Caution at the Bank Of England. It keeps Interest Rates on hold but the governor tells us they are optimistic that Borrowing Costs are on the Path Down. Over on Wall Street though the party is back on. Shares hit a new Record High as the fed says the economys in a good place despite Itsjumbo Rate cut billion dollar breaks Australias Economy rides a wave of interest in surfing. It is the government fully with the sport . All those puns to come a little later in the programme. We start here in the uk where the bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has said Interest Rates are now gradually on the Path Down despite the Banks Decision to keep the cost of borrowing on hold today. The banks main rate was left at 5 after it was cut last month for the first time in more than four years. The bank ratcheted up Interest Rates to try and control inflation which hit a peak of 11. 1 back in 2022. Since then inflation has been brought down significantly its sitting just above the banks target curre
self willed island of taiwan. this comes after a meeting between the taiwanese president and the house speaker kevin mccarthy in california last week. the sentence, as the international monetary warns of severe weakness in the global economy over the next half a decor have other decade. the outlook for economic growth in the next five years is the weakest in a while. earlier i spoke with peter mwai, chief executive of xm australia. he told me situations like these are when investors may look to rebalance their portfolios. well, they look at escalation, they look at rhetoric, they look at market interpretation as far as news, and they said there and they say right, are there and they say right, are there other opportunities? are there other opportunities? are there certain sectors of the market to be removed from all other markets only to be looking stronger out, be it gold or retail versus institutional or mindset, so we have a degree of concern and we just need to wear th
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Numbers while the Major Economies are raising rates and chinas growing below its growth targets. Paul, what are some of the complex sort of Pressure Points that these countries will have to navigate as they forge ahead . Yeah, well, i really think its a Confidence Game at this point, right . So we want consumers to continue to spend. We want firms to continue to invest. So i think having some confidence that the the rate cycle globally is near its peak, the us continues to put up good numbers. Chinas been tweaking some of the measures over the past week in the property market. So its certainly not a disastrous story, but its probably going to come in with a Forehand Build this year on growth and countries are just going to have to figure out how to navigate that given their particular circumstances. So its not a terrible scenario, but its a little bit weaker than were used to in this part of the world where china was powering the region and everyone else was kind of pulled along behind