The president says grocery prices are dropping. Is that what you're seeing. Well, look, if you go back to Covid and everything, they've obviously gone up since then.I think you see a pause in grocery prices right now because like, for instance, we don't know what to do as far as buying clothes right now. You know, a couple of things that are out there is any service from China which has to do with things like these aluminum arms that we get from China, switched our production from the United States now to b ...

The sort of going logic in Washington right now is that an in-person meeting would represent a win in itself for Vladimir Putin. Is that how you see this. It is.Vladimir Putin clearly wants this meeting. They've already started working on the preparing for that meeting. They are looking for a venue. They say they have a venue.This is all way out in front of what's going on here in Washington, as you point out, Joe. So Putin clearly wants this meeting. Just a way for him to get back in, to come in from the c ...

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Good morning. This is Horizon's Middle East and Africa. Our top stories this morning, Israel's security cabinet approves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to take full control of Gaza City.President Trump nominated Steven Miron to temporarily fill Adriana Kugler seat on the Fed board. Meanwhile, Christopher Waller is the leading choice amongst Trump's advisors as the next chair. Plus, Japan's top trade negotiator says the US has confirmed it will end stacking of universal tariffs on Tokyo and cut ca ...

We haven't really talked about the Bank of England decision yet. Yesterday, an astounding two rounds of voting. This also coincides with a bank cycle, a vote that was also a split vote.Seems like monetary policy is not clear on what to do here. Now, I think uncertainty is one of the key words that we're hearing all around at the moment. Bank of England yesterday, they really couldn't decide.It was a very, very finely tuned decision, as Andrew Bailey has it afterwards with, you know, you had quite of the Mon ...

Just get us up to speed and give us some context behind the latest round of of civil unrest in Ivory Coast. Alright, Jomana, we have been watching quite closely at the Ivory Coast because they do have elections later this year. And what's really come to a head over the past few days is we did hear from President Alassane Ouattara suggesting or telling the public that he does plan to seek a fourth term.Now, under Ivorian law, presidents are technically only supposed to be in office for two terms. And so you ...

Is your deadline still standing for Vladimir Putin to agree to a cease fire tomorrow or is that fluid now. It's going to be up to him and we're going to we're going to see what he has to say. It's going to be up to him very disappointed.For more, let's bring in Bloomberg's Tony Halpin out of Dubai. Morning, Tony. Happy Friday to you.We just heard from the president that he says that he could meet Putin soon, even without Zelensky. Is that a sign of more capitulation to come from the U.S. at this now bilater ...

Israel's security cabinet has approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to take full control of Gaza City. The move is seen as a final push to topple Hamas and 22 months of fighting in Gaza. Netanyahu told Fox News Channel he intends to hand over Gaza's governance to Arab forces.Well, we don't want to keep it. We want to have a security perimeter. We don't want to govern it. We don't want to be there as a governing body.We want to hand it over to our forces that will govern it properly without thre ...

India will never compromise on the interest of farmers, fishermen and dairy farmers. I know personally I will have to pay a heavy price for it, but I am ready for it. Let's bring in Inu Manak, a Fellow for Trade Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.And great to have you with us. And, you know, this is another example of President Trump sort of trying to achieve his foreign policy goals through trade policy. Right.Do you think it will be successful, given that we know for India the issue of purchasing ...