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alphabet and meta. and microsoft samsung and intel. the technology sector has been enjoyed rapid growth during the pandemic but now they are operating in a high interest rate environment. they have also been cost cutting measures. meta, for example, has had to announce that this month it will cut 10,000 more jobs and that is on top of the 11,000 that the company let go last november. danzig is a deputy chief investment officer at richard burnside advisors and he now says that he is not optimistic about technology stocks in the united states. i don t really see any reason to expect anything different from what we have seen both from these companies over the past couple of quarters but also from the companies we have only heard from his earnings season. i think what is clear is growth is slowing and this is hurting these companies notjust on the front of the profitability front of the profitability front which i think is front and centre for markets. we were talkin: an ....
offer of a truce, now ended, was deceitful. he said peace in ukraine would only be restored when russian forces were expelled. kevin mccarthy has been sworn in as speaker of the us house of representatives, after 15 rounds of voting. a small group of republican rebels had derailed each previous attempt. the new speaker says it was the influence of former president trump that helped him secure the position. iran has been widely condemned after executing two more anti government protesters. mohammad mahdi karami and seyed mohammad hosseini had appealed against their sentences for killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests against the government last year. they said they d been tortured into making false confessions. now on bbc news, talking business. 100 years ago, oil was the most sought after commodity. today, it s these chips that run the world. they provide the processing power for everything we use, from smartphones to aircraft and cars to mic ....
family members say they were not permitted to meet the men before they were killed. president volodymyr zelensky welcomes the announcement of the us supplying ukraine with armoured fighting vehicles for the first time. meanwhile, russia s unilateral ceasefire appears to have had little effect on the front line. you re watching bbc news. now, it s time for talking business. a hundred years ago, oil was the most sought after commodity. today, it s these chips that run the world. they provide the processing power for everything we use, from smartphones to aircraft and cars to microwaves. but the fight for who controls the supply chains, the network of companies that make these devices, is escalating. translation: we will focus on national strategic needs l and pool our resources together to boost cutting edge research in science and technology domestically, and resolutely win the battle in key technologies. so instead of relying on chips made overseas in places like china, ....
well, the us chips act is helping level the playing field. over the course of the last couple of decades, a lot of the manufacturing of silicon moved to asia because of the incentives provided by the governments here, and now us chips act is able to bridge the cost gap that exists in production in the us versus asia. so us chips act will provide the necessary grants and the investment tax credits to enable more manufacturing in the us. yeah, i m glad you mentioned cost, because there s a reason that the supply chains move to asia in the first place, isn t there? are you confident that the us can be the dominant manufacturer? well, the supply chains for memory manufacturing will be diversified. of course, micron has a well diversified footprint of manufacturing here in asia, and micron will continue to invest in ourfabs in asia to meet the demand needs of the future. but also in order to meet the growth in demand, we need to add new capacity. so us new manufacturing fabs ....