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"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops.
Today's guests: Seema Shah, Principal Asset Management, Chief Global Strategist; Aditi Venkatram, Jefferies, Equity Capital Markets Managing Director; Nate Soares, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, President & Author, ‘If Anyon
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Italy’s economy grew more than initially estimated at the start of 2026, keeping up momentum from last year before the shock of the Iran war impacted growth.
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Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says his country spends a larger share of its GDP on the military than major European nations. He speaks with Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue. (Source: Bloomberg)
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The Bank of England could temporarily tolerate inflation staying above its 2% target in order to support the UK’s weak economy, Governor Andrew Bailey said, so long as second-round price effects do not emerge. “Given the context of softness in the real economy and uncertainty around the scale and duration of the shock, tolerating temporarily above-target inflation to provide some support for the real economy is an appropriate way to approach the trade-off,” Bailey said at an economic conference
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Japan spent a record ¥11.73 trillion ($73.6 billion) over the past month to support the yen after the currency slid past 160 per dollar, according to Finance Ministry data confirming the government’s first market intervention since 2024.
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The gap between hype and reality is closing fast as the AI boom provides the "missing piece" of intelligence needed for humanoids to navigate a world designed for humans.
Shery Ahn looks at the latest tech bridging the gap between sci-fi and reality. (Source: Bloomberg)