Brands barbie, fisher price and moi, that is mattel to find out how his company s fortunes are being revived. Wherever you are joining around the world, once again hello and welcome to the programme. It is a billion dollar industry driven by creativity and innovation with a global reach and a diverse market. The toy industry is forecast to reach $302 billion in sales by 2030 and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we have seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies reported sales have started to slip back once again. Let s look at some of those numbers. Local toy sales reached $108. 7 billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022 with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But acr
Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Special Counsel jack smith has filed a reworked indictment in his election interference case against former president donald trump, the new filing keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against the former president following that Supreme Court opinion on broad immunity on former president s. So what about this . What goes on from here . Correspondent david spunt has details from the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. This is the new indictment of president donald trump, the former president still has the same four core charges from when he was indicted last year. But, as you mentioned, it narrows some of the language. The language is a little bit tighter and it takes out mentions of certain people that Special Counsel jack smith felt that he could not move forward if he wanted to be successful in court. Something else to point out, a brand new grand j
Up to deliver vaccines to remote areas. We start on wall street where the Stock Market Rally continues with the s p 500 and nasdaq closing at new record highs. Americas Top Companies are reporting better than expected results. The senate is inching towards passing President Biden s 1. 9 trillion stimulus package. And theres been another fall in the number of americans filing forjobless benefits a sign the Labour Market is stabilising. There are still huge problems facing the worlds biggest economy but investors believe the flow of cheap money from the Federal Reserve will keep on coming. The biggest problem isjust that we have 20 million americans who are still in some state of receiving Unemployment Insurance benefit so we still have a really long way to go on the labour front and that take quite a bit of time to resolve. But gdp and output may recover faster but it will take more time to employ that many americans. I think it means that for market, we now believe that for market, we
And one that cowers in fear of its apparently extremist base. The sad truth is that democrats in congress had to discipline Margie Q Greene because House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy was unwilling to do so himself. Mccarthy was willing to hold a Secret Ballot on the fate of republican congresswoman liz cheney, his own third in command who received a resounding if anonymous show of support to remain in Republican Leadership last night but he couldnt muster the courage to reject the qanon congresswoman. With this vote tonight, house republicans, many of whom stood up and gave Greene A Standing Ovation in a caucus meeting yesterday will now be defined as supporting someone who backed calls for assassinating Speaker Nancy Pelosi and threatened the nonwhite Women Members of the squad in social media ads. She promoted an antisemetic and Islam Mow Phobic video that had been reportedly circulating among neonazis. It claimed a, quote, unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and zionist supre
After almost a year of online learning. In chicago, teachers are considering a strike tonight to stay put, to stay out of the classroom. In cincinnati, a judge threw out a Teachers Union lawsuit over safety concerns. The politics and Health Experts here seem to be at odds on some items. We have fox team coverage. Dan springer is in the Pacific Northwest where a pair of states are putting teachers near the front of the line or at the front of the line for vaccines. We begin tonight with mike emanuel and the confirmation for the nominee to lead the Department Of Education. Reporter good evening. President biden set a goal of students reopening for in Person Learning in his first 100 days, but so far unions are not budging. Today his Department Of Education secretary nominee said it is still up for interpretation. We want to make sure we can get our students back into school safely. Reporter he side stepped a question about the Teachers Union in fairfax, virginia, that all teachers and st