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Speaker 1: you listen. It's Friday, the twenty second of March in London.

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Speaker 1: I'm Caroline Hepke and I'm Lizzie Verdon.

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Speaker 2: Coming up today.

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Speaker 3: Apple's value dropped by more than one hundred and ten

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Speaker 3: billion dollars as the tech giants legal challenges.

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Speaker 1: Mount, the Bank of England inches closer to rate cuts

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Speaker 1: as the Hawks retreat.

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Speaker 3: Plus Reddit pops Shares in the social media firm rise

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Speaker 3: by forty eight percent as investors embrace their AI pitch.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with a raundup of our top stories.

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Speaker 3: Apple's value has dropped by one hundred and thirteen billion

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Speaker 3: dollars as regulators in the US and EU accused the

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Speaker 3: tech giant of abusing its market dominance. Once the world's

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Speaker 3: most valuable firm, with a market cup of more than

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Speaker 3: three trillion dollars, Apple has under formed both the Nasdaq

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Speaker 3: and the SMP five hundred this year. The latest slide

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Speaker 3: in the tech firms share price comes after US Attorney

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Speaker 3: General Merrick Garland sued the company, accusing it of blocking

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Speaker 3: rivals from accessing hardware and software features on the iPhone.

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Speaker 4: We allege that Apple has employed a strategy that relies

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Speaker 4: on exclusionary anti competitive conduct that hurts both consumers and developers.

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Speaker 4: For consumers, that has meant fewer choices, higher prices and fees,

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Speaker 4: lower quality smartphones, apps and accessories, and less innovation from

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Speaker 4: Apple and its competitors.

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Speaker 3: Merrick Garland's US Justice Department's lawsuit has been strongly refuted

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Speaker 3: by Apple, who called it wrong on the facts and

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Speaker 3: the law. The iPhone maker also faces a competition probe

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Speaker 3: by the EU, which could lovey penalties of up to

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Speaker 3: ten percent of global annual revenue. Earlier this month, Apple

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Speaker 3: was hit by a one point eight billion euro penalty

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Speaker 3: from the Block of releegations that it shoulds out music

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Speaker 3: street rivals on its platforms now.

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Speaker 1: The Bank of England took a big step towards cutting

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Speaker 1: interest rates at its March meeting. Although the central Bank

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Speaker 1: kept interest rates on hold yesterday, none of its policymakers

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Speaker 1: governor Agie Bailey says that the Bank of England can

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Speaker 1: cut rates before reaching its two percent inflation target.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't have to actually get inflation all the

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Speaker 3: way back to target sustainably to cut rates, for instance,

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Speaker 3: what we have to do is be convinced that it

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Speaker 3: is going to go there.

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Speaker 2: We should act ahead.

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Speaker 3: Of time in that sense, because we have to be

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Speaker 3: forward looking.

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Speaker 1: Reacting to those words from the Governor Ajie Bailey, markets

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Speaker 1: moved up their expected first rate cut to June Bailey's

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Speaker 3: And staying in the UK, we brought you the retail

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Speaker 3: sales numbers. UK consumers are the most confident they've been

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Speaker 3: about their personal finances in years. This is according to

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Speaker 3: the GfK measure, which tracks the way people feel about

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Speaker 3: their finances. It rose to plus two in the latest survey,

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Speaker 3: as the first positive reading since December twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: The figures indicate personal budgets remained strong even as the

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Speaker 3: Bank of England chose to hold interest rates at that

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Speaker 1: Chinese authorities are examining the role of PwC in Evergrand's

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Speaker 1: accounting practices after the developer was accused of a seventy

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Speaker 1: eight billion dollar fraud. The move ramps up pressure on

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Speaker 1: the global accounting giant that order to a slew of

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Speaker 1: Chinese property firms before the sector's melt down. Evergrand's alleged

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Speaker 1: forward dwarfs that of Enron and has added fuel to

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Speaker 1: concern about how widespread such accounting issues are in China.

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Speaker 3: Shares in the social media company Reddit have soared by

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Speaker 3: forty eight percent after its USIPO. Investors appear to have

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Speaker 3: embraced the company's vision of profiting from the growth of

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Speaker 3: artificial intelligence. The COO, Gen Wong, says the AI revolution

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Speaker 5: Large language models need data to train on, and when

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Speaker 5: you look at riddit's corpus nineteen years of human experience

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Speaker 5: incredibly important to building both a chat capability and the

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Speaker 5: freshness of information. So that's an area where you know,

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Speaker 2: Read it's Gen Wong, they're speaking to Bloomberg.

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Speaker 3: The firm also says it's in the early stages of

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Speaker 3: allowing third parties to license access to data on the platform.

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Speaker 1: After six and a half years in exile, the man

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Speaker 1: who tried to break up Spain is making a comeback.

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Speaker 1: Carls Pouche demon led the Catalan independence movement and caused

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Speaker 1: Spain's worst political crisis since it became a democracy. He

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Speaker 1: is now planning to run for his old job as

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Speaker 6: I'm not looking for what is most comfortable and less

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Speaker 6: risky on a personal level. Not explain to myself after

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Speaker 6: presidency in exile, now that we have an opportunity to

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Speaker 6: restore the presidency, I think that was unjustly illicitly an

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Speaker 1: Five Prisdom while speaking there via a translator and referring

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Speaker 1: to Article one fifty five that is the controversial law

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Speaker 1: that the Spanish government used in twenty seventeen to force

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Speaker 1: the regional Catalan administration to obey national law after an

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Speaker 3: Finally, there are signs of progress towards a possible Guards

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Speaker 3: of Peace agreement at the same time as Israel is

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Speaker 3: threatening to invade Raffa. This is as the US Secretary

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Speaker 3: of State Anthony Blincn is in the Middle East attempting

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Speaker 3: to help breaker a deal between Humas and Israel.

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Speaker 2: Blomberg's Ed Baxter explains.

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Speaker 7: Delegations from Israel, the US, Cutter, and Egypt will meet

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Speaker 7: today to try to draw up a plan so that

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Speaker 7: the invasion doesn't have to happen. But Israel's Minister for

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Speaker 7: a Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, on a US podcast says,

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Speaker 8: Which you saw in October seventh, was a genocidal force

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Speaker 8: that wants to wipe out all the Jews. And it's

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Speaker 8: the first program that we've had since the birth of

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Speaker 8: the State of Israel. We have the ability to defend ourselves.

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Speaker 7: He says. If there is not a piece deal, the

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Speaker 7: assault will happen. Ed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're going to delve into the story around Apple and

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Speaker 1: the share price drop in just a moment. But there's

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Speaker 1: a very interesting piece on the Rumberg terminal from Dave Lee.

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Speaker 1: Now Dave I've known for many, many years, and he

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Speaker 1: writes on all things technology, and he's always just got

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Speaker 1: such a great turn of phrases, one of our opinion columnists,

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Speaker 1: and he's saying, look, you can't back Apple into a

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Speaker 1: this after the case from the DOJS of looking into

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Speaker 1: anti competitive behavior. He's saying that actually Apple's authoritarianism is

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Speaker 1: what makes an iPhone iPhone and not an Android. He

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Speaker 1: talks about you know, fans of Android, you know, saying

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Speaker 1: but they ignore that Actually the experience on an Android phone,

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Speaker 1: as Dave puts it, is a hot mess.

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Speaker 3: I'm of the Holy Trinity of Apple myself. I'm just

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Speaker 3: saying is that androids are clunky. That's what Apple loyalists

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Speaker 3: would say. And yeah, Dave puts it really well. He

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Speaker 3: says that you don't want the US to force Apple

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Speaker 3: to make a worse iPhone.

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Speaker 2: Through all this regulation.

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Speaker 3: If you level the playing field, it means adding complication

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Speaker 3: and friction and insecurity to a device, he says, whose

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Speaker 3: this is completely against the very best of the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Well that's one perspective. Should we get the other perspective,

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Speaker 1: which is around the regulation. Shares in Apple Yesterday's slid

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Speaker 1: by more than four percent, so wiping out that Hunter

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Speaker 1: thirteen billion dollars off of Apple's market cap. Investors do

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Speaker 1: seem to be spooked by another US lawsuit, also a

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Speaker 1: European probe after a big EU fine. Let's bring in

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Oliver Crook, who's been following all of this for US.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's not the perspective of the Europeans who

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Speaker 1: want to regulate Apple a bit more thoroughly. But firstly,

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Speaker 1: what about this Justice Department lawsuit the Biden administration getting

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Speaker 1: a bit tougher on tech.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, this is very interesting because and there's a meaningful

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Speaker 9: It's perhaps less of a shock to have regulation coming

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Speaker 9: out of Europe and having that happen to hit in

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Speaker 9: is all looking at how you can access hardware and

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Speaker 9: Of course, Apple is firing back, has a very different

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Speaker 9: view of thing that they're wrong on the fact, and

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Speaker 9: the laws has standardous precedent. They don't want the government

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Speaker 9: to get involved in, you know, designing of tech. But again,

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Speaker 9: you know, I think the Europeans would argue in a

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Speaker 9: number of people in tech is that our very concept

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Speaker 9: what we think in our minds of its limits, are

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Speaker 9: actually governed by these companies and we, you know, we

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you say, it's less surprising that the EU would

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so this is very interesting. So in burnas separate

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Speaker 9: this into kind of two different categories. So you remember

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Speaker 9: which is one point eight billion euros, right, and that

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Speaker 9: that they had leveled. Since then, you have the Digital

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Speaker 9: out of that has come into power. That came into

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Speaker 9: this gives all kinds of new rules in terms of

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Speaker 9: how to govern big tech to deal with exactly some

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Speaker 9: of these issues, the anti competitive behavior. And what's interesting

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Speaker 9: if you violate this. They're talking about potentially ten percent

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Speaker 9: about potentially breaking up these companies. So now we understand

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Speaker 9: that under the digital market sector, which again we've had

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Speaker 9: no legal action for yet from the EU, we understand

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Speaker 9: that both Google and Apple are in the crosshairs and

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Speaker 9: a lot of this is going to focus on the

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And so this is I suppose what investors

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Speaker 1: are most concerned about. I mean, how significant is the

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Speaker 1: share price drop and the worry about Apple's performance? Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Well, I mean, well, Listen, we still can't take away

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Speaker 9: many years, and that is you know, so it's coming

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Speaker 9: up from a high base. But it's saying because if

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Speaker 9: what's going on. More broadly, Europe and the US are

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Oliver, thank you so much for being with

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Speaker 1: What did you make of the Bank of England decision yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I thought that it wasn't as devish as he did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, more so now, But by comparison, both of them

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Speaker 3: Look, speaking to strategists, they flag the risk that the

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