Global Fast-moving Consumer Goods Software Market Size, Share and Forecast By Key Players-Abel Software, SANeForce, FieldAssist, Uneecops Technologies, InfopulseROBERT HARDMAN: Raw emotion, even tears, as tractor convoy of despairing farmers besieges Westminster By ROBERT HARDMAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 22:20, 11 December 2024 | Updated: 22:25, 11 December 2024 e-mail 13 View comments Behind the banners, bravado and competitive horn-honking, there was plenty of raw emotion on display again at yesterday's latest show of agricultural strength in the heart of Westminster. Inside Parliament, we saw the president of the National Farmers' Union, Tom Bradshaw, close to tears as he told MPs that some farmers were even contemplating suicide because of the 'awful, awful, unacceptable position' created by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves , and her surprise imposition of inheritance tax on family farms. It was not about money, Mr Bradshaw explained. 'This is a lifetime of work. It's the heritage and the custodianship...' An awkward silence hung over the Environment Select Committee as he ran out of words. Outside Downing Street , farmers laid a wreath at the gates. This was, they explained, in memory of the handful of farmers whose recent deaths at their own hands have been linked to the turmoil induced by Labour 's plans. Nor was this a stunt, whatever cynical urban Lefties might say. Those who work on the welfare side of this solitary and financially precarious industry predict more tragedies. I spotted one woman in floods of tears as the wreath was laid. Behind the banners, bravado and competitive horn-honking, there was plenty of raw emotion on display again at yesterday's latest show of agricultural strength in the heart of Westminster. Pictured: Tractors fill Whitehall today to protest inheritance tax Outside Downing Street, farmers laid a wreath at the gates. This was, they explained, in memory of the handful of farmers whose recent deaths at their own hands have been linked to the turmoil induced by Labour's plans. Pictured: Farmer's daughters Amy and Ellie Deacon from St Alban's nside Parliament, we saw the president of the National Farmers' Union, Tom Bradshaw (pictured), close to tears as he told MPs that some farmers were even contemplating suicide because of the 'awful, awful, unacceptable position' created by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and her surprise imposition of inheritance tax on family farms Three weeks ago, the UK's rural workforce had staged their first protest against the Budget – on foot. Yesterday, they brought the hardware. The most stirring sight of the day was simply that of hundreds of tractors packed the full length of Whitehall. By the time Sir Keir Starmer rose for Prime Minister's Questions at noon, these growling green workhorses were five-abreast from Trafalgar Square all the way up to Sir Winston Churchill on Parliament Square. They then embarked on a slow processional loop around London SW1 in first gear, blasting their horns all the way. Who knew tractors could be quite so tuneful? Several had rigged up airhorns to barp 'Old MacDonald had a farm' or 'Ten Green Bottles'. The most impressive was one monster which managed to play the opening bars of Rossini's William Tell Overture. Having initially tried to merge this lot with the buses and London traffic, the police decided there were so many tractors that it would be wiser just to divert everything else. Whitehall's work-from-home brigade thus had the perfect excuse for another day in their pyjamas. The machinery had started assembling from first light, with some being driven from as far away as Exmoor and Lancashire. Three tractors had made the crossing from the Isle of Wight. The oldest on parade was a 1967 David Brown 990 driven by Ely arable farmer Matt Golding, 46. With no cab, his machine looked more like a lawn mower among all these 21st-century giants with their heated cabs and flashing lights. Yet apparently this sturdy tiddler is still doing chores on the family's 200 acres, now in the hands of the third generation. But for how much longer can it remain in the family? A sign hangs on the back of a tractor, during a demonstration in support of farmers, in London, Britain, December 11, 2024 Farmers sit and stand on a tractor as they pose for pictures during a stop 'the death of British Farming' demonstration, to protest against changes to inheritance tax rules for land ownership for farmers, in Whitehall, central London, on December 11 That was the question everyone was asking yesterday. The oldest protester was Diana Baskervyle-Glegg, 93, from Burford in the Cotswolds. The youngest was Florence Cookes, aged five months, in the arms of her father, Birmingham sheep farmer Phil Cookes, 38. He had left the family's 1,200 sheep and 50 cattle in the care of his father for the day. In due course, he and his wife would like to transfer custody to Florence, but fear Labour's plans could scupper that idea. Mr Cookes told me that he favoured tougher action than this. 'We're all being a bit too nice,' he said. 'The French get it right with these things. We'd be better off shutting down London and the ports next time.' Others urged a less combative, more strategic approach, including the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, out for an early stroll through the tractor ranks. 'Just look at those 100 Labour MPs in rural areas with majorities thinner than a cigarette paper and they are starting to panic like crazy,' Mr Farage told me. 'We need a consistent campaign, bringing on board all those small family businesses which are going to get hit by these taxes – and then we could get a result on this.' Elsewhere in the crowd, I spotted everyone from ex-Foreign Secretary James Cleverly – 'Labour just see farmers as easy targets with loads of cash' – to Jeremy Corbyn's conspiracy theorist brother Piers. Wild of both hair and eye, he warned that farmers were the victims of a worldwide land grab by dark forces. Having initially tried to merge this lot with the buses and London traffic, the police decided there were so many tractors that it would be wiser just to divert everything else British MP and deputy leader of the Reform UK political party, Richard Tice gestures while holding onto a tractor today At least his megaphone was audible, unlike that of the main organisers, Kent-based Fairness For Farmers and Wiltshire's Save British Farming. This demonstration was so homespun that its leaders ended up simply having to shout from the back end of a pick-up truck parked outside Downing Street. 'We're not militant people,' yelled Maidstone market gardener, David Catt, 67, 'but we could bring this country to a standstill in minutes.' Canterbury farmer Jeff Gibson warned the crowd that just because Britain has not had a famine since 1623 and has never had cheaper food, it should take nothing for granted. The key message: this is just the start. Many of these farmers will be back again next week. On my way home, I again bumped into Tom Bradshaw outside Parliament. He explained he is still trying to persuade the Government to rethink its policy altogether 'and not just make a bad policy less bad'. As we spoke, a tractor slowed down and a farmer leaned out. 'You need to start turning it up, mate!' the man shouted at Mr Bradshaw. 'That's what I've been doing in there,' he replied. For how much longer can the countryside maintain this united, broadly level-headed front before the militants decide to take a lead? On yesterday's showing, those days seem to be numbered. Labour Share or comment on this article: ROBERT HARDMAN: Raw emotion, even tears, as tractor convoy of despairing farmers besieges Westminster e-mail Add comment More top stories
Stephen A. Smith berated the Giants in a scathing rant while defending his ESPN colleague Elle Duncan, who might’ve made herself an enemy of the Giants. Duncan’s remarks about Daniel Jones’ farewell speech — during which he thanked the Giants before they granted his release on Friday — didn’t sit well with Giants faithful , including Pat Hanlon, the team’s senior vice president of communications, who called her out on X. During Friday’s installment of “First Take,” Smith told the Giants to stop whining and claimed the organization called ESPN to complain about Duncan’s “Taking the L” segment about Jones. “The New York Giants, respectfully, shut the hell up,” Smith said. “Y’all are awful as an organization ... Y’all are sorry! Y’all are pathetic! The only reason why you get away with it is because the Jets have been worse ... and you’ve got the nerve to sit up there and call the network because you want to whine and moan about your ineptitude being put on public display?” Duncan didn’t spare Jones one bit while discussing him getting benched for Tommy DeVito and demoted to fourth string after he was unable to control the Giants’ offense. “You guys think he had this saved in his notes since like 2020? In all seriousness, DJ, I could have saved you like 90 seconds,” Duncan said, referring to his speech. “A rewrite: I’m sorry you paid me $108 million for one playoff win. And I look forward to reviving my career as Brock Purdy’s backup. The end.” Hanlon wasn’t thrilled with Duncan’s remarks. “That an ESPN personality would mock Daniel Jones’ statement today is mind boggling,” he wrote on X . “Given what has happened at that company over past few years, tone deaf.” Hanlon didn’t explain further about what happened at ESPN. The company recently went through multiple rounds of layoffs. Many Big Blue fans thought Duncan was overly harsh and disrespectful to Jones. Duncan, who was a guest on Friday’s “First Take,” stood by her comments. “You want to call me disrespectful to Daniel Jones?” she said. “Am I more disrespectful than the Giants making him a scout team safety? Am I more disrespectful than all of those same fans that are in my mentions right now who booed him mercilessly for the last six seasons? I stand by everything that I said.”
The Biden administration has agreed to lend $6 billion to troubled electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian to build a new factory near Atlanta, Georgia, a massive giveaway from an administration in love with EVs. The New York Times reports that the Biden administration has announced that it will provide a $6 billion loan to Rivian, which produces electric vehicles but has struggled significantly in recent years. The loan will be used to finance the construction of a new factory in Social Circle, Georgia, near Atlanta, where Rivian plans to manufacture midsize sport utility vehicles and hatchbacks. The loan agreement is expected to be finalized before the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump in January, making it a binding contract between the Department of Energy and Rivian. This move is seen as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to secure leftist climate policies before the incoming administration takes office. The financing is a crucial lifeline for Rivian, which has been struggling to generate profits while selling vans to businesses and pickups and SUVs to individual consumers. The Georgia factory will complement Rivian’s existing plant in Normal, Illinois, and produce SUVs with a starting price of around $45,000, compared to the company’s current consumer vehicles, which start at approximately $70,000. R.J. Scaringe, the chief executive of Rivian, stated that the loan would help create thousands of new American jobs and further strengthen the country’s leadership in electric vehicle manufacturing and technology. The project has also garnered support from Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who announced the plans outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in December 2021. Rivian recently received additional support from Volkswagen, with the companies forming a joint venture to develop software and electronics. Volkswagen plans to invest $5.8 billion in the joint venture and Rivian, extending their partnership announced in June. Breitbart News reported earlier this year that Rivian was suffering serious financial difficulties: CNBC reports that shares of electric vehicle makers Rivian and Lucid plunged on Thursday following disappointing fourth-quarter earnings reports released after markets closed on Wednesday. Rivian stock sank around 25 percent, while Lucid shares dropped nearly 17 percent. Both companies cited stagnant production numbers and “existing economic and geopolitical uncertainties” as factors impacting results. Rivian forecasts production of 57,000 vehicles in 2024 — about the same as the 57,232 vehicles manufactured in 2023. Meanwhile, Lucid predicts production of 9,000 vehicles this year, a mere seven percent increase over 2022 levels. Read more at the New York Times here. Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship.Teaching courses have surged in popularity among students awaiting a university offer but society, culture and health remain Victoria’s most popular study choices. A record 47,500 year 12 graduates will receive first-round offers by Victorian universities, TAFE institutes and independent tertiary colleges on Monday – nearly 4600 more than last year, with further offers to follow in January and February. Methodist Ladies’ College graduate Kate Zhang is waiting on a commerce offer. Credit: Luis Enrique Ascui There will be more than 1500 offers made for teaching courses, up by more than 3 per cent on last year to 4.3 per cent of all the offers made on Monday. The fastest growing area of study is management and commerce, comprising 16.5 per cent of Monday’s offers while health-related courses, which includes nursing and biomedical science, remain much sought-after, making up nearly 17 per cent. However, enthusiasm for studying information technology (IT) appears to be on the wane this year, making up just 4.5 per cent of courses offered, down from 5.3 per cent last year. Extensive data on the first-round offers, featuring students, offers and courses, will be available at theage.com.au from 10am on Monday. The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre said prospective students were flocking to society and culture pathways, with courses like arts, law, politics and economics making up more than a fifth of Monday’s offers. International Baccalaureate students in Australia, who have traditionally been forced to wait until January for their university offers, have been included in the December round for the first time this year. Methodist Ladies’ College graduate Kate Zhang said nerves were running high for some students ahead of Monday’s news. Loading Zhang, who completed the IB this year, already has an offer to attend a university overseas, where she would study either social analysis or economics alongside a shorter course in photography. She is expecting another offer from the University of Melbourne for a degree in commerce and will then consider her options. “I’m very privileged to be thinking about the opportunities that I have upcoming,” Zhang said. “I just hope that [on] Monday, everybody who’s worked hard to get to where they are, get their first preference, and if not, something works out for them in the end. “My friends who may have gotten close to the course requirements, but maybe not comfortably above, are feeling a bit nervous as they go into look at which preferences they got granted.” Zhang, whose ATAR was in the high 90s, hoped to visit extended family in China before university started. VTAC chief executive Teresa Tjia said options were still available for school-leavers who were not offered a course on Monday. “If you haven’t received an offer today or have changed your mind about what you wish to study, you can change preferences in your VTAC account until 4pm tomorrow. VTAC will make further offers throughout January and February,” Tjia said. The VTAC boss urged those who landed the course they wanted on Monday to savour the moment. Loading “Celebrate the offer you have received today with your family, friends and teachers,” she said. “Share this exciting achievement with those who have supported you throughout your educational journey.” The Morning Edition newsletter is our guide to the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up here . Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article University Campus Victoria VCE Noel Towell is Education Editor for The Age Connect via Twitter . 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Washington : Kamala Harris has spoken out about her election defeat in a widely pilloried video in which she talked up her losing campaign’s record fundraising haul and urged demoralised Democrats to continue to mobilise against Donald Trump. After weeks of silence and a brief holiday in Hawaii, the vice president appeared in a 10-minute video to thank supporters and encouraged them to remain resilient in the face of Trump’s election victory. “Ability to engage and inspire”: Vice President Kamala Harris. Credit: X/TheDemocrats “The outcome of this election, obviously, is not what we wanted,” she said. “It is not what we worked so hard for, but I am proud of the race we ran, and your role in this was critical. What we did in 107 days was unprecedented... Don’t let anyone take your power.” The video went viral on social media, but was widely mocked by critics noting the vice-president’s tired and somewhat rattled appearance, with some even going so far as to question whether she was under the influence of alcohol. In a sentiment shared by many, TV personality Megan McCain, the daughter of former Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, also called for Democrats to remove the short clip posted to the party’s X account. Attendees react as US Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, speaks at Howard University in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. Credit: Bloomberg “Take this down,” McCain wrote. “She’s still the sitting Vice President for God’s sake - this is awful. Like really, really awful.” But it was Harris’ comments about the “historic $1.4 billion” raised from grassroots supporters that angered some donors, who questioned how so much money could be spent, only to lose all seven battleground states, the popular vote and both houses of Congress. Speaking on News Nation, mega-donor John Morgan, who refused to back Harris’s presidential bid at all, said the expenditure would “follow Harris for the rest of her career.” “I think this disqualifies her forever,” said the founder of Washington-based law firm Morgan & Morgan. “If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run America.” Elise Stefanik Credit: Bloomberg Harris’ video was the first time she has spoken publicly about the election since her concession speech at Howard University on November 6. It came as Trump’s campaign revealed that several of his cabinet and staffing picks had been targeted by bomb threats and swatting - a process that has become quite common in America, whereby police are called to someone’s home to check what often turns out to be a hoax. The campaign has not disclosed who was targeted, however, the office of New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick for UN ambassador, posted that she was among them. “Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them,” said Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. Loading “In response, law enforcement acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action.” President Joe Biden’s decision to stand down on July 21 and elevate Harris as the Democratic candidate changed the trajectory of the 2024 presidential race and broke fundraising records in the three-month period to election day. However, in the aftermath of her crushing defeat, the campaign’s spending and political strategy have come under growing scrutiny amid recriminations about what went wrong. As the soul-searching continued, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, senior adviser David Plouffe, deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks and senior adviser Stephanie Cutter, appeared on the left-leaning Pod Save America podcast to provide their insights, blaming everything Biden, the media, and the truncated campaign time frame. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at a rally together for her campaign in Maryland in August. Credit: Eric Lee/The New York Times Plouffe, a former Obama adviser, rejected as “nonsense” the idea that Harris should have done more to educate voters about who she was as a candidate, rather than focus on Trump. “To win a race like this given the political atmospherics, which were quite challenging, we had to raise the risk of a Trump second term,” he said. Dillon, meanwhile, said perceptions that the vice president spent too many weeks avoiding interviews was “completely bulls***” and said that when Harris did do interviews, the questions were “small and processy” and they did not help to inform voters wanting to know about her. Cutter added that many of the questions were just “dumb”. Loading Harris also received a lot of criticism during the campaign over comments she made on the TV show The View in which she said there wasn’t anything she would have done differently than Biden. This became an instant attack ad for the Trump campaign, and one of the most damaging errors for Harris as she tried to present herself to voters as the candidate of change. Asked about this on the podcast, Cutter said that the campaign tried to differentiate Harris from Biden by talking about her as a new generational leader who spent most of her career outside of the Washington beltway. “We were trying to tell a story and give the impression that she was different without pointing to a specific issue,” she explained. Elsewhere, veteran Democratic Party strategist James Carville hit out at young progressives in the Harris campaign, suggesting their role in thwarting her interview with Joe Rogan may have contributed to her crushing defeat. “The vice president was thinking about going on Joe Rogan’s show and a lot of the younger, progressive staffers pitched a hissy fit,” he said. “What I would tell them: ’Not only am I not interested in your f---ing opinion, I’m not even gonna call you by your name. You’re 23 years old, I don’t really give a s--- what you think.” Harris, meanwhile, used her video to urge supporters to stay positive. “You have the same ability to engage and inspire,” she said. “So don’t ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you.” Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here . Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article Kamala Harris Donald Trump Farrah Tomazin is the North America correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. Connect via Twitter or email . Most Viewed in World LoadingStock market peaks typically coincide with troughs in cash holdings – but a regional skew to that picture may be messing with the signal for anyone still wary of U.S. equities. The overwhelming, almost unnerving, bullishness about Wall Street stocks for 2025 is now pretty clear. Not one of 16 annual outlooks collected by Reuters from top brokers and investors sees the S&P500 .SPX lower in 12 months’ time, for example. And yet the vanishingly small number of “refuseniks” point to one significant reverse indicator to support their case – near historically low global allocations to cash. Bank of America’s closely-watched survey of asset managers around the world this week spotlighted that average cash levels in portfolios fell below 4% in December for only the second time since June 2021, triggering what it considered another “contrarian” sell signal for equities. Pointing to 12 such signals since 2011 that resulted in an average global equity loss .MIWD00000PUS of more than 2% in the subsequent month, BofA underscored the finding by showing that net cash allocations relative to funds’ benchmarks had plummeted by the most in five years to a record 14% underweight, versus 4% overweight in November. Underweight cash positions even close to this month’s record were in the past marked by deflating equity markets in early 2002 and 2011. Tallying with nose-bleed levels of record U.S. equity exposure and economic optimism, where only 6% of funds see a “hard landing” over the next 12 months, the global rotation out of cash and into stocks in the month since the election of Donald Trump has been the biggest in more than 10 years. Well, that alarming picture masks a number of factors that don’t quite fit the bill. For a start, it seems to fly in the face of still swelling assets under management at cash-like U.S. money market funds, which at a record $6.77 trillion last week have jumped by a quarter of a trillion dollars since the election and are up a cool trillion over the past 12 months. While there may be a number of factors driving that persistent rise in money fund AUM – such as reinvested interest earnings or households’ ongoing migration from lower-yielding commercial bank savings accounts – it hardly reflects the sort of drop seen in global funds’ cash levels and allocations. What’s more, the money fund coffers have continued to expand even since the Federal Reserve began reducing short-term interest rates in September – and amid expectations it will execute its third cut in the cycle on Wednesday. The clue lies in seemingly unshakeable faith among global investors in the “exceptional” U.S. economic and investment story – also clearly reflected in this month’s BofA survey. The poll showed funds at their most overweight U.S. equities relative to euro zone stocks in 12 years – the nadir of the euro debt crisis. What’s more, a subset survey cut of just European asset managers shows where the depth of the cash aversion really lies – with average cash levels among regional funds there almost a full point below global levels and near the lowest in more than a decade. That figures, given the speed and depth of European Central Bank and Swiss interest rate cuts compared with the relative foot-dragging at the Fed. The ECB and SNB have cut four times each already, with the latter now 160 basis points below the Fed’s policy rate and the Swiss base rate almost back at zero. With the European economy set to lag the United States significantly again next year, exposed to Trump’s promised trade wars and domestic political upheavals, and rates expected to tumble further as the Fed hesitates, cash appetite is bound to differ. But judged by the record 36% of European asset managers who report being overweight U.S. equities, and the 30% who expect U.S. stocks to be the best-performing global asset next year, that rundown of cash is heading straight across the Atlantic. That flow has likely been underway for months and explains much of outsize 6% surge of the dollar against the euro over the past three months, the parallel Wall Street outperformance against euro stocks and the 60-basis-point widening of the transatlantic 10-year debt spread. And those flows may have further to run. The key point is the low global cash level reflects the European picture more than the U.S. one. If the Fed stalls on further rate cuts after this week, then U.S. cash levels could well remain high while they are cut elsewhere in the world – leaving the apparently strange sight of rising U.S. stocks and cash levels intact. Only some revision to those extreme assumptions of U.S. exceptionalism – possibly involving some radical rethink of the stubborn Fed view – would start to balance that picture. Neither look likely early next year, but mid-2025 might throw a different light. Source: Reuters (By Mike Dolan; Editing by Jamie Freed)
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