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Saudis to Sell Bonds
Saudi Arabia is returning to the bond market with a plan to raise $27bn by the end of the year, in the starkest sign yet of the strain lower oil prices are putting on the finances of the world's largest oil exporter....
Saudi Arabia's resort to further domestic borrowing highlights the challenges facing the region's largest economy amid one of the steepest falls in the oil price in recent decades. Brent, the international benchmark, has dropped from $115 a barrel in June last year to about $50 this week.
Posted by: lord garth 2015-08-06 |
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