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In Interview, Governor of SAGIA Ibrahim Al-Omar Says New Licenses for Investment and Business Soaring
The head of Saudi Arabia’s top licensing and investment body says that the Kingdom is increasing its new licenses to investors and businessmen seeking to do business in the Kingdom, according to an interview in TheBanker.com. Ibrahim Al-Omar, head of the powerful Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), told journalist James King in an interview how Saudi […]
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Milestone Achieved in Launch of Saudi Arabia’s National Privatization Program and Center
Saudi Arabia has announced the launch of “Delivery Plan 2020,” a privatization program headed by a newly created office, Saudi Arabia’s National Centre for Privatization (NCP), in a major milestone for the Kingdom as it looks to advance its Vision 2030 economic and social reform goals. The plan sets out the country privatization agenda for […]
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CEDA Approves Privatization Program in Progress for Vision 2030 Implementation
Saudi Arabia’s powerful Council of Economic and Development Affairs (CEDA) approved a Privatization Program that is one of 12 key elements of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, according to reports. Saudi Arabia aims to generate 35 billion to 40 billion riyals ($9 billion to $11 billion) in non-oil revenues from the privatization program by 2020 and create […]
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Catholic Cardinal meets Saudi king in Historic Visit to Riyadh
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has met French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran during the first visit to the Kingdom by such a senior Catholic authority, according to the SPA. The move follows other overtures by Saudi Arabia’s leadership in recent weeks to other faiths, and a visit by Lebanon’s Christian Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai in November. Interfaith dialogue has been […]
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Saudi Aramco Earned $33.8 billion in the first half of 2017, Has ‘Virtually No Debts’, Data Reviewed by Bloomberg Says
A first glimpse at Saudi Aramco’s finances by Bloomberg News reveals the state oil giant made a whopping $33.8 billion in net income in the first half of 2017 and has very little debt, according to a series of stories published by the news site. The figures have previously only been seen by top Saudi leadership and […]
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Saudi Crown Prince Wraps Up U.S. Tour in Houston with Big Gulf Investments Eyed
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up his unprecedented whirlwind tour of the United States with a stop in Houston to talk investments in the Gulf region. The Crown Prince visited Motiva Enterprises LLC, a wholly-owned downstream oil and gas subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, to witness the signing of MoUs worth between $8 billion to $10 billion with US […]
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Meets with U.N. Secretary General in New York
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continued his active visit to the United States yesterday, attending a business meeting in New York with over 200 executives, and separately meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres. 200 top business leaders from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia – including two dozen women – assembled in […]
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Reports: Crown Prince and Delegation to Meet with Tech, Defense, Banking Giants
Two separate reports from Bloomberg confirm that Saudi officials are eying meetings with major banking houses and technology giants during the Crown Prince’s nearly three-week long visit to the United States. The delegation currently visiting the United States will seek to meet with executives from Amazon, Apple, Google, Pfizer and other companies as they hunt for […]
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Oil Revenues Above Saudi Budget Breakeven Price Will Go to PIF Coffers, Al Tuwaijri Says
Steadily climbing oil prices over the past year may help increase cash in Saudi Arabia’s massive Public Investment Fund (PIF), according to comments by Mohammed Al Tuwaijri, the kingdom’s minister of economy and planning. “Whenever oil is above our break-even point, this will all go to the PIF,” he said, as reported in the Financial Times, without […]
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Saudi Crown Prince Reassures Foreign Investors after Corruption Crackdown
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to reassure the business community following the Kingdom’s crackdown on corruption, which netted over $100 billion for the Saudi government from alleged impropriety. The secretive nature of the arrests and concerns over political motivations have worried local and foreign business leaders. More than 300 people, among them royals, politicians and […]
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Commentary: Does Qatar Support Extremism? Yes. And So Does Saudi Arabia.
To be clear, it is not that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been directly funding terrorist organizations, and certainly not in Western countries. What has been happening for many years now, however, is that a set of beliefs has been advanced from Saudi Arabia that is, by any standard, extremist. The Wahhabi-Salafi belief system is one of religious supremacism, in which the very notion of man-made law, let alone democratic government, is derided.
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Does Israeli Corruption Probe Of Netanyahu Risk His Grip On Power?
For months now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been at the center of a corruption investigation. And now, there's a big development. Netanyahu's former chief of staff has struck a deal with authorities to become a witness for the state. All this, of course, is now raising questions about Netanyahu's political future.
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Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia? There’s an app for that
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No visa, no veil? Saudi Arabia may ease rules for tourists
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How did Israel and Saudi Arabia survive one of the driest periods in the last 1000 years?
While withdrawal from non-renewable aquifers also bumps up these rates, desalination is one of the most significant contributors to domestic water resources in both Israel and Saudi Arabia, supplying over 50% of the domestic water in both countries with roughly 600 million cubic meters in Israel and over 1 billion cubic meters annually in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Aramco’s IPO choice: London, New York — or both?
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A golden age for business? Every second five people are entering the global middle class
Today, around 3.3 billion people belong to the global middle class. This is now the world’s largest group, which continues to rise rapidly. In fact, the middle class is on track to reach 4 billion by 2021 and 5 billion by 2027, representing 60 percent of the world’s population.
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Saudi Arabia in Transition: From Defense to Offense, But How to Score?
The report is based on seven weeks in the Kingdom last fall and this spring, the author’s latest of scores of visits over the past four decades, and on conversations with a wide range of Saudi citizens, government officials and senior members of the royal family.
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