{"id":196710,"date":"2025-12-08T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196710"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:16:00","slug":"saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196710","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia\u2019s Spending Spree Meets Oil Price Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s grand Vision 2030 ambitions may be colliding with a colder fiscal reality. Fitch Ratings warned Friday that Riyadh faces rising financial risks as oil prices soften and government spending balloons, threatening the kingdom\u2019s plans for fiscal consolidation. The numbers tell the story: Saudi Arabia now expects a budget deficit equal to 5.3% of GDP in 2025\u2014nearly double its original 2.3% forecast\u2014before narrowing to 3.3% in 2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/Saudi-Arabias-Spending-Spree-Meets-Oil-Price-Reality.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s grand Vision 2030 ambitions may be colliding with a colder fiscal reality. Fitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196710-saudi-arabias-spending-spree-meets-oil-price-reality-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\/196710","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=196710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}