Joining me now is satyam panday, Chief Us and Canada Economist at S P global ratings. Satyam, what are the key elements here that youre looking at that mean theres going to be a drag on growth . We are mostly focused on the consumer sector, we are mostly focused on the consumersector, like we are mostly focused on the consumer sector, like you mentioned in your opening statement. We are starting to see some Consumer Caution creep up, see some Consumer Caution creep up, especially given how the Labour Market has moderated, we have also seen the real Income Growth so often, and that means most likely moving forward, the same type of growth coming from Consumer Spending iS Probably going to be softer, and if you think about the Consumer Spending, you have to look at the taxes being collected state and local site, so the Upside Surprise we have seen from the state and local Government Spending is also going to be softened moving forward. Put it all together, it is the consumers that are go
North of beirut, where again, an israeli strike this morning has targeted, we are told, a senior Hezbollah Commander in the north of the country. We had seen pictures of members of the north Lebanese Red Cross searching through the rubble for survivors from the early morning attack. We saw this morning attack. We saw this morning in the early hourS People in Tel Aviv waking up to the news that hezbollah had targeted israels biggest most populous city with a Ballistic Missile. It is the first time that one of those really scaled up that one of those really scaled up weapons has been used in this conflict. It has clearly been used to send a message by hezbollah that even after several days of fierce israeli strikes, hezbollah wants to show it still has the capacity to strike back inside israel. Just want to show you this footage from the event earlier in the day. You can clearly see and hear the sound of the Air Raid sirens in this footage, which shows the missile just after it was inter
on the debt ceiling. this is all about the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow which has a self imposed limit, a ceiling. without a raise, this would leave the us unable to pay its bills. on tuesday, president biden met with top lawmakers in washington, who are currently blocking raising that ceiling but they came away without a breakthrough. nomia iqbal was there. both sides came out of the meeting which lasted more than an hour, announcing there was no deal. both showing they are entrenched in their positions. the republican speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, attacked president biden for not negotiating. his opponents came out a short while either later saying republicans refused to take default off that table and mrjeffries called the publicly party as a party of magyar extremists. they have two weeks otherwise the us will default to not pay their bills and it would lead to economic ruin, leading to stock markets plummeting and millions ofjobs are p
From new york, heres the bbc s north America Business correspondent, michelle fleury. Stubborn inflation pushes back the timing of the first rate cut. The Us Federal Reserve voted to keep its Benchmark Lending Rate at a 23 year high on wednesday. Officials have said they want more certainty that inflation is under control before they Lower Borrowing costs. They do not have that yet. Here is chair, jerome powell, during his press conference. The economy has made considerable progress towards our dual mandate objectives. Inflation has eased substantially over the past year, while the Labour Market has remained strong. And that is very good news. But inflation is still too high, further progress in bringing it down is not assured and the path forward is uncertain. We are fully committed to returning inflation to our 2 goal. While the prices of many goods have fallen, from cars to furniture, an increase in housing and Petrol Prices have contributed to a recent rise in consumer inflation. W