By Andres Gonzalez, Amy-Jo Crowley, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro and Hadeel Al Sayegh LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s STC Group has amassed a 9.9% stake in Telefonica worth 2.1 billion euros…
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will invest up to $25 billion in Pakistan over the next two to five years in various sectors, Pakistan’s caretaker Prime…
By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle chose to remain silent when they appeared before Federal Police on Thursday to testify in…
By Rishav Chatterjee (Reuters) -Standard Chartered said on Monday it was selling its global aviation finance leasing business to Saudi Arabia-based AviLease for about $3.6 billion, as part of a…
UN Warns Big Banks Their Investments In Saudi Oil Company Could Violate Human Rights Laws Nick Pope on August 25, 2023 The United Nations (UN) warned several major banks Friday…
SHOSHANA BRYEN: The Biden Admin Should Stay Out Of Israel’s Talks With Saudi Arabia Shoshana Bryen on August 14, 2023 The brilliance of the Abraham Accords of 2020 is twofold:…
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel ruled out on Sunday any eventual physical mission in Jerusalem for the first Saudi envoy to the Palestinians, even as they cast his appointment…
By Dan Peleschuk and Anna Dabrowska KYIV (Reuters) – Saudi-hosted talks last weekend were a “breakthrough” for Kyiv that showed it is possible to rally global support around the 10-point…
By Xie Yu and Selena Li HONG KONG (Reuters) – China and Saudi Arabia’s stock exchanges are in talks to allow exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to list on each other’s bourses,…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday it needed to learn more about the purpose of talks planned in Saudi Arabia about the war in Ukraine, but Ukraine made it…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Normalisation of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel would harm regional peace and stability, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday. U.S. President Joe Biden…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian Mining Company, known as Ma’aden, has agreed to acquire a 10% stake in Brazil’s base metals company Vale, it said in a bourse statement on…
By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabian authorities have detained five relatives of a U.S. citizen, rights groups said on Wednesday, arguing that the detentions were retaliation for his…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s foreign direct investment inflows reached 8.1 billion Riyals ($2.16 billion) in the first quarter of 2023, up 10.2% from the same quarter a year prior,…
DUBAI (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund cut its 2023 GDP growth projection for Saudi Arabia to 1.9% in its latest World Economic Outlook update released on Tuesday, to reflect the…
‘Woke’ Investing Titan Just Put A Saudi Oil CEO On Its Board Nick Pope on July 18, 2023 BlackRock announced Monday that it has placed Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi…
Green Investment Funds Ended Up In The Hands Of A Saudi Arabian Oil Company: REPORT Nick Pope on July 12, 2023 Money invested in environmental, social and governance (ESG)-sensitive investment…
VIENNA (Reuters) – Saudi National Bank wanted to increase its stake in Credit Suisse to around 40% from 9.88%, but was prevented from doing so by Swiss regulator FINMA, Blick…
(Reuters) – Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and TotalEnergies have signed an $11 billion contract to start building a new petrochemicals complex in Saudi Arabia, the two companies said in…
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Saudi Central Bank, known as SAMA, may need to inject liquidity into the banking sector like it did last year as interbank rates sit at their…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – BlackRock sees strong demand from its global clients for infrastructure investments in Saudi Arabia, Rachel Lord, Head of APAC at the asset manager, said on Wednesday.…
Saudi Arabia Inks Multi-Billion Dollar Deal With China As Kingdom Seeks To ‘Collaborate’ With CCP Philip Lenczycki on June 12, 2023 The Saudi Arabian government announced its intention to “collaborate”…
Saudi Prince Threatened ‘Major Economic Consequences’ After Biden Spat: REPORT Nick Pope on June 9, 2023 A leaked intelligence document reveals that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman privately…
By Dmitry Zhdannikov, Ahmad Ghaddar and Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia kept under wraps its plan to make a deep cut to its own oil output during a…
By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) – The Arab League’s welcoming back of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad into its ranks highlights how far behind Qatar has fallen in its bid to…