Reuters Economists expect Egypt’s central bank to keep rates unchanged at its monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting on Thursday, after it raised rates by 100 basis points at its last meeting. The central bank put up its key rates by 100 basis points to their highest level in years at its last MPC meeting on June 16, a move ...

  WAM Kuwaiti ministry of Information started the implementation of law No. 8/2016 to regulate electronic media, which was approved and published in the Official Gazette recently. The new law is to regulate all web-based publications including electronic news services, bulletins, websites of newspapers and televisions and the likes. Under the legislation, all these services must obtain a license from ...

  REUTERS National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri), the exclusive oil-shipper for Saudi Aramco, reported a 47.2 percent increase in second-quarter net profit on Tuesday. The company’s net profit for the three months to June 30 was 504.18 million riyals ($134.44 million), up from 342.48 million riyals in the same period a year earlier, it said in a bourse ...