Asset manager BlackRock will launch an investment platform in Riyadh with the help of a $5 billion anchor investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund. The announcement Tuesday followed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between BlackRock's Saudi division and the PIF with the...
Here’s everything to expect when the Fed wraps up its meeting Wednesday
Faced with stubborn inflation that has raised concerns about where policy is headed, the Federal Reserve has been ensnared in a holding pattern that likely will be reflected when it closes its meeting Wednesday. Markets are anticipating a near-zero chance that the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's policy-setting...
Saudi Arabia says all NEOM megaprojects will go ahead as planned despite reports of scaling back
Saudi Arabia's economy minister rejected recent reports that the kingdom's $1.5 trillion NEOM megaproject, a futuristic desert development on the Red Sea coast, is scaling back some of its plans. "All projects are moving full steam ahead," Faisal Al Ibrahim told CNBC's Dan Murphy on Monday at the World...
WEF president: ‘We haven’t seen this kind of debt since the Napoleonic Wars’
Borge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum, gave a stark outlook for the global economy saying the world faces a decade of low growth if the right economic measures are not applied. Speaking Sunday at WEF's "Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development" in Riyadh,...