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Market Insights & Strategy

FAB’s Market Insights & Strategy team is based within the bank’s Global Markets business and as such provides finger-on-the-pulse insights and views on macroeconomic and geopolitical developments as well as Rates, FX, Oil, and Fixed Income, among other areas.


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GCC and Egypt Macro Weekly:
A Plateau Perspective

15 September 2023

Our weekly analysis offering a strategic outlook for the coming week, along with key macro themes and trends impacting the GCC & Egypt region. The report also includes a recap on the past week, as well as a summary of the key data releases and macro events in the week ahead; along with macro chart packs covering the MENA & Global Markets.

Simon Ballard, Chief Economist

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GCC and Egypt Macro Weekly:
Tapping the GDP barometer

08 September 2023

Our weekly analysis offering a strategic outlook for the coming week, along with key macro themes and trends impacting the GCC & Egypt region. The report also includes a recap on the past week, as well as a summary of the key data releases and macro events in the week ahead; along with macro chart packs covering the MENA & Global Markets.

Simon Ballard, Chief Economist

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FAB Macro Strategy:
UAE & KSA GDP forecast update

07 September 2023

In the context of the recent extension of OPEC+ oil production cuts to the end of this year – and the clear net negative implication that we believe this could have on GCC oil producers’ petrochemical revenues and sovereign balance sheets – we are today revisiting our forecasts for United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) and Saudi Arabia’s (KSA) real GDP growth for 2023 and 2024.

Simon Ballard, Chief Economist

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GCC and Egypt Macro Weekly:
Bric by bric (sic)

01 September 2023

Our weekly analysis offering a strategic outlook for the coming week, along with key macro themes and trends impacting the GCC & Egypt region. The report also includes a recap on the past week, as well as a summary of the key data releases and macro events in the week ahead; along with macro chart packs covering the MENA & Global Markets.

Simon Ballard, Chief Economist

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GCC and Egypt Macro Weekly:
Look into the Hole

25 August 2023

Our weekly analysis offering a strategic outlook for the coming week, along with key macro themes and trends impacting the GCC & Egypt region. The report also includes a recap on the past week, as well as a summary of the key data releases and macro events in the week ahead; along with macro chart packs covering the MENA & Global Markets.

Simon Ballard, Chief Economist

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Climate Change vs Energy Security – ‘Getting the balance right’

08 August 2023

In this piece, we have tried to briefly outline the serious risks that climate change poses to our planet. However, the transition to cleaner energy also needs to be well-planned and stable, otherwise it could put humanity at an even greater risk in the near term. Therefore whilst acknowledging the fact that climate change is a real and present danger, we also suggest that that the world will need certain fossil fuels such as oil and gas for some time to come in order to manage this energy transition correctly.

Glenn Wepener, Chief Strategist, Market Insights & Strategy

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