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all of that with these two — there they are. one of germanys leading business groups tells me its important that consumers start splashing the cash again and how problems abroad are hurting his members. also, the chairwoman of the german startup association, herself a successful entrepreneur, tells me why a different way of thinking is needed. and its the younger generation that are going to deliver it. also, i catch up with the big boss of germanys most valuable company, the softwar...

heres where the banks base rate stands at the moment — at 5.25% it is the highest in 15 years. the bank has raised the cost of borrowing fourteen times to try and tame soaring prices but inflation has eased sharply in recent months and the expectation now is that rates may soon start to come down. however, for those in the uk hoping for cheaper mortgages and loans there was something of a bad omen in the us, where the chair of the federal reserve seemed to dash expectations of a rate...

if you look at the headline numbers... is suggest that results are mixed. but actually when you look at the actual results and also what companies are telling, there are two factors that matter to us, monetisation and capital expense. they look at monetisation, for example, across the board, we are seeing cloud revenue and contribution is almost like 5% for some of the companies out there. so that gives us comfort. in terms of graphics, clearly companies are spending on it, but in term...

the move also comes as janet yellen met with the chinese ambassador ahead of her visit to china this week. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellin is heading to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the worlds two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship but she has her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said it was imposing export controls on two rare metals es...

editor faisal islam. this is clearly a mess but the expectation in financial circles is that shareholders will provide the funds to keep thames water going. but the question is how did this come about in an industry that should be so simple, providing a product that everybody needs, and provided the monopolies of several million customers with no competition. and the answer is in hugely complicated structures, huge debts, and lots of regulation. the boss of thames water, sarah bentley,...

wimbledon is back for another year. mens defending champ novak djokovic secured a win in the first round. hes going for a record 24th grand slam. and time now to leave you with ten seconds of panda cuteness. zin zin has been celebrating her 33rd birthday with a specially made apple cake at her home in a mexico city zoo. she is one of the six longest—lived pandas in the entire world. and youre all caught up now. see ya later! this is bbc news. well have the headlines and all the main ...

make their last—minute pitches across the state. this is the second in a series of state—by—state contests with donald trump and nikki haley fighting for their partys presidential nomination. that prize will pit them against the democratic choice in november, almost certainly presidentjoe biden. but with a cost of living crisis hitting many americans what are these two candidates saying about economic policy? dr thomas gift is director of the centre on us politics at university c...

written by the government explaining what it was going to do with the finest scientists and economists in the country and we came to the conclusion that they have gone backwards from last year because they really have not done all the things they could have done. with the cost of living crisis, the up to have increased the number of renewable energy because that is the cheapest way of providing energy with the energy security problem, that was also necessary, so it is notjust that was ...

to shut down the blast furnaces at port talbot. frustration, disappointment is probably the biggest word. disbelief. itsjust been... handled absolutely appallingly in my opinion. also coming up: are pre—election handouts ahead? taxes in his march budget. when i look around the world to america and asia, when i look around the world to america iwith sia, when i look around the world to america iwith lower when i look around the world to america i with lower taxes countries with lower ...

joins me now, head of autos and infrastructure at fitch solutions. good morning to you. so, this has literallyjust come out, hasnt it? what do you make of this plan? it hasnt it? what do you make of this plan?— this plan? it really appears to be future _ this plan? it really appears to be future proofing _ this plan? it really appears to be future proofing the - this plan? it really appears to | be future proofing the industry for this shift to evs which is already the fastest—grow...