By Kira Nickerson Both the UK and the US markets are more vulnerable to year 2000 disruptions than e...
By Kira Nickerson Both the UK and the US markets are more vulnerable to year 2000 disruptions than emerging countries as a result of their high level of dependency on technology Although emerging markets are doing the least to prepare for the millennium bug, they are still the least vulnerable, according to research from Goldman Sachs Martin Brookes, global economist at Goldman Sachs, said: "The potential for economic disruption arising from computer failures is great. No one knows with any certainty the true risks from the millennium bug to natural economies but there is increasing conc...
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