IFA Saudi Arabia webinar: USD Interest Rate, Economic Indicators & Stock outlook| 23 August

This workshop is an important opportunity for corporate treasurers to understand the outlook for USD interest rates and economic indicators, which are key focus areas for GCC central banks. It will also cover the outlook for US stocks and the USD in the second half of 2025.

This webinar will cover:

  • USD interest rate outlook and probabilities
  • US employment and recession probabilities
  • USD Treasury yield outlook
  • US Dollar Index outlook
  • Outlook for major US indices and mega-cap stocks

Date: Saturday 23 August 2025

Time: 6pm KSA time | 4pm UK time
CPD hours: 1.0
Price: Free  

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About the speaker 

Ali Merchant, CMT

Ali Merchant is a seasoned financial market professional with expertise in Technical Analysis, Treasury & Capital Markets, Trading, Sales, Research, Training, Fund & Relationship Management, Fintech, and Digitalization. He is a founder of TwT Learning, a financial research and training company. He has a CMT charter, an AAPTA membership, and a CMT Canada membership. He has worked in various roles and organizations in North America and the GCC, such as ABN Amro bank, Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman & UAE.

MAK Allen & Day Capital Partners in Toronto, and Bridge Information Systems.

He is regarded as an excellent mentor and has trained more than 2000+ users in North America, Gulf countries & Asia on financial markets & products, active and passive trading and technical analysis strategies. He emanated technical analysis daily and weekly reports for BridgeNews Chicago bureau and updated TA reports on Bloomberg and Reuters while working with ABN Amro bank treasury & capital markets. Has moderated and produced technical analysis reports for Thomson Reuters (Refinitiv) users’ chat rooms and trained users on technical analysis techniques and models. Conducted TA & Global Markets outlook workshop with central banks, sovereign funds, global & regional banks & family offices.

Ali is a contributing analyst with investing.com & FxStreet.com