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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
Tech led Wall Street higher on Wednesday after SpaceX posted its first public-company profit and Super Micro lifted its forecast, with Tesla and Meta still to report after the bell.
Oct 22, 2026
Firms running trading platforms, custody, staking or stablecoin issuance have until 28 February 2027 to apply for full FCA authorisation, replacing the lighter anti-money-laundering registration that has governed UK crypto businesses until now.
Oct 1, 2026
IMF research finds stablecoin demand shocks can lower short-term Treasury yields and spill into currencies, crypto and equities. Digital dollars now matter beyond crypto trading.
Aug 2, 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
A risk-off session in Dubai and Abu Dhabi shows how conflict, oil, aviation and investor confidence can move Gulf markets in different directions at once.
Jul 24, 2026
A report that OpenAI's run-rate sales are about $20 billion below the figure investors had been quoting pulled chip and cloud stocks down, while bond yields and oil stayed high.
Oct 9, 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
Bitcoin is trading near $64,000 as clearer US rules meet a difficult macro environment, proving that legitimacy and price stability are different things.
Jul 31, 2026
Stablecoins are expanding as payment and settlement tools, but BIS and IMF research warns that redemption pressure can connect token risk to traditional financial markets.
Jul 25, 2026
Oil, not chips, drove Friday's selloff: the Dow fell 1.2 percent and most sectors slid while the Nasdaq barely moved. Energy shares hit a record ahead of a Fed meeting and big-tech earnings.
Oct 24, 2026
A leading crypto market maker registered a US broker-dealer arm and a very large custodian moved towards institutional staking. Neither made headlines. Both change who is allowed to participate.
Aug 7, 2026
Both metals gave back part of Monday's rebound in Asian trade, with a strong ISM print, a 4.90% ten-year yield and the midterm vote keeping buyers on the sidelines before Friday's payrolls.
Nov 3, 2026
The ASX 200 fell nearly 2 percent to its lowest level since June as the US 10-year yield breached 5.3 percent, a level a T. Rowe Price strategist said triggered systematic selling once breached, dragging every sector and the big four banks lower.
Oct 1, 2026
The Nasdaq added 0.82 percent and the S&P 500 0.70 percent after Friday's oil-led slide, while Tesla rose, Meta fell on its financing plan and traders sized up a Fed meeting and Big Tech earnings.
Oct 27, 2026
Shares fell as much as 13.5% after earnings, with ServiceNow, Caterpillar and Sprouts also sinking, while small caps rose as the AI trade took a hit on Thursday.
Oct 29, 2026
The bureau named the TraderTraitor group on Saturday and asked the industry to block hundreds of laundering addresses, while Binance said it was on track to reopen withdrawals on Sunday.
Oct 31, 2026
After a decade of rejections, US regulators cleared eleven spot Bitcoin ETFs, letting ordinary brokerage accounts hold the asset directly for the first time.
Jan 14, 2024
JOLTS, productivity, payrolls and Treasury refunding arrive in one compressed week. Together they can change what investors believe about rates, growth and bond supply.
Aug 2, 2026
Bitcoin crossed six figures for the first time this week, capping a rally that started at the ballot box and accelerated with every crypto-friendly appointment.
Dec 9, 2024
Chip and AI shares clawed back part of last week's rout on Monday while most other stocks slipped, and Europe fell after the weekend's unrest in France.
Oct 20, 2026
Circle becomes the first crypto financial services firm to take a Premier League club's front of shirt. Two months ago the Financial Conduct Authority warned clubs about exactly this kind of deal. The difference is that Circle is authorised.
Aug 29, 2026
Resale margins are collapsing and collector demand is evaporating. After a decade of speculation and hype, the sneaker market is experiencing a fundamental reset.
Dec 15, 2024
After a Friday slide led by the Dow, investors face a Fed meeting priced for a hold, three Big Tech reports, GDP and PCE data, and central bank decisions in Frankfurt and Tokyo.
Oct 26, 2026
The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets law became fully applicable on December 30, forcing every exchange and stablecoin issuer to operate under a real license.
Jan 8, 2025
The Dow gained about 196 points on a day when the bond market was shut for the holiday, while semiconductors fell and Brent topped $106 after the Riyadh airport strikes.
Oct 13, 2026
Hiring is building across technology, finance, healthcare, logistics, real estate and construction. What has changed is not which sectors are recruiting. It is what counts as evidence on a CV.
Aug 18, 2026
The exchange says about $3 billion is frozen on-chain and no private key leaked, but its SAFU fund covers only a fraction of what is unrecovered, and bitcoin sits near $78,500.
Oct 30, 2026
The Jakarta Composite halted for 30 minutes and closed at 5,185 as MSCI opened a consultation that could drop Indonesia below frontier markets, with passive outflows of billions at stake.
Oct 16, 2026
The Premier League, La Liga and Serie A close on 1 September. The Saudi Pro League stays open until 12 October. Those six weeks are the most important structural fact in this transfer market.
Aug 17, 2026
Google Cloud hit $30.7 billion, yet a Search slowdown, a $51.4 billion capital bill and a $9.1 billion cash burn sent Alphabet shares sharply lower after the bell.
Oct 28, 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
Microsoft disclosed Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, $33.17 billion, and guided to faster cloud growth in the fiscal second quarter.
Oct 28, 2026
A Bloomberg report that SpaceX is negotiating tower access for a nationwide phone network hit AT&T and T-Mobile hard on Friday, while Crown Castle jumped. Nothing is confirmed on the record.
Oct 24, 2026
Revenue rose 21% to $16.5 billion, yet Intel guided fourth-quarter profit to half the current level and said the PC downturn will last into mid-2027, sending shares down as much as 23%.
Oct 29, 2026
Ports, airports, rail, digital customs and local manufacturing are turning geography into a coordinated economic advantage under Vision 2030.
Jul 28, 2026
On 11 August the CFTC used emergency powers to keep Kalshi running nationwide. A week earlier a Washington judge told it to block local users. Both cannot be right, and that is now the whole fight.
Aug 16, 2026
Divide the price by the number of times you will actually wear it. The sum is trivial, the discipline is not, and the reason it keeps producing flattering answers is that almost everybody overestimates the second number.
Aug 22, 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 chip designer is paying 4.5 of its own shares for every Lumentum share to own the lasers and optical parts that AI data centres are short of. Investors sent Marvell down about 13 percent.
Nov 3, 2026
Dirham-pegged tokens are now licensed for retail payments across the UAE, part of a regulatory push that is reshaping remittances across the Gulf.
Mar 11, 2025
Revenue of $22.9 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.69 topped forecasts, but fourth-quarter US volume is set to fall as UPS keeps trading parcels for profit, and supply chain profit dropped sharply.
Oct 27, 2026
Twenty-seven hundred exhibitors at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 November, and three co-located shows that have quietly turned a construction fair into an urban development event.
Aug 14, 2026
A thin-market selloff took bitcoin to $79,146, its weakest level in more than a month, and it now heads into the Fed meeting under its 50-day average with traders eyeing $78,000.
Oct 26, 2026
Tokenized securities promise faster settlement and wider access, but custody, redemption, voting rights and bankruptcy treatment determine what an investor actually owns.
Aug 2, 2026
Ed Miliband told Parliament the trigger was the E1 tender for 1,200 homes east of Jerusalem, a red line Britain drew two decades ago. The ban covers settlement goods and the services that build settlements, not Israel itself. Twelve countries signed on.
Sep 10, 2026
Non-oil activity reached 79.4 percent of national output in the first quarter, growing at 4.8 percent while the overall economy grew 3. The gap between those figures is the story.
Aug 6, 2026
A closer look at how Al Wisam combines construction machinery, industrial systems and local technical support for contractors across the UAE.
Sep 18, 2025
Gold-linked assets climbed after the Federal Reserve held rates steady, but the next move still depends on yields, the dollar and central-bank demand.
Jul 31, 2026
Secondhand is a 393 billion dollar market and roughly a tenth of all money spent on clothing. Zara, H&M, Levi's and others are building their own platforms to capture a trade they used to ignore.
Aug 17, 2026
Reflection AI released Beam under Apache 2.0 while Meta shipped Muse Spark Open under a tighter licence, giving developers two Western rivals to China's open models with different trade-offs.
Oct 18, 2026
Tokyo supplies the money, GlobalFoundries runs the plants at Malta, New York, and Washington takes a bigger equity stake, with the first fab due to produce chips in 2029.
Oct 15, 2026
The FSRA says it is monitoring, US agencies have not commented, exchange peers offer support, lawyers doubt the SAFU pledge is binding, and here is what Binance tells customers.
Oct 30, 2026
A proceeding opened on 30 June is deciding what exchange traded funds holding unusual assets may look like. Two designs dominate it: funds that earn staking rewards, and funds tracking small altcoins. The comment period closes in days.
Aug 24, 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
Prices dipped less than feared, but liquidations quadrupled, options traders bought puts, crypto stocks slumped and institutions started pulling coins off exchanges.
Oct 30, 2026
The FCA has outlined a future authorization window and tailored rules for crypto firms, shifting attention from policy debate to operational readiness.
Jul 28, 2026
A one-line denial from the coffee chain on Monday undid the premium that an FT report put on Chipotle shares, and it left both companies facing the same question about growth and traffic.
Oct 13, 2026
The exchange is cutting off transaction processing with HTX and ten other trading platforms, citing regulatory mandates and sanctions enforcement. Users of those venues have a week to move.
Aug 17, 2026
Record vehicle deliveries lifted Tesla’s revenue, but a surge in research spending shows how aggressively the carmaker is funding robotaxis, AI and Optimus.
Jul 23, 2026
