\Asian investors are piling into Gulf bonds and loans this year,
reflecting both deepening trade and finance ties with the fast-growing
region and an uncertain outlook elsewhere, including the world’s top two
economies, the United States and China.
Asian investors flock to Gulf debt in hunt for yield and growth
By Reuters
Reuters/Cheryl Ravelo
Asian investors bought 40 percent of Qatar's $1 billion 3-year bond last month
Gulf-Asia trade was $516bn last year
Gulf to grow 3.9% this year, IMF says
Gulf bonds offer higher yields than Asian debt
Asian investors are piling into Gulf bonds and loans this year,
reflecting both deepening trade and finance ties with the fast-growing
region and an uncertain outlook elsewhere, including the world’s top two
economies, the United States and China.
The financial district in Riyadh. Only three out of 11 companies that
listed in Saudi Arabia this year are trading above their offer price
Decision after book-building process
No reason given by EFSIM
IPO worth potential $90m
Property manager EFSIM Facilities Management has withdrawn its
initial public offering from the Saudi Exchange the day after its
book-building process ended.
Russian military personnel, advisors, and missile specialists have officially arrived in Venezuela — and the activation of advanced air-defense systems has already begun.
This move instantly raises the stakes across the Western Hemisphere and forces Washington to reassess assumptions it has relied on for decades.
In today’s deep-dive, we break down:
✔️ What Russia sent — personnel, systems, and real capabilities
✔️ Why Venezuela is escalating its strategic posture right now
✔️ How this affects U.S. military planning in the region
✔️ What neighboring countries are preparing for
✔️ The long-term implications for global power competition
This isn’t a symbolic deployment. It’s a calculated shift — and the timing couldn’t be more significant.
Do you think Russia will expand its presence even further in the region?
Will this spark a new era of great-power competition in the Western Hemisphere?
Drop your thoughts in the comments — let’s talk strategy.
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Federal Reserve kicks off meeting ahead of expected rate cut
Dec 9, 2025, 2:56am MST
Aaron Schwartz/Reuters
The
Federal Reserve, widely expected to lower interest rates Wednesday for
the third time this year, kicks off its two-day meeting today.
Gathering
policymakers must simultaneously grapple with
growing internal
divisions over the best path forward; the Trump administration’s ongoing
search for the next Fed chair;
a looming Supreme Court ruling on the
president’s ability to fire independent agency officials; and, of
course,
President Donald Trump’s continued campaign for dramatically
lower interest rates as he seeks to make life more affordable for
Americans.
That campaign is sure to feature prominently in Trump’s remarks on inflation
today at Pennsylvania’s Mount Airy Resort, despite mounting evidence
that it may not be so straightforward:
Treasury yields hit multi-month
highs Monday in a key sign that bond traders remain worried about rising prices.
(Bloomberg) --
The bond market’s reaction to the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts
has been highly unusual. By some measures, a disconnect like this, with
Treasury yields climbing as the central bank lowers rates, hasn’t been
seen since the 1990s.
What the divergence
indicates is a matter of heated debate. Opinions are all over the place,
from the bullish (a sign of confidence that recession will be averted)
to the more neutral (a return to pre-2008 market norms) to the favorite
culprit of the so-called bond vigilantes (investors are losing
confidence the US will ever rein in the constantly swelling national
debt).
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, thinks Netflix’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery will likely get derailed by federal antitrust cops, he told Burgess Everett.
“I
have grave doubts about the ability of that deal” to survive a federal
antitrust review, Lee said, calling it “a lot of market consolidation.”
“I
will not be surprised if this gets thwarted,” he added.
Lee, a member
of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also said there would be hearings on
the proposed deal.
Meanwhile, Paramount is ramping up its
lobbying after launching its hostile takeover offer. Paramount CEO David
Ellison spent Tuesday meeting with major shareholders in Warner Bros.
Discovery, seeking to convince them to turn their shares over to him,
Semafor’s Rohan Goswami scooped.
Three people he met with said investors walked away reassured by what they saw from Ellison and his top team.
Oklahoma’s
Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, criticized the Trump administration
for its handling of wind energy projects during a Semafor event focused on permitting reform.
“It’s
very disappointing,” Stitt told Semafor’s Ben Smith when asked about
the administration’s efforts to kill wind projects, like a nearly-finished project in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
“That just looks like politics when you’re canceling those.”
Stitt
said he has raised the issue in conversations with Energy Secretary
Chris Wright. “We’ve got to be agnostic on these issues,” he continued.
His comments came soon after a federal judge struck down President Donald Trump’s order halting wind projects on federal lands and waters.
Sens.
Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., also expressed cautious
optimism about the prospect of a permitting deal in Congress next year,
during separate interviews with Semafor’s Burgess Everett.
> Lee,
who leads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, described
himself as “guardedly optimistic” about the prospect of a breakthrough.
> He cited conversations he is having with Heinrich and others across the
aisle and said that he has talked to Senate leadership.
Permitting reform could “absolutely” be on the Senate floor next year, Lee said.
Still, there’s reason to be skeptical, after a bipartisan deal passed out of the Senate last year only to be blocked by the House.
Lee
said members “ran out of game clock” last time and that he believes
there is more urgency now, citing the growing power demands of data
centers amid the artificial intelligence race.
Heinrich, the top
Democrat on the committee, said he is “optimistic that this is a space
where we’re more aligned than maybe some of the other spaces.” He added
that he’s more worried about the Trump administration’s action stopping
projects than about Congress’ lack of agreement on the issue of
permitting reform.
President Donald Trump’s tease
of his executive order aimed at banning state artificial intelligence
regulations is a clear message to Congress: If it won’t make policy,
then he will.
“We’ve got senators for sure who have very
thoughtful views on both sides of the issue. I’d rather see Congress
sort this out,” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Semafor.
The AI
moratorium divides the GOP — that’s why Trump didn’t get it in the
defense policy bill — but Trump’s unilateral move could prompt action.
“We shouldn’t be doing a moratorium. We should be doing something, though,” said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
In fact, the whole imbroglio can be traced back to congressional inaction.
“The
reason why the states want to do it is because Congress is slow in
getting something done for the country,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D.
