Core Desk
Finance, Markets, Gulf Economics, CIS Economies
A Fuel Depot Burns Near Sulaimaniyah, and the Peg Board Barely Notices
Listen to Karim Al-Rashidi's latest column.
Spent 14 years at SAMBA Financial Group before pivoting to journalism. Has a gift for translating complex macroeconomic shifts into consequences real people feel at the grocery store.
5 articles · ~17 min total reading
Twenty injured in a northern Iraqi warehouse fire, dozens of tankers destroyed — and the crude curve shrugs. A brief on why the dirham and riyal read exactly what they read yesterd
The dirham sits at 3.6725 and the riyal at 3.7500, but the Kingdom's week produced three data points that traders should read as macro signals.
A geopolitical file reopens in Ankara, Moscow demands answers, and the Gulf's two anchors close Saturday exactly where they opened Monday.
