| Kuwait >> 12/28/2017 - Kuwait’s deputy foreign minister said that the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council would continue to operate despite a row among three of its members and Qatar that it has unsuccessfully sought to m... |
| Kuwait >> 12/28/2017 - First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah left the country heading to Saudi Arabia upon an official invitation by Saudi Crown Prince, Deputy P... |
| Bahrain >> 12/28/2017 - Trade deficit in the first 10 months of this year rose by 11 percent compared to the same period of last year, according to figures of Department of Statistics. The difference between the val... |
| Egypt >> 12/28/2017 - Acting Premier and Housing Minister Mostafa Madboly held a meeting to follow up the performance of a committee tasked with providing loans for small and medium-sized enterprises. The meeting... |
| Egypt >> 12/28/2017 - Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr said that the number of new foreign investors on the bourse hit 1,150 in 2017 at an increase rate of 26 percent compared to the past y... |
| Algeria >> 12/28/2017 - Bank credits granted to the economy are expected to grow by more than 10% in 2017 after a 7% growth in the first half, said the head of the Association of Banks and Financial Institutions (ABEF) Boual... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 12/28/2017 - Distance Learning and Training Company Group (DLT), the strategic partner of the Union of News Agencies of the organization of Islamic Cooperation, signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with th... |
| Egypt >> 12/31/2017 - Egyptian companies will begin applying price tags to food products starting or else be subject to legal penalties, state-run news agency MENA quoted Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi ... |
| Egypt >> 12/31/2017 - Egypt will maintain its customs exchange rate at EGP 16 per US dollar, effective , till the end of January 2018. In an official statement the finance ministry said the decision to keep the c... |
| Egypt >> 12/31/2017 - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued his directives to continue efforts aimed at comprehensive development of the electricity sector. This came in a meeting between the president and Actin... |
| Egypt >> 12/31/2017 - The customs dollar exchange rate will be fixed at 16 pounds during January, the Finance Ministry said . The decision to maintain the price of the customs dollar comes in light of a stable exc... |
| Bahrain >> 12/31/2017 - Bahrain All Share Index has closed at 1,331.71 points marking an increase of 25.68 points above the previous closing . This increase was due to the rise in the Commercial Banks Sector, Invest... |
| Bahrain >> 1/1/2018 - The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) announced that this week’s BD 70 million issue of Government Treasury Bills has been fully subscribed by 100%. The bills, carrying a maturity of 91 days, are... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 1/1/2018 - The government announced an increase in gasoline prices , part of the economic reforms post the hike in electricity tariff, introduction of VAT, and citizen account program, affirming its commitment o... |
| Algeria >> 1/1/2018 - Algeria and Russia have confirmed in 2017 their willingness to reinforce their economic partnership, following Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Algiers last October. |
| Egypt >> 1/1/2018 - Egypt is moving forward in 2018 with structural reforms that helped make the nation’s assets among the best performers in the Middle East. Foreign holdings of treasury bills was about $19 bil... |
| Tunisia >> 1/1/2018 - Tunisia announced the second increase in fuel prices in six months, raising the price of petrol by 2.85 percent as the government tries to rein in the budget deficit. The price of a litre of... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 1/1/2018 - Further to the statement of the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources issued on the plan of the financial balance program to correct the prices of energy products (local oil derivatives) ... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 1/1/2018 - Saudi Arabia begins the implementation of value added tax (VAT) by virtue of the GCC VAT agreement approved by member states in December 2015. Saudi General Authority for Zakat and Income (G... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 1/1/2018 - The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has announced that the Federal Financial System has been updated and is ready to manage all financial transactions related to the value added tax (VAT). All fede... |
