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You were a big help this week with the Nelly research, I have to say. I get my Nellie's confused.

One is one's man and then there's a, there's a, there's a woman.

Nelly Furtado.

Right. Yep.

Correct.

This was the male I was looking for, the rapper.

We'll come to why in a moment.

This is the Barron Streetwise podcast.

I'm Jack Howe with me, our audio producer, Alexis Moore.

Hello.

And show business researcher.

All right, we're going to come to that, believe it or not, with Fair Isaac, the credit score company.

But first, I guess we should say a word about tariffs.

Not too much. Just that in last week's episode, we talked about tariff purgatory and the possibility that we were in this in-between place where the stock market had bounced back, but there was maybe some bad news to come from tariffs. And we talked about how there was already a deal between the U.S. and

UK and that the U.S. was headed for talks with China over the weekend. Tariffs there were set

temporarily at 145 percent, but there was a possibility that they could come down. Some people

were saying 60 percent. What we got instead is what analysts are describing

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