Citi raised its third-quarter average Brent crude forecast to $80 a barrel from $75 on Friday, citing the prolonged back-and-forth in US-Iran dealmaking. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/509a2b

Channel
Forbes Middle East
@Forbesmenaeng
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
953subscribers
-4 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001390380980 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Forbesmenaeng |
| Created | 21 September 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 22 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 22 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Forbesmenaeng |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026, 23:56 | 953 | -1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 20:57 | 954 | -3 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:48 | 957 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:50 | 957 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 1.64%
- avg views ÷ 953 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 15.6
- 20 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 20
- of 20 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (6 August 2026 – 7 August 2026) |
| Views total | 312 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 8 Aug 2026, 00:48 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Recent posts
The global IPO market has staged a remarkable comeback in 2026, but not in the way many expected. From record fundraising and sector shifts to regional performance, these 10 numbers reveal the trends shaping IPO activity so far this year. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/rmjg\
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact, pledging collective security as threats to energy and shipping routes persist. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/753b67
Emaar Properties’ net profit jumped 22% YoY to $2.4B in H1 2026, driven by strong property development and demand across its UAE projects. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/rrs6
A US federal appeals court blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from continuing construction of his ballroom on the site of the demolished East Wing of the White House. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/01fd6d
Major tech stocks rallied amid a weak jobs report that revealed an unexpected drop in payrolls for July, with SpaceX, Palantir and Cloudflare shares all rising at least 8%. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/97d103
The mogul behind the viral 3-meter-tall transformable robot has amassed a $2.4B fortune through his equity stake. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/jqcz
ADNOC L&S is investing $1.3B to add 11 oil and gas carriers, expanding its fleet as the group ramps up production, exports, and global energy trading. #Forbes For more details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/skzo
A judge in New Mexico ordered Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta to pay a total of $942 million in fines for creating a “public nuisance” over its handling of child safety on its social media platforms. #Forbes For more details: 🔗 https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/283e27
Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Ahmed Al-Harfi Company has signed three Power Purchase Agreements with the Syrian Electricity Company, as part of the development of three solar energy projects in Syria. #Forbes For more details: 🔗 https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/868cdc
Dana Gas has reported a net profit of $107 million in H1 2026, up 47% year-on-year, supported by a one-off gas metering reconciliation at Khor Mor. #Forbes For more details: 🔗 https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/c5da60
After nearly three decades at Kuwait Finance House, Group CEO Khaled Alshamlan is leading the Islamic lender with total assets of $142 billion into its next growth phase, capitalizing on Kuwait’s expected reforms and financial sector opportunities. #Forbes For More Details: https://on.forbesmiddleeast.com/a3c8ca
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @Forbesmenaeng. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Forbes Middle East” (@Forbesmenaeng), 953 subscribers as measured 22 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Forbesmenaeng.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.