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Saudi Arabia has earmarked 10 billion riyals ($2.7 billion) to provide incentives for global supply firms to invest in the kingdom, part of plans to develop its economy as a hub for industrial companies. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz announced the plans as part of Saudi Arabia’s Global Supply Chain Resilience Initiative on Sunday, that aims to ...

  Dubai / WAM Aramex, a leading global provider of logistics and transportation solutions that is listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), has completed the acquisition of Access USA Shipping (MyUS), a global technology-driven platform, for an all-cash purchase price of about $265 million. The transaction, after having obtained all the necessary regulatory approvals, marks Aramex’s largest acquisition to ...

  WASHINGTON, DC / WAM The World Government Summit Organisation and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group, signed a cooperation framework to deepen their partnership around key development issues in the Arab region including supporting women entrepreneurs, on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund & World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington, DC. ...

Bloomberg Food importers from Africa to Asia are scrambling for dollars to pay their bills as a surge in the US currency drives prices even higher for countries already facing a historic global food crisis. In Ghana, importers are warning about shortages in the run up to Christmas. Thousands of containers loaded with food recently piled up at ports in ...

Bloomberg Oil slumped as concerns over a global slowdown and weaker demand vied with a tightening supply outlook after Opec+ cut output. West Texas Intermediate traded near $90 a barrel, after earlier falling as much as 2.9%. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said the US and global economies are likely to sink into recession next year, ...

  Bloomberg Oil headed for the biggest weekly gain since early March as Opec+ put the market on course for further tightening ahead of winter. West Texas Intermediate traded above $90 a barrel on Friday, bringing futures close to 12% higher for the week, as Brent topped $95 for the first time since mid-September. Time spreads were signaling supply scarcity ...

  Jeddah / WAM Dr Zamir Iqbal, Vice President, Finance, chief financial officer of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), said the bank collected $1.6 billion from its first sukuk issuance in April. The AAA-rated issuance was executed in line with the bank’s $4.1 billion financing plan for 2022, approved by the chairman. In his statement to the Emirates News Agency ...

  Dubai / WAM With the expansion of GCC urban areas, municipalities in the GCC are challenged to handle the ever-increasing waste generation through the existing landfill strategies. However, many GCC countries are already investing to improve their waste management, with deals soaring in volume and value in 2019, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in ...

Beijing / WAM China’s automobile manufacturing industry posted a 3.3 percent revenue growth in the first eight months of this year, Chinese news agency, Xinhua, reported. The sector raked in some 5.7 trillion yuan (about $802.84 billion) during the January-August period, up 3.3 percent, official data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. In the first eight months of ...

  Jeddah / WAM Dr Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser, Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group, has said that his group has provided $165.630.5 billion to finance development projects in various economic sectors, since its launch and up to June 30. In an interview with the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Dr Al Jasser said that food security is a ...