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KUWAIT – The volume of non-oil trade exchange between Kuwait and Pakistan reached USD 590 billion in 2023, Undersecretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ziad Al-Najem said Tuesday.

raders monitor stock information at the Borsa Kuwait Stock Exchange, in Kuwait City, Kuwait November 9, 2016. Image used for illustrative purpose. Stephanie McGehee

Kuwait – The decrease in oil prices led to a 10% decline in Kuwait’s trade surplus value in January compared to the same period last year, dropping from 1.2 billion dinars to 1.1 billion dinars, reports Al- Qabas daily.

Kuwait’s economic growth (real GDP) projection for 2024 was revised by the World Bank to 2.8% y/y, higher than the 2.6% y/y forecasted earlier in January 2024 owing to expectations of phasing out of OPEC+ production cuts, according to Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz).

Kuwait has invested nearly $15 billion in industrial projects and other sectors in Egypt and the assets are expected to surge in the next years following the Kuwaiti Emir’s visit to Cairo, an Egyptian newspaper said on Thursday.