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Algeria secured nearly $5 billion in foreign direct investment into the energy and steel industries from countries including China and the US at an African trade exhibition held this month.

Gulf governments are stepping up their military spending to defend against missile and drone attacks and protect shipping, lifting sales for defence contractors.

Presight, the Abu Dhabi-listed technology company, has partnered with the Sharjah government-backed Shorooq to launch a new global fund to support the development of artificial intelligence (AI).

Saudi Arabia’s stock index surged on Wednesday following reports the kingdom may raise foreign-ownership limits for listed companies.

AI chipmaker Nvidia has signed a deal with Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) to open its first research hub in the Middle East.

Egypt’s government has paid nearly $500 million in overdue debt to foreign companies in a bid to encourage them to intensify operations and reverse a decline in its gas output.

President Donald Trump’s call for G7 tariffs on China and India over cheap Russian crude during the Ukraine war offers Gulf states short-term gains but long-term questions.

Indian exporters are increasingly moving operations to the UAE to sidestep steep US tariffs.

Experts warn the US must swiftly finalise a regulatory framework for the export of next-generation semiconductors to Saudi Arabia before China closes the gap and steps in.

The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has signed an agreement with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) to deepen cooperation between their capital markets.

Kuwait has brought a complex oilfield onstream nearly 16 years after the asset was discovered and development started.

The board of UAE remittance and foreign-exchange house Al Ansari Financial Services has approved an interim dividend payout of AED149 million ($41 million) for the first half of 2025.

Retail giant Amazon has opened its first logistics warehouse in Abu Dhabi, as it aims to win a bigger slice of the UAE’s $9 billion ecommerce market.

Platinum jewellery has been flying off the shelves in the Gulf recently, despite a major jump in the metal’s prices.

Oman’s leader Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said on Wednesday ordered a doubling of the country’s job creation fund to $250 million to help speed up employment opportunities for Omani nationals.

A forum is being established to deepen economic and geopolitical ties between Europe and the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia is seeking developers for seven renewable energy projects with a total capacity of 5,300 megawatts.

Oman has informed Iraq it wants to be part of a multi-billion-dollar rail and road project along with Turkey, Qatar and the UAE, Iraq’s transport minister has said.

Dubai-listed National Central Cooling Company, known as Tabreed, has announced the first interim dividend in its 27-year history.

From manufacturing to construction and mining, the agility and risk-appetite of Turkish companies is increasingly putting them toe-to-toe with Chinese competitors in Africa, regional experts say.