Trump announces significant progress with Russia, Europe is backing Ukraine, and the focus shifts to the US-Ukraine meeting on Monday! Fed Daly predicts two interest rate cuts this year, and Trump's tariff stick strikes again... What major events have happened around the world since last Friday?
Ms Britten, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said on Thursday that recent evidence supported a gradual rate cut but that measuring the appropriate pace of easing was tricky. "Recent evidence further supports the removal of policy constraints, which I expect to continue to be phased out over time," said Ms Britten, deputy governor for financial stability and seen as a centrist on the monetary policy committee, in a speech at the University of Edinburgh. She said that at this stage "...
According to CNN, a senior Lebanese Hezbollah official said Tuesday that Hezbollah supports efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon, the first time the group has publicly supported a ceasefire that is not conditional on stopping the war in Gaza.
According to CNBC, 111 former U.S. Republican officials have endorsed Harris, calling Trump "unfit for office."
On September 6th, according to foreign media reports such as TASS News Agency and Russian Satellite Network, on the afternoon of September 5th local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the plenary meeting of the 2024 Eastern Economic Forum that in the upcoming US Presidential Election, Russia will follow the recommendation of US President Biden and "support" US Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Harris. According to reports, when Putin was asked how he now views the ...
Mr. Villeroy, the ECB's governor, backed a cut in interest rates next month after data showed a marked slowdown in inflation in August. He said the central bank should anticipate future progress in taming inflation. He expected inflation to remain at its target of 2 per cent in France through the first half of 2025 and 2 per cent in the eurozone through the second half of next year. "In my opinion, we should act at our meeting on September 12," Mr. Villeroy said. "Decided to cut again...
Mr. Villeroy, the ECB's governor, has backed a cut in interest rates next month after data showed a marked slowdown in inflation in August. He said the ECB should anticipate future progress in taming inflation. He expects French inflation to remain at its 2 per cent target through the first half of 2025 and eurozone inflation to remain at its 2 per cent target through the second half of next year. "In my opinion, we should act at our meeting on September 12," Mr. Villeroy said. "A decision to cu...
Robert Kennedy Jr. says he will now support Donald Trump.
Apple (AAPL. O) said on Monday that the AI models underpinning its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence, were pre-trained on processors designed by Google (GOOG. O), in a sign that big tech companies are looking beyond NVIDIA (NVDA. O) when it comes to training cutting-edge artificial intelligence. In a technical paper published by Apple, the company detailed that it chose Google's homegrown tensor processing unit (TPU) for training, and on Monday, Apple released a plan for some de...
On July 14, shortly after Trump was shot, Musk officially supported Trump on social media platform X. Musk said, "I fully support Trump and hope he gets well soon." After months of speculation about whether Musk would support him, it was reported yesterday that Musk donated to a super PAC dedicated to helping Trump enter the White House. Musk also said that the director and leadership of the Secret Service should resign.