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Kuwait was the world's biggest exporter of sulfonated, nitrated and nitrosated hydrocarbons in 2019. [121] Kuwait was ranked 63rd out of 157 countries in the 2019 Economic Complexity Index (ECI). [121] Iraq was Kuwait's leading export market in 2019 and food/agricultural products accounted for 94.2% of total export commodities. [122]
7 January – Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance announces that some of its military personnel in Iraq will be moved to neighboring Kuwait for safety reasons. [ 1 ] 8 January – Kuwaiti state news agency KUNA says its official Twitter account was hacked after it spread a fake news report that the United States Army ...
On April 24, 2016, the Kuwait Stock Exchange became fully operated by a private company and its name changed to Boursa Kuwait, making it the only stock exchange in the Middle East owned by the private sector. [4] [5] [6] On September 14, 2020, the Boursa Kuwait Securities Co. was listed on Boursa Kuwait, [7] becoming a self-listed exchange. [8]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Friday to turn what would have been one of the market’s worst weeks of the year into just a pretty bad one. The S&P 500 rallied 1.1% for its best day in six ...
Kuwait Financial Centre (K.P.S.C), a.k.a. “Markaz”, is an asset management and investment banking institution in the Middle East and North Africa (M.E.N.A.) region, based in Kuwait. As of December 31st, 2023, it has total assets under management of over KWD 1.21 billion (Kuwaiti Dinar), [ 1 ] which equates to about USD 3.93 billion.
On Friday, 20 March 2020, Asia-Pacific and European stock markets closed mostly up, [375] [376] while the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the NASDAQ Composite, and the S&P 500 all closed down 4% (with the Dow eclipsing its one-week decline from 24 to 28 February 2020 to finish at its largest one-week decline since the financial crisis of 2007 ...
Bill Clinton “Hillary and I mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter and give thanks for his long, good life,” Clinton, the country's 42nd president, said in a statement on Sunday.
Following his appointment to the cabinet in 1991, a group of senior military officers sent a letter to Jaber al-Ahmad, the Emir at the time, demanding that Nawaf, the minister of defense during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and Salem al-Sabah, the minister of interior during the invasion, be dismissed from the government and investigated for ...