The Saudi state oil company had the world's biggest IPO when it made its stock market debut on Wednesday, but is it all smoke and mirrors?
Bessma Momani
Momani is Professor at the University of Waterloo, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
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