{"id":12748,"date":"2018-08-25T21:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2018-08-25T21:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T21:23:44","slug":"will-a-saudi-aramco-ipo-ever-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12748","title":{"rendered":"Will a Saudi Aramco IPO ever happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"85.1175373134\">\n<p>Saudi Arabia has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/saudi-cancels-plan-sell-shares-state-oil-company-aramco-180823045944213.html\">delayed<\/a> its plans to list shares of its state-owned oil company Aramco on the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports say the initial public offering (IPO), scheduled for 2018, has been postponed indefinitely &#8211; claims denied by the Saudi government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Khalid al-Falih, the kingdom&#8217;s e<\/span>nergy minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/saudi-oil-giant-aramco-listing-plan-halted-180822171540545.html\">said<\/a> the government &#8220;remains committed&#8221; to conducting the IPO, and that the &#8220;timing will depend on multiple factors&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plan to float around five percent of the oil company is expected to be the world&#8217;s largest stock sale.<\/p>\n<p>It lies at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s vision to transform the economy.<\/p>\n<p>So, where does this leave Saudi Arabia&#8217;s efforts to raise money and diversify its economy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mahjoub Zweiri &#8211; professor of contemporary history of the Middle East at Qatar University<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Cherkaoui &#8211; professor of conflict resolution at George Mason University<\/p>\n<p>James Dorsey &#8211; senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has reportedly delayed its plans to list shares of its state-owned oil company Aramco on the stock market. Media reports say the initial public offering (IPO), scheduled for 2018, has been postponed indefinitely &#8211; claims denied by the Saudi government.\u00a0 Khalid al-Falih, the kingdom&#8217;s energy minister, said the government &#8220;remains committed&#8221; to conducting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}