Shares in Goldman Sachs fell 2 . The catalyst was moodys, downgrading the Credit Rating on several small and medium sized us banks, including mnt bank and pinnacle financial. The red flags raised by the Ratings Agency included a potential recession, as well as problems tied to the commercial real estate sector. As one analyst put it, any doubts about regional banking is bad for market sentiment. That wasnt helped by data from new york federal reserve, which showed that for the first time, americans owed more than 1 trillion on their credit cards. Traders have also been focused on corporate results, which so far have been better than expected. That was true for lyft, which reported results after the us market closed. Uber s small arrival is forecasting higher revenue in the Third Quarter based in part on a post pandemic rebound in ridesharing. Meanwhile, Electric Vehicle maker rivium posted a narrower lost than expeted and raised its Production Guidance for the full year. Meanwhile, Nin
is on the glide path to get done, probably a carveout for the uk and ultimately i think they pop the champagne after this battle that this deal gets done. what is going to happen in the uk? are they going to come up are they going to come up with some kind of compromise to meet the regulator s demand? yeah, we think they carveout, there is a piece on the subscription side they carveout, to ultimately give the uk regulators what they want and i think this is all a game of poker and i think microsoft recognises if they beat ftc and they thought they had a strong case, i think ultimately it is a black eye for lina khan. and it is now on a glide path to finally get done. a significant deal for microsoft. a significant deal to take, especially with the ftc, a significant loss right there. you do not think the ftc will appeal? they can appeal but ultimately i think there is a better chance of me playing the premier league than them winning. i think this isjust a huge win for micros
done, probably a carveout for the uk and ultimately i think they pop the champagne after this battle that this deal gets done. what is going to happen in the uk? are they going to come up with some kind of a compromise to meet the regulator s demand? yeah, we think they carveout, there is a piece on the subscription side they carveout, to ultimately give the uk regulators what they want and i think this is all a game of poker and i think microsoft recognises if they beat ftc and they thought they had and they thought they had a strong case, i think ultimately it is a black eye for lina khan and the ftc. and it is now on a glide path to finally get done. a significant deal for microsoft. a significant deal for tech, especially with the ftc s significant loss right there. you do not think the ftc will appeal? they can appeal but ultimately i think there is a better chance of me playing the premier league than them winning. i think this is just a winning. i think this isjust a h
set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. group three isn t creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similar web, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior, that s in the days immediately after threads launched. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the microblogging app but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social remain small. history shows that creating a social media platforms hard but when it works, it really wo
inflation trending down. data due out later on friday from us economist department is likely to confirm prices are cooling. but with inflation still stubbornly high, policymakers here, as in many other developed economies, aren t done raising interest rates. michelle fleury reporting. let s quickly show you how markets reacted. all major major intersystem 0k all major major intersystem ok but japanese nikkei all major major intersystem 0k butjapanese nikkei opening but japanese nikkei opening slightly lower, butjapanese nikkei opening slightly lower, down by about i%. in other news, sporting goods giant nike has reported its latest earnings for the fourth quarter and revenue coming in at $12.8 billion. that s slightly higher than expected and it also means they have beaten revenue estimates for seven straight quartrs, with sales jumping in both its modest market, north america, and in china following the easing of covid 19 restrictions. chinese authorities have released data