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ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.

Empower okays $119.1m H2 2025 dividend

The dividend is equivalent to 43.75% of paid-up capital.

Alujain widens 2025 loss

The increase in loss is due to impairment charges, weaker prices.

Masar 2025 net profit $262m

Higher land plot sales boost revenue and operating income.

Tasnee’s 2025 losses deepen

The petrochemicals' company's revenue also fell 17.7 percent.
  • Egypt, IMF reach agreement on EFF arrangement

    Egypt and International Monetary Fund have reached a staff-level agreement on the economic policies to be supported by a 46-month...

    The Extended Fund Facility with a requested access of about US$3 billion, aims to provide Egypt with balance of payments and budget support, said an IMF official.

    EFF will also help in catalyzing additional financing from Egypt's international and regional partners to maintain economic stability.

  • Egypt agrees $3 billion loan with IMF as pound hits new low

    The IMF had demanded the devaluation as a condition of the loan and the North African nation is among the...

    The IMF deal is also conditioned on reforms that include further cuts to subsidies, bringing yet more pain for struggling households.

    In Aug, global investment firm Goldman Sachs estimated that Egypt would need about $15bn in funding to be able to repay its foreign debt, currently estimated at about $150bn.

  • Volvo Cars posts Q3 net profit of US$61m

    Retail sales declined in its main markets Europe and the US.

    Volvo Cars was hit hard by rising raw material prices, record inflation, higher interest rates and the war in Ukraine.

    Revenue rose to $7.28 billion boosted by "robust" demand for the company's SUVs.

  • TotalEnergies posts Q3 net profit of US$6.6bn

    Firm said surging oil, gas prices helped it post massive profits.

    Net profits at TotalEnergies soared 43 percent from the same period last year with record performances for its natural gas and liquefied natural gas activities.

    The firm has now earned $17.3 billion over the first nine months of the year, more than the $16 billion in profits it posted last year.

  • Credit Suisse launches radical overhaul to stabilize bank

    Switzerland's second-biggest bank launched a strategic review aimed at putting an end to a series of scandals that have shaken...

    Credit Suisse also said expects to run the bank with approximately 43,000 staff by the end of 2025 compared to 52,000 at the end of September

    Its investment bank suffered a loss of 3.7 billion Swiss francs in 2021 and backed that up with a 992 million Swiss franc loss in the first half of 2022

  • Samsung posts 31% decline in Q3 operating profit

    It, however, reported a 3.79% increase in sales.

    The third-quarter results are the first year-on-year decline in profit in nearly three years for Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone maker

    Operating profit for July to September 2022 fell to 10 trillion won ($7 billion), down from 15.8 trillion won for the same period last year, the company said

  • UAE tops list of foreign direct investors in Egypt: Egyptian PM

    The UAE president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Abdel Fattah El Sisi, President of Egypt have met recently...

    The UAE president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Abdel Fattah El Sisi, President of Egypt have met recently on several occasions

    Egypt eyes the effective participation of UAE investors under the umbrella of the State Ownership Policy Document, Egyptian PM Madbouly said

  • UAE-Kazakhstan trade reached $907 million in 2021: Ambassador Menelikov

    The Kazakhstan ambassador valued the UAE leadership's interest in strengthening relations between the two countries, pointing out that the 1st...

    Emirati investments in Kazakhstan amounted to about $2.7 billion since the establishment of diplomatic relations.

    Value of Kazakh investments was more than $1 billion, and total direct investment flows from the UAE increased 43 percent.

  • Saudi PIF to establish five companies for investments in five Arab countries

    The five companies, together with Saudi Egyptian Investment Company (SEIC), a wholly-owned PIF subsidiary that was launched in August 2022,...

    The announcement was made on the second day of the 6th Edition of the Future Investment Initiative, where top CEOs, investors and world leaders are participating.

    The companies will invest in various key sectors, including but not limited to, infrastructure, real estate development, mining, healthcare and financial services.

  • Aramco chief at FII6: World needs realistic, optimal energy transition plan

    "The current transition plan isn't working. We are still dependent on coal. We need to have a new consensus on...

    Lord Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, said Europe was burning more coal this year as it is shot of gas, but transition towards renewables is ongoing.

    Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al Jadaan said there is more thinking about renewable energy and a realization that the transition to renewables is not going to take place soon.