futures just a bit mixed ahead of that, but we're now going to move on to the uk and inflation. consumer prices have risen 2.3%. core inflation slowed to 4.2%. while services inflation, that eased to 6%. traders now cutting their boe rate cut bets now pricing in at 34 basis cuts by december. >>> bank of england governor andrew bailey says the uk economy is disinflating at full employment, but he stressed falling inflation is working its way through. speaking of imf, bailey also addressed possible policy diversions between the bank of england and the u.s. fed. >> i think it's rather different between europe geographically now and the u.s. i think there's more demand-laden pressure that i think we're seeing. i think the inflation dynamics are different. we're still seeing an extension of the process coming out of the big supply shocks that we had, the impact of the war, the impact of coming out of covid. >>> with the latest comments from the fed, the boe, and now we look at our fed. christine lagarde said the ecb will cut rates soon barring surprises. it's steadily moving toward i