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Why Is Saudi Arabia Reducing Its Oil Production?

Why did the Saudi authorities reduce production, despite receiving US advice to the contrary?

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Distressed Investors Are Watching These Markets

To think many people predicted 2021 couldn’t get any worse than 2020. Little did they know that 2021 would bring delta, omicron, and inflation with a lot of messiness in-between. The result is 2022 will be volatile with a covid overhang and inflation coupled with aggressive interest rate hikes (by the U.S. Federal Reserve and other similar authorities across the globe) to combat the inflation – as a result, 2022 may present more distress than 2021. These are the markets distressed investors will, as a result, be watching in 2022.

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Higher Oil Prices Come At The Right Time for the Middle East…

Oil recently touched above $70 and continues to hover above $60 today. The uptick is a welcome breath of fresh air into the Middle East (financial) ecosystem. The new cash inflow is and will continue to allow the regional states to underwrite new financing in their banking sectors and evade the 2009-esque fallout as banks today effectively bridge finance regional corporates to 2022 (…or potentially 2023)…

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Middle East Sovereign Debt Levels Are Rising, But So What?

Middle East sovereign debt levels are rising, but so what? The question of whether the debt levels are sustainable is hard to answer…

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