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Speaker 2: Catherine joins us now from Boston, right outside the Bank

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Speaker 2: of America investors aid taking place. Bank of America has

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Speaker 3: So we have a new narrative today and it expands

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Speaker 2: The earnings continues, Paul, and of course we're talking about

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Speaker 5: Guy some services Index a minute seventy. The consensus was sixty.

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Speaker 2: had anticipated it to decline to sixty eight, but instead

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Speaker 2: we got an increase to seventy.

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Speaker 5: Talk a little bit about that.

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Speaker 7: Sure the index this first time. It's been in seventy

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Speaker 7: at seventy since October of twenty twenty two. So we're

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Speaker 7: definitely seeing in the commentary as well, tariff impacts starting

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Speaker 7: some other things are showing in increases to prices paid.

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Speaker 7: I think the positive side on the inflationary inflationary aspect

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Speaker 7: seeing that the supplier and supply chain performance is still strong.

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Speaker 7: So in that environment where it looks like there's available

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Speaker 7: I believe that's a very positive sign for competition in

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Speaker 4: Steve, thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate getting

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Speaker 4: a couple of minutes of your time. Steve Miller, he's

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Speaker 4: the share of im services PMI.

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Speaker 5: We get some data here looked pretty good to me.

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Speaker 4: And one of the things that jumped out of me

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Speaker 4: scar this is the new orders fifty six point two.

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Speaker 4: The consensus was fifty one. Last period is fifty point four,

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Speaker 4: So nice jumping in new orders there.

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Speaker 2: And of course the services part of the economy is

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Speaker 2: earlier this week we heard from ISM that manufacturing remains

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Speaker 2: in this slump. I believe in eighth month of shrinkage manufacturing.

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Speaker 4: Yeahm