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Crown Prince Attends South Korean President's Keynote at FII in Riyadh

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol are seen at FII7 in Riyadh on Tuesday. (SPA)
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol are seen at FII7 in Riyadh on Tuesday. (SPA)
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Crown Prince Attends South Korean President's Keynote at FII in Riyadh

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol are seen at FII7 in Riyadh on Tuesday. (SPA)
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol are seen at FII7 in Riyadh on Tuesday. (SPA)

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, attended on Tuesday a keynote delivered by South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol at the seventh Future Investment Initiative (FII) that kicked off in Riyadh earlier in the day.

The FII7 is being held under the theme "The New Compass".  

Held at the King Abdulaziz International Center for Conferences, the three-day event brings together 6,000 participants from more than 90 countries, and 500 local and international speakers from different sectors.

Yoon, who is on a four-day visit to the Kingdom, said Saudi Arabia has succeeded in transforming itself into an advanced industries hub.

“We want to expand the scope of relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” he said.

“I could feel the passion for Saudi projects and industrialization,” he said.  

“Vision 2030 is not just for industrialization but encompasses culture and private sector,” he stressed.

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Turkish Annual Inflation Falls More Than Expected to 44.38%

A shopkeeper uses his mobile phone as he waits for customers at a popular middle-class shopping district in Istanbul, Türkiye March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File photo
A shopkeeper uses his mobile phone as he waits for customers at a popular middle-class shopping district in Istanbul, Türkiye March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File photo
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Turkish Annual Inflation Falls More Than Expected to 44.38%

A shopkeeper uses his mobile phone as he waits for customers at a popular middle-class shopping district in Istanbul, Türkiye March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File photo
A shopkeeper uses his mobile phone as he waits for customers at a popular middle-class shopping district in Istanbul, Türkiye March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File photo

Turkish annual consumer price inflation fell more than expected to 44.38% in December, official data showed on Friday, with education, housing and restaurant prices leading the rise.

Month on month, inflation was 1.03%, the Turkish Statistical Institute said, compared with 2.24% in November. Annual consumer price inflation (CPI) was 47.09% in November.

Furniture prices rose 2.78% from the previous month, data showed, while telecoms-related prices gained by 1.82%.

In a Reuters poll, the annual inflation rate was expected to fall to 45.2%, with the monthly figure seen at 1.61%, owing to easing food price inflation and a limited rise in energy prices.

The latest inflation print was close to the central bank's midpoint prediction of 44% for the end of 2024.

The bank, having kept its main interest rate steady at 50% since March, launched an easing cycle last week, cutting the policy rate by 250 basis points to 47.5%.

The bank said it will set policy "prudently" meeting by meeting with a focus on the inflation outlook while responding to any expected "significant and persistent deterioration".

The Turkish lira was little changed after the data at 35.3850 to the dollar, hovering around the record lows.

The domestic producer price index was up 0.4% month on month in December for an annual rise of 28.52%, the data showed.