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Priya Nandakumar
Global Economy Anchor
36 years old. Born in Leicester to parents from Chennai, studied economics at the fictional University of Ashworth and worked four years as a markets analyst before moving to television. Her weekly explainer on interest rates reached 2.3 million viewers. Calm, exact, allergic to jargon.
Topics: global markets, central banks, trade and tariffs, company results
Fictional character. Name, biography, title and image are AI-generated and do not represent a real person. Every video labels the character as an AI avatar.
Stories presented by Priya Nandakumar
Fed Set to Pause Rate Hikes Despite Rising Inflation
US inflation is speeding up, yet the central bank looks set to wait. The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, 28 October, at its last meeting before next week's midterm elections, which decide control of Congress, the Guardian reported.
World Bank Urges Developing Countries to Build Small AI
The World Bank, the global development lender, is urging developing nations to build "small AI": specialised artificial intelligence models that run on a mobile phone with low connectivity.