Saudi Arabia announces budget surplus

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Source: BBC

Saudi Arabia announced $81.6bn budget surplus this year, being a two times higher income as compared to initial forecast. Revenues jumped to $296bn as compared to $184bn expected. More than 90% of the revenue growth was contributed by oil exports.

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Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:11:34 GMT

China's copper imports from Japan increases by 30% last month

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