Real GDP dropped in Q1 of 2025.
The USD is falling under Trump.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
I have already linked the poor performance of the Dow Jones and gilts.
Total bollox.
The April unemployment figure is about 1.6million opposed to 1.5m in April 2024.
The figures from earlier in the year showed a decrease in the unemployment rate.
Our interest rates are exactly the same as in the US. Both are 4.25% quite high by global standards
Here’s a snapshot of current central bank policy rates for major economies, listed in descending order of GDP size:
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United States (Federal Reserve)
• Federal funds target range: 4.25–4.50 %, unchanged since June’s FOMC meeting  
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China (People’s Bank of China – PBC)
• 1‑year Loan Prime Rate (LPR): 3.00 % (reduced from 3.10% in May) 
• 5‑year LPR (for mortgages): 3.50 % 
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Japan (Bank of Japan – BoJ)
• Overnight Call / policy rate: 0.50 %, steady since January 2025 
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Euro Area (European Central Bank – ECB)
• Main refinancing rate: 2.15 %
• Marginal lending facility: 2.40 %
• Deposit facility rate: 2.00 % 
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United Kingdom (Bank of England – BoE)
• Bank Rate: 4.25 %, confirmed in June (split 6–3 vote) 
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India (Reserve Bank of India – RBI)
• Policy Repo Rate: 5.50 % (cut by 50 bps on 6 June 2025) 
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Canada (Bank of Canada – BoC)
• Overnight Repo Rate (CORRA): 2.75 %, consistent since March 2025 
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Australia (Reserve Bank of Australia – RBA)
• Cash Rate: 3.85 %, unexpectedly held on 8 July 2025 
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Summary Table
Economy Policy Rate(s)
United States 4.25–4.50 % (Fed funds target range)
China 3.00 % (1‑year LPR) / 3.50 % (5‑year LPR)
Japan 0.50 % (overnight call rate)
Euro Area (ECB) 2.15 % refinancing / 2.40 % marginal / 2.00 % deposit
United Kingdom 4.25 % Bank Rate
India 5.50 % Repo Rate
Canada 2.75 % Overnight Repo (CORRA)
Australia 3.85% Cash Rate
Looks like Trumps Costa del plaza in middle east is still on the cards
Speaking to reporters at the beginning of a dinner between U.S. and Israeli officials, Netanyahu said the United States and Israel were working with other countries who would give Palestinians a “better future,” suggesting that the residents of Gaza could move to neighbouring nations.
“If people want to stay, they can stay, but if they want to leave, they should be able to leave,” Netanyahu said.
“We’re working with the United States very closely about finding countries that will seek to realise what they always say, that they wanted to give the Palestinians a better future. I think we’re getting close to finding several countries.”
Trump, who initially demurred to Netanyahu when asked about the relocating of Palestinians, said the countries around Israel were helping out. “We’ve had great cooperation from… surrounding countries, great cooperation from every single one of them. So something good will happen,” Trump said.
The president earlier this year floated relocating Palestinians and taking over the Gaza Strip to turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Gazans criticised the proposal and vowed never to leave their homes in the coastal enclave. Human rights groups condemned the plan as ethnic cleansing.
Speaking of Trump’s Costa.
I drove through Atlantic City and it was all left in a bad state or repair. Donald Trump Owned Several Atlantic City Casinos That Went Bankrupt — Despite This, He Said, 'Atlantic City Fueled A Lot Of Growth For Me'
He destroyed that city and put a lot of companys out of business
Im not talking about casinos im talking about building companies, he never paid his bills to most of them
Sorry i use real facts not leftie spin
What is that all about? More people are employed in the summer than in the winter? Hardly a shock is it? Farming, tourism, building etc always have more jobs in June than in January.
A bigger picture is here. Here’s what’s happening with unemployed Americans — in five charts
Unemployment rate is up a little from this time last year. About 4.2% compared with 4.0%.
So what…the point i made was his plans has reduced them starmer has increased them. The markets are so nervouse that reeves crying increased the intrest rate
True enough.
And when it became clear that Reeves was staying in post the markets recovered.
Ok ignoring the conceited lefty trade mark ‘‘we know better than you/we know something you lot don’t’’ type delivery for starters,…
I have got to say again, rhe fact that the ECHR is heavily favoured by the left and championed by you tells me all I need to know…that it is bad for our country .
That and the fact the name holds the word ‘‘European’’ in it, …I know you lot refuse to come to terms with it, but we have LEFT the EU.
You cherry pick what you consider to be it’s good points, in the usual positive spin on something crap type of way…What about the main bad points.
I have little to no interest in the ECHR, but from what I (think I) know from history courses at school, was it Churchill who had a hand in it after WW2 to deal with refugees…misplaced persons.?
A whole industry has been built on it’s biased interpretation and abuse by wealthy (‘Starmer type’) lefty lawyers, defending the indefensible concerning illegal immigrants.
Including those who have been told they are not allowed here, those who are the higher echelons of foreign criminal vermin, being defended at OUR expense and being allowed to stay after all at a risk to our own people.
I am all for human rights btw, especially some of the stuff you list…
So to go back to our exit from the EU…why do we not kick that hand wringing lefty biased organisation into touch, and draw up a new UKCHR which would be actually FOR the interests of the UK instead of a bunch of illegal foreign freeloaders and criminals?
The illega immigrant pi55 take will never stop taking it’s toll on us until thathappens
The unemployment rate when he took over was 4%
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273909/seasonally-adjusted-monthly-unemployment-rate-in-the-us/
The UK did not cast off and sail away in 2016…We have been part of Europe for millions of years! 
If you see the word “Europe” and automatically think bad that says much more about your thought processes and prejudices than anything else.
I say that you are cherry picking a few bad cases, and are intent on chucking out the baby with the bath-water.
Nothing is ever 100% good and foolproof, we would be worse off without the backstop of the EHCR. We would be in the same camp as the “democracies” like Putain’s Russia and Greece under the old military junta.
It ain’t perfect, it can be improved, but it is far better than nothing.
Benjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump that he would nominate him for the Nobel peace prize on Monday, as the two leaders met for the first time since the US launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear program as part of a short-lived war between Israel and Iran.
Meanwhile the Israeli minister Katz is openly suggesting a big new concentration camp in the south of Gaza.
“Concentration camp”? Listen to Lawyer Helena Kennedy, not me.
It will be all over the place pretty soon.
Ed link
From about 30 to hear Netanyahu rubbing up Trump, and then Kennedy looking at the Gaza plans.
Like watching an angler playing a fish.
In fact probably easier. A fish has a longer memory.
You’re making yourself look silly now because the Bank of England and the federal reserve have both cut interest rates this year,
And Kim Jong Un has nominated Putin for “Statesman of the year”
We haven’t left the EU
Because Brexit never happened, not a proper Brexit anyway 
if the intrest rate was 3% then it went up to 5% then down to 4.5% its still up from 3% get it now??? if not get ya granchild to explain it to ya or if you dont have one the neighbours 4 yr old
