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Saudi Budget Surplus Tops $20bn
...Saudi Budget Surplus Tops $20bn Freshly released Ministry of Finance figures show that Saudi Arabia posted a $20.8bn surplus in Q2 – by far the highest figure since the ministry began releasing quarterly figures in 2017. Revenues were up across the board, rising by nearly $25bn to $98...
Volume: 65Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2022 -
Qatar Export Revenues Soar To Highest Level Since 2018
...tal exports. Total gas export volumes this year are running at their highest level since 2017. The latest Jodi statistics show that Qatar has exported 57.18 bcm over the first five months of the year, equating to an average of 15.3bn cfd (see chart 2). Piped gas through the Dolphin pipeline to the UA...
Volume: 64Issue: 31Published at Fri, 06 Aug 2021 -
Iraqi Oil Revenues At Highest Since 2019: Is This Enough To Stabilize The Economy?
...nuary 2017 providing a boost to prices, reserves gradually recovered to hold at more than $65bn in 2019, before dropping sharply in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the low-point in this cycle was a more modest $55.1bn in November. In addition to currency devaluation, which Mr Allawi re...
Volume: 64Issue: 31Published at Fri, 06 Aug 2021 -
Saudi Budget Deficit Balloons In Q2 As Revenues Crash
...gan releasing quarterly data in 2017 (see chart 2). The previous low in the series was 3Q 2017’s $37.89bn. The biggest fall was for oil revenues, which fell 45% from $46.6bn in Q2 last year to $25.5bn in the same quarter this year. Despite the steep fall, the share of oil in the overall revenues ro...
Volume: 63Issue: 31Published at Fri, 31 Jul 2020 -
Qatar Export Revenues Hit Three-Year High Despite Continued Embargo
...position in June 2017 (MEES, 9 June 2017). Internationally flagged vessels can still load up with cargoes from Qatar’s oil and gas terminals before calling on ports from embargoing nations – such as Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura or the UAE’s Das Island. Moreover, Qatari vessels can easily refuel at Oman’s So...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
Kuwait Fiscal Deficit Falls By 19% To $16bn For 2017-18
...-year real terms fall in its budget deficit for the year to 31 March 2018. The Ministry of Finance this week announced that the deficit fell from $19.5bn to $16bn. Predictably the deficit was much smaller than the $26.1bn laid out in the original 2017-18 budget law which underestimated oil prices an...
Volume: 61Issue: 31Published at Fri, 03 Aug 2018 -
IMF Greenlights Iraq Cash, Calls For More Reform
...w phase following last month’s liberation of Mosul. The IMF points out that the authorities are maintaining the peg of the Iraqi dinar to the US dollar, which provides “a key anchor to the economy.” But much work is required in 2017-18 to boost non-oil revenue and reduce current expenditure. Pl...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Lebanon To Hike Taxes
...x measures as a first step towards fiscal reform, paving the way for ratifying the 2017 budget for the first time since 2005. Lebanon’s draft budget was approved by the cabinet in March and submitted to parliament for approval. It projects total expenditure of $15.8bn and a fiscal deficit of $5.2bn, or...
Volume: 60Issue: 31Published at Fri, 04 Aug 2017 -
Saudi Reserves Down Again But Deficit Narrows
...rtial privatization of the oil giant Saudi Aramco, of which up to 5% will be sold in an IPO expected in 2017. The revenue generated is earmarked to provide seed capital for the Public Investment Fund (PIF). These planned reforms have received cautious praise from the IMF, although the extent to wh...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
CBI Opens Forex Free Market To Commercial Banks
...oating exchange rate system. CBI Governor Valiollah Seif, who expects to see a unification of the two-tier system by March 2017, said that commercial banks can now buy foreign exchange from their clients and trade at the free market rate. Exporters can also sell their forex earnings to banks or deposit th...
Volume: 59Issue: 31Published at Fri, 05 Aug 2016 -
Morocco Bags IMF, EU, Qatari Cash
...dustrial users and reduced the per-unit subsidy on diesel, with further reductions planned for the remainder of the year. Subsidies are to fall to MD35bn ($4.20bn) in 2014 (3.7% of GDP) from MD42bn ($5.04bn) in 2013 (4.7% of GDP), with a fall to 3% of GDP by 2017, according to the IMF and the Ministry of Ec...
Volume: 57Issue: 31Published at Fri, 01 Aug 2014 -
UAE Growth To Slow-IMF
...ll on 30 July. However oil GDP growth is expected to recover to 3.1% in 2015 before falling to around 1.8% in 2017-18, according to projections made earlier by the IMF (MEES, 28 June). Mega-Project Risk Looking ahead, Mr Finger points to a number of risks to future growth. Fi...
Volume: 56Issue: 31Published at Fri, 02 Aug 2013