The dollar price has become a safe haven since the start of the pandemic, head of the National Bank of Kuwait’s (NBK) Treasury Sales and Services Department, Nafe Alabhool, told Al Arabiya on Tuesday.
Vast wealth and the promise of dramatic change make for cautious optimism concerning Saudi Arabia, the chief executive…
20 Views | the publication reaches you by | Saudi Arabia TodayOn the US stimulus packages, Alabhool said that the current financial package was worth $1.9 trillion, reaching directly to the citizen and helping to accelerate the distribution of vaccines, which assisted in opening the economy and markets and creating demand for goods, and with no supply parallel to demand, prices would rise.
Alabhool said that the Federal Reserve had stated that it would not raise interest rates to fight commodity prices and high inflation, believing it to be a temporary increase, adding that long-term high growth was always accompanied by an increase in inflation.
The fund plans to make 10 to 12 investments of between $15 million and $50 million over the next eight years, Yaser Moustafa, senior managing director of NBKCP, told Arab News on Tuesday.
Moustafa said that the stake in the fund was a healthy nine-figure commitment.
Asked about other investors in the fund, Moustafa said: “I can only say it will be a US family office making the first private investment in the region, as well as other regional institutions.”
The project for the design, engineering and procurement of the new 400,000m3/day Jubail II seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO)…
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