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US Fed pauses rate hikes but sees borrowing costs to rise

The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday but signalled in new projections that borrowing costs may still need to rise by as much as half of a percentage point by the end of this year, as the US central bank reacted to a stronger-than-expected economy and a slower decline in inflation. In […]

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Erdogan sticks to ‘low inflation, low rate’ policy

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his newly appointed finance minister Mehmet Simsek will take unspecified steps swiftly with the central bank, but that it was a mistake to suggest Erdogan had changed his own views on interest rates. Since winning re-election last month, Erdogan, a self-proclaimed “enemy” of interest rates, has appointed Simsek as well […]

Egypt signals no immediate plans for pound devaluation

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi appeared to rule out a further currency devaluation anytime soon in remarks made to a youth conference on Wednesday, saying such a move could harm national security and hurt Egyptian citizens. Egypt has devalued the Egyptian pound by about 50 percent against the dollar since February 2022, when Russia’s […]

Saudi companies buy carbon credits in Kenya auction

Companies from Saudi Arabia bought more than 2.2 million tonnes of carbon credits on Wednesday as the Kenyan capital hosted what organisers have billed as the world’s largest sale of its kind. Demand for carbon offsets, generated through projects such as tree planting or using cleaner cooking fuel, is expected to grow as companies seek […]

Qatari fund in talks to invest in Egypt’s historic hotels

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks with Egypt about potentially investing in seven historic hotels there, in what could be a landmark deal between the two countries that restored diplomatic ties in 2021 after a long-running dispute. The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is in talks with The Sovereign Wealth Fund of Egypt (TSFE) about […]

Dubai firm to invest $200m in Colombia emerald mine

Dubai-based miner Fura Gems will invest $200 million in its Colombia emerald mine over the next five years, an executive said on Wednesday. The company is holding its fourth auction of uncut emeralds from its Coscuez mine in central Boyaca province this week in Bogota. Fura predicts the auction, which will move to Bangkok later […]

Opec Russia

Opec+ grants Russia higher production baseline

Opec+ has granted Russia a slightly higher oil production baseline after the country agreed to work with several think-tanks and agencies to review its output figures, Opec+ said. Oil production baselines are used by Opec to determine levels from which production cuts are made. Russia has made its production figures classified since the West imposed […]

Tesla hikes prices

Tesla hikes Model Y prices for third time since April

Tesla Inc has slightly increased the price of its Model Y electric vehicle in the United States, according to its website. The company increased the price of the variant by a mere $250, bringing it to $47,740, the website showed, while prices for the other variants remained unchanged in the US. This is the third […]

Kuwait drones Baykar

Kuwait to buy drones worth $367m from Turkey

Kuwait has concluded a contract worth $367 million with Turkish defence firm Baykar to buy its TB2 drones through direct negotiations between the two governments, the Kuwaiti army said. A statement did not reveal how many drones would be delivered to Kuwait or when. International demand for Baykar’s TB2 drones soared after they featured in […]

Turkey interest rates

Analysts forecast bumper rate hikes in Turkey

Analysts at leading investment banks expect Turkey’s new economic chiefs to start ramping up interest rates next week as part of a major reset of the country’s economic policies. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, re-elected last month, has just appointed former US banker Hafize Gaye Erkan as the new central bank governor. She is his fifth […]

Egypt invites banks to pitch for AlexBank stake sale

Egypt invites banks to pitch for AlexBank stake sale

Egypt’s ministry of finance has invited banks to pitch for an advisory position on the sale of its 20 percent stake in Bank of Alexandria, a subsidiary of Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo, two sources familiar with the matter said. The invitation went to local and international banks, said the sources, declining to be identified as the […]

Iraqi Kurdish losses reach $2bn amid oil export halt

Iraqi Kurdish losses reach $2bn amid oil export halt

Iraq and Turkey are set to begin technical talks by early next week on resuming the former’s northern oil exports, but hopes for a quick resolution are slim, two sources told Reuters. Turkey halted Iraq’s 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) of exports through a crude oil pipeline from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq […]

OPEC

China’s Unipec sale of Oman crude caps prices

China’s Unipec, the trading arm of top Asian refiner Sinopec, has emerged as a major seller of August-loading Oman crude this month, a move that has helped to cap benchmark prices despite Saudi Arabia’s plans to cut output next month. Unipec, according to trade sources and data collated by Reuters, has sold eight million barrels […]

Israeli investment in country’s tech sector down

Israeli institutions invested $512 million in the country’s tech sector in 2022, down from $1.12 billion in 2021, a published reported showed, citing a weaker global economy and higher interest rates. Nearly half, $252 million, was made in the first half of the year when market sentiment was still bullish, according to the joint report […]

Turkey’s economic U-turn is not enough to rebuild trust

Turkey’s expected return to orthodox economic policies may not be enough to secure longer-lasting international investments, with a restoration of predictability and the rule of law still needed to build trust, analysts say. While higher interest rates should draw some foreign investors back to Turkish assets, analysts say only fundamental changes in legal compliance will […]

Aramco

Aramco to supply full oil volumes to 5 Asian refiners

Saudi Aramco has told at least five customers in north Asia they will receive full nominated volumes of crude oil in July, several sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, after it pledged to cut production next month. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, vowed to reduce its production to nine million […]

Latest ‘deadline’ looms in Manchester United takeover

Manchester United fans can be forgiven if they refrain from eagerly checking the news on Friday as the latest ‘deadline’ looms in the meandering seven-month saga of the club’s sale that is beginning to resemble the final series of TV’s Succession. In this real-life battle of the billionaires, Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani […]

George Soros hands over rein of $25bn empire to son

Billionaire financier George Soros is handing control of his massive empire to his son Alexander, a Soros spokesperson said. The spokesperson confirmed the details from an interview with Soros published in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. A hedge fund manager turned philanthropist and major backer of liberal causes, Soros, 92, said he previously didn’t want his […]

Saudi says Opec+ working against market ‘uncertainties’

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that the latest Opec+ agreement involved comprehensive reform while the alliance was working against “uncertainties and sentiment” in the market. “That is why we had this agreement,” he said at the Arab-China business conference in Riyadh, when asked what was necessary to achieve market stability. He […]

Iraq approves $153bn budget amid rising public wage bill

Iraq’s parliament on Monday approved a 2023 budget of 198.9 trillion dinars ($153 billion) that sets out record spending on a growing public wage bill and development projects to improve services and rebuild infrastructure ruined by neglect and war. The budget deficit is estimated at a record 64.36 trillion Iraq dinars, more than double the […]

Iraq to pay $2.76bn in gas and electricity debt to Iran

Iraq has agreed to pay about $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran after receiving a sanctions waiver from the United States, a senior Iraqi foreign ministry official said. Iraqi foreign minister Fuad Hussein was given the clearance during a meeting with US secretary of state Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the […]

Goldman Sachs expects Turkey rates to hit 40%

Goldman Sachs said on Friday the appointments of Mehmet Simsek as Turkish finance minister and Hafize Gaye Erkan as central bank governor suggested a widespread understanding in the new administration that monetary and fiscal adjustments were needed. The Wall Street bank, in an overhaul to a number of its forecasts for Turkey, said stabilising the […]