Alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, i am Jonathan Ferro. The s p 500 positive by 0. 22 . Tomorrow morning, retail sales, thursday from walmart. How many times have we done this from august . Talking about china. China the headline once again. Tom it starts and ends in china with a set of news. What is interesting to me is it is not one story. You have to get briefed on this to get up to speed on three, 4, 5 stories. Chinese equities in the tank, iron or somewhat in the tank. A lot of moving parts going on in china and that comes back to jackson hole. Jonathan one chinese developer, Country Garden holdings seeking to extend for the first time ever. Away from that we have a wealth manager missing payments. This is starting to mount in a bigger way. Lisa which begs the question of when this becomes financial contagion in china. Why are we not seeing more trickle out affects . Is that what we are seeing in germany or parts of europe . A lot of u. S. Companies are rationing back expect
Alarm bells are ringing about the outlook for china, but officials remain confident this is a short term blip. Only last month, the chinese premier, li qiang, said his country was still on track to reach its annual Growth Target of around 5 , a modest target after china grewjust 3 last year, one of the weakest showings in nearly half a century. Lets talk through whats at stake with jane foley, head of fx strategy at rabobank. Iam hoping i am hoping she is there. Good morning to you. I am hoping she is there. Good morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in a morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in a row morning to you. Good morning. A fourth month in a row of fourth month in a row of contraction although it is slightly improved from last month, hasnt it . It slightly improved from last month, hasnt it . Month, hasnt it . It has slightly month, hasnt it . It has slightly been month,
plus rising prices falling ratings. can president biden win the argument on the us economy with just days to go until the midterm elections? and a pressing crisis. the cost of olive oil set to soar with harvests shrivelled by europe s summer heatwave. hello. we start here in the uk which is now facing the longest recession since records began, a century ago. that was the bleak warning from the bank of england on thursday, as it raised interest rates to 3% to try to dampen down soaring inflation. the bank says the uk economy is already in recession, and could keep declining until the middle of 202a. the pound slumped on the news to its lowest in more than two weeks. here s our economics editor faisal islam. the end of a decade and a half of ultralow interest rates was always going to be difficult, but dealing in mortgages has in recent weeks felt more like the stock market than the housing market. , , stock market than the housing market. , , . ., , market
of cheer on wall street: amazon shares soar as it racks up sales of $121 billion in the last three months. hello there. we start in the us, with fears of a recession in the world s biggest economy. in the world s biggest economy are rattling people. official figures out on thursday show it shrinking for the second quarter in a row. two quarters of negative growth are what many countries around the world would define as a recession. not so in the us, as we ll show you why in a minute. us gross domestic product declined at an annual rate ofjust under 1% between april and june. that comes after a steeper 1.6% decline in the first three months of the year. but that hasn t hit the labour market yet. us treasury secretary janet yellen said the economy is now at full employment with the unemployment ratejust 3.6%. meanwhile, prices for groceries, petrol and other basics are rising at the fastest pace since 1981. he s what president biden had to say. both chairman powell and many
plus the crypto crash deepens. could it spell disaster for el salvador s multi million dollar gamble on bitcoin? we start in the us where the federal reserve has announced the biggest rise in borrowing costs in 28 years. the fed raised its key interest rate by three quarters of a percent and signalled more big increases are on the cards. as our correspondent michelle fleury reports, from washington, it s battling to control the worst inflation in four decades. intensifying its five figure inflation which is currently at a a0 year high reserve raised its key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5 to one and three quarters of a percent, move that will push up borrowing costs for and company. us interest rates haven t been hiked by this much in one go since bill clinton was in the white house in 199a, the size of the mood something federal chair reflected on during his press conference. clearly the 75 basis point is an unusually large one a