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Saudi Arabia’s banks could raise a record amount of debt this year to fund Crown Prince MBS' Vision 2030 projects trib.al/mQb72Io

🇨🇳 China foreign exchange reserves 1990: $7 billion Now: $3.2 trillion

Abu Dhabi’s ADQ is considering a listing for Etihad Airways, potentially making it the first of the Gulf’s major hub carriers to become publicly-traded trib.al/KXGDQ0W

Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding cnbc.com/2024/02/29/rob…

Nvidia is set to become the first semiconductor firm with a $2 trillion valuation trib.al/tfVSPMZ

Samsung sells its entire $930 million stake in ASML in a push to expand into new areas of chipmaking trib.al/awMier5

China cuts benchmark 5-year lending rate for the first time since June cnbc.com/2024/02/20/chi…

Brazil’s economy grew more than expected in December, indicating activity is still showing some resilience to high interest rates trib.al/cNfiYnJ

Saudi Global Ports, which is owned by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund and Singapore’s PSA, is considering an IPO in Riyadh, sources say trib.al/pCq1ZbP

SoftBank’s stock rose as founder Masayoshi Son considers the creation of a $100 billion chip venture that would supply AI-enabling semiconductors trib.al/ctt6L60

China held off cutting a key interest rate as it assesses recent measures to boost the economy and markets trib.al/Wuqu9Lv

Global rice markets are in crisis amid 'artificial' shortage cnbc.com/2023/11/07/glo…

“UAE is a serious player” in the AI space, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Omar Al Olama says trib.al/6ckLTgC

Thailand is considering raising about $1 billion through its first foreign-currency sovereign bond sale in two decades trib.al/dTYPTIL

Bitcoin regains $1 trillion market cap as the cryptocurrency hits over two-year high cnbc.com/2024/02/14/bit…

The Moscow Exchange halts stock market trading for the second day in a row trib.al/tG1zw41

India plans to invest about $9 billion to power 10 million homes with rooftop solar panels trib.al/vZm4whp

SoftBank’s Vision Fund, once known for splashy ten-figure valuations, now plans to start investing "timidly” -- right at the start of a generative AI boom. trib.al/KLzJwkN

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says the United Arab Emirates could serve as the world’s “regulatory sandbox” to test artificial intelligence technologies trib.al/CxsfRQG

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks as much as $7 trillion for new AI chip project: WSJ cnbc.com/2024/02/09/ope…