All of that bodes well for walmart which is forecast to report a 4 rise in sales. Results from the Worlds Largest retailer should also offer a glimpse into demand for back to school items. Traders are hoping that, despite higher borrowing costs, it will show that us shoppers are still willing to spend on essentials. Staying with retail, jd. Com beat analysts forecast for Second Quarter revenue which rose more than 7 to nearly 40 billion. The chinese e commerce giants Focus On Lower priced products paid off in the fight for customers amid an economic slowdown. The company said it attracted more vendors to its platform and its users shopped more frequently as It Product Range expanded. It was a different story however for tencent where Earning Results came in below estimates in the Second Quarter. Revenue grew 11 to just over 20 billion. Tencent s core Gaming Business experienced weaker than expected growth. Domestic Gaming Revenue was little changed, a sign that the economic slowdown in
The president admits the act with a lot of green goodies could have gone by a different name. What are they celebrating . Like i said, the Inflation Reduction Act didnt bring inflation down. Today we look at what and specifically who did. Prices are down, but price hikes still are not. And a key interest rated just closed at a 15year high. Lets go to Jacqui Heinrich at the white house on the fastmoving developments on who gets credit and whether its a birthday debby down to say its not the white house when it comes to inflation or this Inflation Reduction Act. Jacqui . Hi, neil. Yeah, we got out of the east room where the president held the 1year anniversary celebration. It was a classic joe biden event. He whispered at one point, yelled at another point. He said the Inflation Reduction Acted is working. He called it a key part of bidenomics, touting jobs creation, specifically in manufacturing and new investments in climate, even though he didnt get in to the fact that now the estimat
We will now fund the cost of their training in full. This will cut costs for businesses and Training Providers and support thousands more young people to start an apprenticeship. These announcements by the Prime Minister come amid a warning from the Industry Trade body make uk which represents 20,000 british manufacturers that output wont grow at all this year and wont be much better next, thats the findings of its latest survey of members published today. Joining me now is make uks chief operating officer, ben fletcher. This survey is quite stark. Facing the prospect of two years of anaemic growth, yet your survey suggest that your members are still pretty optimistic. Your members are still pretty optimistic your members are still pretty 0 timistic. ,. ,. ,. , ~ optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes from optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this comes from the optimistic. Join the dots for me. A lot of this co
Customers what does it mean for their customers and this was originally a uk lifestyle brand, so what does it mean for the employees in the uk . figs mean for the employees in the uk . Sis you mean for the employees in the uk . Is you say it is a turn for a company that started specialising in menswear in the 19805 and now has grown nearly 50 stores and nearly a thousand employees. They sell online and operate within department stores. Under conditions like this it would be reasonable to expect that a sale could result in job losses even into the hundreds and they did not indicate what that could look like but we heard from the chief strategy and transition officer for authentic and he said hopefully some consolidation at the brand and it will still be Available Online and in store spot for employees and stakeholders, he said we wish there could have been a better outcome but for employees. Authentic brands group is the owner of ted baker, since 2022, but the acquisition happened afte
On this just moments ago. Listen here. And the president has said he wished he didnt call this the Inflation Reduction Act. What should you call it . Well, he said following that sentiment because i think its a complicated bill that it also has reduced costs and i think its very important to note that both on healthcare and as i noted on the energy side we have already seen costs coming down. John are they . I mean, gas is nearly four bucks a gallon again. Gillian home prices are up. John are americans really feeling any relief as john suggests they are . Im john roberts. Good to spend another hour with you. Gillian you as well, john. Gillian turner in for sandra. Trying to narrow Donald Trumps polling lead. John only one clear frontrunner and that is the former president. Florida Governor Ron Desantis and tim scott are the two main contenders for the top spot. Gillian the majority of Republican Voters agree trump is in the best position to beat trump in the general, 28 are arguing for