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Whether by role, road, rail or nl. A scheme offering shopping vouchers to new mothers could help them breast feed their babies. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The latest inflation figures out this morning show the rate has risen to its highest level in nearly six years, suggesting that the squeeze on what households can afford, continues. The office for National Statistics said that airfares and Computer Games contributed to the increase. Our business correspondent, ben bland, is here. The governor has to write a letter to the chancellor. Debbie remind people what we are talking about. These are the average increases in prices in november compared with the vendor last year. On average how much they have changed. The figure is 3. 1 . That is the average increase in prices. For everything from food to fuel, hotels the hairdressers, the lot. There is variation ....
Blaming uk Consumer Confidence and pulling the rug from kingfisher in the sector. And your move, senators. A u. S. Golf. Shutdown a imminent address lawmakers try to round up enough votes to avoid it. The pressure is on the senate after the house passes a shortterm spending bill the iea is forecasting a big increase in nonopec crude production over the course of the next year. It expects the pick up in oil prices to spur higher levels of shale production in the United States but the iea says the recent rally has the potential to rupp out of steam as higher prices weigh on demand. Joining us from paris is Neil Atkinson from the iea. Thank you very much for joining us the question i have is about what is going to happen with the opec numbers weve seen them last year try to curb production. Weve seen that spur this highe ....
Time hour. Came out 20 minutes earlier than anticipated. It showed no clear sign of whether the fed would hike rates in september. We have Steve Liesman standing by to break down that data for us coming up. You know, i was going to say, these are two sides of the same coin in a way. Speaking of breaking down, take a look at oil, its down more than 4 today, its trading below 41 a barrel. Were watching to see if it punches through that 40 mark. Look how close it is right now. 40. 62. And the september wti contract, down almost 5 on the session. Again, were looking at lows since march of 2009. Weve got a top commodities trader to discuss whether a floor is in sight. And, of course, all of this feeds into what will the fed do . What is inflation going to do in this country . Always interrelated. Thats for sure. Meantime, 1 trillion, thats how much money has come out of emerging markets over the last 13 months. Were going to discuss whe ....
Kind of a mix. Spain and france both slightly in the red the ten year note yield holding firm around the 2. 2 or so percent. You can see at the bottom of our screen weve gotten that news. Equifaxs stock had been halted. Rick smith announcing he will retire as the companys ceo. Want to get more details on when that retirement is coming, whether its immediate or not. Of course, hes been undergrea pressure given the huge breech there for some 143 million or so potential accounts that were compromised. Some might wonder what took so long. Yes. Already two Technology Executives left the company the week before last the stock has been in pretty much free fall today its been characterized as retirements as well its a couple of weeks ago saying he certainly shoulding fir should be fired. He has been dismissed. Take a look at the press release. Im not clear as to whether effective today okay. Thank you. Mark felder, current board me ....