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profits climb at airbus — the world's biggest commercial plane buildeer. we'll speak live to its chief financial officer. the us federal reserve warns that president none of the above. generation of computing. net profits in 2024 rose 13% to just over 4 billion euros or a5 billion dollars. there's nearly always brutal for airbus�*s biggest

rival, that's boeing. it's confirmed that its planned new a350 and earlier this week it announced a delay of up to 10 years to its promise to build a hydrogen—powered aircraft by 2035. thomas toepfer is chief financial officer at airbus. considering all the problems that happened boeing, that have happened at boeing, some might have expected you to even better, why haven't able to ca-italise more? been able to capitalise more? first of all i think we are withzthe r withthe result is r withthe result is that happy with the result is that we had in 2024, we guided for around 770 planes, did 766

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more details from our north america business correspondent, ritika gupta. interest rate unchanged in a range of 4.25% to 4.5% at that meeting. stubborn inflation, and the potential effect of trump's policy proposals — particularly tariffs and immigration — on their efforts to bring price in 2025, with the possibility of a second, according to futures markets. some officials also expressed concern over the potential current federalfunding runs out after march the 14th, policymakers noted it may be

appropriate to consider slowing month without reinvesting the proceeds. earlier i spoke to bill english, who previously worked discussions? the thing that's always top of mind is the discussion and there it was striking that the committee you know, the minutes confirmed the committee is comfortable where they are with rates where they are.

indications that inflation is coming down to target over time. but if inflation stays high rates will be higherfor longer. and they seem pretty flexible. pretty happy with just waiting and seeing. there's a lot of uncertainty, of course, partly because of the new administration. exactly how things shake out before they decide of a powerful new quantum chip. it's called my—orana and is neither solve industrial—scale problems in the decades to come. our senior technology reporter chris vallance explains.

them back in contention in the multi—billion—dollar important real—world problems. physics and works in a fundamentally different way to the computers in your phones or laptops. classical computers, as they are called, simply can't — and lead to developments in medicine, for example. microsoft has been pursuing, by its own admission, to develop this new chip, it wanted to develop topological qubits — that relied upon discovering new materials that were capable of entering a topological you learn about in school — gas, liquid or solid.

they also had to discover and use the elusive majorana particle. its existence has been only in theory until recently, and it remains controversial. in the race with its rivals, and ready to make it believes it's a question of years — not decades — before it's able to produce quantum computers capable a chip — as this one — which has eight topological qubits, and one that has thousands of times more qubits, which will be required if it's to do useful work.

with a degree of caution — they say they will need to see more data before they're ready to say what this will mean for progress in the quantum computing industry in general, or indeed for microsoft itself. it will go on sale at the end of this month, costing around $600. it's aimed at a more cost—conscious market the budget model will have the latest ai features but a much simpler camera than apple's premium phones. bu rival, ch simpler camera bu rival, who mpler camera bu rival, who alreadytmera bu rival, who already has 'a bu rival, who already has ai in all of its phones. stay with us here on bbc news.

hello from the sport centre. we start with football and manchester city's disappointing season continues. trailing 3—2 after the first leg, city went behind early on in madrid before going on to lose by three goals to one. alongside former england goalkeeper paul robinson. the dust has on manchester city's exit from the champions league, the first time for 12 years that they've been out before the round of

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