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A new excise on tobacco and soft drinks will start from october 1, the first in a series of reforms designed to make up for lost revenue from Lower Oil Prices. Saudi bonds make a splash. Bloombergs mideast finance reporter looked at what is driving demand for the kingdoms debt. Reporter demand is still pretty high from local investors. What we have seen in saudi arabia as a result of the spending cuts the government has done, demand in the private sector has dried up. Banks are looking for decent assets to buy. There is a lot of demand for these issues. If we compare it to last month around 58 there was billion rials on the table, this time it was just over 30. We are seeing demand is perhaps not as high as it was last month. We are starting to see interbank rates come up. What they were doing a year ago was sucking all of the liquidity out of the system. There is very little left for the private sector. Rishaad does this give us any clues about the governments demands when it to inves

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