Global stock markets — the Saudi Tadawul included — suffered a surge of panic last week on the fear of higher inflation.

Just as the world begins to recover from the impact of the pandemic recession, the so-called “specter” of inflation is said to be rearing its head over the global economy.

The US economy is “ready for take-off,” American President Joe Biden said in his first speech to Congress; news the rest of the world has been waiting to hear for a long time.

What are the business implications of the disastrous attempt by six English football clubs, and a few others from Spain and Italy, to break away from their national leagues and set up a European “Super League”?

I boarded a Boeing 777 just over a week ago for the 16-hour flight to Los Angeles with three goals in mind.

To see my granddaughters who live in California, especially six-month-old Uma Grace, for the first time.

Joe McMonigle, secretary general of the International Energy Forum, hit the nail on the head with his reaction to Sunday’s attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities by groups backed by the Iranian government.

Could the kind of mayhem that hit US markets last week make an appearance in the Middle East?

Which should business executives prioritize when making a strategic decision about office location: Potential for doing business or quality of lifestyle?

The final proof, for anybody still requiring it, that financial markets are totally divorced from the everyday world most people inhabit has come in the past week. Call it the Insurrection Boom.

“Rome was not built in a day,” the saying goes, and it is obvious that the challenges of building a new metropolis from scratch are enormous.