Business Weekly

Business Weekly




Expert gives tips to beat recession

January 14 - 20, 2009
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THE time is right to grow brands and secure success, says a top management expert.





$66 million Alba project to cut emissions

January 14 - 20, 2009
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Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) has completed a $66 million project to make its power plants more environment friendly.





Islamic bank launched with $500m as capital

January 14 - 20, 2009
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BANK of Bahrain and Kuwait this week announced the launch of its wholly-owned Sharia compliant investment banking arm, Capinnova Investment Bank.





'Green' cement may help counter global warming

January 14 - 20, 2009
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Engineers believe cement, a vast source of planet-warming carbon dioxide, could be transformed into a means of stripping the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.





10,000 backroom jobs threatened by banks merger

January 14 - 20, 2009
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Thousands of jobs are under threat from a deal that will see troubled Wall Street investment banks Citigroup and Morgan Stanley merge their retail brokerage and asset management businesses.





Creditworthiness questioned

January 14 - 20, 2009
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EVEN as Bahrain's leadership thinks that the repercussions of the global crisis on key development projects can be surmounted by exploring new funding mechanisms, Moody's Investors Service has changed the outlook on the kingdom's sovereign ratings to negative from stable.