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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Arrives in India for Next Stop of Asia Tour
- February 20,2019
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in India for the second stop on a three-country tour of Asian nations as the Kingdom looks to boost relationships and trade opportunities in the East. India “rolled out the red carpet for the crown prince,” Reuters reports, amid simmering tensions with neighboring Pakistan following a militant attack in […]
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Al-Falih: ‘Going forward the world is going to be Saudi Aramco’s playground’
- February 12,2019
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- SUSTG Team
In a new interview with the Financial Times, Saudi Arabia’s powerful minister of energy, industry, and mineral resources Khalid Al-Falih indicated that Saudi Aramco would take on an active position as investor in resource opportunities outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s state-owned energy company, Saudi Aramco, will seek to develop an international energy […]
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Ambitious Saudi Entertainment Push Announced by GEA’s Turki al-Sheikh
- January 23,2019
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia is looking to maintain heavy investment in the entertainment sector in 2019, according to comments made by a top Saudi official, as it looks to make good on key Vision 2030 economic reforms. Reuters reports that Saudi Arabia’s recently named chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, Turki al-Sheikh, said the Kingdom would put on […]
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Saudi Arabia, Other Gulf Nations to Join JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Emerging-Market Bond Indexes
- January 18,2019
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia and four other Gulf nations will join JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s emerging-market bond indexes this month, Bloomberg reports, “potentially paving the way for billions of dollars in inflows into the securities.” The debt offerings from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait will represent about 11.8 percent of the EMBI Global […]
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Saudi Arabia Eyes Major Domestic Energy Conservation by 2030, Al Falih Says
- January 15,2019
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia expects to throttle back domestic energy consumption by 2030 by up to the equivalent of 2m barrels of oil per day, in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 economic and social reform initiative, according to comments made by Khalid Al-Falih published by Reuters. Saudi Arabia has long used easily extracted oil reserves for […]
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A Gradual Pickup in Private Sector Lending in Saudi Arabia Seen in Monetary Update
- January 11,2019
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- SUSTG Team
A recently-released report by Jadwa Investment finds a gradual pickup in private sector lending since April 2018 after showing a slowdown in 2017 and Q1 2018. The Monetary and Financial Update report from the Riyadh-based Jadwa looks at the Kingdom’s monetary policy and other key economic data. Jadwa Investment sees “a rising level of uncertainty” in the […]
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Saudi Arabia Seeks Balanced Budget by 2023 – Al Jadaan
- December 20,2018
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia’s finance minister told Reuters on Wednesday he was “unconcerned with current oil prices impacting spending plans in 2019″ and the government still aims to close its budget deficit by 2023 – though the target is not set in stone. The government unveiled a $295 billion budget on Tuesday, the kingdom’s largest, with a […]
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Saudi Government ‘Rejects’ U.S. Senate Rulings on Saudi Arabia But Pledges to Continue Building Relationship
- December 17,2018
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- SUSTG Team
The government of Saudi Arabia issued a statement condemning a recent U.S. Senate resolution blaming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and said the government rejects external interference in its affairs. The Senate measure, which passed in a rare bipartisan vote with unanimous approval on Thursday, was a sweeping condemnation of Crown […]
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OPEC, Russia Will Cut 1.2 million Barrels of Oil Production a Day; Price Jumps
- December 7,2018
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- SUSTG Team
OPEC and Russia have agreed to collectively throttle back oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day to dry up a global supply glut, according to energy reporters from the Wall Street Journal. OPEC nations would cut 800,000 barrels and the Russia-led group would handle the remainder, according to the WSJ. Oil prices on indices […]
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Saudi Aramco CEO: ‘We Need a Major Acquisition For Us to Be In Different Markets Quickly’
- November 26,2018
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- SUSTG Team
In an interview with Bloomberg, Saudi Aramco’s CEO Amin Nasser said the company is earmarking $500 billion to invest over the next 10 years, including $160 billion for natural gas developments and $100 billion for chemicals projects. The interview, given in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, said the planned spending would come on top of the already planned purchase of a […]
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The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran in the wake of the Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh blame on Tehran, two U.S. officials have told Reuters.
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Trump Foreign PolicyCommentary: As the U.S. withdraws, Assad and Putin are emerging as the winners in Syria
Analysts said it was clear that Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin were emerging as the winners of the geopolitical puzzle, and the Kurds and the U.S. as the losers. It also looks like ISIS will benefit too and may be able to resurge as stability eludes the region.
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PakistanPakistan on Mission to Enable Iran Talks With U.S., Saudi Arabia
During a visit to Iran on Sunday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said he was acting “not as a mediator but as a facilitator” for talks between Tehran and Riyadh, where he’s traveling on Monday.
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IranIran’s Expanded Missile Arsenal Presents Challenge for U.S., Saudi Arabia
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TourismSaudi Arabia opens tourist visas to U.S., European visa holders
Tourist visas for Saudi Arabia are now available online and on arrival to holidaymakers who already hold a visa from the United States, Britain or the EU’s Schengen zone, expanding eligibility beyond an initial list of 49 countries. The conservative Muslim kingdom, relatively closed off for decades, launched a new visa regime last month for nationals from countries in Europe, North America and much of Asia to boost foreign tourism and diversify the economy away from oil.
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U.S.-SaudiF-15s, air defense systems and thousands of U.S. troops heading to Saudi Arabia
The force increase comes as the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is nearing the end of its deployment in the region. Should that deployment not be extended, the number of forces in the region would drop by nearly half.
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SyriaU.S. “preparing to evacuate” all remaining troops from northern Syria, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says on “Face the Nation”
The U.S. is "preparing to evacuate" about 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria "as safely and quickly as possible," Defense Secretary Mark Esper told "Face the Nation" in an interview Sunday. The move comes a week after President Trump announced the repositioning of several dozen American troops embedded with Kurdish forces in northern Syria, opening the door for a Turkish offensive against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the main U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS.
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U.S. Middle East PolicyOpinion: Trump Reinforces Middle Easterners’ View of U.S. as Unreliable
President Donald Trump’s decision to move American troops out of Syria to make way for a Turkish attack on pro-U.S. Kurdish forces cements America’s growing reputation in the Middle East for being unreliable, unpredictable and, increasingly, even weak.
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IranIran’s National Security Debate: Implications for Future U.S.-Iran Negotiations
Despite significant limits on acceptable speech in Iran, national and elite debates can be vigorous. They often include voices from across the political spectrum of opinions permitted by the regime. Domestic debates on key issues play a critical role in framing, molding, and selling foreign and security policies.
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