Business Extra: Saudi Arabia's 2020 budget and how the proceeds of the Saudi Aramco IPO will be spent

Hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner are joined by Oxford Analytica's chief executive David Young to discuss this week's headlines

In this week's podcast, hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner are joined by David Young, chief executive of strategic consulting and advisory firm Oxford Analytica. They discuss Google rolling out its digital assistant in Arabic across the MENA region, Saudi Arabia's 1.02 trillion riyal budget for 2020 and how Oxford Analytica started 45 years ago to provide daily briefs inspired by the White House. In this episode:

Google's virtual assistant in Arabic (0m 34s)

US vs China (5m 34s) Saudi Arabia's 2020 budget (10m 35s) David Young on Oxford Analytica (17m 12s)

Headlines (25m 09s) Read more on our website:

• Alphabet's Google Assistant rolls out Arabic service across the Mena region​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

• Saudi Arabia sets 2020 budget with plans to spend 1.02 trillion riyals

• Former head of US Fed Paul Volcker dies

• ENBD Reit to delist from Nasdaq Dubai

• MBC Group appoints new CEO