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Dana it doesnt. Jim desmond, County Supervisor in san diego. Thank you. Elite Israeli Forces rescued a hostage in Southern Gaza as we bring you that good news this morning. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning to you, bret. Bret im bret baier in washington. Todays rescue is the first time in months that a hostage has been rescued alive. He was inside a gaza tunnel. More than 100 hostages are believe to remain captive. Some of them likely dead. The Daring Rescue really is something today. Dana it coincides with a new warning that irans aggression has reached an alltime high. Both sides appear to be stepping back from the brink of war for now. Reality is, bret, neither one of them really wants to fight a war again ....
To the deflationary spiral however now because theres a strong trend of Wage Increases, Finance MinisterShunichi Suzuki says its over. Joining me now is seijiro takeshita, whos a professor at the university of shizuoka. Thank you for being with us today. Talk to us first of all, this is a pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has pretty unique set of circumstances thatjapan has been pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has been through for the past generation. It is todays Declaration Calls for celebration . Yes, i would think so. Concerning the fact that for two decades, we havent seen any wage rise. Where the only country to do that. There are a lot of recurring profits, bits nine redeeming to their employees. This is, in that sense, a remar ....
Between april and june, the company made a Profit Ofjust over 30 billion, a lot of money by anyones metric, but significantly down from more than the 48 billion it made in the same period a year ago. The main reason is, as you can see here, that oil prices during the period were at the lowest point in the last year, as the boost they got from russias invasion of ukraine wore off. And last week, in an effort to keep them that way, saudi arabia said it would only produce nine Million Barrels a day. That extended Production Cuts by the 0pec group of big oil producers, who profit more from a higher price. When it comes to saudi aramco, those higher prices mean higher Dividend Payments for shareholders, and its boosted those to nearly 30 billion in the current period ....
Thats down from 3. 9 in the three months to november. It marked the lowest level seen since the November 2022 to january 2023 period. Wage growth slowed again in the britishjobs market. But and this is key it is still outpacing price rises, according to the office for national statistics. Lets hear now from michael stull, director at manpowergroup uk. Michael, what are you expecting to see a little later on . Im always very excited for when the numbers come out. Im expecting a couple of things, one is i do think unemployment will take up a little bit, as you mentioned wage growth is going to slow. We will see vacancies down and underlying all of that in the Labour Market we have two bosses, a cold and hot going on. On the cold and hot going on. On the cold side we have sent a dropping, weve seen hiring slowing down and we are not out of the woods. We are blue business and consu ....