However, life is a lot easier for me if I assume that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow morning, that my phone will periodically ring with consulting clients, and that my bank will process checks that I deposit.
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And frankly, if the economy were to stall here in response to a protracted rise in oil, the uncertainty in the Middle East, or renewed problems in Europe, they might have a point.
For several oil producers, notably in the Middle East and Africa, a rise in the oil price could help.
Throughout the campaign, launched in January, Crimestoppers reported a 31% rise in all calls across the east of Scotland area.
Meanwhile, Iran-related tensions began to rise last week in the Middle East.
The survey from lettings agent LSL, which owns Your Move and Reeds Rains, suggested that London had seen the biggest rent rises in England and Wales in the last year, rising by 6.6%, followed by a 6% rise in the West Midlands and a 4.3% increase in the North East of England.
In the Middle East, unemployment is on the rise again after a decline in the 2000s.
So it should not come as much of a surprise that the markets doubt that it will, which is partly why prices rise with each new setback in the Middle East.
But while the use of Welsh is on the rise in urban areas and in anglicised south east Wales, the data shows that the proportion of speakers is declining in some areas of the north and west.
Riverpark Farm is a sprawling one-acre urban farm tucked among the high rise buildings on East 29th Street in Manhattan, just off of the East River.
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Youth unemployment is expected to rise in emerging economies in Eastern Europe, East and South-East Asia and the Middle East, according to the report.
Beyond the capital, rugged Alpine mountains rise to the north and west, the Pannonian plains stretch off towards Hungary in the east and the the Adriatic Sea lies to the south.
With its location at the intersection of three continents, Dubai captures not only the shift in economic power from West to East, but also the rise of the South.
The recent populist uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa have had a particularly interesting impact on the rise of commodities prices.
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Guy Sparkes, who runs a holiday park at Partrington Haven in East Yorkshire, said the tax rise would have an impact on the whole sector.
An awful lot will hinge on how far this rise in oil prices persists, whether the situation in the Middle East becomes clarified and it falls back again.
The organisation will be hoping that the excitement generated by the Billiardrome plans, coupled with the sport's growing profile in the Far East, will help snooker rise again.
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He said: "An awful lot will hinge on how far this rise in oil prices persists, whether the situation in the Middle East becomes clarified and it falls back again, " he said.
No doubt, the immediate cause for the sudden rise in the price of oil and gasoline is fear of disruptions in the supply of oil due to unrest in the Middle East and the growing risk of war with Iran.
In the less productive east, this has caused wages to rise too fast, making many industries uncompetitive.
The firm predicts an even sharper rise this year, not only in east Africa but also in west and southern Africa, too.
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Like his contemporaries in the hustling game, he made something of a specialty of maneuvering around bankers in the world of finance, and found a certain vicious joy in doing it well (frontier hustlers swindling East Coast bankers before the rise of the telegraph was a common occurrence).
Teachers in the outer London and "fringe" areas of the South East will get the general pay rise of 2.9%.
So even as prospects for arms sales in the Middle East are receding, domestic demand for high-end military systems looks likely to rise.
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Squatting groups say there has been a rise in the practice since the mid-2000s due to a lack of affordable housing, particularly in the South-East of England.
While selling to 106 different countries, the biggest market remained North America, but with Africa in a strongly-growing second place, and sales of expertise to the Middle East on the rise as well.
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