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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It's not just Europe, it's the UK as well, down to the high thirties, right?
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You know, and we know the reasons why.
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A lot of it is related to things like civil engineering projects all drying up because of, you know, um things taking longer coming out of the Middle East, the costs, overruns and that kind of stuff, higher wages.
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Um, you know, and it and it's a sector that's um that's going to suffer until we till we get through this.
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and obviously non farm power are always important.
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It'll be the first if we do get the positive number of sixty five thousand, it'd be the first back to back uh gains of two months uh since well for about a year actually.
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Um, you know.
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So uh I again I think it's it's likely to paint a picture of a f of stabilization of labor market.
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Wages, we talked about this, pretty benign.
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They looked at point three, three point eight year a percent year year on year.
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I mean the last number, annual.
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number was three point five percent.
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That's the lowest number since all going back to the pandemic.
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So there's no sign of uh, you know, rampant wage gains there, uh in in the US and and as I say, stabilization.
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Yeah, it's the big question for markets, isn't it?
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I mean, you know, it's it's well baked in.
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That's the expectation.
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There are five thousand local council elections in England.
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Labor controls two and a half thousand, and they're on track to lose about seventy percent.
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