In about 90 minutes time well get the latest health check on the economy and everyone is asking the question will the numbers reveal we are officially out of recession . Well, most experts predict yes, and say we will see a smidgen of Growth Injanuary of 0. 2 . This would confirm the Bank Of Englands suggestion that the downturn is behind us. During the final three months of last year, the data showed the uk slipped into recession and inflation injanuary was at 4 so its still twice the Bank Of Englands target. Lets discuss all of this with azad zangana, Senior European Economist at schroders. Good morning to you. Are you with the majority believing today will give us a Growth Number . Today will give us a Growth Number . ~. ~ ~ number . We are. We think it could be number . We are. We think it could be even number . We are. We think it could be even a number . We are. We think it could be even a little number . We are. We think it could be even a little higherl could be even a little h
Rematch is about to take center stage. And that critical Battleground State any moment now, biden is expected to land in atlanta he will be appearing at a Campaign Event in the next few hours and his presumptive, republican rival donald trump is holding a rally in rome. Thats North Atlantic and georgia is a key swing state that biden won in 2020 by less than a percentage point. And it is the only swing state among primary contests happening on tuesday you have Team Coverage of these dueling Campaign Events. Steve contorno is with the Trump Campaign, but lets begin with priscilla alvarez. She is live in atlanta where biden is holding that Campaign Event and just a few hours from now, priscilla set the stage for us on what we can expect from the president well, we can expect him to build off his momentum from the State Of The Union. We got a preview of what that looked like yesterday when he was in pennsylvania where he used forceful language should go after former President Donald Trump
For a while yet if in the future at all, pointing to an unstable global Food Supply Pressurised by the war in ukraine. Now the price of food in the uk rose by nearly 17. 5 in the year tojune, which was actually a fall from a high of just over 19 in the year to march, following an overall drop in the wholesale price of food which you can see here peaking when russia invaded ukraine last year. It has been trending downwards. But prices are still much higher than before the war and have started creeping up again. Lets discuss this with Kona Haque Head of reserach at commodities house ed and f man holdings. Good to have you on the programme. Do you agree with the Chief Economist at the Bank Of England that actually high food prices are here to stay . I think at least for the sure term we still have got some pressures that will keep prices elevated. The factors globally, the stocks, global stocks of the stocks, global stocks of the grains, the staples such as grains and oils, and sugar, the
Performance dividend. Live now to our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. Samir, Rhe Saudi State remains overwhelmingly aramco s biggest shareholder, so they remain the big winner in the aramco story. Well, thats right. They own around 90 of the company and the payout, the bulk of it, will go to the saudi government. If you look at aramco, every quarter they have been paying about 19. 8 billion of dividend. This time they have added another amount to that amount, because they said the cash flows are healthy and thatis said the cash flows are healthy and that is why they have decided to increase that overall dividend, which will be beneficial for the saudi government because it relies heavily on the Aramco Generating revenues for it, and that will help them in their Oil Diversification programme. They are these mega infrastructure projects, new tourist destinations. All this is being done keeping in that oil demand will decrease in years to come and they will have to come
That members are being careful not to mistep in either direction, whether that is cutting Interest Rates too soon or too little too late. He will have more to say in front of the Senate Banking committee on thursday. In other news making headlines, a former Google Software enginer has been indicted in california on charges of stealing Trade Secrets related to the compay s Artificial Intelligence technology. Our Asia Business correspondent katie silver has been tracking the developments and joins us live from our newsroom with the latest. He was arrested at home in california charged counts of stealing on behalf of two Chinese Companies stealing ai. We understand he worked as a Software Engineer from 2019. In 2022, he started being courted by a chinese start up to be their chief technology officer. From then until may 2023, he uploaded or stole about 500 different confidential documents, particularly pertaining to systems and chips that are needed by google to build their data centres t