The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday maintained its economic growth forecast for Saudi Arabia at 7.6% this year, bucking the global trend toward recession and likely placing it among the top growing economies in the world in 2022.
The U.S. special envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, is headed to Saudi Arabia and Jordan on Monday to continue Washington's diplomatic efforts to back a United Nation's mediated truce in Yemen, Reuters reports, citing the U.S. State Department said.
The Saudi-led OPEC+ group of oil producers, which includes Russia, said on Thursday it would stick to its planned oil output hikes in August, pushing off a debate on policy from September onwards as prices have risen on tight global supplies and worries that the group has little ability to pump more
