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Saudi Real Estate Market Maintains Investment Momentum Despite War Fallout

Business Residential developments in Saudi Arabia (Ministry of Municipalities and Housing)

Saudi Real Estate Market Maintains Investment Momentum Despite War Fallout

Saudi Arabia's real estate market continues to attract investment despite geopolitical challenges weighing on economic activity worldwide, supported by new…

Bandar al-Mosalam (Riyadh)
Business An investor monitors stock market data on a screen at the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul) in Riyadh (Reuters)

Saudi Stocks Rebound 0.9%, Recouping Previous Session's Losses

Saudi stocks closed higher on Monday, recovering some of the losses sustained in the previous session as heavyweight shares strengthened and the banking sector…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business Tesla Cybertruck electric vehicles sit parked in a storage lot in San Diego, California on April 11, 2025. (AFP)

Tesla to Refund Many Cybertruck Deposits as Demand Exceeds Production, Musk Says

Tesla will have to refund Cybertruck deposits for many customers as orders far exceed production capacity, CEO Elon Musk said, following last week's…

Business A mining machine is seen at the Bayan Obo mine containing rare earth minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China July 16, 2011. (Reuters)

China Extends Suspension of New Rare Earth Controls Until January

China on Monday announced a two-month extension of export-control waivers due to expire this month, preserving part of a wide-ranging deal struck after a…

Business United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell. (UN)

UN to Asharq Al-Awsat ahead of COP31: Climate Change and Energy Security Are Two Integrated Paths

On the eve of the opening of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) on Monday in the Turkish city of Antalya, attention is focused on the…

Abeer Hommadi (Riyadh)

Business Saudi Arabian Airlines, Etihad Airways Sign Joint Code Agreement

Saudi Arabian Airlines, Etihad Airways Sign Joint Code Agreement

Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAUDIA) and Etihad Airways signed in Jeddah on Monday a joint code agreement which provides greater choices for passengers to reach…

Asharq Al Awsat
Business Governor of Kuwait’s Central Bank: Gulf Economic Reform Is Inevitable

Governor of Kuwait’s Central Bank: Gulf Economic Reform Is Inevitable

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states should initiate economic reforms before they are forced to do so, said Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait Dr…

Asharq Al Awsat (Kuwait)
Business Iraq Signs MoU with GE to Develop Power Infrastructure

Iraq Signs MoU with GE to Develop Power Infrastructure

Iraq signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with General Electric to develop the country’s power infrastructure, the electricity ministry said in a…

Asharq Al Awsat (Baghdad)
Business Moody’s Forecasts Bigger GDP Growth for Saudi Economy

Moody’s Forecasts Bigger GDP Growth for Saudi Economy

Moody's affirmed Saudi Arabia’s A1 rating with a stable outlook and raised its GDP growth forecasts for the period to 2.5 percent in 2018, and 2.7 in 2019,…

Shujaa al-Bogmi (Riyadh)
Business Samba Reports 8.3% Rise in Third-Quarter Profit

Samba Reports 8.3% Rise in Third-Quarter Profit

Samba Financial Group, Saudi Arabia’s third-largest bank by assets, reported an 8.3 percent rise in third-quarter profit as special commissions and other…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business Bahrain: GFH Exits Lost Paradise Waterpark in $60 Mn Deal

Bahrain: GFH Exits Lost Paradise Waterpark in $60 Mn Deal

The GFH Financial Group announced Saturday its successful exit from the Lost Paradise of Dilmun waterpark in a deal valued at $60 million. The waterpark is…

Asharq Al Awsat (Manama)
Business World Bank, IMF Pledge to Support Economic Reform in Sudan

World Bank, IMF Pledge to Support Economic Reform in Sudan

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have pledged to provide technical assistance to Sudan in the implementation of the economic reform…

Seifyazal Babekir (Khartoum)
Business Saudi Arabia Metro Pivotal in French RATP's Foreign Growth Drive

Saudi Arabia Metro Pivotal in French RATP's Foreign Growth Drive

French state-owned public transport firm RATP depends largely on public transport contracts in Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East- especially Saudi…

Asharq Al Awsat (Paris)
Business German Banks Report Sharp Fall in Iran Exports

German Banks Report Sharp Fall in Iran Exports

German exports to Iran have dwindled since the United States pulled out of the international nuclear deal with Tehran, data showed on Friday, despite Berlin’s…

Asharq Al Awsat (Berlin)
Business Morocco Sees Government's Budget Deficit Narrowing in 2019

Morocco Sees Government's Budget Deficit Narrowing in 2019

Morocco’s 2019 draft budget forecasts a deficit narrowing to 3.3 percent of gross domestic product in 2019, down from 3.8 percent expected in 2018, a…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Business Saudi Aramco Signs MoU with China’s Zhejiang Province

Saudi Aramco Signs MoU with China’s Zhejiang Province

Saudi Aramco Company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Zhejiang Province, in China, reported the Saudi Press Agency on Friday. …

Asharq Al Awsat
Business Jordan, KSA Best Regionally in Combating Money Laundering

Jordan, KSA Best Regionally in Combating Money Laundering

Jordan and Saudi Arabia have topped the Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index on the regional level. The index focuses on anti-money laundering and countering…

Ali Zeineddine (Beirut)
Business Moody’s Raises GDP Growth Forecasts for Saudi Economy

Moody’s Raises GDP Growth Forecasts for Saudi Economy

Moody's Investor Service (Moody's) affirmed the Kingdom's A1 rating with a stable outlook and raised its GDP growth forecasts for the period (2018-2019) to 2.5…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business Saudi Initiative to Lend SMEs USD426m

Saudi Initiative to Lend SMEs USD426m

Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA) said that a recently-launched indirect lending initiative aims to support Saudi SMEs with SAR1.6 billion …

Fatehelrahman Yousif (Riyadh)
Business Aramco to Invest in Refinery-Petrochemical Project in East China

Aramco to Invest in Refinery-Petrochemical Project in East China

Saudi Aramco has signed an agreement to invest in a refinery-petrochemical project in eastern China, part of its strategy to expand in downstream operations…

Asharq Al Awsat (Dammam)
Business Barkindo: Saudi Arabia Assured OPEC There Will Be No Crude Shortage

Barkindo: Saudi Arabia Assured OPEC There Will Be No Crude Shortage

Saudi Arabia has assured OPEC that it is “committed, capable and willing" to ensure there will be no shortage in the oil market, Secretary-General of the…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Business Turkey Sells $2 Bn of International Bonds

Turkey Sells $2 Bn of International Bonds

Turkey saw strong demand in its return to the international bond market on Wednesday, with $2 billion of international bonds and received $6 billion in…

Saeed Abdulrazek (Ankara)
Business Tunisia Syndicates Call for Biggest Strike Within Public Sector Institutions

Tunisia Syndicates Call for Biggest Strike Within Public Sector Institutions

Tunisian General Labor Union continued its series of syndicate meetings held by some of the most prominent public sector institutions, in order to rally the…

Al Mongi Al Saidani (Tunis)
Business Saudi Arabia Achieves Best Progress in Global Competitiveness Report Since 2012

Saudi Arabia Achieves Best Progress in Global Competitiveness Report Since 2012

Saudi Arabia showed progress according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) global competitiveness index for 2018, ranking 39 on the list of 140 economies,…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business Yanbu

Saudi Aramco: Yanbu’ South Terminal Boosts Export Capacity

The commissioning of Yanbu South Terminal (YST) marked the addition of 3 million barrels per day to the West Coast export capacity when the first VLCC was…

Asharq Al Awsat (Dhahran)
Business Egypt

Egypt Plans to Issue Int’l Sovereign Sukuk

Egypt plans to issue its first international sovereign sukuk, or Islamic bonds, in the 2019-2020 financial year, Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has said. …

Asharq Al Awsat (Cairo)
Business Tunisia Reduces 50% Taxes Off Labor-Intensive Institutions

Tunisia Reduces 50% Taxes Off Labor-Intensive Institutions

Tunisia enacted a new financial law, that includes reducing the corporate tax from 25 percent to 13.5 percent on exporting industrial institutions as well as…

Al Mongi Al Saidani (Tunis)
Business OPEC Urges Oil Producers to Increase Investment amid Shrinking Spare Oil Capacity

OPEC Urges Oil Producers to Increase Investment amid Shrinking Spare Oil Capacity

OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo urged oil producing companies to increase capabilities and reinforce investment to fulfill the future demand, at a…

Asharq Al Awsat (New Delhi)
Business Saudi Energy Minister Says Kingdom Is World’s Energy ‘Shock Absorber’

Saudi Energy Minister Says Kingdom Is World’s Energy ‘Shock Absorber’

Oil prices have risen at the opening of trade Monday’s trading session after Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, said it will take the adequate…

Wael Mahdi (Kuwait)