and it has fallen pretty sharply from its peak of more than 9% injune of last year. it is a sign that the federal reserve s moves to raise interest rates to slow down inflation seems to be working. but analysts still think america s central bank will raise interest rates one more time at their next meeting. now, the cooler inflation is good news for consumers but it is also good news for us presidentjoe biden, who touted the administration s efforts to bring prices down. now, he s facing re rlection next year and being able to control inflation without pushing the economy into a recession will be key if he want another four years in the white house. william lee is the milken institute chief economist and he says everyone is wondering whether this is a turning point. that is the ultimate question at the fomc and all the central banks around about asking themselves, has it peaked? a lot of the inflation decreases have come about because supply chain to become restored around th
beaten a record set by open air chat app, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. now, it was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores in 100 countries. meta boss mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast, but it feels like lots of people are already on it. well, that s partly because it s connected to instagram. meta, remember isn t creating an app from scratch. it s benefiting from its two 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 similarweb, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior. that s in the days immediately after threads launch. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the micro blogging app, but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social, well, they all remain still pretty small right now. as histor
pace, that is the message from the federal reserve. america s central bank. the policymakers says they intend to raise interest rates practice in its july after taking a break last month to assess the impact of ten brevis increases. it comes as americans are having to pay more for basic goods, but while officials seem to be an agreement are for what to do next, after the meeting on wednesday, there was disagreement over the decision to hold off untiljune. some say they could ve supported a rate rise last month because inflation remains well above its 2% target. the minutes show how policymakers are grappling with how to tame inflation after it hit a high last year, even as they left the benchmark rate unchanged in a five to five and a quarter percent, almost all officials believe more rate hikes are needed. i had of thejuly meeting, there are two marquee pieces of economic data that is due out to the statement a chapter practice friday and consumer inflation next week. us tre
us, you are in time for the top business stories. we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing in the last few hours, meta, the owner of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, has launched its widely anticipated new conversation app, threads. it allows users to create posts of up to 500 characters and is being seen as a clear rival to twitter. threads is available to download in more than 100 countries around the world, including here in the uk, but not as yet in the european union because of concerns over privacy regulations. meta boss mark zuckerberg says 5 million users have already signed up to threads in the first four hours. and many tech industry watchers say it poses a very real threat to twitter. i think threads will pose a huge threat to twitter because it is coming from the matter and instagram family of apps. instagram has 2 million users compared to around 250 million of twitter so about ten times bigger already. of twitter so about ten times biggeralready. if of
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