Let s turn our attention to us as well and talk about the us jobs data, that s out this friday. Will that have any impact on what the fed decides to do? we know they re meeting in a few weeks. We are looking at potentially the highest risk economic event of the year so far. Because what we have seen so far, august was unprecedented for some global markets volatility and one of the catalysts behind this was concerns that us economic momentum after being very robust and resilient for the past 18 months or so is showing signs that those rocks are falling and the momentum is falling with it. We do expect the fed, the us central bank, to cut interest rate this month but what s concerning is that fed policy makers have had a poker face of not giving too much away until recently. We had a weak economic data release for the monthly jobs report in august and we have also seen a data revision where up to 850,000 jobs were potentially overestimated between april of last year and march of this yea
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A sharp fall in its net profit, slipping 25 in 2023 compared to the previous year. Aramco attributed the downturn to Lower Crude Oil prices and decreased production. The companys net income dropped from 161 billion in 2022 to 121 billion last year. Despite the challenges posed by declining oil prices, aramco will increase its dividend payments, providing a much needed financial boost to saudi arabia. Lets get more now from our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. With a big fall off in profit, why is it increasing its dividend . It its dividend . Is a steep fall compared to 2022. It is a steep fall compared to 2022. It is still the second best performance in terms of annual results at 121 billion. Two reasons why they increased the dividend pay out. Number one, Aramco Abbott is the main driver of the Saudi Arabian economy. Saudi owned entities own 19 of it and they rely heavily on that income to really find some these massive projects inside arabia. They tried to keep the