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Hello and welcome to The Briefing, broadcasting live from Studio One here at Midori House in London.

I'm Chris Chermak.

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You and Potts from Bloomberg, thank you for that update on the business environment.

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Now here's Hassan Anderson with today's other news headlines.

Thanks, Chris.

Hello and welcome to the Bulletin with UBS on Monocle Radio.

Each week the sharpest minds and freshest thinkers in finance take you beyond the numbers and hype right to the heart of the big issues of the day.

This week on the show we're once again joined by the Chief Economist of UBS Global Wealth Management, Paul Donovan.

And so you've got this very delicate balancing act that we see right now, where they're trying to manage the... anger that comes from consumer inflation expectation and from some extent from corporate inflation expectations with the more meaningful concern of the bond markets inflation expectations without being too aggressive in what they're saying and scaring the bond market.

So they're trying to walk this delicate tightrope and it's a very difficult position right at the moment.

Paul Donovan bringing us to the end of this edition of the show here on Monocle Radio.

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And Iran says three oil tankers have caught fire after striking mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

Do stay tuned to Monocle Radio throughout the day for more on those stories.

Now Italy faces another day of nationwide protests with trade unions, students and post workers taking to the streets.

They're demanding higher wages, action on the cost of living and a rethink on government spending policies.

Hannah, we've covered a range of stories this morning.

Thank you so much for joining us, Monocle contributor Hannah Lucinda Smith.

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