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Widest protests since Assad’s fall put Syrian government fuel price hike on trial
Damascus is trying to close a USD 1 bn budget hole, and is reaching for Saudi tech players to help…
Jordan’s foreign direct investments mismatch: Why the currency peg, not visa rules, decides where capital goes
Foreign investment isn’t scarce in Jordan. Property draws individual buyers and Gulf capital drives the megaprojects, but the tradable and…
Kuwait bans cash payments for real estate, gold, and precious stones transactions
PLUS: Syria restarts two natural gas wells in Deir Azzor
Kuwait looks to Future Generations Fund for liquidity amid war headwinds
The government passed a decree that allows it to borrow from the Future Generations Fund, an arm of the Kuwait…
Sandbox trial puts Egypt on the same tokenization track the UAE has been running since 2023
The Gulf is already tokenizing sovereign funds, physical assets, and Apple stock. Egypt is starting with a money market ledger
Iraq targets industrial fuel subsidies as Baghdad braves 2026 without a budget
Households are spared and industry pays the market rate, but the implementing instructions have not been published, and the pricing…
Turkey’s markets watchdog tightens hedge-fund ownership limits with MSCI deadline in view
New tiered ceilings target possible coordinated trading MSCI flagged in Turkish small-caps
IMF calls Lebanon’s amended bank resolution law a “major step” as the World Bank pencils in a 6.4% contraction
Implementation risk and the yet-to-be-passed law regulating depositors’ refunds could still derail the possibility of a rescue package
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