Software, chip makers, restaurants, inflation, entertainment, and more, it must be Friday.

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It's the Motifull money radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio of Motifull

Senior Analyst Emily Flippin and Jason Moser. We've got another week of earnings. We

will dip into the full mailbag and as always we've got a couple of stocks on our radar.

But we begin with the big macro. Inflation moving lower helped push the stock market higher.

The national average for the price of gas is now below $4 a gallon. And Wednesday's CPI

report showed consumer prices up 8.5% in July, which is lower than Wall Street was expecting

so don't look now Emily, but the NASDAQ is officially in bull market territory.

Well now that you've mentioned it Chris, you know, inevitably next week we're looking

at some horrendous news story that's going to push us back down. But for the time being

we can all head into the weekend probably feeling pretty good about ourselves and the economy.

Although I will say you should take these numbers with a grain of salt as you mentioned

that national average price for gas falling below $4 a gallon. That has an outsized impact

on our inflation metrics. So the majority of the pullback inflation did come from energy

while things like food and housing still remain pretty elevated for the average American

consumer. And that is certainly taking its toll on companies when you look at the businesses

that have reported earnings over this past quarter while these are reflective of what's

happened in the past. A ton of them have pulled back guidance on expectations for weakening

consumer demand or worse global economy. So this is a step in the right direction, but

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