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Now here are your hosts, Eric Townsend and Patrick Sorezna.

Macro Voices episode 402 was produced on November 16th, 2023. I'm Eric Townsend.

Economic Cycles Research Institute co-founder Lakshman Achuthan returns as this week's feature interview guest.

We'll discuss Ekri's leading indicators, growth and inflation, the hard landing that Locke still predicts, whether inflation is

sticky or transient, and much more.

And I'm Patrick Soresene with the Macro Scoreboard week over week as at the close of Wednesday, November 15,

2023. The S&P 500 futures were up 273 basis points, closing at

4519 an incredible 10% short squeeze rally in just over two weeks.

We'll take a closer look at that chart and the key technical levels to watch in the post

game segment.

The US dollar index down 108 basis points to 10438, continuing its

pull back after its third quarter advance. The January W.T.I. Crude oil contract down 75 basis points to 76-79.

We'll take a closer look at that chart in the post game and Eric will have the EIA inventory

data, the January R-ob Gasoline up 329 basis points to 220. The December

gold contract up 31 basis points closing at 1964. Copper up 220 basis points to 372 and uranium up 302 basis points

closing at 7505 printing a new year high as the trend continues.

The U.S. tenure Treasury yield up three basis points closing at 453, yields now 50 basis points

off their October highs.

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