Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf The Saudi Arabian government is acting to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars owed to suppliers for months following the successful sale of $17.5bn worth of the kingdom’s first sovereign bonds to international…
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Saudi bond issue launched
The Saudi Arabian government has circulated the prospectus for its planned bond issue and is due to start a roadshow promoting the offering on 12 October that will encompass London, New York, Boston and Los Angeles, It is reported to…
Saudi fertiliser plant sale advances
Two Saudi petrochemical giants have hired investment banks to advise on the potential sale of a stake in the Ibn Al-Baytar fertiliser company. Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Company (Safco) has hired Samba Capital, while Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) has chosen…
Saudi shale gas to start in 2017
Saudi Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser said yesterday that the company plans to start producing gas from the Waad al-Shamal project in the north-west of the kingdom in late 2017 as part of a programme to double gas output…
Saudi officials in New York for bond talks
Senior representatives of Saudi Arabia’s finance industry are due to meet investors in New York today and tomorrow to brief them about plans for Saudi Arabia to issue the Middle East’s largest sovereign bond and sell shares in Saudi Aramco…
Saudi government borrowing slowed in August
Saudi Arabian government bonds held local banks rose by 1.4 per cent to SR 169,677m ($45.2bn) in August, figures contained in the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (Sama) monthly statistical bulletin published on 29 September show. This is the smallest increase…
OPEC agrees production ceiling; quota system
OPEC announced this evening that its 14 member states would contain output at 32.5-33.0m barrels a day (b/d) and set production limits for OPEC producers. The production limit appears to represent a concession by Saudi Arabia which had previously said…
Sama relieves Saudi liquidity squeeze
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (Sama) has announced it is placing about SR20bn ($5.3bn) of time deposits with the local banking system “on behalf of government entities” to relieve upward pressure on domestic interest rates which have almost doubled since…
Saudi stock market on track for MSCI status
Saudi Arabia is on course to join MSCI Inc.’s emerging-markets index in 2018, chairman of the kingdom’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) Mohammed al-Jadaan told Bloomberg Markets Middle East television show. The CMA this week made changes including lowering the amount qualified…
Tasnee gets Cristal refinancing
Saudi Arabia’s National Industrialisation Company (NIC-Tasnee) has agreed terms for the refinancing of about $1.6 billion of loans to its Cristal titanium dioxide unit in Yanbu, Bloomberg reported today. They include a maturity of three-five years and interest at 2.75…