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Good morning. Today is Wednesday, May 18th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

Our top stories, Inflation, Pac-Sloavit, and vaccines.

What is the latest from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on inflation?

How much Pac-Slovid has been administered in recent weeks?

And what does one study have to say about the effectiveness of one type of vaccine over

another? First, let's take a look at the market. of one type of vaccine over another.

First, let's take a look at the market.

The Dow Jones closed up 431 at 3.655.

The SMP 500 up 2% to close at 4,89 and the NASDAQ up 322 at 11 985.

Now on to our day watch, the top gainers, Enthusiast Gaming Holdings up 35%, Telleris therapeutics up 36%.

Sunlight financial holdings gain 28%, New Text Health 28%, and Yellow Corporation up 26%. The top losers Embarked Technology

down 31%. AN2 therapeutics also down 31. Benson Hill lost 18 percent, Albario Pharma 18 percent, and

high peak energy down 15 percent. You can find the top gainers and losers at seeking alpha.com.

We'll take a look at Dow S&P and NASDAQ futures in a few minutes as well as the world markets.

Now on to our top stories. If we have to go past neutral, we won't hesitate.

Those words from Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

We told you yesterday here on Wall Street breakfast that he would be speaking at the

future of everything festival. He went on to say that before the Fed slows its pace of

rate increases there needs to be clear and convincing evidence that inflation is coming down. The interviewer

posed the question about whether the Fed is moving fast enough in raising rates.

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