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: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
959subscribers
+2 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 | 8 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 8 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Forbesmenaeng |
Topic
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 19 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 37% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026, 14:21 | 959 | +2 |
| 28 Sept 2026, 07:14 | 957 | +1 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 22:59 | 956 | +3 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 22:59 | 953 | +4 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 00:08 | 949 | -4 |
| 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 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
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.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@asharqbusiness · 19,579
Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 30 September 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 8 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Forbes Middle East” (@Forbesmenaeng), 959 subscribers as measured 8 October 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.