Dominic Dudley

Last week, Dubai’s DFM and Abu Dhabi’s ADX General Index hit their highest levels since the war broke out.

XRG, ADNOC’s international investment arm, will take a stake in three upstream blocks in Argentina that will supply gas to the country’s first LNG export terminal.

Qatar overhauled its labor laws, adding for the first time provisions that allow for part-time and freelance work to be regulated, and others that make it harder to launch strikes.

The country took advantage of its exit from OPEC and skirted Iranian threats in the Strait of Hormuz.

The UAE’s non-oil economy is experiencing its worst period since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UAE's non-oil economy is experiencing its worst period since the COVID-19 pandemic, with the private sector at its weakest in more than five years, and employment falling faster than at any time since 2020.

LNG demand in Asia — the most important market for Gulf producers — is on track to fall for the second year in a row, according to Wood Mackenzie.

The number of active businesses at the Dubai International Financial Centre has increased 30% over the past year to 10,018, according to figures issued by the hub.

The pair are putting their long-standing economic and military ties with Tehran to use, in part to make life difficult for their global rival, the US.

Increasing security cooperation between Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Türkiye could become the nucleus of a wider group, or just a framework for ad hoc coordination.