Saudi Arabia Focus
Will the Saudi stock market boom continue?
- Saudi Arabia's stock market has continued its extraordinary climb into 2006. The Tadawul All-Share Index already at 19,540 in mid-February has just topped the 20,000 mark almost 17 per cent up on the start of the year. But what are the forces behind this remarkable rise? And can it be sustained?
- Saudi Arabia: Saturday, February 18 - 2006 at 10:56 |
Royal visit emphasises Asian links with the Kingdom
- King Abdullah's visits to China, India, Malaysia and Pakistan have comprised no ordinary tour. The trip is the first overseas visit by the Saudi monarch since he assumed power last August.
- Saudi Arabia: Wednesday, February 01 - 2006 at 09:36 |
Saudi aviation opens up to private investors
- Saudi Arabian Airlines' earnings rose 14 per cent in 2005 from $360 million to $410 million. Profits also rose by a similar margin to $133 million from £117 million in 2004. The results give added impetus to the state-owned carrier's privatisation strategy since. Saudia has now been operating profitably for the last three years.
- Saudi Arabia: Monday, January 09 - 2006 at 17:05 |
Saudi Arabia: $163 billion oil revenues
- Saudi Arabia's economy is putting in its best performance in decades as oil revenues soar to 22-year highs following record global oil prices and the Kingdom's increased oil production. The good times are likely to stretch well into the future opening up a wealth of opportunity for foreign investors.
- Saudi Arabia: Thursday, December 08 - 2005 at 09:01 |
Saudi WTO success heralds economic expansion
- After twelve years of detailed negotiations, the World Trade Organisation has finally given the green light to Saudi Arabia becoming the 149th member of the body which acts as the chief global arbiter in international trade disputes and as a forum for reaching cross-border trade deals.
- Saudi Arabia: Monday, November 14 - 2005 at 08:34 |
Foreign investment heads sharply upwards in Saudi Arabia
- The accelerating pace of economic reform in Saudi Arabia is attracting the attention of a growing number of potential foreign investors. Capital investment in the Kingdom's downstream hydrocarbon sectors alone is expected to reach more than $94 billion in the five years to 2009.
- Saudi Arabia: Tuesday, October 25 - 2005 at 09:00 |
Saudi Arabia's $35 billion construction boom
- Saudi Arabia comprises the largest construction market in the whole of the Middle East with multi-billion dollar projects under way and many more in the planning stage by both the public and private sectors.
- Saudi Arabia: Sunday, October 02 - 2005 at 10:50 |
Saudi petrochemicals, massive expansion
- The $8 billion expansion of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea refinery at Rabigh is a marker. This will raise Aramco's oil refining capacity and also lead to Aramco's first petrochemical production. Similar integration between existing refineries and add on petrochemical plants are also mooted for refineries at Yanbu and Ras Tanura.
- Saudi Arabia: Sunday, September 25 - 2005 at 09:17 |
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