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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 British Joint Business Council Intensifies Movements to Implement Economic Agreements

Saudi British Joint Business Council Intensifies Movements to Implement Economic Agreements

Saudi British Joint Business Council revealed efforts and intensive activity to commence the requirements of translating economic agreements signed between…

Fatehelrahman Yousif (Riyadh)
Business Saudi Arabia Leads Integration, Acquisition Deals in Middle East to Historic Level in Second Quarter

Saudi Arabia Leads Integration, Acquisition Deals in Middle East to Historic Level in Second Quarter

Thomson Reuters issued its quarter report on banking investment in the Middle East region during the second quarter of 2018. According to the report, the…

Motleq Mounir (London)
Business Discussing Saudi-Algerian Partnerships in Five Sectors

Discussing Saudi-Algerian Partnerships in Five Sectors

The program of the Media Day on Investment Opportunities in Economic Sectors in Algeria was launched on Tuesday in Riyadh. The program is organized by the…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business Saudi: Transport Minister Inks 23 Infrastructure Projects at $453.3 Mn

Saudi: Transport Minister Inks 23 Infrastructure Projects at $453.3 Mn

Saudi Minister of Transport Nabil Al-Amoudi signed on Monday 23 new projects, worth of 1.737 billion Saudi Riyals (USD 453 millions) to build a new network of…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business SEC Begins Operating Power Plant with First Locally-built Turbine Gas

SEC Begins Operating Power Plant with First Locally-built Turbine Gas

The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has started operating a combined cycle power plant in Waad al-Shamal Mining City, located south of Turaif in the Northern…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business Egypt

Egypt Seeks to Improve Oil Sector amid New Discovery

Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has called for the improvement of the country’s petroleum sector as Italian company Eni announced a new light oil…

Mohammed Nabil Helmi (Cairo)
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Asian Refiners Seek Middle Eastern Alternatives to Iran Oil

Asian refiners are seeking alternatives to Iranian oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq after the United States pledged to renew…

Asharq Al Awsat (Beijing)
Business Saudi Arabia: Saudi Railway Company Witness 139% Growth in Passenger Numbers

Saudi Arabia: Saudi Railway Company Witness 139% Growth in Passenger Numbers

The Saudi Railway Company (SAR) has achieved a significant growth of 139 percent in the number of passengers on its trains during the second quarter of 2018,…

Asharq Al Awsat (Dammam)
Business Egypt’s Trade Balance Deficit Rises 4.1% in April

Egypt’s Trade Balance Deficit Rises 4.1% in April

Egypt’s trade balance deficit rose by 4.1 percent in April to $3.32 billion from $3.19 billion for the same time last year. Egypt’s exports increased by 3…

Lamia Nabil (Cairo)
Business Foreign Investors Share in Saudi Market Reaches 5%

Foreign Investors Share in Saudi Market Reaches 5%

The share of foreign investors in the Saudi stock market, by the end of trading on July 5, reached 5 percent, with a total ownership of $25.9 billion. In…

Shujaa al-Baqmi (Riyadh)
Business Saudi Arabia: Minerals Geological Storage Exceeds $1.3 Trillion

Saudi Arabia: Minerals Geological Storage Exceeds $1.3 Trillion

Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources in Saudi Arabia announced Sunday the completion of the adjusted mining investment system that allows…

Asharq Al Awsat (Riyadh)
Business  IMF Disburses Fourth Tranche of Tunisia Loan

IMF Disburses Fourth Tranche of Tunisia Loan

The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved the payment of a $250 million tranche, the fourth from Tunisia’s loan program tied to economic reforms aimed…

Al Mongi Al Saidani (Tunis)
Business Investors Pull out $37 Billion from Europe, Emerging Markets in Two Months

Investors Pull out $37 Billion from Europe, Emerging Markets in Two Months

Investors have withdrawn funds from emerging and European markets over the past two months, with the negative impact of fears over a trade war, experts at Bank…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Business Iranian Oil Minister: Iranian Output, Exports Had Not Changed due to US Pressure

Iranian Oil Minister: Iranian Output, Exports Had Not Changed due to US Pressure

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said the tension between Iran and the US is a “trade war,” adding that Iranian output and exports had not changed as a…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Business  Trump’s Trade Dares Have Vaporized the Dow’s Gains for 2018

Trump’s Trade Dares Have Vaporized the Dow’s Gains for 2018

The calm predictability that was the signature of the 2017 stock market has been replaced by the turbulence of the first half of 2018, with investors frazzled…

Thomas Heath (Washington)
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Saudi Shares Conclude Week’s Trading with Limited Decline

The Saudi stock market concluded the first week’s trading of H2 2018 with limited decline, following profit gaining by shares of leading companies. Traders…

Shujaa al-Baqmi (Riyadh)
Business Tunisia: Annual Inflation Rises to 7.8%

Tunisia: Annual Inflation Rises to 7.8%

The inflation rate in Tunisia rose to 7.8 percent in June after it had stabilized at 7.7 percent in April and May, said the National Institute of Statistics …

Al Mongi Al Saidani (Tunis)
Business Riyadh

Saudi Banking Sector Exceeds Basel I Requirements

A Saudi official has said that Saudi banks capital adequacy in the first quarter of this year exceeded 20.4 percent, surpassing the Basel I committee’s…

Fatehelrahman Yousif (Riyadh)
Business Majid Al Futtaim Plans to Invest $2 billion in Lebanon by 2030

Majid Al Futtaim Plans to Invest $2 billion in Lebanon by 2030

Lebanon’s economic obstacles do not prevent foreign investors from eyeing the country’s opportunities, including Majid Al Futtaim, which is preparing to raise…

Asharq Al Awsat (Beirut)
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$80 Million Kuwaiti Loan to Iraq

Kuwait lent $80 million to Iraq to fund the establishment of 73 schools in 15 provinces in a country that witnessed the destruction of its infrastructure due…

Asharq Al Awsat (Kuwait)
Business Aramco Changes Asia Crude Oil Prices for First Time in 3 Decades

Aramco Changes Asia Crude Oil Prices for First Time in 3 Decades

S&P Global Platts received a blow on Wednesday after Saudi Aramco announced that it is adjusting its Asia crude oil pricing marker in an effort to increase the…

Wael Mahdi (Kuwait)
Business Kuwait

Kuwait Airport’s Terminal 4 Inaugurated

Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah inaugurated on Wednesday the new terminal at Kuwait International Airport, raising its capacity from seven to 25 million…

Merza al-Khuwaldi (Kuwait)
Business Abu Dhabi Seeking to Double Bou Hasir Oil Field Output

Abu Dhabi Seeking to Double Bou Hasir Oil Field Output

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is seeking to double oil production at the Bou Hasir field from 8,000 bpd to 16,000 bpd by developing a contract…

Asharq Al Awsat (Abu Dhabi)
Business plane

Oman Air Inaugurates Direct Flights between Casablanca, Muscat

Oman Air, the national carrier of Oman, launched this week a new service between Muscat and the Moroccan city of Casablanca. The flight is operated by…

Lahcen Mokena (Casablanca)