SAUDI ARABIA. The world's largest crude exporter shipped 197,824 metric tons of the fuel in August, up from 110,763 tons the previous year, according to port authority data.
INTERNATIONAL. Bahrain has maintained its position as a key insurance hub and continues to post growth in its insurance market despite a prolonged period of political turbulence.
UAE. "The general trading atmosphere is sufficiently negative for gold to enable sellers to have a firm grip on the market. However, I fail to see how the rally in the stock markets can be put into any sensible relation to the economic plight of the underlying countries."