Future. Similar thoughts from the shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth , too. Jonathan ashworth, too. This is a set of announcements which is undermining Business Investment in in this country is undermining the stability of our economy. And its actually going to cost consumers more. To cost consumers more. Royal state visit. King charles and Queen Camilla continue their three day trip to france. Our royal reporter, france. Our royal reporter, Cameron Walker , is there. Cameron walker, is there. The queen and the first lady of france this morning will be launching a new franco British Literary prize. And as for the king, he will be doing something no british monarch has ever done before. Find out shortly. Before. Find out shortly. My mind is spinning. Its nothing. Its not a sexy sensation, as you may think. Its not a sexy sensation, as you may think. Im not going to you may think. Im not going to give the prize away. They will let cameron. I have no idea all about it. I have no i
Or two if they do hold rates and that decision is expected any second now. Liam, if they do hold them, could we start seeing rates starting to come down maybe towards the 4 area in the near future. 7 future . Im literally checking my phone here, pip, as we speak. You keep your eyes if you. Liam we are being told now it has been held. Its been held. At 5. 25. Your its been held. At 5. 25. Your reaction . Thats thats very, reaction . Thats thats very, very interesting. Whats going to happen now is that the pound will likely fall because traders were expecting an Interest Rate rise. On balance, what will happen now is so called two year swap rates will change. So Mortgage Companies quite quickly will start competing and offering cheaper loans. Weve already had Mortgage Rates coming down over recent weeks because of an expectation that this would be the peak in Interest Rates if indeed there was a rate rise. If we look at my graphic now, i hope its on the screen. You can hope its on the sc
A decline of 10 yesterday because of disapointrtificial intelligen disappointing sales they have been changing their strategy are they on the right track if they get the inventory right . I dont know. Theyve been seeing Phenomenal Growth for the first three quarters of the year 25 for the Fourth Quarter because of televisions and electronics instead of the everyday items. It says here they had so many tvs and toys they ran out of toilet paper they had no toilet paper to sell, okay which is important for a basic store like walmart do the maslow hierarchy of needs, survival, food. Before the big screen tvs and surround sound, there is the toilet paper its not just the inventory issues, its focusing on customers, theyve been spending on marketing, trying to bring in urban, younger customers now focusing more on the basic customers and bringing them in to walmart. Com does amazon know how to do this better than walmart amazon has had some practice. We will look at the u. S. Equity futures.
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100,000 new fulltime, fullbenefit jobs in the next 18 months all over the country. While the averages were down with the dow sinking 63 points, s p 0. 21 , nasdaq backsliding 0. 29 . Its been ages since weve seen that down. Amazon stock screamed higher, closing up 14 points to 813. Thats just like how stocks used to react on news of hiring, on expansion, before the recent age of stagnation, derision, and gridlock. Let me explain. Ever since growth slowed, i mean really slowed and the u. S. Became episodic in its ability to expand the economy, we desired a particular set of traits, a set of rewards so to speak from our stocks before we bought them. First we would look and wed want a good dividend, one that gave us a nice return versus the competition, namely treasury bonds. Second, we wanted a large and meaningful Share Buyback to shrink the share cap, and thus artificially or not increase the earnings per share. We cared more about this than actual Revenue Growth because what Revenue G