INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Bank of Sharjah profit up 39%

Bank's total assets grow 10% to $14.4 billion.

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.

Saudi economy is 30% of $2.39 trillion Arab economy

    • The kingdom is almost twice the size of the region’s second-largest economy, Egypt

    • The UAE is the third largest Arab economy with GDP of $354.3 billion

    The Saudi economy alone was 29.3 percent of the $2.39 trillion Arab economy in 2020.

    The Kingdom’s $700.1 billion in nominal GDP was almost twice the size of the region’s second-largest economy, Egypt’s $361.9 billion, Al Eqtisadiah reported, citing data from the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, the International Monetary Fund and Arab statistical bodies. 

    The UAE was the third largest Arab economy with GDP of $354.3 billion. The six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council had combined GDP of $1.41 trillion, 58.8 percent of the Arab economy.

    The Arab world represents 2.8 percent of the global economy, and would rank eighth, behind France, if it was a single country.