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On that in a moment. and the chancellor kwasi kwarteng has announced he will set out his medium—term plan with detail on how the government will eventually lower debt — but that's not for another eight weeks. let's take a look at how markets are doing now. as you can see, a pound isjust buying $1 and nearly 8 cents. not quite there yet. still at multi—year lows, and the pound versus the euro as well. in share markets, it is a mixed picture. if we look at the next board to show you what happened on wall street, we have a fall on wall street, we have a fall on the main markets with the smb...

Let's focus on australia now, where in the past few minutes, the central bank has just made its latest interest rate decision. like most central banks, it is desperately trying to tame inflation, and down under borrowing rates have risen by 1.75% since may. what was today's choice? let's go to our asia business hub. nick marsh is there for us. iam assuming i am assuming rates went up again? i am assuming rates went up auain? , , again? yes, they did indeed. they went — again? yes, they did indeed. they went hp _ again? yes, they did indeed. they went up by _ again? yes, they did indeed. they...

Had the highest on record so far inflation marker. 9.1% just because you have 104-degree fever and it dropped to 103 degrees, doesn't mean that your caretaker you're still sick that's what's going on with the economy right now because we have a long way to go to get through this thing because even the ap reported this week because they all told, the july figures raised hope that inflation may have peaked after a year of relentless increases that have strained finances, soured americans in the economy, that the federal reserve to raise borrowing rates aggressively and diminished by it public ap...

>> what's the timeline on this adjustment? >> well, we know that there tends to be a six to nine-month lag in terms of what the federal reserve does and when we see that in the kbhe in terms of inflation cooling. in terms of rates increasing we are already seeing that. ten years have already outpaced what we're seeing from the fed today so we're already seeing borrowing rates for mortgages spike as christine and i both mentioned. >> if people have money that they want to invest in something, where do you put it right now? >> it's really important to remember you need to have your cash cushion,...

Month. march bringing more record-high prices and that coupled with the rising mortgage rates is beginning to thin out competition. traditionally spring means sales. marking real estate agent's busiest time of the year. but with mortgage rates at their highest in more than a decade, economists say the hot housing market could be starting to cool. >> now we're seeing more like three or four solid offers, but not 10, 20 or more. >> reporter: homes are are more expensive than even a few months ago, with borrowing rates climbing above 5%. up two points from january. on a 400,000 loan, that's a dif...