI agent startup says Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led its first round since buying itself back, with Tencent returning, and it has not disclosed a valuation.
Oct 9, 2026
A missile hit the passenger terminal on Saturday, a second projectile struck it on Sunday, and by Monday Riyadh was under fresh fire while Washington weighed entering a war it has so far watched.
Oct 13, 2026
After three hours in St Petersburg, the Kremlin said Putin backs US-mediated three-way talks, possibly in Abu Dhabi in mid-November, and Moscow released a 74-year-old American teacher.
Oct 22, 2026
