Saudi Arabia’s foreign exchange reserves are being depleted rapidly to protect the dollar peg, but we think that they would need to fall by more than $380bn to less than $100bn before the monetary authority could no longer commit to full convertibility and a devaluation became a serious prospect. Even at current ultra-low oil prices, we think that would take at least five years.
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