Zawya

#ADNOC Gas has reported a 101% uptick in its net profit from the previous quarter to deliver $1.34 billion for Q3 on the back of a strong operational performance of its domestic gas arm, LNG, export-traded liquids (ETL) and sulphur businesses lseg.group/4k8rqUi

The UAE's non-oil foreign #trade reached AED 2.945 trillion in the first nine months of 2026, up 10.1% on the same period last year and approaching the AED 3 trillion mark for the first time lseg.group/3VjrUg5

JP Morgan said on Thursday that Saudi Arabia and the #Philippines will be added to its closely followed ‌local-currency emerging #marketdebt index over a 10-month period starting from January 29, 2027 lseg.group/4C4e6qz

Saudi Arabia’s Aljazira Bank plans to issue Saudi riyal-denominated #sukuk under its SAR 3 billion ($800 million) Tier 2 Capital Sukuk Programme lseg.group/4eNy1zM

Saudi Arabia’s Aljazira Bank plans to issue Saudi riyal-denominated sukuk under its SAR 3 billion ($800 million) Tier 2 Capital Sukuk Programme lseg.group/4eNy1zM

UAE’s non-oil private sector expanded in October as output growth remained strong, but firms hiked selling prices to offset spiralling input costs, a new survey of businesses showed on Wednesday lseg.group/4kyBjdP

DIP Holding, a subsidiary of #DubaiInvestments, has set the final price for its IPO at 1.12 UAE dirhams per share ($0.30), just shy of the highest offer price from a marketed range of AED 1.10 ($0.29) to AED 1.15 ($0.31) per share lseg.group/3X5mWUD

Abu Dhabi’s #investment company XRG has agreed to acquire Shell’s 16.67% non-operated interest in an Australian liquefied natural gas (LNG) project for $1.45 billion lseg.group/3WoVbpR

Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) has approved the new regulatory provisions designed to improve initial public offering (#IPO) practices in the Kingdom, boost transparency and strengthen the share listing environment lseg.group/4zrnAdJ

International #investors took the vast majority of shares allocated in Banque du Caire's (BdC) record #IPO on the EGX, Amr Helal, CEO of sell-side Investment Banking at CI Capital, told Zawya lseg.group/4z1JRxF

Bahrain-based alternative #investment firm Arcapita Group Holdings plans to invest $1.5 billion in industrial and logistics #realestate across the GCC over the next 24 months lseg.group/4yX3SW5

The state-backed Energy Oman is marketing a 50 million rial local currency #sukuk ($130 million), with a greenshoe option of OMR 25 million ($65 million) lseg.group/4ijJTMj

The recent correction in the Saudi #stockexchange, coupled with lower valuations, has created more attractive entry points for investors, according to Alrajhi Capital lseg.group/4A3hC2p

#FitchRatings expects cross-sector funding and diversification needs, along with a likely 25 basis points (bps) US Fed rate increase in December, could support debt issuance activity across the GCC in the fourth quarter of 2026 lseg.group/4yQsgbV

Total #bond issuance across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reached $129.7 billion during the first nine months of 2026, down 10% from the same period a year earlier, while the number of deals declined 26% to 157, according to LSEG data lseg.group/4ignRZl

Egypt’s state-owned Banque du Caire will price its IPO at EGP 5.30 per share, the top of its indicative range, valuing the lender at EGP 80.8 billion at listing, two investment #bankers with knowledge of the transaction told Zawya lseg.group/47BeXAX

Abu Dhabi–based conglomerate Alpha Dhabi Holding has committed $1 billion (AED3.67 billion) to Alpha Wave III, a global #investment fund managed by Alpha Wave Global lseg.group/4zcVzq6

Abu Dhabi’s flagship #renewableenergy company Masdar, rated A1/AA-/AA-, has set the final pricing for its $600 million five-year blue bond at 115 basis points (bps) over the five-year US Treasury benchmark lseg.group/4zFpve4

Abu Dhabi drove a wave of M&A, asset consolidations and strategic #investments in the first nine months of 2026, defying regional geopolitical uncertainty to reinforce its strategy of allocating state-backed capital to long-term value creation lseg.group/4i7MiYT

Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) saw its net earnings dip slightly in the first nine months of the year despite higher gross #revenues lseg.group/4zPtZiF