Pierre Bien-Aimé

I'm seeing that game in Boston.

And, yeah, it should be pretty exciting to see how they do.

So France is also playing Norway.

So this is a tough backup for me to get when they come head-to-head.

It's going to be France.

Yeah, it's their first World Cup, I think, since something like the 90s.

You've got a lot of teams who have not been here in a long time, so their fans should be super excited about that.

Thank you.

You too.

I think the potential of agentic is to rethink how work gets done overall.

It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand.

Here's your midday brief for Friday, March 27th.

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

Traders see no chance the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.

According to CME Group data, derivatives markets show zero odds of a cut, down from a 1.3% chance yesterday.

And markets are pricing a 54% chance of at least one interest rate hike.

The war in the Middle East has changed the outlook for central banks around the world, which now face both higher inflation and slower growth.

Today's show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie will return to the morning program on Monday, April 6th.

She's been off the show since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was reported missing from her home in Arizona on February 1st.

No arrests have been made in the case.