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Global IPO markets could stay strong in 2015

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INTERNATIONAL

The current state of the global IPO market.

Saudi economic reform will be gradual

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SAUDI ARABIA

The government has recently taken some modest steps to rein in the budget deficit, including cuts in energy subsidies, and has promised to improve disclosure of its fiscal…

Saudi Aramco will double down on digitisation efforts

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SAUDI ARABIA

The Infosys agreement is among a series of other deals Aramco has signed in the digital sphere so far in 2023, underlining its intention to accelerate its digital transformation…

First Saudi royal energy minister faces the OPEC test

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SAUDI ARABIA

The king’s son was appointed energy minister on September 8, just one week before Iranian attacks on two key oil facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais, which temporarily halved Saudi…

Iran-linked oil spike will ease Saudi fiscal pressure

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SAUDI ARABIA

The first quarterly budget report for 2018 issued by the Ministry of Finance shows oil revenue is already resurging. The introduction of value-added tax (VAT) in January has also…

Saudi bureaucratic lag will hamper change

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SAUDI ARABIA

The state is central both in the economy and in the lives of citizens. Government has been the key driver of economic diversification, but it also poses major obstacles to private…

Solar power set for expansion in the Gulf

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GULF STATES

Solar power in the Gulf.

Investors will greet Saudi IPOs -- and look to Aramco

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SAUDI ARABIA

Investor appetite for Saudi equities has been demonstrated in the huge over-subscription in the IPO of 20% of an internet affiliate of Saudi Telecom Company, which raised almost…

Gulf states’ non-oil growth will depend on oil income

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GULF STATES

The deal links two key sectors in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’ efforts to diversify their hydrocarbon-dependent economies, connecting transportation and…

Gulf states will boost oil output to varying degrees

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GULF STATES

International decarbonisation calls have prompted the countries to maximise extraction as quickly as possible while demand and prices remain relatively high. Variations in the…