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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 IMF

Tunisia's Trade Deficit Rises amid ‘Difficult’ Talks with IMF

Tunisia and the International Monetary Fund appear to be at odds over when the next tranche of an IMF loan will be released, as the State Statistics Institute…

Asharq Al Awsat (Tunis)
Business OPEC

OPEC, Non-OPEC Seek to Approve Charter on Oil Policy Coordination

OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers will aim to formalize their long-term cooperation later this year by approving a charter that will make possible further joint…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Business IMF Welcomes Saudi Efforts to Reinforce Mid-term Financial Initiatives

IMF Welcomes Saudi Efforts to Reinforce Mid-term Financial Initiatives

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) welcomed the efforts of the Saudi kingdom in reinforcing initiatives of the mid-term public finance, developing the…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business beach

Egypt's Tourism Revenue Jumps 77% in First Half

Egypt's tourism revenue jumped 77 percent in the first half of 2018 to around $4.8 billion compared with the same period last year, a government official said…

Asharq Al Awsat (Cairo)
Business Aramco

Aramco Signs MoU with Russian University to Promote Oil, Gas Research

Saudi Aramco Upstream Technology Company (SAUTC), a Saudi Aramco company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russia’s Lomonosov Moscow State…

Asharq Al Awsat (Dammam)
Business Saudi Public Investment Fund Announces Advisory Board for 2018 Future Investment Initiative

Saudi Public Investment Fund Announces Advisory Board for 2018 Future Investment Initiative

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday the formation of an advisory board, comprised of eleven of the most influential global…

Asharq Al Awsat
Business NEOM Appoints Aradhana Khowala as CEO of its Tourism Sector

NEOM Appoints Aradhana Khowala as CEO of its Tourism Sector

Aradhana Khowala was appointed on Wednesday as Managing Director of Tourism at Saudi Arabia's NEOM project. “We will be working alongside Aradhana to make…

Asharq Al Awsat
Business Iran's Oil Exports Drop Ahead of US Sanctions

Iran's Oil Exports Drop Ahead of US Sanctions

Iran’s crude oil and condensate exports in August are set to drop below 70 million barrels for the first time since April 2017 ahead of the November 4 start…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Business Water Scarcity in the Arab World Threatens 14% of GDP

Water Scarcity in the Arab World Threatens 14% of GDP

Water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region can either be a destabilizing factor or a motive that binds communities together, according to…

Asharq Al Awsat (Stockholm)
Business Dubai

Dubai Markets its Properties at Shanghai Show

The Dubai Land Department (DLD) is organizing this month the 8th Dubai Property Show that is set to be held in the Chinese city of Shanghai for the second time…

Asharq Al Awsat (Dubai)
Business Egypt Sets Four-Year Plan to Curb Inflation, Population Growth, Fight Poverty

Egypt Sets Four-Year Plan to Curb Inflation, Population Growth, Fight Poverty

Egypt’s Minister of Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform Hala al-Saeed announced Monday the objectives of the general framework for the 2018-2022…

Asharq Al Awsat (Cairo)
Business Bahrain Seeks Bid for $2 Bn Metro Construction in 2019

Bahrain Seeks Bid for $2 Bn Metro Construction in 2019

Bahrain plans to seek bids to build a metro railway system at the end of 2019. The project is estimated to cost between $1 billion and $2 billion. Adviser…

Asharq Al Awsat (Manama)
Business Sudan: Breadlines Continue to Grow, Government Expects Solution Soon

Sudan: Breadlines Continue to Grow, Government Expects Solution Soon

The Sudanese government expected to solve the bread crisis in the next three days as people continued to wait in line outside bakeries. According to…

Seifyazal Babekir (Khartoum)
Business Oil Producers Cut Output by 9%

Oil Producers Cut Output by 9%

An OPEC and non-OPEC monitoring committee found that oil producers participating in a supply-reduction agreement cut output in July by 9 percent more than…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Business Erdogan, British PM Discuss Economic Cooperation

Erdogan, British PM Discuss Economic Cooperation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and British Prime Minister Theresa May discussed bilateral economic and trade ties and investments in a telephone call,…

Asharq Al Awsat
Business Egypt: Government Dispute Over Secrecy of Bank Accounts

Egypt: Government Dispute Over Secrecy of Bank Accounts

In an unprecedented incident in Egypt, a verbal war started Sunday between the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt and the head of the Egyptian Tax Authority…

Asharq Al Awsat (Cairo)
Business NEOM to Announce Advisory Board Soon

NEOM to Announce Advisory Board Soon

NEOM, Saudi Arabia's megacity project, is going to announce its advisory board shortly, it said in a tweet on Saturday. "Stay tuned for news about the NEOM…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business South Sudan: Toma South Oilfield Resumes Pumping after 5-Year Halt

South Sudan: Toma South Oilfield Resumes Pumping after 5-Year Halt

Oil pumping has resumed from South Sudan’s Toma South oilfield, Sudan’s Minister of Oil and Gas Azhari Abdel-Gadir said on Sunday, after production there…

Asharq Al Awsat (Khartoum)
Business More than 5 Million Tourists Visit Tunisia in 8 Months

More than 5 Million Tourists Visit Tunisia in 8 Months

The number of tourists coming to Tunisian tourist destinations exceeded five million since the beginning of the year until August 20. This increases the…

Al Mongi Al Saidani (Tunis)
Business Iran: Non-Oil Exports from South Pars up 23 Percent

Iran: Non-Oil Exports from South Pars up 23 Percent

Non-oil exports from Iran’s South Pars, the world’s largest gas field, rose 23 percent over the past year, its head of customs said on Saturday, according to…

Asharq Al Awsat (Jeddah)
Business Exclusive - Geopolitical Situation Revives Saudi Foreign Trade

Exclusive - Geopolitical Situation Revives Saudi Foreign Trade

Saudi Arabia's foreign trade will benefit from the geopolitical situation in the region, predicted economic experts. They told Asharq Al-Awsat that Iran…

Fatehelrahman Yousif (Riyadh)
Business IMF: Saudi Arabia Advances with Economic Reforms, Non-oil Economy Growth Picks up

IMF: Saudi Arabia Advances with Economic Reforms, Non-oil Economy Growth Picks up

Saudi Arabia is moving ahead with economic reforms and growth in its non-oil economy will pick up this year despite a delay to a planned sale of shares in…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business In US, Wage Growth is Being Wiped Out Entirely by Inflation

In US, Wage Growth is Being Wiped Out Entirely by Inflation

Rising prices have erased US workers’ meager wage gains, the latest sign strong economic growth has not translated into greater prosperity for the middle and…

Heather Long (Washington)
Business Bread Crisis in Sudan Hindering Government Efforts

Bread Crisis in Sudan Hindering Government Efforts

Bread lines remain a familiar scene in the main streets of Khartoum, although the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning announced that it was increasing…

Saif al-Yazal Ba Baker (Khartoum)