Prime Highlights: Saudi Arabia’s inflation rate rose by 1.7% in 2024, with housing rents rising by 10.6%. The housing, water, electricity, gas, and fuel sector saw an 8.8% price increase.…

Prime Highlights: Saudi Aramco secures 145 agreements valued at $9 billion on the first day of the iktva Forum 2025. These agreements will boost local content in Saudi Arabia’s energy…

Prime Highlights: Saudi Arabia accounted for 42 of 53 IPOs in the GCC in 2024. The Kingdom raised $4.1 billion, representing 31.6% of total GCC IPO proceeds. Key Background: Saudi…

Prime Highlights: Lenovo to manufacture millions of PCs and servers annually in Saudi Arabia by 2026. The deal follows the completion of a $2 billion investment partnership with Alat, a…

Prime Highlights: The Hafr Al-Batin Investment Forum 2025 concluded with SR17 billion ($4.5 billion) in agreements. Key sectors such as agriculture, livestock, healthcare, logistics, and infrastructure were targeted. Key Background:…

Prime Highlights: Saudi public funds raise domestic money market investments by 82.4% year-on-year. The total assets held by these funds increase to SR160.1 billion ($42.6 billion). Key Background: Saudi Arabia’s…

Prime Highlights: Saudi Arabia successfully issued a $12 billion triple-tranche bond, comprising three-year, six-year, and ten-year maturities. The offering was significantly oversubscribed, with the total order book reaching $37 billion.…

Prime Highlights: Saudi Arabia's finance minister, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, has accepted the fiscal borrowing plan for the year 2025 at SR139 billion or $37 billion. The budget will meet two major…

Prime Highlights: The money supply of Saudi banks has increased by 10.3 percent on year up to November 2024, reaching a total of SR2.95 trillion, equivalent to $785.51 billion. Time…

Prime Highlights: Qatar's Q3 2024 foreign merchandise trade balance surplus stands at 57.7 billion riyals ($15.8 billion), 5% less than it was during the same period of 2023. Total exports…