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		<title>Q8Stock &#8211; Blog for the Kuwait Stock Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Name: Q8Stock
Site: Q8Stock.blogspot.com
Type: Blog / Finance
Language: Arabic
Launch Date: March, 2007
Brief: Q8Stock is an unofficial specialized Kuwait Stock Market blog that brings you quick small tips everyday about some of the stocks performance for that day, with little advise on what to do. 


What would be even greater is a small quick daily podcast that is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://q8stock.blogspot.com/" title="Kuwait Stock Exchange"><img src="http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/q8stock_blog_logo.jpg" alt="Q8Stock Blog Logo" height="150" width="122"></a></p>
<p><strong>Name:</strong> Q8Stock</p>
<p><strong>Site:</strong> <a href="http://q8stock.blogspot.com/" title="Kuwait Stock Exchange">Q8Stock.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Type:</strong> Blog / Finance</p>
<p><strong>Language:</strong> Arabic</p>
<p><strong>Launch Date:</strong> March, 2007</p>
<p><strong>Brief:</strong> Q8Stock is an unofficial specialized Kuwait Stock Market blog that brings you quick small tips everyday about some of the stocks performance for that day, with little advise on what to do. </p>
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What would be even greater is a small quick daily podcast that is released right after market closing, so that people will hear it on the way back from work in their car, and get an idea of the market performance. How wonderful would that be? And we all know how much interested are people into the stock market over here.
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		<title>Salary Increase Report in Kuwait and the Gulf</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q8Ba7th</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GulfTalent have issued a 22 pages Gulf salary increase report that is rich of useful information. The report download requires small registration, but don&#8217;t worry about spam mail, I don&#8217;t receive so many emails from them. This is the only one in months. The report is long and has a section for each country, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GulfTalent have issued a 22 pages <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=2&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gulftalent.com%2Fhome%2FcntReports-View-s.php%3FreportID%3D11&#038;ei=JZ4AR6GIMY_o0ASjq4DVAg&#038;usg=AFQjCNHRNtwYdbomf6UtFo8isaWFhZ13Sg&#038;sig2=bLE5oZ7FbI2P1jOeVKQfvw" target="_blank" title"Gulf Salary Increase Report">Gulf salary increase report</a> that is rich of useful information. The report download requires small registration, but don&#8217;t worry about spam mail, I don&#8217;t receive so many emails from them. This is the only one in months. The report is long and has a section for each country, but some of the interesting graphs are posted below:</p>
<p><center><img src='http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gcc-basic-salary-increase.JPG' alt='Gulf Basic Salary Increase' /></center></p>
<p>As you can see, Gulf salary increase is accelerating overall in the last year.</p>
<p><center><img src='http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/salaray-increase-by-sector.JPG' alt='Gulf Salary Increase By Sector' /></center></p>
<p>As I always say, construction is the future of the Gulf. Not any other sector. See the tall, huge and massive buildings and projects in Dubai and you will know. Qatar, Kuwait and others are trying to catch up as well. I was surprised though from the low salary increase in telecom though. In Kuwait that is not so true as I know.</p>
<p><center><img src='http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/salary-increase-by-category.JPG' alt='Gulf Salary Increase By Category' /></center></p>
<p>Engineering is being paid highest of salaries, followed by HR and finance. Wonder if being in control of things have anything to do with the high payment of salary. This doesn&#8217;t apply to all ofcourse, but I have seen with my own eyes people in HR with nothing much and not even any strong degree to back up and they were getting double my salary as computer engineer.</p>
<p><center><img src='http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gulf-salary-increase-by-country.JPG' alt='Gulf Salary Increase by Country' /></center></p>
<p>So Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are at the bottom of salary increases this year (Zedo Al-m3ashat! <img src='http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . But don&#8217;t rush in judgment before you read the rest of the report. Other statistics in the same report show average rent increase in Oman and Qatar have reached %29, and the rent forms %35 of the salary in Qatar, so over all, their net profit is going down faster than us. If we are talking about HUGE salaries however, like 10,000 KD. Then I wouldn&#8217;t mind their living ofcourse. I still win in the end <img src='http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . As for the expat workforce, it forms %90 of UAE and %89 of Qatar (I don&#8217;t know if they count the people who got nationality there <img src='http://q8ba7th.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> ). With that percentage compared to the percentage of expats not saving, you will see that %41 of those expats in UAE are not saving. I.e., approximately %37 of UAE people are not able to save money. Still wanna live in Dubai?</p>
<p>I really suggest you go and get the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=2&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gulftalent.com%2Fhome%2FcntReports-View-s.php%3FreportID%3D11&#038;ei=JZ4AR6GIMY_o0ASjq4DVAg&#038;usg=AFQjCNHRNtwYdbomf6UtFo8isaWFhZ13Sg&#038;sig2=bLE5oZ7FbI2P1jOeVKQfvw" target="_blank">report</a>. Pretty much useful information to read there.
<p>Tip: <a href="http://q8ba7th.com">Q8Ba7th.com</a> &#8211; The Search Site For Kuwait</p>
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