{"id":49880,"date":"2025-10-01T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49880\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:16:10","slug":"saudi-arabia-sees-bigger-2025-deficit-as-oil-pressure-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49880\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Sees Bigger 2025 Deficit as Oil Pressure Lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Saudi Arabia projected it will run a deeper budget deficit this year than previously expected, as the kingdom spends heavily on its economic transformation while grappling with the effects of weak oil prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The budget shortfall for this year is now estimated at 5.3% of gross domestic product, more than double the 2.3% previously projected, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/T3EOTJMB2SJK\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">fresh estimatesBloomberg Terminal<\/a> from the Ministry of Finance showed Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia projected it will run a deeper budget deficit this year than previously expected, as the kingdom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38536,14126,114,9575,5603,184,35524,3153,1581,234,85,19127,46,238,78,1583],"class_list":["post-49880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-abu-dhabi-commercial-bank","tag-budget-deficit","tag-business","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-electronic-arts-inc","tag-gdp","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-government","tag-il","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-israel","tag-politics","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}