Growth in Saudi Arabia to slip further

Our GDP Tracker suggests that Saudi Arabia’s economy slowed in the first quarter as a pick-up in the non-oil economy was offset by weakness in the oil sector. We think that the slowdown has further to run over the rest of this year and our 2019 GDP growth forecast lies below consensus.

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