INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • A presidential election was due to take place on December 24, followed by legislative polls, but the UN-sponsored electoral process...

    Speaker Aguila Saleh said during a parliamentary session, in the eastern port city of Tobruk, that a new government must be formed

    The call comes as the UN urged Libya's political factions and parties to hold safe, inclusive, and credible polls as soon as possible

  • The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (ISSF) will invest $1.5 million in Global Ventures

    Global Ventures is a Dubai-based growth-driven venture capital firm focused on investing in growth-stage technology.

    Investing in progressive funds such as Global Ventures supports ambitious SMEs to expand their businesses, ISSF said.

  • The higher revenue this year as a result of the increase in the number of tourists, which was 2.358 million.

    Tourism contributes in a significant way to the economy of Jordan

    However, some observers say that the sector has a lot of room for improvement

  • Growth in the fourth quarter was the slowest in more than a year, at 4 percent, down from 4.9 percent...

    China is the world's second-biggest economy, and a key driver of global growth

    It expanded 8.1 percent in 2021, but much of that came in the first half of the year

  • The exports of the Amman Chamber of Industry (ACI) increased last year in 2021 to "high" levels, compared to 2019,...

    The United States, India, Saudi Arabia and Iraq accounted for the majority of the Chamber's exports last year, with a value of JD3.111 billion.

    ACI exports rose during the same year to many Arab and foreign countries, most notably Indonesia, Egypt, Brazil, Algeria, Turkey, Sudan, Yemen and Malaysia.

  • The Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week summit, hosted by Masdar, will take place virtually on Monday, 17th January. The Summit will...

    The Summit will take place between 1:00pm – 9:00pm GST, and will convene more than 80 global leaders

    The opening sessions of the ADSW Summit will include a head of state address from President Halimah Yacob of Singapore

  • The development may bring significant geo-economic and geopolitical shifts in the energy market, which is currently valued at $174 billion.

    IRENA estimates hydrogen to cover up to 12 percent of global energy use by 2050

    This is due to the climate urgency and countries’ commitments to net-zero emissions

  • Tunisia's debts have soared to nearly 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product.

    Tunisia's GDP plunged by almost 9 percent in 2020, the worst rate in North Africa

    This was only modestly offset by a 3-percent bounce-back last year

  • The real estate housing price rose in Kuwait last year, where investors focused on Kuwaitis' residential areas dealing in uninhabited...

    Some residential districts, mainly inhabited by citizens, witnessed more than 35 percent rise in rates of the plots, leading to record growth of property assets

    The investors sold 375-square-meter houses in Kuwaiti's residential districts such as Al-Khaldiya and Al-Yarmouk in May at a profit of $300,000 in May

  • Qasemi, who headed a high-ranking delegation to Syria, met with senior officials from Syria.

    The decisions for the establishment of the mentioned entities were made during a three-day visit of the Iranian minister to Syria

    Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister Rostam Qasemi announced a joint committee is set to be formed between Iran and Syria

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