The Saudi budget released this afternoon showed that the government has already started to loosen fiscal policy and will continue to do so in 2018. This is a more accommodative stance than we had expected and so we have revised up our GDP growth forecasts for 2018, from 0.8% to 1.5%. That said, the budget is likely to disappoint those who were hoping for substantial policy loosening to support the economy.
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