{"id":287283,"date":"2019-08-13T07:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T07:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287283"},"modified":"2019-08-13T07:24:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T07:24:03","slug":"saudi-aramco-springs-no-surprises-at-gentle-first-results-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-aramco-springs-no-surprises-at-gentle-first-results-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Aramco springs no surprises at gentle first results call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Aramco\u2019s senior executives can breathe a collective sigh of relief after the company\u2019s first-ever earnings call with investors. The half-hour event was a pretty gentle affair, with few questions, that were likely to embarrass a company with a potentially lucrative share sale in the works. <\/p>\n<p>Finance chief Khalid Al-Dabbagh took questions from nine participants \u2014 some representing banks that had been advising on the sale \u2014 and managed to say little that was new, without at any point appearing to stonewall his questioners. His performance was not much different from that of executives from most large companies presenting their results, but those listening in will have gone away knowing little more about Aramco\u2019s plans or prospects than they did before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Aramco\u2019s senior executives can breathe a collective sigh of relief after the company\u2019s first-ever earnings call with investors. The half-hour event was a pretty gentle affair, with few questions, that were likely to embarrass a company with a potentially lucrative share sale in the works. Finance chief Khalid Al-Dabbagh took questions from nine participants \u2014 some representing banks that had been advising on the sale \u2014 and managed to say little that was new, without at any point appearing to stonewall his questioners. His performance was not much different from that of executives from most large companies presenting their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}