Good afternoon, folks, and happy hump day. We’ve got somewhat of a brisk issue for you this afternoon. The Central Bank of Egypt’s Monetary ...

The EGX30 fell 0.1% at today’s close on turnover of EGP 9.7 bn (17.3% below the 90-day average). Local investors were the sole net ...

What happens when a country’s unchecked debt piles up to the point that it starts constraining monetary policy? That’s the question behind the growing focus on fiscal dominance — a situation in which ...

If you’ve decided that calories don’t matter and your diet could use a break, Sammy’s is definitely a solid option ...

Downtown Cairo gets a contemporary art makeover by Art D’Égypte. Cairo International Art District is returning for its sixth edition from 11 October ...

What do Egypt’s plastic-bag fee and its looming carbon-border tax have in common? No law requires either to publish the numbers ...

Freight used to be almost incidental to the economics of the barrel, but now it can determine whether the trade happens at all ...

Iraq began trucking crude oil from its southern oilfields to keep its northern export routes supplied. State-owned Basra Oil Company (BOC) is launching a pilot program targeting 100k-150k bbl / d in ...

GCC issuance fell 23% y-o-y to USD 51.1 bn in 1H 2026, down from USD 66 bn, as the regional conflict disrupted borrowing plans and issuers adjusted the timing of sovereign funding and liability ...

PLUS: Qatari Diar heads to the Red Sea this week, set to receive a 29 mn sqm plot in Hurghada for a new tourism project ...

Oman's Asyad Shipping is selling two VLCCs, Seeb and Samail, for USD 160.2 mn, according to a disclosure (pdf), alongside the USD 17.5 mn sale of its 18-year-old MR product tanker Al Amerat, according ...

A consortium that includes Cristiano Ronaldo and RedBird Capital Partners is in talks to buy a stake in Al Nassr from the Public Investment Fund, Portugal’s A Bola reports. The paper put the group at ...