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Food & Fuel: Surging Prices Spell Mixed Fortunes In North Africa
...BYA (2018) AND ALGERIA (2017). SOURCE: WORLD BANK. 2: PRICES OF MAJOR FOOD PRODUCTS HAVE SOARED OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS* *FAO FOOD COMMODITY PRICE INDICES SHOW CHANGES IN MONTHLY INTERNATIONAL PRICES OF MAJOR FOOD COMMODITIES. 2014-2016 PRICES USED AS BASE. SOURCE: FOOD AND AG...
Volume: 65Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2022 -
UAE Hydrocarbon Export Revenues Fell By 36% In 2020
...asure and was not that far below the recent low-point of $67.4bn in 2017. 1: THE UAE ECONOMY CONTRACTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 11 YEARS IN 2020 (REAL GDP GROWTH, %) ^PRELIMINARY CENTRAL BANK CALCULATION *CENTRAL BANK PROJECTION; SOURCE: UAE CENTRAL BANK, IMF, MEES. 2: UAE OIL & GA...
Volume: 64Issue: 16Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 -
Suez Canal Boosted By Saudi, US Oil Trade Transformations
...ade – has continued to edge higher in recent years, hitting a record 491mn tons in 2018, up 4% on 2017’s previous record. *As for LNG, 5.16mn tons went northbound through the canal in Q1 this year, the highest since 3Q 2015. Weaker than usual Asian buying has seen Asian spot prices fall below those in...
Volume: 62Issue: 16Published at Fri, 19 Apr 2019 -
Egypt Plans Further Cuts To Energy Subsidies
...rrent 2017-18 financial year envisages a spend of $7.8bn, whilst the most recent ‘actual’ figure had spending at $10.1bn for 2016-17. The 2016-17 spend was actually up on the previous year’s $9.8bn. Whilst the dollar-terms rise is a modest 3%, in local currency terms the leap in spending in energy su...
Volume: 61Issue: 16Published at Fri, 20 Apr 2018 -
Qatar Tops Saudi Bond
...sewhere – Kuwait is eying a double-digit $bn issue (MEES, 2 February). Experts canvassed by MEES forecast 2018 GCC issues of $80-90bn, smashing 2017’s record $50.5bn (see chart and MEES, 30 March). Qatar’s issue marks its first international bond in almost two years: it last raised $9bn in May 2016 (ME...
Volume: 61Issue: 16Published at Fri, 20 Apr 2018 -
Saudi Debut International Sukuk Raises $9bn; Aramco Taps Further $3bn
...tempt to sweet-talk Saudi officials. The 2017 Saudi budget projects a whopping deficit of $53bn, albeit down from the record figures of $79bn and $96bn in 2016 and 2015 respectively (MEES, 6 January). Though Saudi Arabia does not disclose its budget oil price assumption, local investment bank Ja...
Volume: 60Issue: 16Published at Fri, 21 Apr 2017 -
Saudi Plans $10bn Loan, First Since 1991
...ternational borrowing by Saudi Arabia, combined with the domestic debt issuance could push the general government debt to 9.4% of GDP in 2017, compared to 1.5% in 2014, due to the plunge in oil prices. Longer term, the issue of international sovereign debt will support the development of a market for Sa...
Volume: 59Issue: 16Published at Fri, 22 Apr 2016 -
IMF Warns Qatar Of Budget Deficit
...e hydrocarbon sector growth will recover slightly rising from 0.8% in 2015 to 1.8% in 2016 and 1.9% in 2017. For its part, the IMF expects growth in 2015 to rise to 7% with the start-up of output from the $10.3bn, 1.4bn cfd Barzan wet gas development in the second half of 2015 and the au...
Volume: 58Issue: 16Published at Fri, 17 Apr 2015