British ice are tax Free Allowance to invest in uk listed companies. British isa tax Free Allowance. Moving on to the uk economy. The Office For Budget Responsibility predicts uk economy will grow by 0. 8 this year and 1. 9 next year. The uks Inflation Rate is also forecast to fall below 2 target this year. But the underlying debt, excluding Bank Of England debt, is forecast to be 91. 7 of gdp this year rising to 92. 8 next year. The government also kept a freeze on alcohol duty, which had been due to end in august, which will now continue until february 2025. There will be a new tax on vaping products to start in october 2026, and the existing tax on tobacco will increase. The chancellor says is in order to maintain the financial incentive to choose vaping over smoking. 0n transport and energy, the government has frozen the fuel duty again and kept the 5p cut in fuel duty on petrol and diesel, due to end later this month for another year. A windfall tax on the profits of energy firms,
Ministers questions. It is always a little different, the pmqs ahead of the budget. He has vacated the chair for the Deputy Speaker. She will be going through some of the notices ahead ofjeremy hunt, the chancellor, delivering his Budget Statement. He will take to his feet shortly and will probably speak for about an hour shortly and will probably speak for Aboutan Hourand shortly and will probably speak for about an hour and then it will be the turn of the leader of the opposition, keir starmer to respond. We will take both of those live and uninterrupted and we will then have reaction from the Chief Secretary to the treasury, laura trott, part of the treasury, laura trott, part of the Treasury Team and her shadow for labour. Here isjeremy hunt. Madam Deputy Speaker, as we mourn the loss of life in israel and gaza, the loss of life in israel and gaza, the Prime Minister reminded us of the Prime Minister reminded us of the need the Fight Extremism and heal divisions. I start today by r
The team working on the project were told the iphone giant was shifting its focus to ai. In fact, some of the people who worked on the car will be moved to apples Artificial Intelligence division thats according to bloomberg while those who cant find jobs elsewhere in the company, they face lay offs. Apple shares rose nearly 1 on the news. As one tech analyst put it, by abandoning its dream to transform the auto industry, it will increase pressure on apple to do something profound in the area of Generative Ai. Staying with tech, and people tend to associate Us Company Nvidia with chips and Artificial Intelligence but not necessarily with retail. Azita martin leads nvidias ai initiatives for the retail industry, including Generative Ai that can produce content like text, images or other data when prompted. Our north America Business correspondent erin delmore asked her about how ai is changing the Shopping Experience for customers, both in store and online. Ai enables you to really have
future rate hikes. the strong number suggesting we have a long way to go to tamp down inflation. dana: nothing to dissuade president biden from more big spending. he unveiled his election budget, $6.8 trillion. bill: more of a campaign stunt than serious proposal. republicans call it dead on arrival. the president begs to differ. dana: team fox coverage an all list from james freeman at the wall street journal. edward lawrence has the latest on the job numbers. good morning. those jobs numbers beat expectations. unemployment rate went up to 3.6 pers percent mainly because more people became unemployed than moved into a job. the people who were unemployed lost a job or finished temporary work. wages in this report are still out pacing inflation. if you look at the wage it is 4.6% year-over-year. that means workers are actually making seeing their paycheck go less far than they did. cpi inflation at 6.4%. the federal reserve is watching the wage growth. higher means