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World Business Report: Fed Boss Yellen Highlights "Uncertainty" Over Labour Market

22/08/2014

Fed Boss Yellen Highlights "Uncertainty" Over Labour Market

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Fed Boss Yellen Highlights "Uncertainty" Over Labour Market

Fed boss Yellen highlights "uncertainty" over labour market at Jackson Hole conference.

US central bank boss Janet Yellen highlights "uncertainty" over the labour market at the Fed's annual conference and Poland's apple growers are hit by Russia's ban on EU imports.

The boss of the US central bank, Janet Yellen, has emphasised "uncertainty" over the labour market in her speech at the Federal Reserve's annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  We talk to Ethan Harris, chief economist at Bank of America, about the implications of what she said. 

Also we hear from Poland where Russia's ban on food imports from the European Union is hurting the country's apple growers.  Normally Poland is Russia's biggest supplier of the fruit so, with the autumn harvest about to start, it is becoming a race against time to decide what can be done with the crop.  

We will take a look back over some of the key events in the world of business over the past week.

Plus, it is "National Hug Your Boss Day" in Britain.  We will get the details from the organisers.

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