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Bessent calls for big rate cut in September after steady US inflation, sending global stocks rallying
Rolls-Royce’s efforts to power artificial intelligence (AI) datacentres with its nuclear reactors could turn it into the UK’s most valuable company, according to its boss.
The engineering firm recently reported a 50% rise in half-year profits of £1.7bn as strong demand for its jet engines and power generators for AI data centres underpinned its turnaround efforts. This drove its share price to a record high of £11.085, taking the company’s market value above £90bn for the first time. In October 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, its share price fell below 40p.
There is no private company in the world with the nuclear capability we have. If we are not market leader globally, we did something wrong.
It’s not in our plan. I don’t agree with the idea you can only perform in the US. That’s not true and hopefully we have demonstrated that.
Then, the Fed might have difficulty rejecting a call for a cut by 50 basis points in the Fed Funds rate!
Forward says club paying for lack of clear direction
He believes United need to ‘make a plan and stick to it’
Marcus Rashford has offered a withering assessment of Manchester United’s predicament, saying a lack of consistent playing principles since Sir Alex Ferguson stood down has left the club in “no man’s land”.
The forward, on loan for the season at Barcelona from United, believes that despite repeated talk of transition no transition has taken place and that the club will not be able to win the Premier League or achieve consistent success unless they make a plan and stick with it.
An anti-JD Vance van displaying an altered image of the USvice president has driven around a village in the Cotswolds, where the 41-year-old and his family are reportedly holidaying.
Christine McGuinness has defended Paddy McGuinness, describing how "he was getting a really hard time in the press" when the couple announced their separation.
In his latest update before travelling to Berlin, Zelenskyy repeated his key lines about “putting pressure on Russia” to achieve a peace settlement.
But in what feels like a pointed warning about Putin, he added:
We must learn from the experience of Ukraine, our partners, to prevent deception by Russia. There is no sign now that the Russians are preparing to end the war.
Baroness Chakrabarti urged the government to ‘think again’, warning that the ban on the group may lead to more people, not fewer, taking to the streets to support them
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