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The IMFSaid Last Month That Growth in the Non-Oil Sector Was Expected to Accelerate as the Kingdom Moved Ahead With Economic Reforms. (Shutterstock)

September 18th, 2018 - 07:18 GMT

IMF Confident Saudi Can Meet 1.9 Percent GDP Forecast

Saudi Arabia’s economy can achieve an International Monetary Fund forecast of 1.9 percent gross domestic product growth this year, the central bank governor said on Sunday.

Annual trade between the Middle East and Africa has grown fivefold to $49 billion over the past decade

January 6th, 2013 - 11:09 GMT

A new scramble for Africa?

Morsi has fired his finance minister in a mini-reshuffle ahead of a new round of IMF talks

January 6th, 2013 - 09:56 GMT

Morsi fires finance minister ahead of IMF talks

Jordan is desperately trying to slash it's growing budget deficit

January 6th, 2013 - 08:02 GMT

Jordan increases effort to slash budget deficit

The old souk of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday after Syrian government forces allegedly recaptured the area from opposition forces. (AFP PHOTO /STR)

January 6th, 2013 - 07:03 GMT

Syria: more evidence of Scud missiles emerges

The Egyptian pound slipped again on Thursday during the Central Bank of Egypt's currency auction

January 3rd, 2013 - 12:34 GMT

Egyptian pound slips again, but at slower pace

Oman's GDP grew by 8.3 per cent in 2012, faster than the seven per cent target

January 3rd, 2013 - 12:10 GMT

Oman's GDP grew by 8.3 per cent in 2012

Middle Eastern investment banking fees totalled $402 million during the first nine months of 2012

January 3rd, 2013 - 11:27 GMT

Global banks wary of Middle East operations

The death toll in the Syria conflict has reached at least 60,000.

January 3rd, 2013 - 05:08 GMT

UN: More than 60,000 killed in bloody Syria uprising, war

Egypt's Central Bank (CBE) said it offered to sell $75 million to banks on Wednesday, as part of a new currency regime

January 2nd, 2013 - 11:38 GMT

Egypt auctions $75 million to ease currency crisis

Syrian rebels have advanced on strategic bases in Aleppo and Damascus in recent days.

January 2nd, 2013 - 10:38 GMT

Syria: Battle for Idlib air base rages as jets bomb Damascus

Oman has raised planned state spending by 30 per cent previous plans

January 2nd, 2013 - 09:47 GMT

Oman hikes budget plans by 30 per cent

Signs of torture continue to emerge in Syria

January 1st, 2013 - 08:44 GMT

What 2013 washed in for Syria: dozens of tortured corpses show up in Damascus