another area of concern is the labour market, which while still strong is showing signs of cooling. so what will america s central bank do and say? the bbc s michelle fleury reports from westchester, new york. losing momentum after nine rate hikes in the past year. the federal reserve s efforts to cool the us economy are having an effect. this is a chain that you ll see on like roller shades and vertical blinds. something bill, who runs a family owned manufacturing business in westchester, new york, is seeing first hand. right now, we re expecting some softness in the marketplace for probably six months or so. we re seeing a lot of softness in the marketplace as far as demand the commitment in terms of like long term blanket orders with customers. we re not seeing that either right now. so we re having some challenges with that. american businesses are pulling back on spending and hiring. the housing market is slowing both areas sensitive to changes in interest rates. and mor
after the markets opened despite raising their revenue forecasts as the chain saw a slowdown in purchases in october. they said customers are still getting used to higher interest rates. erin delmore is in new york for us. what do these figures tell us about what american consumers are thinking right now? what american consumers are thinking riaht now? ~ . ., , what american consumers are thinking riaht now? ~ . . , ., ., right now? walmart is warning that can she were right now? walmart is warning that can she were spending right now? walmart is warning that can she were spending could - right now? walmart is warning that can she were spending could be - can she were spending could be slower heading into the fourth corner and that contains the holiday shopping season. that is an area of discretionary spending for consumers where we have seen the effects of the economy take its toll, especially when we talk about high interest rates, persistent elevation, lowered saving
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I want to get jones and this is a Business Asia welcome to the u. S. China trade war is taking its toll on global stock market shares are heading south from asia to europe this is beijing gets ready to ramp up retaliation to u. S. Measures blacklisting some quote unreliable foreign firms and hiking tariffs on a range of u. S. Goods starting on june the 1st u. S. Time so where are we up to in this conflict now so far the u. S. Has imposed tariffs on chinese goods worth 250000000000. 00 thats almost half of the goods china sold to the u. S. In 2018 now beijing retaliated by imposing tariffs on 110000000000 Dollars Worth of u. S. Goods entering china and thats almost as much as all of us exports to china in 2018 hours washington keeps up the pressure threatening to raise more tariffs on chinese Goods Beijing has responded by threatening to stop supplies of rare metals crucial for many high take items now meanwhile on the u. S. Doorstep the president on a trump has said he will levy a 5 pe