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As sustainable bond issuance falls sharply across the world, the Gulf is moving the other way, with a record year for green Islamic finance and a pipeline of clean energy to fund. The region is building green finance on its own terms.
Economy
A new reading of global business finds that trade is not shrinking but redrawing its routes, with the UAE named among the emerging nodes of the world's supply networks. For a country built as a crossroads, that is the most valuable place to be.
Economy
Through a year of regional and global disruption, 98 percent of foreign investment in the UAE was left untouched, and non-oil sectors now account for 79 percent of the economy. The two figures together explain why the country absorbed the shocks with so little visible strain.
Markets
The second half of 2026 turns on a small set of connected risks, from a fragile energy truce to a stretched artificial intelligence boom and a shifting trade regime. None is certain to break, but each is large enough to change the path of the whole global economy.
