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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Friday 11th November 2022
5. Amazon is ramping up the use of robots as sales growth slows and it faces pressure to cut costs.
Already about three quarters of the packages delivered by the e-commerce giant have been touched by some kind of robotic system.
4. A US regulator says it is watching events at Twitter with "deep concern" after the platform's top privacy and compliance officers reportedly quit.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said new chief executive Elon Musk was "not above the law".
3. A Labour government would lift a planning ban on new onshore wind farms, Sir Keir Starmer has vowed.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's refusal to back onshore wind "is about putting his party first, and the country second", the Labour leader said.
2. UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was examining freezing day-to-day public spending in real terms for three years after 2025 in the Autumn Statement next Thursday, saving about 27 billion pounds ($31.67 billion) a year by 2028.
Hunt is drawing up plans to reduce the growth in public spending in those three years to 2% or lower.
1. Share prices have jumped as investors welcomed official figures that show the cost of living in the US increased at a slower than expected pace last month.
The US consumer price index rose by 7.7% in October from a year earlier, the smallest annual increase since the start of the year and down from 8.2% the previous month.