BREAKING: Saudi Arabia's oil company Aramco is now listed and has started trading on the Saudi Tadawul stock exchange for the first time after a mammoth $25.6 billion initial public offering that set the record as the biggest ever in history.
FILE - This Sept. 15, 2019 file photo, shows storage tanks at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, set a share price for its IPO — expected to be the biggest ever — that puts the value of the company at $1.7 trillion, more than Apple or Microsoft.
The state-owned company had announced a sale of 1.5% of its shares at 32 Saudi riyals a share, or what is $8.53.
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