Skye Masters
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5,023 appearances
53 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2 Aug
Skye Masters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But as you said, the German factory orders, they came in well below expectations up point nine versus a consensus view of three.
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I think there was an expectation of a bit uh more of a stronger rebound following the eleven percent slump that you saw in in January.
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But point
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Point nine, yes, growth, but quite a bit below expectations and that nothing to nothing to celebrate about.
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And in the Eurozone you had their retail sales, which fell point two percent in February and with a fall driven by declines in sales of food, drinks and tobacco.
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So the hard thing there is obviously the Eurozone economy soft, um, but we know that you know the E C B's has one mandate and that's that's inflation and
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as we've just been talking about, the focus is still on inflationary impact of the energy price spikes higher and that's why markets are still pricing in the risk of rate hikes by the EC V this year.
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I don't think so.
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It is again for February, but I think it's the point as we just uh s said to you earlier is that US inflation was heading in the wrong direction for the Fed.
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And you've got the r the risk is or the expectation is inflation will be heading higher in the coming months because of the spike in
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oil prices or energy prices.
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So the Fed is definitely on hold for now and that's what the market's pricing feels like.
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Yes, good morning, Phil.
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And it definitely is the the big um question for investors.
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And I think that started to feed through uh into price action on on Friday.
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So, you know, as you hit the fifth week of the conflict um with with all news that really it seems to be escalating rather than de-escalating, it is leaving a very challenging landscape for for investors.
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To navigate.
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And I think the initial response and the right response was the fear of higher inflation.
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You know, you are going to get that immediate hit.
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You saw that in sort of the final read of the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Report, which was released on Friday.
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