{"id":18472,"date":"2018-10-14T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18472"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:23:59","slug":"how-will-saudi-arabia-deal-with-stock-market-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18472","title":{"rendered":"How will Saudi Arabia deal with stock market plunge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"83\">\n<p>The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is hitting the Saudi economy.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks plunged almost 7 percent in early trading on Sunday, wiping out all the gains it had made since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The fall comes a day after US President Donald Trump threatened &#8216;severe punishment&#8217; if Saudi Arabia was found to be responsible for Khashoggi&#8217;s disappearance, but Riyadh warned it would retaliate if economic sanctions are imposed on it.<\/p>\n<p>As pressure mounts on Saudi Arabia, several US media organisations and business leaders have pulled out of a major investment conference in Riyadh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What was dubbed &#8220;Davos in the desert&#8221; is supposed to promote Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s reform vision for the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>So, where does that leave all his plans?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Imran Khan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khalid al-Khater &#8211; economist and researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>Naeem Aslam &#8211; chief market analyst at ThinkMarkets<\/p>\n<p>Imad Harb &#8211; director of research and analysis at the Arab Center in Washington DC<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is hitting the Saudi economy. Stocks plunged almost 7 percent in early trading on Sunday, wiping out all the gains it had made since the start of the year. The fall comes a day after US President Donald Trump threatened &#8216;severe punishment&#8217; if Saudi Arabia was found to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18472","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\/18472","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=18472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}