Latest from Jonathan Frewin

• Jul 21, 2022

  Europe has finally joined the anti-inflation club

  

  We start off with Diane Swonk of KPMG for a snapshot of today’s market activity. The BBC’s Victoria Craig checks in from Greece regarding the European Central Bank’s interest rate hike. A survey finds troubling inequities in who gets paid time off. Major League Baseball has reached a pact with minor leaguers over pay.

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• Jul 21, 2022

  Recession fears pause hiring for Big Tech companies

  

  The growing concerns about a recession are forcing many tech companies to re-evaluate staffing in a variety of ways. We speak to an epidemiologist about how the monkeypox outbreak is shining a light on still-existing health infrastructure issues.

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• Jul 21, 2022

  ECB finally raises rates, but pain of debt crisis still lingers in Greece

  

  From the BBC World Service: The European Central Bank will raise interest rates today for the first time in 11 years. What does that mean for heavily indebted southern European countries like Greece? Victoria Craig has this special edition of the program live from Athens.

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• Jul 20, 2022

  Housing market feels the effects of higher interest rates

  

  Susan Schmidt discusses market activity with us as numbers show dropping home sales and mortgage applications. Also, the BBC provides an update on how Europe is handling the Russian gas conundrum. We speak with the BBC’s Victoria Craig about the interest rate decision from the European Central Bank.

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• Jul 20, 2022

  Tesla plans to bring (faster) power to the people

  

  The electric car giant is expected to roll out adapters for its Supercharger system, which can charge vehicles in minutes. Also, the European Central Bank is on the verge of following the Fed’s anti-inflation play of raising interest rates.

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• Jul 20, 2022

  Sri Lanka has a new president. But can he heal the country?

  

  From the BBC World Service: Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected Sri Lanka’s president by the parliament. The European Commission is expected to outline proposals for EU countries to reduce their gas consumption by up to 15%. And we catch up with Marketplace’s Victoria Craig, who’s in Greece ahead of tomorrow’s expected rate hike from the European Central Bank.

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• Jul 19, 2022

  Profits are down for some of the country’s biggest banks

  

  Banks are making less, courtesy of a slowdown in corporate dealmaking. But they are also reporting that consumer and business lending have grown in the past year. Paul Christopher of Wells Fargo joins us for today’s chat about market activity. With the European Union ready to stop importing Russian coal, some countries in Africa have stepped in to fill the energy void.

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• Jul 19, 2022

  U.S. tries to catch up in the semiconductor race

  

  There’s progress on a bill that could help spark the creation of more semiconductor chips. Homes are still hard to get, even though data shows that the housing market is slowing down. Netflix is trying a few things to adapt to its post-pandemic reality of falling subscriber numbers. 

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• Jul 19, 2022

  Putin heads to Tehran for talks, but what’s on the agenda?

  

  From the BBC World Service: Vladimir Putin will be in Iran today on only his second trip out of Russia since his invasion of Ukraine began.  Chinese authorities say they are starting a ‘clean up’ of the internet. A heat wave continues to break records in the U.K. – and melt critical infrastructure.

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• Jul 18, 2022

  Inflation is bringing people back to the food banks

  

  Mounting costs of food have exacerbated food insecurity, according to food banks that have seen double the number of visitors in some cases. Michael Hewson helps us interpret today’s market activity. The BBC reports on the landscape of tech employment within the United Kingdom.

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