16+ hour, 23+ min ago   (330+ words) Why it matters for the Gulf: Brics accounts for roughly a quarter of global nominal GDP — nearer 40% on a purchasing-power basis — and about half the world's population, spread across 10 full members after last year's addition of Indonesia and 2024's intake…...

16+ hour, 23+ min ago   (444+ words) The war had already dented the oil economy. S&P already expects real GDP to contract 0.9% this year, with the 2Q reading showing a 4.7% y-o-y fall, the steepest since Covid, on a 24.8% drop in oil activity and output tumbling to an…...

16+ hour, 23+ min ago   (303+ words) The pressure on Saudi Arabia’s oil export routes increased over the weekend, with a Houthi advance up Yemen’s Red Sea coast and drones from Iraq striking the country’s main oil pipeline. This comes as the Kingdom’s crude output is already…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (966+ words) Good morning, friends. Every headline number in today’s issue is a good one, but not one of them means what it looks like on the surface. The question we’ll carry through the rest of the issue is what happens when…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (145+ words) SOUND SMART- The two are routinely confused. PCH is entirely state-run and subsidizes loans written by commercial banks. BDH is a bank in its own right, 80% owned by private banks and insurers and 20% by the state. Gulf money is still…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (281+ words) EnterpriseAM Available in your choice of English or Arabic The foreign media is putting Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Cairo stop squarely inside the US-China technology rivalry, with Bloomberg casting Egypt as an increasingly important arena in the competition. The outlet…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1692+ words) Thursday, 3 Sep 2026 Good morning, wonderful people — the common thread this morning is risk management, in very different forms. First up: Turkey’s Iranian gas habit is about to collide with Washington’s Iran sanctions push. The US has threatened economic penalties against…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1675+ words) Sunday, 6 Sep 2026 Good morning, wonderful people. It’s a tech-forward morning, and the throughline is scale — who’s building it, who’s funding it, and who’s finally getting a slice. AND- Leap closed its four-day run on the little guys. The final day…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1721+ words) Thursday, 3 Sep 2026 Good morning, folks. It’s President Xi Jinping’s last day in Cairo, and we have a recap of all the arrangements on the table so far. We also have a story about the FRA narrowing a rule on insider…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (147+ words) There’s a timing gap that makes it difficult to compare — but comparison isn’t the story. Bahrain and Qatar reported on 1Q 2026, which ended a month into the war, while Oman’s fiscal bulletin, Qatar’s industry data, and Turkey’s GDP cover 2Q 2026 — the first…...