Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

Thanks for joining us today. I'm Julie Morgan, host of Wall Street Breakfast, Seeking Alpha's Daily flagship podcast.

This is our weekly show all about the catalyst for the upcoming week.

I'm joined by Kim Kahn.

He's the senior managing news editor at Seeking Alpha.

Kim, we are joined by a special guest this week,

the senior editor of Media and Telecom,

Jason Acock.

Thanks, thanks for having me. All right, so Kim, what? Telecom Jason Acock. Thanks.

Thanks for having me.

All right, so Kim, what's on deck for next week?

It's going to be a boring week.

I already know.

I'm wrong.

Oh, of course, yeah.

Now we've got inflation data and it's never boring with inflation, you know, on the macro front we're going to have the latest retail inflation numbers, the

CPI expected to come down again, headline number down to 6.2% and core down to 5.5%. But there's some data that just came out that through a little wrench in the works, which is on January used car sales. But used car sales, this has been an issue this entire period, am I right?

It has, yeah. I mean, and you know, it's been one of the most stubborn components of the

CPI to come down and, you know, the, you know, it finally started to decline and then that's, that you've seen that reflected

as the

CPIs cooled down a lot but there was a spike in in the auction prices for

used cars in January now we may not see that show up next week for the

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