Economy

For internationally mobile professionals, families, and investors considering a move to the UAE, the choice between Dubai and Abu Dhabi is one of the...

In January 2018, Mohamad Ballout and three co-founders launched a company with a premise that many in Dubai's restaurant industry considered absurd: instead of...

Gold has sat at the centre of Gulf culture, commerce and investment for millennia, and 2025 gave no sign of that loosening. What is...

As digitalisation accelerates across the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, cybersecurity has emerged as one of the most critical risk domains for governments and private...

When Khalid Al Ameri first began posting videos on Facebook from his Abu Dhabi apartment in 2014, the concept of an Emirati man narrating...

Most entrepreneurs point to a university project, a failed job, or a late-night idea as the origin of their first business. Dr. Sara Al...

Dubai handles more physical gold than almost anywhere else on the planet. The city's position at the intersection of African, Asian, and European trade...

There is a particular irony in the fact that Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, the man who disrupted Saudi Arabia's financial sector with a new generation of...

The United Arab Emirates operates two primary stock exchanges, the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), alongside the internationally...

The Emirates Group has reported a net profit of USD 3.8 billion for its financial year ending 31 March 2026, a 31 percent increase...

In 2019, Hosam Arab was sitting in a modest Dubai apartment with a whiteboard, a co-founder, and a single conviction: that the GCC's hundreds...

The United Arab Emirates dirham has been pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 3.6725 AED per USD since November 1997,...