UK Inflation Accelerates, Driven by Air Fares, Hotels, Fuel, Adding to Pressure on BOE
Bloomberg Television· 2025-08-20 06:49
Is this the kind of data that will that will force the Bank of England to hold basically through the rest of this year into 2026. Can I take out November as a potential cut from the Bowie. Given what the numbers I'm looking at on the screen right now look like, I wouldn't take it out.I think, you know, I think it's uncomfortable, right, that inflation just keeps rising. That's not the greatest backdrop for a central bank. And remember, the Bank of England already expecting inflation to rise further, expects ...
Melania Trump’s influence in Russia-Ukraine peace talks
NBC News· 2025-08-20 06:33
Even out of sight, First Lady Melania Trump's influence felt as Ukraine's President Vladimir Zalinski and European leaders gathered at the White House for peace talks. Zalinski thanking the first lady for writing a letter to Russian leader Vladimir Putin advocating for the safety of children. It comes after President Trump handd delivered the first lady's letter to Putin on Friday during their highly scrutinized meeting.She loves children and she hates to see uh she hates to see something like this happenin ...
Pop Mart’s Labubu Doll Frenzy Drives Huge Sales
Bloomberg Television· 2025-08-20 06:00
I'm talking about Pop Mart now. Oh, no. I mean, that's I know where this is going.Oh, he's got to talk about it, right. Huge numbers rise out of a huge revenue and profit growth, boosted, of course, by the global demand for its hugely popular Labubu doll. That's a lot of huge in one sentence.Let's bring in our China correspondent Minmin Low to walk us through some of the key highlights of those results. Minmin. Yes, traders had really sky high expectations for the company, but not only met them, but beaten ...
West Africa: IMF Visits Senegal as Nation Seeks New Funding Deal
Bloomberg Television· 2025-08-20 05:58
Under. What kind of clarity is the IMF seeking from this review and from this trip. Morning, Jen.The biggest question is how does $7 billion in debt go undetected for nearly five years without nobody ever knowing how we see that they were reporting their numbers to international organizations, the IMF included, because they had an IMF program. But this was under the radar and it's because the government had a concept treasury. And while they reported one another that had been went and reported for such a lo ...
New Tax Reporting Rules: What You Need to Know
Digital Asset News· 2025-08-20 05:07
Jan 1 2025 going forward in the US you need to be reporting per wallet or by by each wallet. So if you sold an asset in Kraken you have to pull from a tax lot from Kraken. You can't sell this lot that I'm holding in my ledger cold wallet for example.Um and so pre2025 I'd say most people were actually reporting that way. And now moving forward, we all need to switch to reporting on each wallet level. ...
The Future of Design
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-08-20 05:00
Humans are sometimes too obsessed with small details being perfect which makes you move much slower and the way of doing it right now like one person does all the design very slowly very detailed is going to be replaced. you talk much more high level and you talk about your design philosophy and then the AI does the implementation of the design and then you as a human go out and get all the context from do other people think this is looks good and give it all as feedback into the AI and then there's a very ...
New Focus Friend app tops Apple charts
NBC News· 2025-08-20 04:12
It's called Focus Friend and it skyrocket is the number one free app on the Apple App Store. And this is so you're probably not on social media. It'll help you get off social media, right.>> Yeah. A lot of people are trying to reduce their time on social media and this does it. It sort of gifies it.It reminds me of the Tamagotchis, the Gigapets, uh that the personification of this bean really makes you not want to disappoint this bean. So the way it works is if you have deep focus on, you can hit start and ...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Is More Critical Than Ever Following Israel Conflict
Bloomberg Television· 2025-08-20 04:01
How is the IRGC positioning itself after the war with Israel. Morning, Jennifer. Yeah, you're absolutely right.It's important to state. First of all, it's definitely been weakened. Top echelons have been assassinated completely by Israel.It's suffered to an extent a great embarrassment. And the extent to which Israel was able to dominate, particularly in the aspects of that war. And yet in the aftermath of it, in the in the way that Iran has sought to regroup and recuperate, we've seen the IRGC taking a rea ...
Ripple Will Dominate This $18.9 Trillion Industry Using XRP
NCashOfficial - Daily Crypto & Finance News· 2025-08-20 04:00
It's hard not to be impressed by the growth of the XRP ledger over the last couple months because again, it's been just an incredible year for both Ripple and even XRP. We think back to just even price action, right. If we're looking at price action, and I know that a lot of you are probably not impressed by it, but for those that have been sticking around, we already know how impressive XRP's growth has been in the last 12 months.I mean, XRP is still up over 400 plus%. It's been an incredible cycle so far ...
Fallout 2 Cast Reveals S2 Teaser | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025
CNET· 2025-08-20 03:59
All right, Gamescom. Here's the world premiere of our teaser trailer for season 2 of Fallout streaming this December on Fallout Prime Video all over the world. >> Amazing.All right, let's check it out. Thanks so much, guys. Here we go.[Music] I'm looking for someone. Common story around here. Someone you care about or someone you hate.>> Oh, what a great question. What say you, Mr. . Mlan.[Music] >> Why would my dad go to Las Vegas. [Music] >> You want to know why the world ended. It started here with one m ...