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The big economic picture is good.

Sometimes the tighter view is good, too, so we'll do both. From American Public Media. This is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl. It is Tuesday. Today, this one is the 23rd of June. Good as it always is to have you along, everybody.

We're going to go macro and micro in our approach to the economic news. Oh, the day today, global and local, if you will.

We learned this morning, courtesy of S&P Global's Purchasing Managers Index, that's PMI in the vernacular,

that growth in both services and manufacturing in this economy picked up in June.

Take a look around at other major developed economies, though, and it is a whole different ballgame.

In the Eurozone overall, business activity contracted

for the third straight month, albeit just slightly. Also, though, some of Europe's biggest

economies were some of the weakest. Germany's PMI had a one and a half year low. France

clawed its way back from a bit more than a two-year low. So, Marketplace of Mitchell Hartman explains the good

news and the bad news. Seems like we've got another demonstration here of U.S. economic exceptionalism.

Yet again, the United States continues to post pretty robust growth amid all the global turbulence and uncertainties.

Ishwar Prasad teaches economics and trade policy at Cornell.

For the rest of the world, it's not as pretty a picture.

And the U.S. is a major spoiler of that picture because of oil and supply chain disruptions

caused by the war on Iran.

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