The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and Qatar Central Bank (QCB) have decided to keep interest rates unchanged, following...
Federal Reserve official Neel Kashkari has reiterated the Fed’s wait-and-see approach about possible rate cuts.  In a recent interview on CNBC, Kashkari, who serves...
The US economy remains strong but a series of aggressive rate hikes meant to cool soaring inflation could eventually trigger...The Fed chair again stressed that policymakers understand the hardships caused by rising prices and are committed to bringing down inflation
Last week, the US central bank announced the sharpest interest rate increase in nearly 30 years and promised additional similar moves to combat the price surge
Surging energy costs are fueling global inflation, with official data Wednesday showing the British annual rate hitting a fresh 40-year...Oil prices were feeling the heat from recessionary fears, with both main contracts tanking more than five percent at one point.
Crude and gas prices have soared in recent months after major economies lifted pandemic lockdowns and invasion of Ukraine.
The trade exchange volume between Saudi Arabia and Jordan reached 16.6 billion riyals ($4.42 billion) in 2021, compared to 11.6...Saudi Arabia invested $14 billion through 900 projects in Jordan, according to Saudi media reports.
The volume of Saudi exports to Jordan amounted to 11.6 billion riyals.
UAE’s Ministry of Finance has announced that the revenues of federal authorities in the first quarter of 2022 amounted to...The public order and public safety affairs sector came in second at 18.69 percent of the total, valued at AED2.12 billion.
Social protection sector was ranked third with AED2.017 billion or 17.77 percent, and the defense sector was ranked fourth with AED1.679 billion or 14.79 percent.
- Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction of the...
In Paktika province of Afghanistan, local markets are closed as people have rushed to help earthquake affected areas
Photographs and video clips posted on social media showed badly damaged mud houses due to the 5.9 magnitude quack that struck Afghanistan last night
- Blinken, in a telephone call to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who will become caretaker prime minister confirmed that President Joe...
Blinken, in a telephone call to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who will become caretaker prime minister confirmed that President Joe Biden still plans to visit Israel next month
The coalition government led by the right-wing Naftali Bennett and centrist Lapid had sought to tone down and depoliticize Israel's relations with the United States
Egypt hopes to jump-start the action needed to face a warming world when it takes the presidency of major UN...The challenge of maintaining international momentum on climate change has been made even harder as the world faces a catalog of challenges, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Ambassador Mohamed Nasr said that while Egypt's presidency of the conference would have "African flavor and African vision", it would remain resolutely international in focus
- There is a new sight on the streets of Havana: increasing numbers of electric vehicles whizzing among the old American...
The Cuban government has been promoting the use of electric cars, introducing them to state-owned companies to avoid use of fuel
Fuel shortages have worsened since the US reinforced blockade of Cuba in 2019, preventing the arrival of fuel tankers from Venezuela
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday urged the International Monetary Fund to take into account the social impact of any...Tunisia has been in preliminary discussions with the global lender for a new loan to save an economy ravaged by years of high unemployment and inflation
Tunisian President and IMF regional chief have discussed the "aspects of cooperation and liaison between the IMF and the Tunisian government"
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman on Tuesday to discuss regional and international...The tour of the Saudi Crown Prince acquires special significance as it comes before a planned Arab-American summit in July which Saudi Arabia will host
The visit to Jordan comes at a time when Jordan's economy is struggling with the economic knock-on effects of the Ukraine war
