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Saudi Arabia's Minister of Investment, HE Khalid Al-Falih, said that the Kingdom’s gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 66 percent since the launch of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.

Saudi Arabia has entered a recession, a report from Capital Economics said, as oil production cuts designed to prop up prices hurt the Kingdom's bottom line - but the Kingdom's non-oil economy continued to grow at a robust pace.

Saudi Arabia's leadership in OPEC+ with voluntary cuts to production has proven to be costly, sending its receipts from oil sales abroad down by a third, to its lowest in over a year, according to a report in Bloomberg, which cited the Kingdom's General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT).

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman defended Riyadh and Moscow’s recent oil cut decisions on Wednesday, which caused only a small, short-term increase in the price of Brent crude as the market shrugged at the move.

Episode 92! Saudi Arabia’s sporting ambitions and investments have been dominating global coverage of the Kingdom in recent months.