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Speaker 1: on Guard, the ECB president, says the bank will stay

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Speaker 1: at in today's papers. I'm James Wilcock. Plus Apple takes

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Speaker 1: hand eye coordination to the next level with a three

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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Stephen Carroll and I'm Caroline Hecker. Here

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Speaker 1: are the stories that we're following today. ECB President Christine

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Speaker 1: Legarde says the bank will do everything necessary to return

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Speaker 1: inflation to its two percent goal. In a speech in Germany,

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Speaker 1: Laguard pointed to more significant interest rate increases in coming meetings.

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Speaker 1: That view is supported by JP Morgan's CEIO for Fixed

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Speaker 1: Income Ian Steely, who told Bloomberg's Jonathan Pharaoh that the

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Speaker 1: Central Bank has a way to go on rate hikes.

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Speaker 1: In yes, Steele's comment that add to the unfolding debate

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Speaker 1: will mark the Justice Department's second monopoly case against parent

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Speaker 1: company Alphabet. Google has said the market for online advertising

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Speaker 1: stand in his security food trial, Elon Musk has defended

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Speaker 1: head Baxter, the Crush of Tasham only shuttered around a

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Speaker 1: on the stand today in San Francisco. I'm at Baxter

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Daybreak Europe for his plans to cut around three thousand,

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Speaker 1: mixed reality headset would attempt to create a three D

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Speaker 1: Mark German explains how it works. Where you control the

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Speaker 1: from the European Central Bank now, Christine Laguard pointing to

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Speaker 1: to you, Yana. How clear, then, have the signals been

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