| Abu Dhabi expects to post a wider budget deficit of 36.9 billion dirhams ($10.1 billion) in 2016 because of low oil prices, and plans to cover the gap mainly with international bond issues, a prospectus for a bond sale by the emirate showed.
The prospectus noted that Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, could be directed to pay dividends to the government to help cover any deficit. But it did not say whether this was likely to be done in 2016...............................................Full Article: Source
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