Rising oil output boosting growth in Saudi Arabia

Our GDP Tracker suggests that the Saudi economy picked up in August on the back of rising oil output. And while the threat of the US imposing sanctions on the Kingdom has clouded the outlook, we still expect the economy to strengthen further over the rest of this year and into the first half of 2019.

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