Moody’s Investor service affirmed Egypt’s long term and senior unsecured bond rating at a stable B3 in which credit risks face deep structural concerns such as weak government reserves, weak external payment position ...
Saudi Arabia will raise the price of water for non-residential consumers, a move widely perceived as a sign the government is cutting back an expensive system of subsidies thanks to low oil prices.
Standard and Poor, which previously downgraded Saudi Arabia's sovereign debt, has said that this in turn may contribute to a gradual repricing of the Gulf's international bonds.
Angola's Oil minister, Botelho de Vasconcelos, urged that his country's petroleum sector show a greater commitment with a view to meeting the new challenges of the oil industry
The Saudi kingdom could lose its AA- credit ranking, the fourth-highest debt grade, in two years if its “liquid assets” decline or its fiscal position weaken, S&P said in a statement Monday.