They're not authors, but they help you shape your financial story.

They're not an airline, but they connect global businesses across nearly 160 local markets.

They're not interpreters that they listen to and understand their client's needs.

With global expertise and over two centuries of experience, Citi provides tools, insights and

guidance that helps clients thrive.

They're not just any bank, they are city.

Learn more at city.com slash we are city. Hello and welcome to Money Talks on Economist Radio. I'm Simon Long,

International Editor at The Economist

and coming up on today's show.

Will the world's largest AI chip find buyers?

There is any number of companies

like pharmaceutical firms or the oil majors or any company that needs a lot of

computing power to crunch data and come up with predictions where to find oil or

stuff like that. And Apple enters the credit card market.

It's supposed to be a sort of predominantly digital card.

You get higher sort of cash back for using Apple pay-to-pay-to-pay purchases and a lot of the interaction with the credit card is done through the app

and it's sort of very intuitively designed, very easy to use as you would expect from a tobacco product. But first, Germany's Central Bank has warned that the country could be about to tip into

recession.

The economy shrank very slightly in the second quarter, the worst performance of any Eurozone member.

And now the Bundesbank has warned that it expects performance to remain lack-luster, and

German output to continue to decline. I'm joined now by Henry Kerr, the economics editor

at the economist, who's been looking at what all of this means for the German economy.

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