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Speaker 2: One of the areas that was certainly impacted by teriffs

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Speaker 2: can get a sense of how this might change the game.

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Speaker 2: Here this Supreme Court decision today, we welcome put them Goyle,

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Speaker 2: she covers all the retail companies for Bloomberg Intelligence, put

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Speaker 2: on what's your I guess your initial thought here from

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. Look, it's good news for retail because

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Speaker 3: at the end of their costs will go down. These

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Speaker 3: go to zero. That's probably not happening. But I do

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Speaker 4: You've mentioned prices going up. Do we know of any companies,

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Speaker 4: As we look through the different sectors that are impacted

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Speaker 4: Steve I'm looking at the top live block that Bloomberg

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Speaker 10: Well.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, long overdue, long waited. I think the market always

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Speaker 11: So yeah, I've been trying to think about second and

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Speaker 11: third order magnitude results from this. It's not just the

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Speaker 11: bounce off of the other waves and how this works.

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Speaker 11: You know, I'm not a political expert, so I'm always

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Speaker 11: reluctant to venture into that space. But staying with market

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Speaker 11: and economic factors. So a couple of things are very positive.

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Speaker 11: The dollar in twenty twenty five had its worst year

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Speaker 11: each of these cases, and the dollar fell nine point

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Speaker 11: nine percent in twenty seventeen nine point three percent last year.

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Speaker 11: This arguably could be very strong for the dollar, which

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Speaker 11: almost have to look at it as a smaller, wackier

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Speaker 11: have to think that everybody that's engaged in any sort

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Speaker 11: do we want to stick with these tariffs? Do we

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Speaker 11: depending on which study you consider, tariffs have cost the

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Speaker 11: more than that that's gonna essentially get cut in half

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Speaker 11: You're gonna see your taft drop pretty pretty dramatically. And

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Speaker 11: so this is positive for inflation. This is positive for

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Speaker 11: you know, the Fed has been warning that, hey, rate

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Speaker 11: lowering CPI and lowering the possibility of rate hikes. All

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Speaker 11: people have been talking about the possibility of a recession

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Speaker 11: a not insubstantial percentage. And again these are all second, third,

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