How U.S. Retailers Are Luring Back Customers With Discounts
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:15.0 | J.P. Morgan Chase says the U.S. economy has reached its long sought after soft landing. |
| 0:25.0 | And why some companies are trying to lure back customers with discounts. |
| 0:29.0 | We're in this cycle where inflation is cooling, right, and it's getting less intense. |
| 0:34.8 | However, for most things that most of us need to buy, prices are still higher than they were |
| 0:40.0 | before the pandemic. |
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| 0:49.4 | It's Friday, October 11th, I'm Tracy Hunt for the Wall Street Journal. This is a PM edition of What's News, |
| 0:56.5 | the top headlines and business stories that move the world today. |
| 0:59.9 | You know that soft landing we've been hearing about, the one the Federal Reserve |
| 1:07.9 | was trying to achieve for the economy? Well J.P. Morgan Chase, the country's |
| 1:12.0 | biggest bank, is calling it. The U.P. Morgan Chase, the country's biggest bank, is calling it. |
| 1:14.3 | The U.S. economy has made a soft landing. |
| 1:17.7 | In its third quarter earnings report released today, J.P. Morgan said the U.S. economy remained strong for both consumers and big companies |
| 1:26.0 | with lower inflation and healthy growth. Our banking reporter Gina Heeb joins us now. |
| 1:31.6 | Gina, why does J.P does JPMorgan believe we've reached this soft |
| 1:34.8 | landing? So the Fed has been walking very fragile ground over the past few years. |
| 1:40.4 | It sought to tame inflation through these really aggressive interest rate hikes, but the trick is they don't want to slow it too much and cause a recession. |
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