Quarterly GDP update: (Oil sector pushes up overall growth in Q1-15)
Oil Market ReportLatest data released by CDSI show a Saudi economic growth of 2.4 percent year-on-year, 0.8 percentage point higher than in the fourth quarter of last year. Contribution to growth has remained unchanged with the non-oil sector becoming once again the main growth driver, while oil sector growth and contribution have turned positive for the first time since Q2-14. We assume that annual economic growth will trend higher for the remainder of the year, owing to an increase in oil output, while the non-oil private sector remains robust.
Quarterly Oil Market Update- Attention shifting from supply to demand.
Oil Market ReportBrent Oil prices dropped by 18 percent quarter-on-quarter in Q3 2015 and averaged $50 per barrel. The market continues to witness a shift from supply to demand and no appreciable upside on oil prices is envisaged by this trend. The continued moderate pace of global economic growth will result in a 1.4 percent year-on-year global oil demand uplift with similar growth rates envisaged for 2016.
