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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 Arab Economy Grows 2.3% in 2018

Arab Economy Grows 2.3% in 2018

Arab economies are expected to grow by 2.3 percent in 2018 and 3.0 percent in 2019. In line with its continuous efforts to support decision-making process in…

Motleq Mounir (London)
Business Saudi Finance Minister: Economic Indicators Have Shown Positive Reforms

Saudi Finance Minister: Economic Indicators Have Shown Positive Reforms

Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan said in a speech on the occasion of the 88th anniversary of the Saudi National Day that the positive…

Shujaa al-Baqmi (Riyadh)
Business UAE-Based Al Dahra Acquires Romanian Island

UAE-Based Al Dahra Acquires Romanian Island

UAE-based Al Dahra group has announced that following its recent acquisition of Braila Island, the largest consolidated farm in Europe, the company is…

Asharq Al Awsat (Abu Dhabi)
Business OPEC+ Returns to 100% Compliance, Rebuffing Trump's Calls

OPEC+ Returns to 100% Compliance, Rebuffing Trump's Calls

Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) of OPEC and partners, known as OPEC+, has agreed to 100 percent compliance with the cut deal, ruling out any…

Wael Mahdi (Algiers)
Business OPEC Supply Cuts Compliance at 129%

OPEC Supply Cuts Compliance at 129%

A panel comprised of ministers from OPEC and allied oil producers meeting on Sunday will not discuss a new recommendation to further increase in crude…

Wael Mahdi (Algiers)
Business Egypt’s Industrial Sector Invigorated by Investment Regulation Reform

Egypt’s Industrial Sector Invigorated by Investment Regulation Reform

A number of Egyptian companies established under the new investment law are leaning towards labor-intensive markets, but capital is flowing heavily into less…

Mohammed Jad (Cairo)
Business Highest Spending Budget Recorded in 2018 As Vision 2030 Vitalizes Saudi Economy

Highest Spending Budget Recorded in 2018 As Vision 2030 Vitalizes Saudi Economy

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has pushed the national economy to employ its strengths by creating new opportunities that will diversify economic wealth and…

Shujaa al-Baqmi (Riyadh)
Business Saudi Stock Market Liquidity Rises 17.9% per Week

Saudi Stock Market Liquidity Rises 17.9% per Week

The Saudi stock exchange has made a positive weekly performance in which it managed to accomplish around 177 points of profit, amid a remarkable progress in…

Shujaa al-Baqmi (Riyadh)
Business Mauritania Signs Deal to Pave Way for EU-West African Economic Partnership

Mauritania Signs Deal to Pave Way for EU-West African Economic Partnership

Mauritania on Friday became the 15th West African country to sign the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, an…

Abdullah Mustafa (Brussels)
Business Erdogan

Pessimism Looms over Turkey’s Economic Plan, Lira Continues Depreciating

Pessimism overshadowed the Turkish government’s medium-term plan for the economy, announced on Thursday, after it predicted reduced growth, increased…

Saeed Abdulrazek (Ankara)
Business Deal to Reschedule Jordanian Debts to KFAED

Deal to Reschedule Jordanian Debts to KFAED

Jordan’s Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) have signed an agreement to reschedule…

Mohamed Al-Daameh (Amman)
Business train

Haramain High-speed Train to Start Operating in October

Public Transport Authority Chief and Acting President of the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) Rumaih Al-Rumaih announced on Thursday that the Haramain high…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business Libya Resists Black Market, Imposes Fee on Hard Currency Transactions

Libya Resists Black Market, Imposes Fee on Hard Currency Transactions

Libya's Government of National Accord has imposed a fee of 183 percent on any hard currency transactions, effectively devaluing the Libyan dinar to bridge the…

Asharq Al Awsat (Tripoli)
Business Indian Refiner Cancels Iran Oil Imports

Indian Refiner Cancels Iran Oil Imports

India’s Chennai Petroleum will stop processing Iranian crude oil from October to keep its insurance coverage once new sanctions by the United States against…

Asharq Al Awsat (Kuwait)
Business Emirates, Etihad Deny Merger Report

Emirates, Etihad Deny Merger Report

UAE's Emirates and Etihad denied a Bloomberg report on Thursday which quoted unnamed sources as saying Emirates was seeking to take over Etihad to create the…

Asharq Al Awsat
Business gas

Italy's Eni Drills North Sinai Exploratory Oil Well

Italy's Eni and Egypt's Tharwa company will drill the first exploratory oil well in northern Sinai's offshore Noor field next week, an official at Egypt's gas…

Asharq Al Awsat
Business Istanbul

Crisis-Hit Turkey Cuts Investment Criteria for Citizenship

Turkey on Wednesday cut the financial and investment criteria required for citizenship for foreigners in an attempt to confront its economic crisis. …

Saeed Abdulrazek (Ankara)
Business vw

Bloomberg: Volkswagen to Stop Doing Business in Iran

Volkswagen has bowed to American pressure stemming from the US rejection of the nuclear deal and will end almost all business in Iran, Bloomberg News reported…

Asharq Al Awsat
Business ADNOC

ADNOC Refining Achieves Full Production of Polymer-grade Propylene

ADNOC Refining, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has announced that it has reached full production of polymer-grade propylene from…

Asharq Al Awsat (Abu Dhabi)
Business Morocco: Internal Debt Rises to $57 Billion

Morocco: Internal Debt Rises to $57 Billion

Morocco’s internal debt reached MAD542.3 (USD57 billion) at the end of August, an increase of 4.4 percent in a year, according to statistics published by the…

Lahcen Mokena (Casablanca)
Business Dubai Non-oil Trade Increases in First Half of 2018

Dubai Non-oil Trade Increases in First Half of 2018

Dubai’s non-oil foreign trade recorded an increase during the first half of 2018 reaching $175.5 billion, a $1.3 billion rise from 2017 figures. Dubai’s re…

Asharq Al Awsat (Dubai)
Business Cyprus, Egypt Sign Accord for Gas Pipeline

Cyprus, Egypt Sign Accord for Gas Pipeline

Cyprus and Egypt on Wednesday signed an agreement paving the way for the Mediterranean’s first subsea pipeline to carry natural gas from the island’s …

Asharq Al Awsat
Business Saudi Energy Sector to Create 65,000 Jobs by Next Two Decades

Saudi Energy Sector to Create 65,000 Jobs by Next Two Decades

Saudi Arabia's energy sector is estimated to provide around 65,000 job opportunities in 20 years, according to an energy specialist. Abdulkarim Al-Ghamdi,…

Obeid Al-Suhaimi (Dammam)
Business Tunisia Proposes USD4.7b Investment Projects that Need Funding

Tunisia Proposes USD4.7b Investment Projects that Need Funding

The Global Forum on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) kicked off Tuesday in the Tunisian capital Tunis with more than 1,000 attendees, including 250…

Al Mongi Al Saidani (Tunis)