Saudi Arabia’s business sector operating revenues increased 2.3 percent in 2025 to 5,628 billion riyals, the General Authority for Statistics said in its Structural Business Statistics 2025, released today. Compensation of employees rose 6.0 percent to 624.1 billion riyals, of which 528.9 billion was salaries and wages, gross fixed capital formation reached 992 billion riyals, up 0.4 percent, and the gross operating surplus was 2,542 billion riyals, down 0.1 percent. The annual structural release is the backdrop to this morning’s third quarter GDP flash, covered separately today, which showed the economy contracting 3.8 percent year on year on a 20.4 percent fall in oil activities while non-oil activities grew 1.9 percent.
The Reserve Bank of India set the premature redemption price for the Sovereign Gold Bond 2021-22 Series VII tranche at 14,167 rupees per unit, for redemption due on Monday, November 2, 2026. The price is the simple average of the closing price of 999 purity gold over October 28, 29 and 30, as published by the India Bullion and Jewellers Association. The tranche was issued on November 2, 2021 and becomes eligible for premature redemption after its fifth year, on an interest payment date.
The RBI also published its routine issuance notices for state government securities and for 91 day, 182 day and 364 day Treasury bills, the regular calendar through which Indian states and the centre fund at the short end. No amounts are stated here because the notices were logged from the release list in this run.
In the United States, Series I savings bonds issued from today, November 1, through April 30, 2027 carry the composite rate of 5.51 percent, with a fixed rate of 1.40 percent, announced by TreasuryDirect on October 30 and covered in full in the October 30 edition. A stale 2025 release circulating in the feed pool quotes 3.98 percent for Series I; that is last year’s figure and does not apply to bonds issued now.