Hi there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.

Today, the battle for the White House, as seen through the eyes of America's shopkeepers.

You know, I've been thinking about getting a loan and interest rates are so high right now.

I think a lot of businesses, even though some of the larger businesses, are waiting.

US retailers like this one one tell us their concerns.

Do the candidates' promises stack up?

Or is this election all about partisan point scoring?

Neither of our two candidates that we have right now seem super willing to reach across the aisle. There's so much division out

that there, I would love to see sides come together and actually get things done. The pledges of

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as seen by U.S. retailers. That's Business Daily from the BBC.

We will have big tax cuts for families and small businesses, and we will have no tax on Social Security and no tax on tips.

Donald Trump makes plenty of big pledges aimed at tax cutting for businesses, but more than anything,

he says he's the man who's going to rid America of the curse of inflation.

It wasn't nearly as bad under his watch as president.

Inflation has destroyed our seniors.

It's the worst thing that could happen. The people

that behaved the best, that did it the American way, that saved their money, they got decimated

because their money went down, because they couldn't live. They were losing money. With me,

they were putting money in the bank and making a lot of money. They were saving a lot of money.

After I left, they were losing all of that money they saved.

Well, for the Harris campaign, the situation looks rather less dramatic.

She points to better recent inflation numbers down almost to the Fed target rate of 2% at the last count,

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