{"id":230486,"date":"2026-06-04T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230486"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:54:31","slug":"saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230486","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Sees Widest Deficit Since 2018 on More Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s fiscal deficit widened in the first quarter to the highest level since 2018 as spending on projects to diversify the economy continued to rise&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/pmn\/business-pmn\/saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s fiscal deficit widened in the first quarter to the highest level since 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending.jpg",1200,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending-1024x768.jpg",640,480,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending.jpg",1200,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending.jpg",1200,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230486-saudi-arabia-sees-widest-deficit-since-2018-on-more-spending-590x410.jpg",590,410,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\/230486","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=230486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}