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BlackRock: a financial giant that controls the world Diana Estefanía Rubio

BlackRock: a financial giant that controls the world

Four financial giants, BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, and State Street, have emerged as the silent powers behind many of the world's largest companies. These firms control around $32tn in…

Al Majalla - London 01, Apr 2025
A currency exchange shop in Moscow displays the Russian ruble to dollar exchange rate on November 27, 2024. AFP

Even if sanctions are eased, Russia's economy will be strained

While some indicators are positive, others are troubling. The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House has given the Kremlin a political boost, and lifting sanctions will help, but it is no panacea.

Nazareth Seferian 16, Mar 2025
Students from Oman Tourism College. Shutterstock

Oman's youth investment drive set to pay dividends

Investment in education and training is bringing more Omanis into the workforce as reform and development plans energise small and medium-sized enterprises to create jobs

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 29, Jan 2025
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev  at the Eurasian Economic Union summit in Moscow on May 8, 2024. Evgenia Novozhenina / AFP

Will Eurasian Economic Union growth continue into 2025?

The Russia-dominated union has demonstrated impressive growth functioning as an economic bloc but politically not all members see eye to eye

Nazareth Seferian 30, Dec 2024
Adrián Astorgano

Israel’s economic pains deepen as its regional wars widen

With a growing budget deficit, soaring military expenditure, slowing growth, big projects pulled, and inflation on the rise, Israel's economic challenges are numerous

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 14, Dec 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump, while attending the “America First” Institute of Politics gala in Florida, November 14, 2024. Reuters

The biggest losers from Trumponomics

America's president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows

The Economist 01, Dec 2024
Al Majalla

Germany’s economic crossroads: From miracle to malaise

Once Europe's economic powerhouse, Germany faces a perfect storm of stalled growth, industrial decline, and structural hurdles. What should it do?

Toufic Chanbour 28, Nov 2024
Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari receives Saudi investment minister Khalid Al-Falih SPA

Saudi Arabia's $2.2bn investment deepens economic ties with Pakistan

Top-level political backing for the Kingdom's latest support for its ally adds to hope that more is to come after a top-level signing ceremony this month

Kaswar Klasra 16, Oct 2024
A man inspects the rubble of a house destroyed in Israeli bombardment in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila. Hassan FNEICH / AFP

War has hurt Israel's economy but devastated Lebanon's

Both countries have suffered massive economic blows. But Lebanon's economy was already on its knees before the war, making recovery and reconstruction all the more difficult.

Salwa Baalbaki 27, Sep 2024
If Lebanon is greylisted by the FATF, its reputation will be further damaged and it's economy further weakened. Axel Rangel Garcia

Will Riad Salameh's arrest keep Lebanon off the FATF greylist?

The dragging of the country's former central bank governor through the courts on embezzlement charges may be linked to the monitoring by a key finance body charged with combating money laundering.

Salwa Baalbaki 12, Sep 2024
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US-Houthi ceasefire fuels Israeli fears of an Iran deal

09 May 2025

The Yemeni militant group is proving to be a stubborn adversary, and Trump doesn't want anything to detract from his visit to the Gulf next week, where he plans to make a 'big' announcement

Michael Horowitz
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

A new economic order is emerging, and tariffs play no part in it

07 May 2025

China has been quietly working to rewrite the rules of global trade and finds itself in a strong position in the current trade war launched by Washington. A look around the world shows why.

Shirley Ze Yu
Ewan White
Politics

Why Libya isn't the right model for Iran’s nuclear climbdown

08 May 2025

Israel wants the total dismantlement and scrapping of all Iranian nuclear facilities, just like in Libya two decades ago. That is unrealistic for several reasons.

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Rahaf Saad, a Palestinian girl who lost her legs in an Israeli air strike. REUTERS
Culture & Social Affairs

Missing limbs and broken dreams: Gaza's generation of child amputees

03 May 2025

Israel's war on Gaza has created the "largest cohort of child amputees in modern history". On the ground, Al Majalla speaks to affected families.

Houssam Marouf
Opinion

Trump's 'unforced errors' could accelerate America's decline

06 May 2025

If history is any judge, Trump's tariffs and damaging actions towards US allies could speed up the emergence of a multipolar world, much like George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq

Christopher Phillips

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