Dominic Dudley

Saudi investors are weighing up a deal to create a 140-acre industrial park in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, in a further sign of warming ties between the two countries.

Oman announced $9 billion worth of projects involving investors from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East — a sign of how the country is proving more able than some in the region to handle the disruption caused by the Iran war.

Abu Dhabi has launched a drive to bring 55 billion dirhams ($15 billion) of private capital into its infrastructure build-out.

A Qatari LNG tanker sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday — one of the few transits made since the Iran war began and a hopeful sign for Doha.

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.