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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.
Partnerships
One Business Season took part in a high-level meeting at the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, advancing cooperation between Brazil, the UAE and the Office of H.H. Sheikh AbdulHakim Al Maktoum on trade, investment and innovation.
