Thursday, May 31, 2007

U.S. attracts bulk of Gulf oil windfall surplus-IIF

(Reuters) - The Institute of International Finance estimated total
export earnings of the six states of the Gulf Cooperation
Council -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates -- were more than $1.5 trillion in 2002
to 2006.




"About $1 trillion went towards imports. The remainder of
the earnings -- some $542 billion -- represented surplus funds
that entered global capital markets and contributed to an
increase in GCC foreign asset holdings," it said.


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