1. Oil Earnings Fuel Bumper Saudi Budget

    ...port. The actual figures for 2011 show that the kingdom’s revenues hit SR1,110bn ($296bn), their highest ever levels, even edging over the SR1,100bn ($293.3bn) seen in the boom year of 2008. While oil prices fell short of the $147/B peak reached in July 2008, throughout 2011 they maintained an average of...

    Volume: 54
    Issue: 01/02
    Published at Mon, 10 Jan 2011