Saudi non-oil output bucks trend with 2.1% annual gain

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s non-oil industrial activities remained 2.1 percent higher than a year earlier in April, despite a broader decline in factory and mining output that pushed the Kingdom’s Industrial Production Index down 6.8 percent from March, according to official data. Preliminary figures from the General Authority for Statistics showed the Industrial Production Index fell to 84.9 in April, down from 91 in March and 104.9 in the same month a year earlier. The decline was driven largely by weaker mining and manufacturing activity.

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