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#LondonCalling: Sticky inflation and the fragile banking sector. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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#LondonCalling: Sticky inflation and the fragile banking sector. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/feds-tightening-plans-collide-with-svb-fallout-9a3b8c27


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0:00.0

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0:35.4

I'm John Bachelord with Joseph Sternberg, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.4

He's in London. He writes political economics, watching very carefully the report within these

0:45.3

last hours of inflation in the United States.

0:48.3

There's inflation in Europe as well. The ECB has its own governance and it's talking

0:53.1

dovish, according to Bloomberg in these hours.

0:55.7

And the question is, is the Federal Reserve in Washington talking dovish or hawkish?

1:01.1

Dovish means you don't raise rates dramatically or perhaps you pause.

1:05.6

Hawkish means full speed ahead.

1:08.6

I read the headlines that in these last hours of influence Wall Street in some fashion,

1:14.0

there's a rally underway, but I'm not quite sure whether that's good news or bad news,

1:18.4

given the extreme excitement of Silicon Valley Bank.

1:24.1

It reads, US inflation cooled in February as Fed confronts bank failures.

1:30.4

Subhead, consumer prices rise 6% from here earlier.

1:34.7

Smallest annual gains at September of 2021.

1:39.2

Joe, these are definitely a challenge to interpret.

1:43.4

I understand there's also a thing called the core rate that was disappointing.

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