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Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. We’ll be covering: Riyadh and Abu Dhabi move to mend Yemen rift, U.S. and Iran trade proposals and denials Microsoft pours $10 billion into Gulf…
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Many people on Wall Street expected tokenization—the process of turning assets into tokens that can be traded on a blockchain—to amount to little more than reproducing legacy financial products on…
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At 9:25 a.m. Eastern Time on September 30, 2026, the price of oil sits at $102.56 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s…
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Starting this week, all of Robinhood’s roughly 29 million customers will have access to trading agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Customers will be able to choose between various OpenAI…
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The current average refinance rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate home loan is 7.534%, according to Mortgage Research Center data. If you’re a homeowner hoping to refinance your mortgage for a…
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The average interest rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate conforming mortgage loan in the U.S. is 7.455%, up from the day before, according to data from Mortgage Research Center. Meanwhile, the…
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If you’re the type of homebuyer who is willing to deal with a little uncertainty in exchange for the possibility of getting a low rate, an adjustable-rate mortgage might be…
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Homeowners can access the value they’ve built in their property, whether through steady mortgage payments or an all-cash purchase, by taking out either a home equity loan or a home…
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Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp is best known in the U.S. for his controversial $450 billion AI defense company, but in Sweden, he’s ruffled feathers for another reason: snapping…
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Saudi Arabia’s IPO market is currently grappling with its weakest performance in years. Recommended Video Just three companies—Dar Al Balad, Saleh Abdulaziz Al Rashed, and MSGA—have listed across Saudi Arabia’s…
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