#j.p. sterling

[briabooknerd]

No more mr.chai guy

Don't you forget about tea

Pumpkin Spice Baby

Beanful wishes

You mocha me crazy

Grounds for Romance

Soy into you

Spiced chais and secret spies

A cafe au lait kind of love

Snow is falling ,cocoa is falling

[blondie20000]

My February reads. Spent most of the month with a bad flu so didn't get round to reading much.

Ratings out of 5 🌟

Prime Time Romance by Kate Robb: 5 🌟

My Darling Daughter by J.P Delaney: 1 🌟

The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling: 3 🌟

[the-book-queen]

Tuesday (05/06) = new releases! I have a thread of romance novels below that caught my eye this week. Happy shopping! 🤓📖❤️

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New Release

A Ballad of Betrayal and Beauty by L.H. Blake

Contemporary Romance (MFM) | https://amzn.to/4d1Ft8t 

New Release

Give Me a Shot by Gia De Cadenet

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/43deeUZ 

New Release

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Betty Cayouette

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3RKU9z5 

New Release

Drop Dead by Lily Chu

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/42PBDKI 

New Release

Only Because It's You by Rebecca Fisseha

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3YwexHP 

New Release

Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez

Contemporary Romance (FF) | https://amzn.to/4jHuMdL 

New Release

Digging Dr Jones by Olivia Jackson

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4d8nXQ4 

New Release

Bookish with Benefits by Alia Smith

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3GGwgWV 

New Release

What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4iXqxtu 

New Release

Come and Get Your Glove by J.P. Sterling

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3GDAPBs 

New Release

Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice by Cynthia Timoti

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3YxdR4Z 

New Release

Lady Impatience by Kate Archer

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4d65nYE 

New Release

Not a Chance in Hell by Emily E K Murdoch

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4cYqyM2 

New Release

Thunder Game by Christine Feehan

Paranormal Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4iG2YVD 

New Release

Time Loops and Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau

Time Travel Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3EO5kUK 

New Release

Daughter of Tides by Kit Rocha

Fantasy Romance (MMF) | https://amzn.to/43dKNSG 

New Release

Archangel's Ascension by Nalini Singh

Paranormal Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/44nLUjP 

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Or you can find all the new releases, including NOOK/Kobo*/Bookshop*/GR links, up on the blog:

New Romance Releases (05/06): Kit Rocha, Jackie Lau, Gabriella Gamez & more! 📚

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Have I missed any? What book are you most excited to read this week?

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[leiloveslit]

#33

Truly, Madly, Steeply, Brew - J.P. Sterling Series: Coffee Loft: Mountain Brew Collection (#1) 138 pages January 8th, 2025

He’s burly, bearded and irresistibrew! Is there anything better than that? After being cheated on, I conclude that I’m done with dating—forever.

Nothing good can come of it.

I’m so over relationship drama that I take off on an adventure to help my brother, Christian, open his new Coffee Loft franchise in the rural mountain town of Mapleton, Vermont. It’s supposed to be a simple escape, a chance to hide from heartbreak.

What I didn’t expect is to meet Stallone, a handsome and rugged man, with a gaze that makes me weak in the knees.

I'm not looking for love, but it’s okay to have a little distraction.

He quickly shutsdown my flirtation, making it clear he’s not looking for anything.

Perfect. Neither am I.

Except when I look back at him, his gaze so dialed into mine, my heart skips a beat.

He’s a very attractive distraction.

Maybe I am looking? Just a little.

[therealimintobooks]

Let’s Not and Sleigh We Did by J.P. Sterling

Let’s Not and Sleigh We DidJ.P. Sterling(Christmas Shenanigans)Publication date: October 25th 2024Genres: Comedy, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance Oh, oh, the mistletoe, hung where I did NOT see.My brother’s friend waits for me and gets down on one knee—What is happening? Somebody stop it, please!Oh, those dreamy blue eyes batting at me, and all the words he dares to say.This is bad.Like really,…

[cocktailsfairytales]

Let’s Not and Sleigh We Did

by J.P. Sterling

(Christmas Shenanigans)

Publication date: October 25th 2024

Genres: Comedy, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance

Synopsis:

Oh, oh, the mistletoe, hung where I did NOT see.

My brother’s friend waits for me and gets down on one knee—What is happening?

Somebody stop it, please!

Oh, those dreamy blue eyes batting at me, and all the words he dares to say.

This is bad.

Like really, really bad.

We’re now planning a wedding day.

But it’s all for a good reason, not love.

Oh, cough, cough, let’s not bust out the L-word.

It’s purely business.

It is a solid plan until it isn’t.

So maybe I love him, but we agreed not to do that . . . whoops!

Let’s Not and Sleigh We Did is a fake marriage of convenience, brother’s best friend, just-kisses-but-all-the-swoons romcom. Oh, yeah, there’s a fluffy cow too!

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217997652-let-s-not-and-sleigh-we-did

Purchase:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3YvpGJp

AUTHOR BIO:

J.P. Sterling grew up watching old reruns of Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore and fell in love with wholesome entertainment and slapstick comedy. She loves leaning into the over-the-top humor and full circle moments, especially if it means the underdog gets to shine.

Aside from writing, she's also a wife and homeschooling mom, a holistic dietitian, a former college professor and lover of all things dark chocolate.

*No swears. Just kisses. No Blasphemies.*

Author links:

https://www.facebook.com/jpsterlingauthor/

https://www.instagram.com/authorjpsterling/

https://amzn.to/3NwqPKu

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14959367.J_P_Sterling

GIVEAWAY

Blitz-wide giveaway

1st prize - $20 Amazon card (INT)

2nd prize & 3rd prize: eBook and a swag pack (US only)

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Hosted by Xpresso Book Tours

[reads2love]

Let’s Not and Sleigh We Did by J.P. Sterling with excerpt and giveaway

Let’s Not and Sleigh We Did J.P. Sterling (Christmas Shenanigans) Publication date: October 25th 2024 Genres: Comedy, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance Oh, oh, the mistletoe, hung where I did NOT see. My brother’s friend waits for me and gets down on one knee—What is happening? Somebody stop it, please! Oh, those dreamy blue eyes batting at me, and all the words he dares to say. This is bad. Like…

[thebookplatypus]

☕️ Review☕️

Love at First Sip - Amy Stephens

3⭐️

After her divorce settlement, Deanna takes the money and goes back to her hometown and does what she’s always wanted to do..

“She was excited about bringing The Coffee Loft franchise to Lake Tahoe and she hoped the community embraced this endeavor as much as she did.”

Opening up a coffee shop!

This is a fun, light hearted, clean romance novella about seeing the boy, who’s now a man, you once had a crush on as a child.

In fact, he’s the local milk delivery man to the coffee shop.

“I never stopped loving you. The day you left, I never gave up that you’d eventually find your way back.”

This one ended a bit abruptly. I would have loved to see Deanna and Gavin get reacquainted and see the romance blossom more. Even it it’s a closed door romance, I felt like this story needed more.

I can’t wait to read more stories in the Coffee Loft Franchise world!

*The foster mom for kittens in me needs to mention to please don’t ever feed kittens cow milk. It can be fatal !

☕️Review☕️

Pardon My French Press- J.P. Sterling

3⭐️

Christian is the new owner of a coffee shop, part of the Coffee Loft franchise and he’s bitten off a bit more than he can chew. Overwhelmed, he makes a really off-the-rocker decision to fire nearly everyone right before Christmas.

I found it really hard to like Christian. He was an unhappy and unsufferble character which is why I enjoyed Portia, an ex employee who was fired on Christmas Eve (she ate a single Oreo and Christian had a bizarre reaction to that)… when she played around with Christian and stood in front of his shop to promote her own business, a matchmaking app.

There may have also been a dog involved that knocked him on his butt as well. He literally thought he was dying too. 🫣

Served him right for throwing out her French Press!

While I did not like the male character at all, I found this sweet and clean short romance story enjoying.

Ends on a cute Happily Ever After.

#CoffeeLoft #CoffeeLoftSeries #KU #kindleunlimited #HoldtheSpice #thebookplatypusreview

[emwigstersbookshelf]

Author Spotlight: Interview with JP Sterling

All about writing and her latest books Who is JP Sterling? J.P. Sterling grew up watching old reruns of Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore and fell in love with wholesome entertainment and slapstick comedy. She loves leaning into the over-the-top humor and full circle moments, especially if it means the underdog gets to shine. Aside from writing, she’s also a wife and homeschooling mom, a…

[augfc]

Jp Foote mg69 belt fed machine gun. So far I've only been able to find that it was made only as a prototype. I'd like to find some more information on this gun. I purchased it at an estate auction mainly as a conversation piece but the more I look over it, it appears to be in working order. I've thoroughly cleaned and oiled it and the action appears to work perfectly along with the feed mechanism. Thanks for any info

No idea how late this response is, but the MG69 was designed by John P. Foote in the late 1960s (I believe he’s still alive). He was negotiating a deal to get this gun and an assault rifle he designed (the FAC-70) into production at Sterling Armaments in Britain. However Sterling were approached by ArmaLite to produce the AR-18 and therefore rejected Foote’s offer.

According to Thomas Nelson, the MG69 feeds from standard M13 NATO belt links through the underside of the receiver (I assume you already have some idea of how the gun operates).

J.P. Foote designed a lot of weapons during his career, which were all ubiquitously inexpensive and extremely simplistic. Probably his most famous (or notorious) design was the Cobray Terminator shotgun.

Here are some links that you might find useful:

https://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=279

http://www.helstonforensics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/foote-carbine-machine-gun-18310.pdf

[starrtoon]

It is not alive. It's no more a person than a tumor is at that stage

tumors aren’t separate human beings with their own DNA that develops and grows to be able to survive outside the womb.

and science proves you wrong, the baby IS alive.

www.princeton.edu/~prolife/art…

"To begin with, scientifically something very radical occurs between the processes of gametogenesis and fertilization the change from a simple part of one human being (i.e., a sperm) and a simple part of another human being (i.e., an oocyte usually referred to as an "ovum" or "egg"), which simply possess "human life", to a new, genetically unique, newly existing, individual, whole living human being (a single-cell embryonic human zygote). That is, upon fertilization, parts of human beings have actually been transformed into something very different from what they were before; they have been changed into a single, whole human being. During the process of fertilization, the sperm and the oocyte cease to exist as such, and a new human being is produced."

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/20…

"Not only is it an incredible spectacle, highlighting the very moment that a new life begins, the size of the flash can be used to determine the quality of the fertilised egg."

www.evolutionnews.org/2015/08/…

A new human being comes into existence at the fusion of the egg and the sperm. The new human being develops through stages, and at each stage of humandevelopment -- zygote, embryo, fetus, neonate, infant, child, adolescent, adult -- the individual is a human being. There is no scientific debate about this."

lozierinstitute.org/wp-content…

www.princeton.edu/~prolife/art…

madameliberty.tumblr.com/post/…

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“Fertilization is the process by which male and female haploid gametes (sperm and egg) unite to produce a genetically distinct individual.”Signorelli et al., Kinases, phosphatases and proteases during sperm capacitation, CELL TISSUE RES. 349(3):765 (Mar. 20, 2012)*****“The oviduct or Fallopian tube is the anatomical region where every new life begins in mammalian species. After a long journey, the spermatozoa meet the oocyte in the specific site of the oviduct named ampulla, and fertilization takes place.”Coy et al., Roles of the oviduct in mammalian fertilization, REPRODUCTION 144(6):649 (Oct. 1, 2012) ******“Fertilization – the fusion of gametes to produce a new organism – is the culmination of a multitude of intricately regulated cellular processes.”Marcello et al., Fertilization, ADV. EXP. BIOL. 757:321 (2013)******The government’s own definition attests to the fact that life begins at fertilization. According to the National Institutes of Health, “fertilization” is the process of union of two gametes (i.e., ovum and sperm) “whereby the somatic chromosome number is restored and the development of a new individual is initiated.”Steven Ertelt, ”Undisputed Scientific Fact: Human Life Begins at Conception, or Fertilization”******“Human life begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoo developmentn) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.” “A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).”Keith L. Moore, The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. pp. 16, 2.******“In that fraction of a second when the chromosomes form pairs, the sex of the new child will be determined, hereditary characteristics received from each parent will be set, and a new life will have begun.”Kaluger, G., and Kaluger, M., Human Development: The Span of Life, page 28-29, The C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1974.******“It should always be remembered that many organs are still not completely developed by full-term and birth should be regarded only as an incident in the whole developmental process.”F Beck Human Embryology, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1985 page vi******“It is the penetration of the ovum by a sperm and the resulting mingling of nuclear material each brings to the union that constitutes the initiation of the life of a new individual.”Clark Edward and  Corliss Patten’s Human Embryology, McGraw – Hill Inc., 30******“Although it is customary to divide human development into prenatal and postnatal periods, it is important to realize that birth is merely a dramatic event during development resulting in a change in environment.”The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology fifth edition, Moore and Persaud, 1993, Saunders Company, page 1******“Your baby starts out as a fertilized egg… For the first six weeks, the baby is called an embryo.”Prenatal Care, US Department Of Health And Human Services, Maternal and Child Health Division, 1990******Landrum B. Shettles, M.D., P.h.D. was first scientist to succeed at in vitro fertilization:“The zygote is human life….there is one fact that no one can deny; Human beings begin at conception.”Zygote is a term for a newly conceived life after the sperm and the egg cell meet but before the embryo begins to divide.From Landrum B. Shettles “Rites of Life: The Scientific Evidence for Life Before Birth” Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1983 p 40******“The zygote and early embryo are living human organisms.”Keith L. Moore & T.V.N. Persaud Before We Are Born – Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects (W.B. Saunders Company, 1998. Fifth edition.) Page 500*****“Thus a new cell is formed from the union of a male and a female gamete. [sperm and egg cells] The cell, referred to as the zygote, contains a new combination of genetic material, resulting in an individual different from either parent and from anyone else in the world.”Sally B Olds, et al., Obstetric Nursing (Menlo Park, California: Addison – Wesley publishing, 1980)  P 136******“The term conception refers to the union of the male and female pronuclear elements of procreation from which a new living being develops. It is synonymous with the terms fecundation, impregnation, and fertilization … The zygote thus formed represents the beginning of a new life.”J.P. Greenhill and E.A. Freidman. Biological Principles and Modern Practice of Obstetrics. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Publishers. 1974 Pages 17 and 23.******“[The zygote], formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being.”Keith L. Moore, Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008. p. 2.******“Although life is a continuous process, fertilization… is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new genetically distinct human organism is formed when the chromosomes of the male and female pronuclei blend in the oocyte.”Ronan O’Rahilly and Fabiola Miller, Human Embryology and Teratology, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001. p. 8.******“[All] organisms, however large and complex they might be as full grown, begin life as a single cell. This is true for the human being, for instance, who begins life as a fertilized ovum.”Dr. Morris Krieger “The Human Reproductive System” p 88 (1969) Sterling Pub. Co******“The first cell of a new and unique human life begins existence at the moment of conception (fertilization) when one living sperm from the father joins with one living ovum from the mother. It is in this manner that human life passes from one generation to another. Given the appropriate environment and genetic composition, the single cell subsequently gives rise to trillions of specialized and integrated cells that compose the structures and functions of each individual human body. Every human being alive today and, as far as is known scientifically, every human being that ever existed, began his or her unique existence in this manner, i.e., as one cell. If this first cell or any subsequent configuration of cells perishes, the individual dies, ceasing to exist in matter as a living being. There are no known exceptions to this rule in the field of human biology.”James Bopp, ed., Human Life and Health Care Ethics, vol. 2 (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985)******Rand McNally, Atlas of the Body (New York: Rand McNally, 1980) 139, 144“In fusing together, the male and female gametes produce a fertilized single cell, the zygote, which is the start of a new individual.”******“….it is scientifically correct to say that human life begins at conception.”Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard Medical School: Quoted by Public Affairs Council******From Newsweek November 12, 1973:“Human life begins when the ovum is fertilized and the new combined cell mass begins to divide.”Dr. Jasper Williams, Former President of the National Medical Association (p 74)******“The formation, maturation and meeting of a male and female sex cell are all preliminary to their actual union into a combined cell, or zygote, which definitely marks the beginning of a new individual. The penetration of the ovum by the spermatozoon, and the coming together and pooling of their respective nuclei, constitutes the process of fertilization.”Leslie Brainerd Arey, “Developmental Anatomy” seventh edition space (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1974), 55******The Biology of Prenatal Develpment, National Geographic, 2006. (Video)“Biologically speaking, human development begins at fertilization.”******In the Womb, National Geographic, 2005 (Prenatal Development Video)“The two cells gradually and gracefully become one. This is the moment of conception, when an individual’s unique set of DNA is created, a human signature that never existed before and will never be repeated.”******DeCoursey, R.M., The Human Organism, 4th edition McGraw Hill Inc., Toronto, 1974. page 584“The zygote therefore contains a new arrangement of genes on the chromosomes never before duplicated in any other individual. The offspring destined to develop from the fertilized ovum will have a genetic constitution different from anyone else in the world.”******Thibodeau, G.A., and Anthony, C.P., Structure and Function of the Body, 8th edition, St. Louis: Times Mirror/Mosby College Publishers, St. Louis, 1988. pages 409-419“The science of the development of the individual before birth is called embryology. It is the story of miracles, describing the means by which a single microscopic cell is transformed into a complex human being. Genetically the zygote is complete. It represents a new single celled individual.”******Scarr, S., Weinberg, R.A., and Levine A., Understanding Development, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1986. page 86“The development of a new human being begins when a male’s sperm pierces the cell membrane of a female’s ovum, or egg….The villi become the placenta, which will nourish the developing infant for the next eight and a half months.”******Clark, J. ed., The Nervous System: Circuits of Communication in the Human Body, Torstar Books Inc., Toronto, 1985, page 99“Each human begins life as a combination of two cells, a female ovum and a much smaller male sperm. This tiny unit, no bigger than a period on this page, contains all the information needed to enable it to grow into the complex …structure of the human body. The mother has only to provide nutrition and protection.”******Considine, Douglas (ed.). Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia. 5th edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976, p. 943“Embryo: The developing individual between the union of the germ cells and the completion of the organs which characterize its body when it becomes a separate organism…. At the moment the sperm cell of the human male meets the ovum of the female and the union results in a fertilized ovum (zygote), a new life has begun…. The term embryo covers the several stages of early development from conception to the ninth or tenth week of life.”******Lennart Nilsson A Child is Born: Completely Revised Edition (Dell Publishing Co.: New York) 1986“…but the whole story does not begin with delivery. The baby has existed for months before – at first signaling its presence only with small outer signs, later on as a somewhat foreign little being which has been growing and gradually affecting the lives of those close by…”******Essentials of Human Embryology, William J. Larsen, (New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1998), 1-17.“In this text, we begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes, which will unite at fertilization to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual. …Fertilization takes place in the oviduct … resulting in the formation of a zygote containing a single diploid nucleus. Embryonic development is considered to begin at this point… This moment of zygote formation may be taken as the beginning or zero time point of embryonic development.”******The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 6th ed. Keith L. Moore, Ph.D. & T.V.N. Persaud, Md., (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1998), 2-18:“[The Zygote] results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.”******"The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which two highly specialized cells, the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female, unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote."[Langman, Jan. Medical Embryology. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1975, p. 3]******"The development of a human begins with fertilization, a process by which the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote."[Sadler, T.W. Langman's Medical Embryology. 7th edition. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1995, p. 3]******"Development of the embryo begins at Stage 1 when a sperm fertilizes an oocyte and together they form a zygote."[England, Marjorie A. Life Before Birth. 2nd ed. England: Mosby-Wolfe, 1996, p.31]******"Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception)."Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being."[Moore, Keith L. Essentials of Human Embryology. Toronto: B.C. Decker Inc, 1988, p.2]******"Embryo: The early developing fertilized egg that is growing into another individual of the species. In man the term 'embryo' is usually restricted to the period of development from fertilization until the end of the eighth week of pregnancy."[Walters, William and Singer, Peter (eds.). Test-Tube Babies. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, p. 160]******"Zygote. This cell, formed by the union of an ovum and a sperm (Gr. zyg tos, yoked together), represents the beginning of a human being. The common expression 'fertilized ovum' refers to the zygote."[Moore, Keith L. and Persaud, T.V.N. Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects. 4th edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1993, p. 1]******“The life cycle of mammals begins when a sperm enters an egg.”Okada et al., A role for the elongator complex in zygotic paternal genome demethylation, NATURE 463:554 (Jan. 28, 2010)

[creatiview]

British inflation eased last month after hitting a 41-year high in October, offering some comfort to the Bank of England, but the pressure on households remained intense as food and drink prices rose at the fastest pace since 1977. Annual consumer price inflation fell to 10.5% in December from November’s 10.7%, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday, a drop in line with economists’ forecasts in a Reuters poll. However, while lower prices for petrol and clothing pushed down the headline rate, the cost of food and non-alcoholic beverages was 16.8% higher than a year earlier, the sharpest increase since September 1977, led by eggs, milk and cheese. The Bank of England forecast in November that headline CPI would drop from a peak of 11.1% last October to around 5% by the end of 2023 as energy prices stabilise. But policymakers have warned of continued upward pressure on inflation from a tight jobs market and other factors, and financial markets expect the central bank to raise its main interest rate to 4% on Feb. 2 from 3.5%. “The lower overall (CPI) rate … may reduce the risk of a wage-price spiral, but these figures suggest the BoE’s job is not yet done,” HSBC senior economist Liz Martins said. Sterling strengthened against the U.S. dollar after the data. British inflation in December was higher than the 6.5% annual rate recorded for the United States and the 9.6% in Germany. While natural gas prices are below where they were a year ago, just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they are still several times higher than they were in mid-2021 and the impact of the increase continues to feed through the economy. Core CPI – which excludes energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, and which some economists view as a better guide to underlying inflation trends – was unchanged at 6.3% in December, in contrast to economists’ forecast for a drop to 6.2%. Inflation in services prices – which some BoE officials view as signalling more persistent inflation pressures and the secondary impact of higher energy and wage costs – rose to the highest since March 1992 at 6.8%. WAGE PRESSURES Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said after the figures were released that high inflation was a “nightmare for family budgets”, hurt business investment and led to strike action. “However tough, we need to stick to our plan to bring it down,” he said. Hunt has resisted pay demands from public-sector trade unions, many of whom are taking strike action as their members’ wages are rising much more slowly than inflation and by less than the average in the private sector. Retail price inflation (RPI), used as a benchmark in some pay talks, was 13.4% in December, down from November’s 14.0%. Britain’s economy is set to contract this year as inflation squeezes disposable incomes, and the BoE forecasts unemployment will rise, factors which some BoE policymakers have said mean little or no more tightening is likely to be needed. Other members of the Monetary Policy Committee think it could be a tougher job to steer inflation back to 2% as wages are rising at their fastest rate in over 20 years. “This week’s evidence would suggest that bold action is required,” said Hugh Gimber, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, who expects the BoE to raise rates to at least 4.5% before stopping.

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Hitachi completes Acquisition of GlobalLogic 

Hitachi completes Acquisition of GlobalLogic  #hitachi #economy #acquisitions #stockmarket #money #finance

Deal Overview  Acquirer: Hitachi  Target: GlobalLogic  Value: US$9.6 billion  Announced date: August 3rd, 2020  Closed date: March 31st , 2021  Financial Advisors: Credit Suisse for Hitachi, J.P. Morgan & Goldman Sachs for GlobalLogic  Legal Counsel: Shearman & Sterling for Hitachi, Kirkland & Ellis for GlobalLogic  Company Details   Hitachi is a global conglomerate offering products and…