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as inflation cools. from new york, our north america business correspondent michelle fleury sent this report. the december notes from the us central banks last meeting showed policymakers are feeling better about inflation. they agreed with investors that interest rates are at or near the peak for this cycle. they also agree it will come down this year. but they offered no clues as to how or when that will happen. to remind viewers, the federal reserve started raising rates in march 2022 to tame inflation. it did so 11 times, taking the benchmark rate to 5.5%. inflation, by the time of the last meeting, had dropped to 3.2% from a peak of 9.1%. meanwhile, new data out on wednesday showed the number ofjob openings in the united states fell to 8.79 million in november. this points to weaker demand for labour but is still well above pre covid levels. that is consistent with the fed s goal. to slow the economy without triggering a nasty recession. the feds first rate setting ....
history for all the wrong reasons. the shortest serving prime minister in british history. but what are the rest of us to make of it? we need a general election now. there must be a general election. we need another general election. what is going on? he will be running. she is running. and he has come back from the caribbean claiming he has the backing to have a go. we have one big question this morning can any of them get a grip? this morning, we rejoined live in the studio by one of the three contenders we invited on. penny mordaunt is here. and the man leading the call for a general election now, labour leader sir keir starmer. and a man who has been on a journey from deputy prime minister to borisjohnson to now supporting rishi sunak, dominic raab. jacob rees mogg, who is a boris johnson evangelist. and away from british politics, i ve been talking to ukraine s defence minister, oleksii reznikov. with me listening to all the pitches this morning is former governor of ....
legalisation of cannabis and abortion rights. my guest today is president luis lacalle pou. he is a fan of unfettered free market economics. does that swim against the tide of public opinion in latin america? president luis lacalle pou. welcome to hardtalk. mr president, what is it like being as centre right politician on the continent thatis politician on the continent that is quite clearly moving to the centre left? you are swimming against the political tide. a, swimming against the political tide. ., ., tide. a coalition of five parties tide. a coalition of five parties that tide. a coalition of five parties that supported | tide. a coalition of five - parties that supported this government. you have the for the right, centre right and centreleft. and i have the bonds between these five parties. this party to the citizens and if you read the programme, you will not be able to find centre right. the question to find centre right. the question is to find cen ....
breakfast it s friday the 28th ofjune. us presidentjoe biden and his rival donald trump have gone head to head in the first televised debate of this year s election campaign. it s the first time a sitting us president has directly debated with his predecessor and the pair attacked one another over their separate records in office, with america s standing on the world stage a key focus. kim jong un kimjong un and kim jong un and president chi of china, kimjong un of north korea, all of these, putin, they don t respect him, they don t fear him. they have nothing going with this gentleman and he will drive us into world war iii. gentleman and he will drive us into world war m. world war iii. right now we are needed to world war iii. right now we are needed to protect world war iii. right now we are needed to protect the - world war iii. right now we are needed to protect the well - world war iii. right now we are - needed to protect the well because our own needed to p ....