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Updated: Saturday, November 21 2009 |
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| FEATURES & ANALYSIS
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Price volatility and the future of natural resources
Consumer industry increasingly vulnerable to natural resource scarcity and price volatility: World Economic Forum, Deloitte report. Says a 10 per cent increase in its resource-based inputs cost will result in an 80 per cent decline in profits. |
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Fed officials cautious on economic recovery
The US economy will be slow to recover from the deepest recession since the 1930s, as rising unemployment curbs consumer spending, Federal Reserve officials said in a string of speeches across the country last week, according to the latest weekly money market report from NBK |
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The rise and fall in Kuwait
Employment dropped by 13,000, the entire decline coming in the expatriate segment. Employment of Kuwaitis actually rose by 10,000. Kuwaiti women’s employment share keeps rising. Most Kuwaiti workers – some 81 per cent - are employed by the government. However this is slowly changing. The private sector is now the primary source of new jobs for Kuwaitis. |
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