Inflation Slows To 6.5% In December

The U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in December, slower than previous months but still robust, while the unemployment rate edged lower to 3.5%

Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation by the end of 2023.

), and happy last night of Hanukkah as well! There's a variety of holiday content to watch today, and then the rest of the week becomes all about ringing in the new year as the broadcast networks roll out their year-in-review specials, and New Year's Eve specials commence. (Here's a guide to the best , by the way.)If you're a royal watcher, then Christmas is always a big day for the royal family, as they make the early morning walk—and later greet well wishers—to and from church.

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Shares rocketed higher in early trading as new data showed inflation slowed more than expected last month after a string of aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve meant to tamp down an overheated economy.

Media shares joined the broader market Thursday in a major rally as data this morning showed inflation easing in October. Hard hit tech shares were led by a 10% jump by Amazon.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief China recorded an unchanged top five films and its weakest box office weekend since Chinese New Year. Nationwide gross box office was just $18.6 million. Comedy drama film “Give Me Five” held on to the top spot for the third week, with a weekend score of $6.3 million (RMB43.3 million), according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. It now has a cumulative of $46.4 million since release on Sept. 9, 2022. The film is the story of a young man who is helping his father rediscover his lost memories. As he does so, he is transported back in time and accidentally alters his parent’s pasts. That means he must reunite the pair or risk never being born. It stars Ma Li Chang Yuan and Wei Xiang and is directed by Zhang Luan.

EXCLUSIVE: Charles Melton has landed the coveted lead in May December opposite Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in the next film by director Todd Haynes.

Kelly Clarkson has joined forces with Dolly Parton to put a unique spin on the classic track “9 to 5″.

The UK TV boom that brought you the likes of Netflix’s The Crown may be slowing, with producer trade body Pact’s latest Census showing the lowest level of international TV revenue since 2017 and streamer spend dropping by £50M ($57.7M).

With no new wide releases cracking the top 5, Sony/Columbia’s “Bullet Train” will hold on to the No. 1 spot with a second weekend total of just $13.4 million, a 56% drop from its $30 million opening. With a 10-day total of $54.4 million, the action comedy starring Brad Pitt will likely need overseas revenue to post a theatrical profit against its reported $90 million production budget.

J. Kim Murphy “Bullet Train” is maintaining the top slot at the box office this weekend, fending off the newcomers “Fall” and “Mack and Rita,” as well as the expanding slasher-comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies.”Sony’s Brad Pitt action vehicle added $3.865 million on Friday. The film remains the widest release in the country with 4,357 locations.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCommunications giant Comcast said demand for two of its most important services — broadband and the NBCU streaming-video site Peacock — slowed in the second quarter, as the prospect of a deteriorating economy ate into consumers’ ability to purchase goods and services that may not be core to their daily lives and after the streaming hub offered a more robust slate of content, including the Super Bowl and the Olympics, in the first quarter.The Philadelphia owner of NBCUniversal and the giant Comcast cable business said its high-speed internet customers in the quarter  — a key metric –was basically the same as in the previous period., 32.1 million compared with 31.3 million. Subscriptions to Peacock, meanwhile, were “flat” at 13 million for the period, the company said.

Student loan interest rates will be capped at 7.3 per cent for a year as inflation soars, the government has announced.