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G7 Demand Base Crumbles While Pegs Stay Silent: 46.3, 68,300, and 2,373's Bill to the Gulf
Michigan confidence at lowest since May, Canada lost 68,300 jobs in one month, German bankruptcies at 13-year peak. The riyal and dirham listened without moving.
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Karim Al-Rashidi
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Friday's close looked quiet on Gulf screens — USD/SAR 3.7500, USD/AED 3.6725, both figures locked in place to the decimal. But silence is not a price; it is a filter. Three separate datasets from three separate capitals today said the G7 demand base is thinning simultaneously; the peg will transmit that thinning through crude oil to the Gulf budget, not today, but within weeks.
First, the headline figure. The University of Michigan consumer confidence index fell to 46.3 in October's advance rea…