Higher Profit Margins than expected as offered fewer discounts. All that bodes well for walmart which is due to report a 4 rise in sales. Results from the Worlds Largest retailer should also a glimpse into demand for back to school items. Traders are hoping that despite higher borrowing costs, it will show that us shoppers are still willing to spend on essentials. Staying with retail jd. Com Beat Analyst Forecasts for Second Quarter revenue, which rose more than 7 to nearly 40 billion. The chinese e commerce giants Focus On Lower priced products paid off in the fight for customers amid an economic slowdown. The company said it attracted more vendors to its platform, helped by lower thresholds and costs for them to join, and that users shopped more frequently as its Product Range expanded. It was a different story over at tencent where Earnings Results came in below estimates in the Second Quarter. Revenue grew 11 to just over 20 billion. Tencent s core Gaming Business experienced weake
Hello, im nicky schiller. We start with that breaking news. The Foreign Secretary lord cameron has announced the us, uk and partners will open a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza but he said he would continue to urge israel to allow more trucks into gaza is the fastest way to get aid to those who need it. His full tweet says people in gaza are in desperate humanitarian need, alongside the us, the uk and partners, we have announced we will open a maritime corridor to deliver aid directly to gaza and he goes on to say, we continue to coach israel to say, we continue to coach israel to allow more trucks into gaza as the fastest way to get aid to those who need it. It comes as the Eu Commissioner Ursula Von Der Leyen is expected to make a statement this hour and she is in cyprus. This was announced as part of the state of the Union Address by President Biden last night and he confirmed he has ordered the you s military to build a temporary peer of the coast of gaza to ensur
discriminate against applicants based on their race, age or gender. next, are ai apps and tools that aren t banned and don t pose any high risk. nello cristianini professor of artificial intelligence at the university of bath and author of the short cut: why intelligent machines do not think like us . i started by asking him what he makes of these attempts to regulate ai. we must be responsible for the good and also the problems of our technology. it s good that we think ahead at this time. and what kind of things can be regulated, do you think here? well, i think the parliament has a lot of power about what companies can do operating in europe, or also operating from europe outwards. and the list that you made is very good. so first, it establishes there will be some things that are not acceptable. that s a big statement. there will be some things that cannot be done in europe. second, certain things can only be done with very serious oversight. and third, even better, th
delivers independence for scotland. prince harry makes a surprise appearance at a high court hearing in london. he s among several high profile figures bringing a privacy case against the publisher of the daily mail newspaper. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu will delay regarding the leadership of the scottish national party but before we address those stories, just to bring you some breaking news coming out of the united states the last few minutes, we are hearing of a shooting at a school in nashville. according to everything rehearing on the news agency among others, this is an ongoing situation in the local fire department in nashville, you see the tweet in fact from the nashville fire department saying it is an ongoing situation with, as you can see regrettably there, multiple patients. as the tweet puts it. multiple victims as with some local media are saying and we don t know whether or not that s people will simply been injured or if it is worse than that. i
economic tsar, mr he. the united states economic tsar, mr he. the united states has - economic tsar, mr he. the united states has no - economic tsar, mr he. tie: united states has no desire economic tsar, mr he. tte: united states has no desire to decouple from china. a full separation of our economies would be economically disastrous for both of our countries and for the world. we seek a healthy economic relationship with china that benefits both countries over time. . ., , . ., benefits both countries over time. , ., ., time. her comments come ahead of a potential time. her comments come ahead of a potential meeting time. her comments come ahead of a potential meeting between l of a potential meeting between presidentjoe biden and xi jinping next week. since the leaders of the world s two most powerful nations last met in bali, a lot has changed despite us restrictions on high tech products of the last few months, us china relations have actually improved. both sides a