1+ day, 7+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 7+ hour 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…...

5+ day, 7+ 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…...

1+ week, 1+ 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, 1+ hour ago   (889+ words) MoUs are multiplying, but migration isn’t Uzbekistan has signed 48 labor-migration agreements with 23 countries in total — 18 of them in 2025-26 — and has flagged the UAE (hospitality, tourism, aviation, logistics) and Saudi Arabia (construction, technical trades, mid-level healthcare) as priority destinations. But even…...

1+ week, 1+ day 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, 1+ day ago   (710+ words) 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 pushed more…...

1+ week, 4+ 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, 1+ day ago   (344+ words) The rest of the Bank’s scorecard is steady. The Bank still rates both the project’s progress toward its objective and its overall implementation “moderately satisfactory,” keeps overall risk at “substantial,” and opens its status note by calling the project “progressing…...

1+ week, 4+ 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…...