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Saudi Industry Minister Leads Delegation to K Show 2025 in Germany

Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef. (SPA file)
Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef. (SPA file)
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Saudi Industry Minister Leads Delegation to K Show 2025 in Germany

Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef. (SPA file)
Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef. (SPA file)

Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef kicked off on Wednesday an official visit to Germany, leading a high-level delegation from the Saudi industrial ecosystem to participate in K Show 2025 — the world’s leading trade fair for the plastics and rubber industries, held in the city of Düsseldorf.

The visit aims to strengthen industrial cooperation between the two countries, exchange expertise with leading industrial nations, and explore opportunities for building effective partnerships that contribute to transferring advanced technologies and attracting quality investments to the Kingdom, in line with the objectives of Saudi Vision 2030, said the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources in a statement.

During the visit, Alkhorayef will inaugurate the Saudi pavilion at K Show 2025, which showcases the development of Saudi industry and highlights the investment opportunities available in priority sectors, such as chemical conversion, advanced manufacturing, and other key industrial areas, in addition to the enablers provided to investors.

He will also tour the main pavilions of leading Saudi and international industrial companies, including SABIC and TASNEE, as well as German companies such as AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH, to learn about the latest industrial technologies and global best manufacturing practices.

The minister will co-chair, along with the CEO of Messe Düsseldorf, a high-level roundtable meeting attended by senior executives from major international industrial companies to review promising opportunities in Saudi Arabia’s industrial sector and discuss the Kingdom’s competitive advantages as an attractive investment destination.

Saudi Arabia and Germany enjoy strong economic relations. In 2024, non-oil trade between the two countries amounted to SAR39.07 billion, while German investments in the Kingdom exceeded SAR14.62 billion, reflecting the confidence of German companies in the Saudi investment environment.

The minister’s official visit to Germany and the Kingdom’s participation in K Show 2025 aim to strengthen international industrial partnerships, exchange expertise, promote knowledge and technology transfer, attract quality investments, and reinforce the Kingdom’s position as a leading global industrial hub.

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A glass jar containing the rare earth metal Terbium (L) is pictured inside the storage room of Tradium, a company specialised in trading rare earths, in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on November 4, 2025. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
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China suspended an array of export control measures it imposed on October 9, including expanded curbs on some rare earths materials and equipment, as well as lithium battery materials and super-hard materials, the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

The suspensions were effective immediately and would apply through November 10, 2026, the ministry said.

The announcement confirmed and formalized an agreement reached after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping hammered out a trade truce last month.

The White House and China's Commerce Ministry had both said such an announcement was forthcoming.

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People wait in line outside Adams County Emergency Food Bank for their completed grocery cart, weeks into the continuing US government shutdown, in Commerce City, Colorado, US October 31, 2025. REUTERS/Mark Makela
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People wait in line outside Adams County Emergency Food Bank for their completed grocery cart, weeks into the continuing US government shutdown, in Commerce City, Colorado, US October 31, 2025. REUTERS/Mark Makela
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World food commodity prices fell for a second consecutive month in October, driven largely by ample global supplies, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.

The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks a basket of globally traded food commodities, averaged 126.4 points in October, down from a revised 128.5 in September.

The index was down slightly compared to its October 2024 level and stood 21.1% below its March 2022 peak.

In a separate report, FAO forecast 2025 world cereal production at a record 2.990 billion metric tons, after projecting 2.971 billion tons last month.

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Turkish Cenbank Stands by Next Year’s 16% Inflation Target 

Commuters arrive at the Kabatas ferry terminal next to the Bosphorus strait, in Istanbul, Türkiye, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP)
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Turkish Cenbank Stands by Next Year’s 16% Inflation Target 

Commuters arrive at the Kabatas ferry terminal next to the Bosphorus strait, in Istanbul, Türkiye, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP)
Commuters arrive at the Kabatas ferry terminal next to the Bosphorus strait, in Istanbul, Türkiye, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP)

Türkiye's central bank kept its interim target of 16% for end-2026 inflation on Friday, and Governor Fatih Karahan said it was ready to tighten policy if inflation diverges significantly from targets.

The bank also left unchanged its 13-19% forecast range for the end of next year, at a presentation of its quarterly inflation report in Istanbul.

For the end of this year, Karahan said the bank also kept its interim target steady at 24%, albeit in a forecast range of 31-33%, up from 25-29%. The end-2027 interim target for inflation remained at 9%.

Karahan said inflation was above the forecast range in the past two months, with food inflation the main driver. An improvement in inflation expectations will be supported by a decisive policy stance, he added.

The lira was slightly weaker on the day at 42.2045 against the dollar as the governor continued speaking at the briefing.

At its previous inflation report briefing in August, the bank revealed that it was separating the targets from its inflation forecast ranges in a new strategy aimed at boosting transparency and confidence.

Previously, the bank presented the target as the midpoint of the forecast range. Separating the goal and the range could give markets a clearer indication of where policy might be heading.

Turkish inflation eased to 32.87% annually and 2.55% monthly in October, both below expectations. Price pressure in the previous two months were above expectations, prompting the central bank to slow its interest rate-cutting cycle.

It slowed easing with a 100 basis-point cut in its policy rate to 39.5% at its latest policy-setting meeting on October 23, flagging renewed inflation risks pointing to a slowdown in the disinflation process.