Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO of Stagwell, explains how AI and global tech partnerships are reshaping marketing and the GCC’s...
Oil prices have experienced choppy trading since the surprise US raid Saturday on Caracas that saw Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro...
Beijing, China -- China will on January 1 launch an "action plan" for boosting management and operations of its digital...The "action plan" will see banks pay interest on balances held by clients in digital yuan -- a move to incentivize broader adoption of the currency.
The plan also includes a proposal to establish an international digital yuan operations centre in the eastern financial hub of Shanghai, the report said.
Early signals hint that Web Summit Qatar 2026 will be its biggest edition yet, with participation expected to outpace the...Qatar’s rising ambition to become a global tech hub, high digital adoption, and fast-growing startup support ecosystem has made it the summit’s natural destination
GCO and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) have reinforced that ambition with a series of long-term national programs designed to attract entrepreneurs and global firms
Moving forward, lower oil revenues will continue to pose challenges to the Saudi economy and its overall targets. Earlier this...As non-oil growth accelerates and private investment rises, the Kingdom faces the challenge of sustaining momentum without overstretching its fiscal limits
Vision 2030 is reshaping the Kingdom’s economy at unprecedented speed, but sustaining growth amid lower oil revenues will test policymakers
Syria's central bank chief said Thursday that the country's currency would start to be replaced with a revamped version from...Central bank chief Abdul Qadir al-Hasriya said that "January 1, 2026, is the start date for the replacement process" for the currency
Hasriya said the move comes at a "pivotal national juncture that reflects the beginning of a new economic and monetary era"
- Workers have started laying tracks in the desert east of Cairo for Egypt's first high-speed train, which will link the...
The Green Line, as it is known, is the latest of a long list of megaprojects undertaken by El-Sisi's government in the past decade
The Green Line will run across the country's north, from Ain Sokhna on the Red Sea to Marsa Matrouh on the Mediterranean
- From the 1980s onward, the federal government and individual emirates launched broader diversification and liberalization programs to reduce reliance on...
Decades of strategic diversification, agile governance and private-sector dynamism have turned the UAE into a global benchmark for sustainable growth
From the oil windfalls of the 1970s to today’s AI-driven economy, the UAE’s long-term vision is delivering fiscal strength, investor confidence and global relevance
The United States signed an agreement on the supply chains with key Asia-Pacific allies concerned about China's growing clout --...Dubbed the "Pax Silica," adapting the Latin terms for peace and silicon, a key material in AI, the partnership aims to secure supply chains
China has quickly taken a dominant position in the race for resources in the fast-growing area of artificial intelligence, mining around 70 percent of key rare earths
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most dynamic retail e-trading markets,...The study, Trading’s New Horizon: How Access, Innovation and Ambition Are Fuelling MENA’s E-Trading Boom, draws on two years of data from 62,850 verified traders across the region
The report notes that MENA traders are young, digitally savvy and highly educated, and nearly 86% are aged 18–44, and 64% hold a university degree—far higher than Europe’s 39%
However, Qatar faces downside risks from a deeper global economic slowdown that could weaken energy demand and LNG prices amid...World Bank, Standard Chartered, and Moody’s highlight Qatar’s resilience, strong GDP outlook, and rising non-hydrocarbon strength
Backed by digital transformation, AI investment, and stable credit ratings, Qatar’s non-oil sectors lead regional growth
- Saudi Arabia greenlit its 2026 budget Tuesday, projecting a deficit of 165 billion riyals ($44 billion) as the kingdom presses...
The Arab world's largest economy is overseeing a major push to slash its dependence on oil revenues, with officials pouring billions into projects to attract investment and tourism
The budget figures will be keenly watched by energy industry experts, with the hopes of gleaning insights into where Saudi Arabia expects oil revenues to head in the near future
