Oil slips from six-month highs as Qatar mediates in Tehran
Oil blinked, but the fear hasn’t gone anywhere. Brent fell nearly 2% to around $114.5 a barrel on Monday and WTI …
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Oil is pricing in the next round of war.
Oil is pricing in the next round of war. Oil posted its third straight weekly gain as markets priced in renewed US&ndas…
Brent tops $116 as Iran tensions drag Wall Street lower
Oil hit multi-month highs on Iran war uncertainty and pulled US stocks down on Friday. The inflation risk lands just ahe…
IMF: Gulf economies to shrink 4.8% this year as war hits exports
The war is now hitting the Gulf’s own economies, not just oil prices. The IMF expects the six GCC economies to sh…
$112 oil piles onto bond and tech jitters; global stocks slide
Markets were already nervous. Oil made it worse. Bond yields were climbing, with France’s 10-year above 5% and US…
Brent tops $112, up 3%, after Saudi drone strike and Iran fears
Oil just found a new gear. Oil jumped about 3% on Thursday after a Houthi drone strike near Saudi Aramco’s Shayba…
Brent slips below $108 as Trump’s Russia waiver cools oil rally
Brent crude futures fell 1.90% to $107.85 a barrel and WTI dropped 1.57% to $97.49. That followed a week in which oil…
Brent at $110 as Hormuz attacks rattle Gulf supply
Oil hit its highest level since May as Iranian strikes around the Strait of Hormuz kept markets on edge, even though Gul…
IMF's WEO: Hormuz's Strange Winners
In 2026, oil importers across the Middle East and Central Asia will outgrow the region's oil exporters by 8.5 percentage…
IMF Lifts 2026 Global Growth to 3.1% as AI Boom Offsets War Shock
The IMF expects the world economy to grow 3.1% in 2026, slightly better than it forecast in July. But growth is now conc…
Data Centres Are Now War Targets?
Iran has put the Gulf's AI build-out back in the crosshairs. It has already hit these targets once this year, so the Gul…
Iran has "no oil on the water," says US Treasury's Bessent
Iran has "no oil on the water," said US Treasury's Bessent. Washington says Iran's oil exports have hit zero unde…
Saudi Arabia's Bab el-Mandeb Gamble: What the World's Most Expensive 18 Miles Are Worth
Riyadh is preparing a ground offensive to take the Bab el-Mandeb strait back from the Houthis. With Hormuz choked, this …
Middle East oil exports hit highest level since Iran war began
Crude exports from key Middle East producers climbed to 12.8 million barrels per day in September, the highest since the…
PharmAla Partners With Merhavim Mental Health Centre on MDMA-Assisted PTSD Clinical Trial
PharmAla Biotech Holdings Inc. a biotechnology company focused on the research, development, and manufacturing…
QIAGEN to Acquire Genoox to Expand AI-Powered Clinical Genomics Solutions
QIAGEN announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Genoox, a provider of AI-powered software that enable…
NGD Deploys Real-Time Genomic Transmission Detection System at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center
NGD Infection Prevention, a global provider of real-time genomic transmission detection for hospitals, has deploy…
Evogene and Tel Aviv University Launch Initiative to Accelerate Academic Small-Molecule Drug Discovery
Evogene Ltd. (TASE: EVGN), a leading computational chemistry company focused on the generative design of small mo…
baraka Brings UAE Stock Market Investing to More Than 100 Nationalities
baraka (www.getbaraka.com), the DIFC-based investment platform regulated by the Dubai Financial Services …
FP Markets Strengthens UAE Expansion With New CMA Category 5 Licence
Global multi-asset Forex and CFD broker FP Markets has been granted a Category 5 Licence by the UAE's Capital Market A…
Bybit Launches AI Assistant to Unify Trading and Customer Support Through Conversational Interface
Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced the official launch of Bybit AI…
Nscale and Figure Partner to Scale AI Compute for Next-Generation Humanoid Robotics
Nscale, a full-stack AI cloud platform, announced it has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with humanoid robotic…
STARTRADER Expands 24/7 Trading With 45 New Stock and ETF CFDs
STARTRADER announced the launch of 45 new 24/7 Stock and ETF CFDs, available from Monday through Sunday, 00:00–2…
WuXi XDC Achieves GMP Release for Singapore BCM3, Advancing Global Bioconjugate Manufacturing Capacity
WuXi XDC Cayman Inc. ("WuXi XDC", stock code: 2268.HK), a leading global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturin…
Egypt’s FRA Approves Two Companies to Deliver Non-Banking Financial Services Through Fintech
The Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA), chaired by Islam Azzam, has approved two companies to conduct various …