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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Intelligence Radio. All right, let's get back to those

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Speaker 2: consumer confidence numbers, because we continue to see the soft

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Speaker 2: data disappointing, yet we do not see that within the

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Speaker 2: hard data dot dot dot. Yet consumer confidence falling to

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Speaker 2: a two year low. From more on this, we are

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Speaker 2: joined by Stephanie Guichard, senior economists at the Conference Board.

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Speaker 2: She joins us, Stephanie walk us through this two year low.

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Speaker 2: What was behind it?

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Speaker 3: So the index fell seven point two points to ninety

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Speaker 3: two point nine, and as you said, this was the

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Speaker 3: lowest since August twenty twenty one. What's important is that

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Speaker 3: now this okay, this was the fourth decline, and now

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Speaker 3: been overeing for the past two years. So it's clearly

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Speaker 3: a week reading. What has been driving the decline is

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Speaker 3: especially the expectation component of our index, where we see

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Speaker 3: consumers negative about the future of the labor market, future

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Speaker 4: So, Stephanie, it seems like I would think one of

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Speaker 4: the key issues here would be job security. And it

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Speaker 4: seems like the job market is still the labor market's

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Speaker 4: still pretty strong here. But is this just investors kind

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Speaker 3: No, So for the current situation of the label market,

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Speaker 2: Interesting that it's the labor part, not the inflation and

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Speaker 3: So we don't ask, especially, I mean, in our index

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Speaker 5: So I'm looking at the conference board.

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Speaker 4: The expectations number came in at sixty five point two

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Speaker 3: But this is the lowest reading for the past twelve

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Speaker 2: All right, definitely really appreciate it. Thank you so very much.

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Speaker 4: We had some home building news out today. New home

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you have consumers out there who are saying,

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Speaker 5: Looks like the markets are kind of stabilized here.

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Speaker 4: We had that Peaka trough pullback of about ten percent,

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Speaker 4: Grace Lee, Senior portfolio manager, Columbia thread Needle up in Boston,

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Speaker 4: joining us via that zoom thing. So Grace again, peak

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Speaker 4: How do you think about the market these days?

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Speaker 8: Well, I think the market did have a healthy pullback.

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Speaker 2: So that whole idea grace that Tina there is no alternative.

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Speaker 4: Right, all right, Grace, thank you so much. I always

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Speaker 4: I think we've gone several days with that really talking

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Speaker 5: A kind of the news that got our tension a

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Speaker 5: The global chip marking point?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, And look, I think the earliest export controls go

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Speaker 7: Yes, So the second to play that everyone keeps talking.

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