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Brazil and China have reportedly struck a offer to ditch the U.S. greenback in favor of their possess currencies in trade transactions.
The deal, declared Wednesday, will help China and Brazil to carry out trade and fiscal transactions instantly, exchanging yuan for reais – or vice versa – rather than initially converting their currencies to the U.S. dollar.
President of the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Company (ApexBrasil) Jorge Viana speaks at the Brazil-China Business Seminar in Beijing, China, on March 29, 2023. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter / Reuters Photographs)
The Brazilian Trade and Expenditure Promotion Company (ApexBrasil) reported the new arrangement is predicted to “decrease prices” and “endorse even better bilateral trade and aid expenditure.”
China is Brazil’s greatest investing spouse, accounting for extra than a fifth of all imports, adopted by the United States, in accordance to the hottest figures. China is also Brazil’s premier export current market, accounting for more than a 3rd of all exports.
China overtook the United States as Brazil’s top rated investing lover in 2009. Currently, Brazil is the greatest receiver of Chinese expense in Latin The united states, pushed by shelling out on superior-rigidity energy transmission lines and oil extraction.
Officials from equally nations achieved a preliminary arrangement to ditch the U.S. dollar in January and the offer was announced soon after a substantial-stage China-Brazil small business form in Beijing.
President of the Brazilian Export and Expenditure Advertising Company (ApexBrasil) Jorge Viana attends the Brazil-China Business enterprise Seminar in Beijing, China, on March 29, 2023. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter / Reuters Shots)
Brazilian President Luiz da Silva, sworn in on January, has moved to fortify ties with Beijing right after a time period of rocky relations beneath his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who made use of anti-China rhetoric on the marketing campaign path and in business.
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Brazil’s leftist president was scheduled to visit Beijing very last weekend by had to terminate his trip just after contracting pneumonia. A delegation composed of ministers, senators, lawmakers, and hundreds of business enterprise people – together with more than 100 from the agricultural sector – experienced been set to accompany Lula through his initial condition stop by considering the fact that having office.
Wall Street stocks reverse, include to Wednesday’s gains
Europe ticks up irrespective of sticky inflation figures
Treasury yields hit 16-week large, greenback gains
U.S. jobless promises fall once again
March 2 (Reuters) – Wall Street stocks reversed losses to conclusion increased on Thursday, and U.S. authorities bond yields tempered gains, as investors digested powerful economic information and alerts of a measured curiosity amount tactic from the Federal Reserve.
U.S. jobless claims figures fell, while Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic explained that he favored “slow and constant” quarter-stage U.S. level raises to restrict chance to the economic climate.
That assisted Wall Road stocks rebound from an initial decline. The Dow Jones Industrial Common (.DJI) rose around 1{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}, boosted by Salesforce Inc (CRM.N), whose shares jumped about 11.5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} just after the cloud-dependent program supplier gave an upbeat full-calendar year financial gain forecast and doubled its share repurchase method.
The S&P 500 (.SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) both received all over .75{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}, even as Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) fell approximately 6{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} right after the business did not unveil a a lot-awaited tiny, affordable electric powered car.
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Right after at first sagging, European shares (.STOXX) rose .5, even as euro zone inflation numbers justified what is widely predicted to be an additional 50 foundation-issue hike in the European Central Bank’s by now ten years-significant charges this month.
Customer selling price inflation in the 20 nations sharing the euro currency barely eased to 8.5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} in February from 8.6{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} in January on decreased electricity selling prices, higher than the 8.2{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} economists polled by Reuters experienced predicted.
MSCI’s broadest index of planet shares (.MIWD00000PUS) received .37{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}.
Inventory and bond marketplaces in recent weeks have been pushed by unique components, claimed Kevin Gardiner, world-wide expenditure strategist at Rothschild & Co. The main concern in stocks is the expectation of pressured company profits, while bonds are sensitive to inflation and charge anticipations.
“The financial effect of tightening continues to be a puzzle. Profitability may well not be that fragile, at minimum, not however,” he said.
Right away, each benchmark authorities bonds and shares experienced taken a blow, as inflation indicators from Germany and the United States strengthened anticipations desire fees would go increased and continue to be there for longer.
Germany’s 2-year government bond produce rose to its greatest considering the fact that Oct 2008.
In the United States, manufacturing activity contracted for a fourth straight month in February, but a gauge of selling prices for uncooked supplies improved previous thirty day period, stoking issues that inflation would continue being stubborn.
“Financial info has astonished to the upside,” claimed Steven Oh, international head of credit history and preset earnings at PineBridge Investments. Any surprising end result in the knowledge would generate policymakers to be a lot more intense, and that has reset market expectations, he explained.
Tension Points
U.S. government bond yields marched increased. Benchmark 10-calendar year Treasury yields were near a 4-thirty day period high at 4.066{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}, even though two-calendar year yields also advanced to 4.889{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}, all over a fresh new 16-12 months higher.
Fed resources futures tied to the Fed’s policy rate see about an even prospect that the fee will array from 5.5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}-5.75{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} by September, from the latest range of 4.5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}-4.75{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}.
“We count on desire charges to continue to be larger for for a longer period, and we assume stock industry volatility in advance,” strategists at the Wells Fargo Financial commitment Institute wrote on Thursday, incorporating that much better-than-expected financial data this wintertime pushed their recession outlook into the next 50 {21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} of 2023.
Greenback REBOUND Continues
In forex marketplaces, the U.S. dollar to $104.968. The index is now up about 1.4{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} for the year, but however down from a September substantial around $114.
The euro misplaced .65{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} and the pound dropped .67{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}, with hotter-than-anticipated inflation figures introducing strain on the ECB to increase premiums.
In the crypto world, shares of Silvergate Cash (SI.N) plunged 57{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} just after the cryptocurrency-concentrated bank reported it was delaying its yearly report and evaluating its capacity to run as a likely concern. Bitcoin was previous down about .5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} at $23,461.
Oil rates ticked up, boosted by signs of a powerful financial rebound in leading crude importer China and easing concerns of aggressive U.S. fee hikes. U.S. crude rose .32{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} to $77.94 per barrel and Brent was at $84.50, up .23{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} on the day.
Place gold was marginally reduce at $1,836 for each ounce.
Reporting by Lawrence Delevingne in Boston and Nell Mackenzie and Marc Jones in London
Modifying by Richard Chang and Matthew Lewis
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For stock market investors, November finished with a bang.
A late-day rally on Wednesday swung the Dow into what some will consider bull market territory, defined as a 20{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} rally off recent lows.
In November, major U.S. indexes posted respectable gains for the month, with all eleven S&P 500 sectors closing in the green. The Dow finished up 5.7{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}, the S&P 500 up 5.4{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}, and the Nasdaq Composite up 4.4{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}.
Fed chair Jerome Powell stole the show Wednesday, hinting the Fed will slow down its blistering pace of rate hikes in its next meeting in a few weeks.
That was all it took for the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 to post their second-best returns of the month, with the latter closing over a key technical level — its 200-day moving average — for the first time since April.
The Nasdaq — which has lagged the Dow recently by the widest margin since the dot-com bubble — played a game of “catch-up” Wednesday, as the downtrodden megacap sectors of Tech (XLK), Communication Services (XLC), and Consumer Discretionary (XLY) finally found some love.
Also key to any continuation of this recent trade is the dollar, which just wrapped up its weakest month since 2010.
In short: higher interest rates in the U.S. — and the Fed’s promise to hold them high — have been drawing in foreign investors, bidding up the dollar. A strong dollar tightens financial conditions, which generally weighs on risk markets and commodities.
At least, this was the case into late September when the dollar peaked.
But the dollar eased off in October and sold off big in November, along with rates, a slide that catalyzed rallies in risk assets.
Currently, the dollar index is sitting on top of its 200-day moving average, just like the S&P 500. In contrast to the S&P 500, however, which has been facingresistance from a declining 200-day, the dollar is touching support on a moving average trending higher.
If the greenback were to fall through this key level, it would all but guarantee a nice end-of-year rally in the stock market, a potential boon to institutional investors that often seek to hold winners at year-end.
Should the dollar rebound from this key support level, the stock market could face another headwind.
But given how markets have traded this year, it seems the dollar — not stocks — will be making the call on the market’s near-term direction.
Meanwhile, year-ahead forecasts from Wall Street banks rolling out this week show consensus expectations are for more softness in the stock market.
Though as we saw Wednesday, even those beaten-down megacaps and high growth names can show flashes of life as well.
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7:30 a.m. ET: Challenger Job Cuts, year-over-year, November (48.3{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
8:30 a.m. ET: Personal Income, October (0.4{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} expected, 0.4{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
8:30 a.m. ET: Personal Spending, October (0.8{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} expected, 0.8{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
8:30 a.m. ET: PCE Deflator, month-over-month, October (0.5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} expected, 0.3{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
8:30 a.m. ET: PCE Deflator, year-over-year, October (6.0{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} expected, 6.2{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
8:30 a.m. ET: PCE Core Deflator, month-over-month, October (0.3{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} expected, 0.5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
8:30 a.m. ET: PCE Core Deflator, year-over-year, October (5.0{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} expected, 5.1{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
8:30 a.m. ET: Continuing Claims, week ended Nov. 19 (1.5701 million during prior week)
9:45 a.m. ET: S&P Global U.S. Manufacturing PMI, November final (47.6 expected, 50.2 during prior month)
10:00 a.m. ET: Construction Spending, month-over-month, October (-0.2{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} expected, -0.2{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during prior month)
10:00 a.m. ET: ISM Manufacturing, November (49.7 expected, 50.2 during prior month)
10:00 a.m. ET: ISM Prices Paid, November (46.7 during prior month)
10:00 a.m. ET: ISM New Orders, September (48.5 during prior month)
10:00 a.m. ET: ISM Employment, November (50.0 during prior month)
WARDS Total Vehicle Sales, November (14.60 million expected, 14.90 prior month)
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Recently verified Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard this week explained the central financial institution views a electronic greenback as component of the global economical system’s long run that will work in sync with the non-public sector.
“I see the probable of a electronic dollar as currently being complementary to a secure process that would include things like stablecoins and professional financial institution cash,” Brainard said in advance of the Residence Money Providers Committee on Thursday. “A electronic forex backed by the U.S. federal government … could be an important support to a broader program of private sector innovation.”
“Blockchain has genuine inefficiencies linked with proof of do the job in the way it verifies a ledger. A CBDC would not have these inefficiencies on settlement,” she added.
Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
A consortium of Republicans and Democrats — who homed in on including much more unbanked People in america in the economic method — questioned Brainard for 3 hours on what deserves a CBDC could supply.
“There is opportunity for important harm to our money procedure if we transfer forward without sorting by way of probable penalties,” mentioned Patrick McHenry, the Republican position member of the committee. “In its report, the Fed mentioned a variety of possible added benefits of a CBDC — most of which, in my belief, could also be realized by way of non-public sector solutions.”
Brainard explained new varieties of electronic income this kind of as stablecoins that do not share these identical protections could reintroduce hazard into the payments method.
“As we have seen, these kinds of new sorts of income can reduce their promised value relative to fiat forex, harming individuals or, at huge scale, creating broader fiscal balance risks,” mentioned Brainard.
Brainard sees a CBDC acting as a neutral baseline upon which personal fiscal providers could innovate. “In any circumstance a CBDC would produce a neutral settlement layer that would make it possible for the non-public sector to innovate extra swiftly and correctly,” stated Brainard.
She also observed the Fed would nonetheless preserve banks as intermediaries in the payment system, emphasizing that banking companies would be liable for verifying identities and maintaining customer privateness.
“[The] core basic principle of any digital dollar would need to be privateness secured,” Brainard stated, noting the Fed would not retain immediate personal accounts at the central bank.
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Brainard reported it was vital to think of a CBDC from the viewpoint of the upcoming stakes of the world wide money procedure with the U.S retaining its dominant stance as the world’s reserve forex along with the positive aspects that delivers shoppers and businesses.
“The dollar is the most greatly applied currency in worldwide payments and investments, which added benefits the United States by reducing transaction and borrowing expenditures for U.S. households, firms, and government,” Brainard said. “In future states exactly where other big overseas currencies are issued in CBDC sort, it is prudent to look at how the prospective absence or existence of a U.S. central financial institution electronic dollar could have an impact on the use of the greenback in global payments.”
If Congress decides to pursue a CBDC, Brainard said it could acquire 5 a long time to get the job done out security and structure characteristics.
Some lawmakers voiced problem above no matter if the creation of a CBDC would diminish deposits at banking institutions, taking away income financial institutions use to make loans. Brainard mentioned the Fed could layout a CBDC in these types of a way that would not materialize by creating absolutely sure a digital greenback doesn’t spend interest significantly in the way hard cash does not – and capping the amount of money of electronic pounds any 1 particular person could maintain.
“It’s significantly less desirable than deposits if it’s not desire bearing,” she said. “Customers are accustomed to creating payments on cell apps devoid of interest on those people balances so it’s a purely natural way to go to me.”
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Even now Brainard acknowledged that the natural evolution of the payment process and the gravitation in the direction of cellular payment applications is now main to diminished use of money and deposits, and a CBDC could see some even further reduction.
Members of the Fed are divided on adopting a CBDC. Brainard has been supportive of a CBDC, while other members of the Fed, which include Fed Governor Chis Waller, have taken a far more skeptical check out. Brainard continuously confident lawmakers Thursday that the Fed would not pursue a CBDC without guidance from the government department and Congress.
The Fed issued a discussion paper on a CBDC in January to check with for input from the public. The paper’s remark time period closed on Might 20, and as of that date, it had acquired nearly 2,000 reviews from a huge selection of stakeholders. Brainard explained the Fed options to publish a public summary of responses in the in close proximity to upcoming. U.S. stablecoin issuer Circle stated a central bank digital forex is not needed and makes more risks, underscoring that private-sector stablecoins are previously achieving what a CBDC would hope to supply.
“Many of the advantages of a CBDC are currently currently being fulfilled by personal-sector improvements, like USDC, as a result of blockchain-primarily based payment programs,” Circle stated in reviews to the Fed’s dialogue paper.
Jennifer Schonberger addresses cryptocurrencies and policy for Yahoo Finance. Comply with her at @Jenniferisms.
Anouchka Balog, Taking care of Director, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
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Name: Anouchka Balog
Organization: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Locale: Laguna Niguel, California
AUM: $1 billion
Forbes Rankings: America’s Leading Ladies Wealth Advisors, America’s Major Women Prosperity Advisors Very best-in-State, Greatest-in-Condition Wealth Advisors
Qualifications: Balog is at first from Montreal, the little one of dad and mom from Europe. Her father was a chemical engineer and generally experienced an desire in the money marketplaces. Soon after she moved to the United States in 1988, she worked for a Montreal Belief but in the end determined that wasn’t her calling and moved into monetary preparing. She first worked for Prudential Monetary before relocating to Morgan Stanley wherever she is nearing her 30th anniversary.
Expense Philosophy/Tactic: Most of Balog’s clients have by now designed their wealth or are inheriting prosperity, also operating with numerous widows and divorcees, indicating the aim is normally maintaining prosperity with conservative progress. Her method arrives from remaining an early adopter to the Licensed Fiscal Planner designation.
“The key miscalculation that investors make is to chase returns and not have a portfolio that they can live with lengthy expression,” Balog states.
Competitive Edge: “We’re really very good listeners,” Balog adds, attributing her potential to exhibit her clientele she cares with her results. “That’s a toughness, listening, having to pay awareness and staying concerned and attentive.”
Best Advice: The ideal assistance she has acquired in her job was to consistently discover and be curious, which she experienced heeded by studying and searching to enhance.
Greatest Challenge: It can be a challenge to information shoppers as a result of risky occasions that are paired with lots of swirling information and facts that is regularly available via phone and smartwatch amid other mediums.
“All of that usually means that it takes a lot extra time and work to handle their anticipations, quiet them down, get them off the ledge and make certain that they you should not ignore their system and why we put the portfolio jointly,” Balog suggests. “We just goal to continue to be focused and not so anxious about the in close proximity to time period.”
Classes Learned: Above her decades-prolonged career she has discovered the great importance of regularity in her customer relationships and has crafted a staff all over that. The importance of that consistency was even more pronounced with the uncertainty of the past two several years amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
Biggest Consumer Misunderstanding: It can result in concerns when purchasers confuse investing with stock finding, pondering what she does for a living is picking the warm stock of the working day, which is a supply of exhilaration for customers but not as important as fitting a portfolio to a client’s daily life and goals and holding them on track.
Gender Range: Balog sees getting a girl in wealth administration as a good rather than a damaging.
“The way I see handling shopper portfolios—the financial setting up, deep listening, shelling out focus and caring—those are all items that are incredibly nicely suited for female advisors,” she says. “I’ve constantly uncovered that to be my energy.”
Expenditure Outlook: Balog and her staff are cautiously optimistic, with that sentiment tracing again to previous yr when she started to see some overvaluations in the marketplace and appeared to obtain much more benefit stocks. She also has transitioned customers from the traditional 60/40 portfolio to a 60/20/20 exactly where 50 percent of the bond and funds allocation goes to solutions which includes personal authentic estate, private lending, personal credit score and hedge funds, which she is bullish on in this large volatility ecosystem.
Subscribing to a barbell portfolio technique, she has a combine of value shares, modest caps and has a bullish outlook for global rising markets. She will also look to insert some of the much larger growth and technological know-how names as soon as she feels they have adequately been corrected.
What Keeps You Up at Night time: Balog worries most deeply about cybersecurity, with all her clients’ financial details becoming on the net and the frequency of hacks in the headlines.
The company — one of America’s last remaining true dollar stores — said Tuesday it will raise prices from $1 to $1.25 on the majority of its products by the first quarter of 2022. The change is a sign of the pressures low-cost retailers face holding down prices during a period of rising inflation.
Dollar Tree(DLTR) said in a quarterly earnings release Tuesday that its decision to raise prices to $1.25 permanently, however, was “not a reaction to short-term or transitory market conditions.”
Selling stuff strictly for $1 hampered Dollar Tree, the company said, and forced it stop selling some “customer favorites.” Raising prices will give Dollar Tree more flexibility to reintroduce those items, expand its selection and bring new products and sizes to its stores.
Dollar Tree also said that hiking prices will help the company increase its profit margins by “mitigating historically high merchandise cost increases,” including freight and distribution costs, as well as wage increases.
“This is the appropriate time to shift away from the constraints of the $1 price point,” CEO Michael Witynski said in a statement.
The end of dollar stores
Dollar Tree carries primarily seasonal goods, toys, stationary, home decor, kitchenware and party items.
It caters to suburban, middle-income shoppers, unlike Dollar General(DG), its more rural-focused rival. Family Dollar — owned by Dollar Tree — targets mostly low-income shoppers in cities.
Dollar Tree has sold products at $1 for 35 years and was the last of the major dollar store chains to actually be a dollar store. (The company was called “Only $1.00” in the late part of the 20th century, before changing its name to Dollar Tree in 1993.)
Dollar Tree had started moving away from only offering goods for $1 in recent years, in part as a response to pressure on Wall Street to raise prices. Dollar Tree has lagged Dollar General and other discount chains.
In 2019, an activist investor took a stake in the company and pressed the chain to raise prices. The group ended its fight after Dollar Tree announced it planned to test different prices.
In September, Dollar Tree said it planned to begin selling items at $1.25 and $1.50 at some stores for the first time. It also said it would add $3 and $5 items to more stores, expanding on a prior strategy to offer these prices at select locations.
Since that announcement, a different activist investor built a stake in Dollar Tree and has tapped a former Dollar General CEO to push for changes at the company.
Although Dollar Tree said its decision to permanently raise prices was not a reaction to short-term inflation, one analyst was unconvinced.
“The pace of rollout, along with [the] engaged investor, Mantle Ridge, clearly suggests otherwise,” Kelly Bania, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, said in a note to clients Tuesday.
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