Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Women Hala Mohammed Al-Ansari said that the percentage of individual records owned by Bahraini women in 2018 reached 47%.

Kuwaiti official sources said that Kuwait is to buy shares owned by Public Authority for Social Insurance (pension fund) in Bahraini companies, within its plan to help rescue Bahrain financially.

The European Union, Switzerland and the United States have complained at the World Trade Organisation about an excise tax imposed by several Gulf Arab states on carbonated and energy drinks, according to notes of a WTO meeting and diplomatic sources.

Most Middle East stock markets shed value on Tuesday, hit by a drop in oil prices and reflecting a slump in global stocks.

The International Monetary fund (IMF) expected on Sunday (July 15, 2018) that Bahrain’s growth is to decelerate over the medium term due to the large and growing debt bill. IMF said that reserves remain low, covering only 1.5 months of prospective non-oil imports at end 2017.

Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) published a report on the retail price benchmarking study of telecommunications services in Arab countries for 2017.

Official information published by the Information and eGovernment Authority in Bahrain showed a decline in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and economic growth rate in the first quarter of 2018, compared with the first quarter of 2017.

President of the Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB) Salman bin Abdulla Al Khalifa announced that trading in real estate in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the first quarter of 2018 reached about half million BD, indicating that the real estate and services sector achieved 3.8% growth and that the number of real estate transactions during the first half of this year increased by almost 21%.

Bahrain's gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, shrank 1.2 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter of 2018 as oil production sagged, data from the official statistics agency showed on Wednesday.

Bahrain has been working with asset manager and advisory firm Lazard for several months, a source close to the matter said.

The latest report by analytics firm STR has revealed some troubling numbers regarding Bahrain's hotel industry, stressing that Bahrain's tourism market suffered from a decline in key performance indicators in May.

Fitch Rating said in a statement reported by Reuters that the financial support for Bahrain, being prepared by the GCC, will ease near-term external financing pressures, but a more durable improvement in Bahrain's financial position will depend both on the scale and nature of GCC support and on Bahrain's ability to implement fiscal reform.

Bloomberg, the economic news website, said Bahrain pledged to implement steps to repair its strained finances widely seen as crucial to help the kingdom receive support from Gulf Arab allies.

The absence of any signal of financial aid from Bahrain’s neighbors sent the kingdom’s credit risk rising the most in emerging markets this month, reported Bloomberg in a report published on Tuesday.

Bahrain’s dinar recovered from 17-year lows and its bond prices rebounded on Wednesday after the country’s diplomatic allies in the Gulf pledged to prevent its ballooning public debt from triggering a financial crisis.

Ratings firm Moody's said on Thursday that Bahrain's B1 credit rating will be supported by aid pledged by other Gulf countries this week, as long as it is large and flexible.

Anglo American has suspended a contract to supply Bahrain Steel with iron ore, the Gulf-based company said, in the latest headache for the miner’s troubled Brazilian project after spills from a pipeline that carries the commodity to port.

Bahrain said on Wednesday that its Gulf allies are to unveil a new support package to shore up its finances, which have been strained by seven years of persistent civil unrest.

The Bahraini Minister of Finance Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa has confirmed that Bahrain will receive financial support after the dinar sank to a 17-year low.

A number of gulf states said that they are considering options to financially support Bahrain, hours after the dinar currency plummeted to its lowest rates in 17 years against the US dollar on Tuesday.