INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

DIB H1 net profit $1bn

Gross revenue increased 10% year on year

SIB H1 profit up 15.3%

Total operating income rises 20.5 percent.

flydubai Aleppo flights resumed

The flights were resumed after nearly 14 years.

Samsung biggest chip investor

The tech giant invested nearly $59.2bn in 2025.

flynas to set up new hub

Five destinations in first phase of operations.
  • Smart mobility solutions like self-driving cars, shared mobility, and adaptive traffic lights are set to transform Saudi cities, which are...

    Smart mobility solutions like self-driving cars, shared mobility, and adaptive traffic lights are set to transform Saudi cities, which are focusing more on autonomous technologies

    Innovative technologies are expected to save commuters in large cities with extensive public transportation up to 15 minutes per day, latest reports suggest

  • DUBAI, UAE -  UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MoHRE) announced that the Unemployment Insurance Scheme has exceeded one...

    The Unemployment Insurance Scheme covers employees in the federal government sector and the private sector.

    The scheme provides low-cost job security net that supports the career path and living stability of employees in the UAE.

  • Dubai, UAE -- Fitch Ratings has recently upgraded its Saudi Arabia’s rating to 'A+' with a Stable Outlook. The agency...

    The upgrade reflects the kingdom's strong fiscal and external balance sheets with large sovereign net foreign assets, Fitch said.

    The kingdom will continue to progress with fiscal, economic and governance reforms, the agency added.

  • Dubai, UAE – Jordan’s Ministry of Finance and Central Bank Wednesday said they have completed the issuance of $1.25 billion...

    The kingdom's finance ministry reduced the coupon rate by 25 basis points from 2022's issue of 7.75 despite the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates seven times since.

    Jordanian media reports said the number of subscribers exceeded 230, including some of the largest global investment houses.

  • The World Trade Organization said 2023 global trade growth would be slightly better than feared, but would remain "subpar", weighed...

    The forecast was slightly better than feared last October, when the WTO projected 2023 trade growth would be as low as one percent.

    The organization's economists also estimated that real global GDP growth at market exchange rates would be 2.4 percent this year.

  • Asian indices drifted after losses on Wall Street, as data showing a softening in the US jobs market pointed to...

    The central bank of New Zealand on Wednesday became the latest to hike interest rates sharply to tackle soaring inflation.

    Gold climbed as high as $2,028.44, a level last seen in early 2022 and not far from a record $2,075.47 set in August 2020.

  • LSG Group is to be sold to private equity group Aurelius.

    The airline giant had already sold LSG's European operations activities to Swiss-based Gategroup in 2019.

    The Lufthansa group was brought to the brink of bankruptcy when the COVID-19 pandemic saw global air travel grind to a halt.

  • Reza Noshadi, who heads the National Iranian Gas Company’s engineering subsidiary, said that Iran will be able to export gas...

    In June last year, Oman and Iran signed deals to develop two gas pipelines and an oil field along their maritime border

    Oman has close ties with Iran and played a mediating role between Tehran and Washington in the build-up to the nuclear deal in 2015

  • Paris, France--French energy giant TotalEnergies announced Wednesday an agreement with Iraq on a $10 billion project that had been delayed due...

    While TotalEnergies will own 45 percent stake, Iraq's Basrah Oil Company will get a 30-percent stake in the project and QatarEnergy will get 25 percent

    The French company said that a one-gigawatt solar power plant will be built to supply electricity to the Basra regional grid, with Saudi firm ACWA Power joining the project

  • Cairo, Egypt-- A new survey has revealed that Egypt's non-oil private sector activity contracted for the 28th straight month in...

    According to S&P Global, a drop in client demand and high inflationary pressures continued to impact non-oil businesses, leading to reduction in new orders

    In spite of its currency depreciating in value by half since last year and the signing of a $3 billion support package with the IMF, the country remains short of foreign currency