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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Yeah, I mean this has been the story.
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Um, you know, US uh ISM uh services is obviously the most important part of the driver of the economy, you know, uh over seventy percent of economic activity.
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And it's it's it's it's uh fifty four point five.
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I mean, it's extremely strong versus other parts in the world.
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We had the Eurozone numbers earlier today, forty seven point seven.
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The contrast is striking.
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We had the China.
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China rating dog services.
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This is not the official numbers, but it's uh uh more aligned to the SMEs.
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And that was strong, fifty-four point four from fifty-two point six, which suggests there's there's more activity going on there.
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It tells us
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It does.
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It does.
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Um, you know, I mean I I think you know, when we look at the the S P series, the PMIs, actually, and the US services, it's fifty point one.
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So it's pretty similar to what's going on in some of the other areas.
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This I ISM uh measure, which has got uh about a eight to ten times bigger uh sample size, so it's it's it's a meaningful survey, it's well responsible.
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Expected.
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Um, we know what's driving the US economy.
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Um, there is a question mark over this because you know, if we're if we're seeing that, why did Q1 GDP get revised down from two percent to one point six?
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That's about 0.4 per quarter.
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