winners dortmund saw the french side through, as eddie howe s side finished bottom of group f. you see everything that goes on the pitch and i see what goes on behind the scenes and the players and i can for them at all. fault them at all. i don t think we were at our absolute best tonight. i think if we had have been, we would have won the game. but i can t fault the commitment and what they re giving me, especially under the circumstances we re playing in. so that s why it s painful for me and for them, because i know how professional they are, and i know how much they want to achieve success. confirmation, then, of city progressing as group winners, along with rb leipzig who beat young boys on wednesday. a shock for barcelona who were beaten 3 2 antwerp they still go through as group winners, porto progress with them, after beating shakhtar. celtic got theirfirst champions league win in ten years, beating feyenoord. but atletico and lazio go through in that group.
chairjerome powell suggested as much. as we approach the end of the year, it s natural to look back on the progress that has been made toward our dual mandate objectives. inflation has eased from its highs, and this has come without a significant increase in unemployment. these are things we want to see. why might the rate hiking cycle has included 11 increases. government data showed inflation dropped from 9.1% in mid-2022 to 3.1% in november. that is above the target of 2% and jerome powell cautioned the committee had not ruled out raising rates again in the future. for wall street the dowjones international average jumped to record close. this is the third time in a row of the central bank decided against another rate hike. for investors satisfied with what the fed has done is when it will start cutting rates? there is a lot to digests in america big questions about whether a cut is likely. we will talk about that than i want to come onto the uk and europe. what is your as