{"id":153926,"date":"2024-04-17T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=153926"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:44:09","slug":"aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=153926","title":{"rendered":"Aramco Boosts Dividends, But it Can Ill-Afford to Do So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not surprising that profits in 2023 at Saudi Arabia\u2019s flagship company Saudi Aramco were lower than in 2022. After all, the average price per barrel of the Brent crude oil benchmark dropped just over 18% over the year \u2013 from US$100.93 to US$82.49. The fact that Aramco\u2019s profit drop was nearly 25%&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Aramco-Boosts-Dividends-But-it-Can-Ill-Afford-to-Do-So.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not surprising that profits in 2023 at Saudi Arabia\u2019s flagship company Saudi Aramco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153926-aramco-boosts-dividends-but-it-can-ill-afford-to-do-so-590x300.jpg",590,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}