Pacific. According to these findings, the region is expected to see a slowdown in growth next year, partly due to a lack of post pandemic recovery from china, the well s second largest economy. A look at the report, joined by chief economist at your expecting a stage in pacific growth to slow due to the chinese slowdown. What steps can countries in this region take an urge to mitigate some impacts? take an urge to mitigate some imacts?. , , impacts? you re absolutely riuht. Impacts? you re absolutely right jen impacts? you re absolutely right. Jen has impacts? you re absolutely right. Jen has been impacts? you re absolutely right. Jen has been a impacts? you re absolutely i right. Jen has been a powerful right. Jen has been a powerful engine for growth in the world and slower growth means lower growth in the region. china. It needs to do more on its own to grow and that needs reform. First of all, of the service sectors sound breaks up. . . Not notjust for not just for service
In the latest fighting, israel has bombed a building in central beirut. Both Israel And Hezbollah have reported a second day of intense fighting on the ground in southern lebanon. Oil prices jumped on tuesday over supply fears, with markets regAining ground as investors seemingly come to terms with the escalation in tensions. Lets have a quick look at the price of oil, once agAin today, more than a i once agAin today, more than a i increase, the price of oil just below 75 per barrel. It would look at the Share Markets in asia, its an interesting picture were seeing. Japan is seeing a bigjump, Over2 because of the yen has weakened significantly on anticipation of what might happen in the japanese Economy But Hong kong is down over 3 . Big profit taking going on in hong kong, over the last few days there we have seen rapid increases on these markets in response to chinese stimulus so chinese stocks have had a real rise in recent days. Today, profit taking going on there but elsewhere, as
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You will not see this affect the consumer analysis unless this lasts another week or two and then see big shortages and really higher prices of all kinds of goods that will result from this. To ask you about crystal ball thinking, it can be a bit tough butjust elaborate if you could, mentioned how many days if this rumbles on that the consumer will start to feel it. The big question here is again, does it get resolved in the next week or two? if it does, you won t really see much, it will be a blip on the radar, but if this were to continue, you start to see massive bottlenecks as containers build up, both on the ships waiting off the coast, but also in places like china where they are unable to load these containers that are meant for the east and they start sitting there, and the real problem becomes a couple of months from now as these ships that are sitting here on the coast, off the coast of the us don t return home, don t go back to china to pick up more containers, you have a hu