Saudi Arabia should review its policy of pegging the riyal currency to the weak US dollar, said the chief economist of state-owned National Commercial Bank (NCB), the kingdom's largest lender by assets.
"Time has come to reconsider the continued pegging of the Saudi riyal to US dollar...taking into account unfavourable impact on official reserves which are mostly denominated in dollar," Said al-Shaikh said in a statement.
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