Gavin Friend
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7,937 appearances
60 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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But I mean, this is the story all the way through since the conflict started.
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When you see a spike in tensions and higher energy prices per se, then you see at the front of this, the UK, because it's so exposed to higher energy prices, followed by Europe, followed by the US.
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And that's the way it is.
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And it works in both directions.
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And I think, you know, for all of them, when we talk in the big picture about,
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The global bond year was rising to these kind of multi-decade highs in some cases.
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There's a lot of driving factors that we've talked about in that.
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But it certainly is the case that if this war were to be put to bed, I know people are now talking about the everlasting war or the never-ending war.
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If this war were to be put to bed, then that would certainly be something very positive to bring yields back down again across the board.
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And certainly, you know...
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it would ease a lot of the tensions because central banks could get that back to thinking about, you know, normal policy considerations after a time, you
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that would be very welcome.
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think we're getting close to that point.
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Well,
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I'm not quite sure about that.
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I mean, Scott Besant earlier in the week was talking about the straight, for good reason, that in a couple of years, this straight will be, what was his phrase?
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A worthless piece of water, because people will be using, you know, alternative methods.
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I mean, there's a lot of merit.
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People think this, whether it's in two years, and I don't know.
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