It has come down slightly, Nudging Par 77 a barrel. To explain why markets responded so quickly on thursday, heres our economics editor, faisal islam. In the aftermath of irans ballistic Missile Attack and as we wait for news on Israels Response there has been a rise in the price and that means since the attacks it is up 10 to over 77 a barrel on the Brent Crude measure, still down on the year because of local economic concerns but the spike up economic concerns but the spike up occurred immediately after president biden added to Suggestions Israel would target Irans Oilfacilities. Reporter would you support israel striking Irans Oil facilities . Israel striking Irans Oil facilities . ,. , facilities . We are discussing that. I facilities . We are discussing that. |think facilities . We are discussing that. L think that facilities . We are discussing that. I think that would facilities . We are discussing that. I think that would be i facilities . We are discussing that. I think that w
Later this month. Lets show you the details. Figures from the us Labor Department Show prices rose at an annual rate of 2. 5 percent in august. Down from 2. 9 injuly. If we look at Core Inflation though which strips out volatile elements such as Food And Fuel prices were rising at a more aggressive 3. 2 percent. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupta is in new york. A cut by the fed has been all but promised by them already at their meeting next week. I guess the only outstanding question is by how much. Indeed, as you mentioned in your introduction overall this was a solid report on information monitoring. Annually at 2. 5 , that is the lowest in three years and that is why you will see the White House touting this as it went for the current administration and for the Election Campaign for Vice President kamala harris, and makes it must certain the federal reserve will cut Interest Rates when it meets next week, but for the markets it is a different story and you see th
So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who you did speak to and what the terms were. I suppose the question is, whether you were changing names to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to western journalists must be very hard? well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a
To protect russians, to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to Western Journalists must be very hard . Well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a foreign one. I gave them their choices. I used first names only. And, you know, gave them the choice. I also made. I made very sure to speak to them out of the earshot of ukrainian journalists as much. Ukraine and had taken aggressive action there. And you attended something that sounded very fascinating, which was that ukraines civilian Military Liaison Officers were showing films to local people about the invasion. And i wonder what the reaction was to the films as you were there . Yeah, i mean, that was extraordinary, and one of the most extraordinary things to watch. There was a small audience of older people who were watching it. I spoke to one of them afterwards,
Catherine philp is world affairs editor at the times. She s reported from war zones for decades, and recently accompanied ukrainian forces across the border into kursk. So, i was coming into ukraine for. . . I ve been coming on and off since before the invasion, and this was a long scheduled visit. Itjust so happened that it came at a time when ukrainian forces had crossed the border into russia. So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who yo