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Algeria Oil & Gas Revenues Fall Back From Record 2022
...*Algerian state firm Sonatrach earned $21bn in oil and gas export revenues for the first five months of 2023. On an annualized basis this equates to $50.8bn, well down from 2022’s 9-year high $60bn, but is still the second highest since energy prices tanked in late 2014 (see ch...
Volume: 66Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2023 -
Korea Crude Imports 1H 2021: Mideast & Opec Share At Record Low
...cades. This comes as overall volumes for the world’s number four crude importer fell by 5.4% to average 2.58mn b/d for 1H 2021, the lowest first half figure since 2014. Whilst Korea’s oil demand continues to be suppressed by Covid – and movement restrictions have been increased in recent weeks with fears of...
Volume: 64Issue: 28Published at Fri, 16 Jul 2021 -
Kuwait Eyes Huge 2019-20 Budget Deficit
....7% of GDP. The expiry of the government’s authority to issue debt means it has had to tap into the General Reserve Fund (GRF) to finance deficits since 2014, and Finance Minister Nayif al-Hajraf has warned that the fund is suffering from a shortage of liquidity and requires a replenishment of fi...
Volume: 62Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2019 -
Algeria: Reserves Slump To 12-Year Low, But Country Has Bigger Problems
...e country’s finances. Instead Algiers has opted for the highly-inflationary path of printing money to finance the country’s expected $19bn 2018 deficit (a cumulative $80bn since 2014 – MEES, 19 October 2017). A temporary ban on a whole swathe of imports is Algeria’s other key ‘alternative’ economic me...
Volume: 61Issue: 28Published at Fri, 13 Jul 2018 -
Egypt Pledges To End Energy Subsidies Within 12 Months
...nister and central bank chief blame “persisting financial difficulties in view of higher than expected oil prices,” for slow progress in cutting Egypt’s dues but repeat that Egypt “remains committed to fully eliminating arrears by end-June 2019.” The biggest dent in receivables was made in July 2014 wh...
Volume: 61Issue: 28Published at Fri, 13 Jul 2018 -
Syria’s Ongoing Conflict Inflicts Huge Loss Of $226bn To GDP
...oups. According to the report, IS was producing, refining and selling as much as 50,000 b/d in November 2014, but later estimates put this figure at a maximum of 40,000 b/d in October 2015. By September 2016 the US-led coalition claimed that it had struck 2,638 oil infrastructure targets primarily in Sy...
Volume: 60Issue: 28Published at Fri, 14 Jul 2017 -
Kuwait Posts First Deficit In 15 Years
...KUWAIT Kuwait Posts First Deficit In 15 Years For the first time since 1999-2000, Kuwait has posted an “actual” budget deficit. The KD2.31bn ($8.0bn) deficit for fiscal year 2014-15 after transfers to state reserves is almost entirely due to the $22/B fall to $81/B in the average pr...
Volume: 58Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2015 -
Egypt Squeezes Spending In Bid To Tame Deficit
...P for the 2014-15 financial year that ended on 30 June; for 2013-14 it was almost 13% (see graph). The revised budget now projects a deficit of E£251bn ($32.4bn), down from E£261bn in the earlier draft, with spending of E£864.5bn trimmed by E£20bn, with half of the cuts coming from the salaries bu...
Volume: 58Issue: 28Published at Fri, 10 Jul 2015 -
Yemen Oil Revenues Tumble Amid Violence
...YEMEN Yemen’s oil export revenue for the first five months of 2014 was a mere $671mn, down close to 40% on the same period last year. San’a typically relies on oil export revenues to finance up to 60% of its budget. Given average international prices of $110/B Yemen’s Masila Blend cr...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Egypt Takes The Plunge And Raises Energy Prices
...EGYPT The Egyptian government has taken the long-awaited painful but necessary decision of raising domestic energy prices. Energy subsidies in the 2014-15 budget starting on 1 July are estimated at E£127bn ($17.7bn), or 16% of the budget – E£100bn ($14.0bn) for petroleum products an...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Cyprus: IMF Calls For Banks, Energy Restructuring
...ansfers outside Cyprus without prior authorization. Ratings agency Fitch predicts that the “removal of the remaining capital controls is unlikely to be fully implemented before the end of 2014.” Fitch on 4 July upgraded its “long-term issuer default ratings” on Cyprus’ two largest banks, Bank of Cy...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
IMF: Real Estate Drives UAE Growth, Overheating Risk Remains
...debted GREs, noting that Dubai’s total government and GRE debt is estimated at $142bn (141% of Dubai GDP), with $92bn falling due in 2014-19. With the relaxation of rent controls, rising real estate prices may also feed into inflation. The IMF welcomed recent measures taken by Dubai to discourage sp...
Volume: 57Issue: 28Published at Fri, 11 Jul 2014 -
Gulf States Finalize Rescue Package For Egypt
...Cairo. Ankara was not only supportive of Mr Mursi but (more so than Qatar), Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has been highly critical of his ouster. More Cash Needed Egypt badly needs between $14-19bn in external financing in the fiscal year to June 2014, analysts of the Egyptian sc...
Volume: 56Issue: 28Published at Fri, 12 Jul 2013