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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The other thing we're looking at for is there was a hundred thousand drop in payroll employees in the last report.
Uh there's a good chance that that gets revised to a less negative number, but I think your point is is taken.
Broad terms, the labour market in the UK is
is softening for all the valid reasons.
The economy is not doing well.
The last G D B print was negative um and we expect, yes, the unemployment rate to rise over the coming months.
Yeah, uh GDP for New Zealand, uh our colleagues at BNZ looking for a point nine Q and Q, uh a strong quarter, um, third in a row, uh, but one that my colleagues think that overstates the underlying trend, and if confirmed, um i you know, it nonetheless will be close to the RBNZ's one percent projection um that they made in the NPS back in May.
The question is, you know, does it overstate things and uh there are still some risks ahead?
No.
Ukraine, I do hope not.
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I think the world will be in a very sorry position if that would be the case.
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I just don't, you know.
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Um but to your point, it's it's it's it's well made.
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Um there's been no progress.
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Um Donald Trump did an interview with the New York Post um uh Wednesday where he he talked about um, you know, again re repeating that that that Iran has agreed not to have nuclear weapons.
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That's a verbal
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thing they've commitment they've made.
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He wants that in writing.
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Um but then he was asked about, you know, how long is this going to go on for and he said uh and the particularly the reopening of the strait and he said, um, I don't know.
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I mean I think um it it could be closed, the strait, that is, through Labor Day.
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