Limiting investment by American Companies in the chinese tech sector because of Serious National Security risks. It would require us firms to disclose investments in sensitive areas such as Artificial Intelligence and ban some investment altogether. Beijing has reacted angrily saying it is gravely concerned about the order. A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in washington says the curbs seriously undermine the interests of chinese and American Companies and investors. Republicans have said they do not go far enough. This is a new front in the tech war between two global superpowers, the restrictions prevent American Private equity and Venture Capital firms from investing in high tech sectors investing in high tech sectors in china, such as quantum computing, Artificial Intelligence and advanced semiconductors. The goal is to stop us capital in know how speeding up the development of technologies that could help china develop weapons for use against america in a military conflict. I
Thats down from 3. 9 in the three months to november. It marked the lowest level seen since the November 2022 to january 2023 period. Wage growth slowed again in the britishjobs market. But and this is key it is still outpacing price rises, according to the office for national statistics. Lets hear now from michael stull, director at manpowergroup uk. Michael, what are you expecting to see a little later on . Im always very excited for when the numbers come out. Im expecting a couple of things, one is i do think unemployment will take up a little bit, as you mentioned wage growth is going to slow. We will see vacancies down and underlying all of that in the Labour Market we have two bosses, a cold and hot going on. On the cold and hot going on. On the cold side we have sent a dropping, weve seen hiring slowing down and we are not out of the woods. We are blue business and consumer confidence. Manufacturing pmi is a very low, big into caters. 0n the hot side we see a lot of hiring going
the price of oil on international markets is not high enough for them. oil and energy leaders are gathering again today in vienna for the latest opec summit. the biggest and most powerful player saudi arabia started this week with the news it s extending its voluntary output cut of1 million barrels per day to august. russia is making a similar move. but these cuts are failing to boost energy prices. why? jonathan robinsonjoins me now to explain he is global power & energy research director at frost and sullivan. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. just talk us through our oil is at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil at the moment. oil, despite the cuts in production, oil prices- cuts in production, oil prices have stayed relatively low in what we have seen historically in the past year, 1.5 years. there are a few specific reasons for that. chinese demand, industrial out would, increasing
wins the white house eventually, these charges are not subject to a federal presidential pardon. so, you know, if you re donald trump right now, you have to be really concerned about what is going to happen in georgia. a special grand jury in georgia finishes its investigation into the former president s attempts to overturn the election. and as just heard, the jury s final report could mean serious legal trouble for donald trump. meanwhile, the department of justice is reviewing classified documents found in a personal office for president joe biden. we ll explain why this discovery is very different than what happened down at mar-a-lago. and hundreds of supporters of bolsanaro are in jail following a january 6 style attack in brazil while the former president appears to be in florida. we ll dig into that story ahead. . bolz nar yoe. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 10th. thank you for starting your day with us. the justice departmen
With not enough young people prepared to take up the craft. We start here in the uk with a warning that soaring Interest Rates could be increasing social inequality and widening the gap between the haves and have nots. Thats according to one of the bank of englands Policy Makers who has been speaking exclusively to the bbc. Dr Swati Dhingra has been on the Banks Monetary Policy Committee since august of last year, and has voted against raising Interest Rates at seven of its last nine meetings. It comes as official figures out shortly are expected to confirm the Uk Economy Stagnated in august, after a surprise decline onjuly. Dr dhingra suggests the steep rise in Borrowing Costs could be pushing the uk into recession as she explained to our chief economics correspondent, dharshini david. The reason why the rates have been raised is because of the kind of price increases we are seeing which is energy and food. Those will typically contact poorer people more and the Interest Rate also typ