Jonathan Ferziger

When the U.S. leader arrives in Qatar, he will decide whether to accept a gift from the royal family of a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to replace Air Force One

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told President Donald Trump and a solid portion of the world’s business elite on Tuesday that he hopes to fulfill his pledge to invest $600 billion in the U.S. and might even hit the $1 trillion mark sought by the White House. In turn, Trump praised MBS as a... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump took his Middle East dealmaking tour to Qatar today after a summit meeting in Riyadh with leaders of the six Gulf states that focused in part on promoting more investment in American military hardware and artificial intelligence. The visit to Qatar’s capital of Doha continued to generate criticism from Democrats in Congress over Trump’s... Read More

Elon Musk’s Neuralink will team up with the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi to conduct the first clinical trials of its brain-chip technology outside America. Neuralink’s futuristic chip is a brain-computer interface technology which is designed to improve the lives of paralysed patients by helping them control a computer by thought. So far, it has only... Read More

In the final leg of his tour through the Gulf’s royal palaces, U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Abu Dhabi as G42 and other UAE tech firms awaited a green light for billions of dollars in advanced chip deals. UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed greeted the U.S. leader at Abu Dhabi’s exclusive Presidential Terminal... Read More

President Donald Trump wrapped up his four-day tour of the Gulf with a pomp-filled visit to the UAE, locking in some $200 billion in contracts that starts to fulfill the UAE’s pledge to spend $1.4 trillion in the U.S. over the next decade. He took off for Washington in the early afternoon. With attention focused... Read More

The first four stations will be in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Fujairah, but details of their locations have yet to be officially confirmed by Etihad

The UAE and its largest banks are pouring nearly $11 billion into a financing plan aimed at spawning new manufacturing companies and building the country’s industrial base. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, said at the opening session of the “Make it in the Emirates” conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday that... Read More

Mubadala is consolidating its pharmaceutical interests into a new investment unit aimed at making the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund a stronger player in the international health care market. Mubadala Bio will focus on drugmaking, biopharma development and distribution logistics, operating at 10 locations in Asia, Africa and Europe, with its base in the UAE,... Read More

Qatar Investment Authority CEO Mohammed Al Sowaidi said the fund expects to at least double spending in the U.S. compared to the past five years