Doha Investment will manage QIA's domestic portfolio, including Qatar Airways, QNB and Ooredoo. Consolidation can improve ownership discipline, but only transactions and governance will show whether it expands the private sector.
The first North Field East train remains on schedule for early 2027, but the Hormuz crisis is disrupting equipment deliveries for later trains. The vulnerability is shifting from export routes to project execution.
Draft risk-based capital rules would tie insurer solvency requirements more closely to the risks on their books, raising the value of scale, data and sophisticated risk management.
Houthi attacks are turning a new Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani security framework from diplomatic language into a test of technical support, procurement and localisation.
The next phase of Gulf cloud competition is not only about GPUs and megawatts. Microsoft is pairing new AI capacity with subsea links, sovereign cloud and infrastructure designed to survive regional disruption.
The restart of Saudi Arabia's route to Yanbu is easing oil prices and exposing a crucial distinction in the Gulf crisis: chokepoint disruption raises costs dramatically without stopping every barrel.
Tracked commercial traffic through the Strait fell dramatically below pre-conflict norms, reinforcing the cost and capacity pressure now running through Gulf oil and shipping markets.
Visible Strait of Hormuz traffic remains dramatically below pre-war levels while ship-to-ship transfers and alternative routes help Gulf producers preserve crude exports at much higher cost.
The younger brother of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is remembered for decades of public service spanning Dubai's security institutions, the UAE's early military development, business and sport.
A Dubai Press Club and Deloitte report estimates AI-in-media spending across MENA at $520 million in 2026, with the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar accounting for 51% of regional expenditure.
A country-by-country tracker separating announced, financed, under-construction and operating AI infrastructure across the GCC.
The latest disruption is a reminder that Saudi Arabia's ability to produce crude and its ability to move barrels safely to customers are separate pieces of the global oil-security equation.
How the UAE-Israel CEPA created a durable commercial framework for goods, services and investment after normalization.
The pipeline was built to give Saudi crude a route to the Red Sea without crossing Hormuz. Its precautionary shutdown shows why alternative export infrastructure has become part of the oil price itself.
Saudi Arabia's western oil system combines the East-West Pipeline with Yanbu terminals and access to Suez, SUMED and the Cape route, creating the Gulf's deepest alternative to Hormuz.
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