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Byline: Karen E. Young Saudi Arabia's decision to increase production and sell oil at sharply discounted prices at a time of declining oil demand has sent shock waves through oil [...]

Byline: MICHAEL BABAD; Staff THE WEEK AHEAD Everyone from U.S. President Donald Trump to those of us who curse the cost of filling up hope OPEC producers will agree to [...]

DID George W. Bush rely too much on diplomacy when he planned the war in Iraq? The diplomacy in question was not the effort to line up allies for the […]

World energy markets are so concerned about strong demand and possible disruptions of supplies that oil prices finished higher on Wednesday, even though Saudi Arabia announced that it had the […]

Saudi Arabia, the pivotal member of OPEC, signaled on Tuesday that it was pushing forward with a plan to lower the cartel's target for crude oil production by a million […]

The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, continues to advance the most ambitious trade expansion plan in Canadian history as he leads a [...]

Summary: The Free Zone's world class facilities attract 484 new companies in 2009; more developments nearing completion Jafza, the flagship free zone operation of Economic Zones World, entered the 25th [...]

By Satish G. | eTN Heritage villages, scuba diving and much more is in the pipeline as Saudi Arabia gets on with initiatives to attract 'non-religious visitors.' But while tourists [...]

Saudi Arabia has finally decided to give foreign crude oil customers a small break by cutting the official selling prices for all heavy and light crude grades, while raising the [...]

According to 'Bahrain Tribune', Bahrain welcomes all investments and business opportunities with its neighbor Saudi Arabia, the Prime Minister, Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, said. During a meeting with [...]

Egyptian and Saudi businessmen agreed on Tuesday to set up an Egyptian investment office in Saudi Arabia and a Saudi investment office in Egypt. The aim of establishing the offices [...]

According to Al-Sharq newspaper (March 17, 2005), a recently publicized report by the Arab Monetary Fund estimates at $119.5 billion the value of Saudi Arabia's total exports by the end [...]

Sours continue to rally against US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) in the US physical market, the result of Opec's recent decision to scale back production. Saudi Arabia has already [...]

According to Al-Yaum newspaper (December 7, 2004), in spite of the recently rising international gold prices, the total gold sales in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia grew to SR 1.87 [...]

According to Al-Yaum newspaper (December 7, 2004), the volume of the gold consumption in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia amounted to 104 tons in the first quarter of the current [...]

Saudi Arabia further slashed its official selling prices to the US and Europe for December, while crude prices were also cut to Asia with the exception of Arab Extra Light, [...]

Saudi Arabia is cutting its official selling prices for November crude exports but is not offering term clients in the US and Europe extra spot cargoes on top of maximum [...]

According to Al-Jazirah newspaper (September 26, 2004), the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture imposed a temporary embargo on sheep and goat import from Slovenia and Finland following the Scrape disease outbreak. [...]

According to Al-Yaum newspaper (July 12, 2004), the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture asserted that the Saudi embargo, which was imposed on the chicken and poultry exports of all Asian countries, [...]

AMSTERDAM -- In an aim to cool the overheated oil market, Saudi Arabia is boosting supply to 9 million barrels per day in June and will propose increasing the Opec [...]

According to Al-Riyadh newspaper (May 12, 2004), the Australian government announced yesterday that it is not likely to resume cattle export to Saudi Arabia before at least a year from [...]

According to Al-Riyadh newspaper (May 3, 2004), accompanied by a delegation, the Australian Agriculture Minister, Warren Truss, visited Saudi Arabia recently. Meeting with the Saudi Minister of Commerce and Industry, [...]

NEW YORK -- Saudi Arabia seems to have abandoned its politically motivated goal to be the largest crude supplier to the US as the kingdom supplied just 1.295 million barrels [...]

Saudi Arabia's agriculture ministry has implemented a year-old decree requiring shipment-by-shipment biotech labeling of all imported animal feed containing biotech ingredients, according to an embassy attache's report by USDA's Foreign [...]

According to 'Arab News', the Saudi automobile market is marking a steady growth, according to a leading importer. A Japanese delegation, which also included Takeyoshi Ide and Asaba Yuzuru from [...]

According to 'Arab News', the reopening of the Arar border crossing on the border with Iraq in July will boost Saudi exports to the war-torn country and promote trade relations [...]

According to 'Tehran Times', Iran's Commerce Minister Mohammad Shariatmadari said the volume of trade exchange of Iran and Saudi Arabia has become fivefold since the first joint economic summit of [...]

Al-Watan newspaper reported on meetings held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in January 2004 between a representative of the Tunisian Economy Ministry and representatives of the Saudi Arabian Eastern District Chamber [...]

According to Al-Jazirah newspaper (February 25, 2004), the Saudi Ministry of Health has recently banned all poultry and egg import from Vietnam following the spread of bird flu in that [...]

According to 'Arab News', the Kingdom, already the worldAEs largest producer of desalinated water, announced that it will construct six more desalination plants in the near future, taking the total [...]

The licensing of a second operator later this year could unleash strong pent-up demand from a 'large, yet under penetrated market' for mobile service subscriptions and spending in Saudi Arabia, [...]

According to Al-Watan newspaper (February 3, 2004), a recently publicized report by the Saudi-American Business Council showed that Saudi Arabia had spent SR 615 million ($164 million) on security and [...]

According to Al-Yawm newspaper (January 5, 2004), the Ministry of Agriculture decided to impose an embargo on all agricultural products coming from Yemen. This decision came following rumors about bacteria [...]

Asia-Pacific buyers' attempts to challenge the 'Asia premium' they pay for Mideast Gulf crude in comparison with Atlantic basin customers made little headway at a New Delhi summit with Mideast [...]

'The Mideast Gulf region, Saudi Arabia in particular, is the most important factor in the global petroleum market,' Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi stressed last week at a conference in [...]

Saudi Commerce Undersecretary for Technical Affairs, Fawaz Al Alami, said that he expects his country to join the World Trade Organization by the end of 2004. The newspaper Saudi Gazette […]