Gavin Friend
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7,937 appearances
60 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2 Sep
Gavin Friend’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the problem is he's leaving everybody, markets and the journalists, wondering, well, well, what are you going to do?
You're five years and you haven't done anything.
He said, uh uh, he said, look, you know, we we're we're spending not just the the two days here, we spent two weeks, you know, asking ourselves lots of hard questions, and he had lots of confidence in the people around him.
And eventually he said this will bear fruit.
But he was repeatedly, you know, asked about, well, when are you going to get going with this?
I hear impatience, he said, we're on the job, we're laser focused.
And then he said, but we've got no magic wand.
This isn't something that we're going to be able to carry out in days, weeks, but we are going to deliver.
He said earlier on, he said, look, you know, there is no implicit soft inflation target.
It's too
Period.
Yeah.
And then you look at the market reaction.
So we came into this with yields up because of the the the deterioration of situation in Iran.
Immediately we got the uh the Fed uh announcement, yields came lower, um, because it it didn't sound any different, any hawk any more hawkish than it was.
Going through the press conference, we've watched two year yields come down and down, and we're down, well, five basis points.
We were down seven, but we were up two or three beforehand.
Go to the other end of the curve, thirty years, we're now up eleven.
The 10 year is wanging around basically up and down all over the place.
Is this saying, and some people are s uh are suggesting this, is this saying, look, we're not sure you've got this.
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