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Live Nation Reaches DOJ Settlement in Antitrust Case · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 2: Want to bounce off with Live Nation and our next guest,
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Reed, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation analyst. Jennifer, thanks so
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  Speaker 2: much for coming in studio here. We don't know a
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  Speaker 2: lot about this Live Nation settlement, right, Maybe we should
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  Speaker 2: just start with what.
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  Speaker 3: Do we know?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And it's changing by the minute, by the way. I
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  Speaker 3: keep seeing new reports with new details. But it looks
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  Speaker 3: like at least one part of it is a divestiture
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  Speaker 3: that would be divesting large amphitheaters that are owned by
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  Speaker 3: Live Nation. The Department of Justice alleged that Live Nation
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  Speaker 3: owned sixty out of the one hundred top amphitheaters in
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  Speaker 3: the US, and the control over those amphitheaters, which the
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  Speaker 3: artists really needed for summer tours. Desire for summer tours
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  Speaker 3: was part of the problem some of the claims that
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  Speaker 3: were left in this litigation, so selling some of them
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  Speaker 3: opens them up to other promoters.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I guess one big question people had was Ticketmaster.
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  Speaker 5: The fate of Ticketmaster and whether that stays with Live
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  Speaker 5: Nation or whether it's spun out or the company's forced
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  Speaker 5: to sell that. Do we have a firm answer as
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  Speaker 5: to what happens to Ticketmaster.
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  Speaker 6: Well not really.
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  Speaker 3: According to the DOJ settlement, it does not have to
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  Speaker 3: be sold. But there are forty states involved as well.
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  Speaker 3: They are also plaintiffs, and they also have the authority
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  Speaker 3: to litigate under federal antitrust laws just as the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Justice does, and not all of them have settled.
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  Speaker 3: According to the news reports, New York has actually come
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  Speaker 3: out and said this isn't good enough. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: continue on. So if they continue on with the litigation,
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  Speaker 3: they will continue to seek a divestit your order from
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  Speaker 3: the judge for Live Nation to sell Ticketmaster. They see
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  Speaker 3: that as the only solution to kind of fix a
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  Speaker 3: broken concert ticketing system and live concert industry. I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a long shot. You know, once you
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  Speaker 3: get this settlement with the Department of Justice and you
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  Speaker 3: kind of get the lose the weight of the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Justice behind you on these anti trust matters. It
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  Speaker 3: is difficult for the States to go forward and win,
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  Speaker 3: even if they won a jury determination that Live Nation
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  Speaker 3: was guilty of a legal monopolization. I'm not so sure
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  Speaker 3: that the judge would be willing to stick his neck
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  Speaker 3: out and impose what's considered a really drastic remedy generally
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  Speaker 3: to force a company to break itself up.
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  Speaker 2: So let's play pretend and say the States are not
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  Speaker 2: successful with their trials. Does this DOJ settlement mean anything
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  Speaker 2: at all to you and me when we go out
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  Speaker 2: to try to buy tickets. I mean, and I've said
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  Speaker 2: this people who listen to the show regularly. No, I
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  Speaker 2: talk about being a family of five, and man, if
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  Speaker 2: you had taken a small mortgage, this just like take
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  Speaker 2: the whole Saley to go see a show. So is
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  Speaker 2: that going to get any better under this settlement as
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  Speaker 2: it stands.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that I'm skeptical. And you know what
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  Speaker 3: you just said is why this case is so politically popular.
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  Speaker 3: And this was a little bit surprising because it really
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  Speaker 3: has bipartisan interest. It has bipartisan support, you know, consumer support.
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  Speaker 3: Kid Rock was going to come along and he was
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  Speaker 3: going to be a witness for the plaintiffs in this
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  Speaker 3: case because Live Nation has been under a Department of
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  Speaker 3: Justice consent order since twenty ten, So, in other words,
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  Speaker 3: since twenty ten, the way they behave in the marketplace
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to be regulated. They were supposed to behave
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  Speaker 3: in a certain way, and they've managed to really get
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  Speaker 3: around that for years. In fact, during the first Trump administration,
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Justice investigated, determined that Live Nation was
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  Speaker 3: violating the terms of that order, and extended it and
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  Speaker 3: sort of bolstered its terms. And now this case came
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  Speaker 3: along with the allegation that no Live Nation continues to
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  Speaker 3: violate the terms of that order. And so my skepticism
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  Speaker 3: comes from, there are new terms here that they're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: That again, our behavioral I talked about selling the amps,
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  Speaker 3: but there are also behavioral conditions, and if Live Nation
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  Speaker 3: has been able to get around behavioral conditions since twenty ten,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure what's going to stop now.
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  Speaker 5: What about Ticketmaster's competitors. Have they done things better? Have
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  Speaker 5: they changed a way that they sell tickets or that
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  Speaker 5: they allow people to buy and sell tickets.
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  Speaker 3: What's interesting you ask, because the CEO and founder of
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  Speaker 3: seat Geek was one of the witnesses I heard last week,
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  Speaker 3: and seat geek started as a secondary ticket seller. They
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  Speaker 3: were just a marketplace to bring together people who wanted
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  Speaker 3: to sell tickets they couldn't use and buyers. But they're
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  Speaker 3: trying to get into what's called primary ticketing, being the
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  Speaker 3: first one to ticket an event, and really have struggled.
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  Speaker 3: And they say they have struggled because of Live Nation,
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  Speaker 3: that they have superior technology, that their platform is better,
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  Speaker 3: that what they can offer venues is better, but they
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  Speaker 3: haven't been able to get those venues signed up because
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  Speaker 3: either they have a long term exclusive agreement to be
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  Speaker 3: ticketed by Ticketmaster, or because Live Nation, which is a
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  Speaker 3: huge promoter handles artists tours, said we'll route our artists
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  Speaker 3: around your venue. We won't bring them to your venue
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  Speaker 3: if you use some company other than Ticketmaster.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. I mean, I think on both sides, both
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely. And the last sort of talks and issues
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  Speaker 7: you know, consumer health e health market like in the
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  Speaker 7: same way that Lily was, and that was somewhere where
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  Speaker 7: refreshing their own consumer health websites and the way that
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  Speaker 7: everything looks, just making it a better experience for consumer's patients.
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  Speaker 7: And so that sort of fits in with this same
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  Speaker 5: We want to talk a little bit about some individual sectors,
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  Speaker 5: and here I'm really talking about consumer and high end.
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  Speaker 6: Consumer, luxury consumer.
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  Speaker 5: They are obviously impacted by how people feel when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to the conflict in the Middle East and how
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  Speaker 5: comfortable people feel about spending in this current environment.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of uncertainty out there. What does that.
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  Speaker 5: Mean for companies like LVMH what does it mean for
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  Speaker 5: the companies behind Cardier. Deborah Aiken is the luxury goods
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  Speaker 5: analysts here a Bloomberg Intelligence and joins us now from London,
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  Speaker 5: and Deborah, you've crunched the numbers and you say that
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  Speaker 5: this Middle East war will have a quantifiable impact on
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  Speaker 5: the luxury goods space, at least what was expected for
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 8: That's right, yes, So we went through some estimates and
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  Speaker 8: some data from third party sources. We started with Alta
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  Speaker 8: Gamma who having spoken to around nineteen sul side analysts,
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  Speaker 8: it'd looked at twenty twenty six and we saw that
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  Speaker 8: the highest growth was set to come from Middle East
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  Speaker 8: at around six percent, of which four and a half
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  Speaker 8: percent from locals and one and a half percent from tourists.
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  Speaker 8: And that was the fastest growth in the sector in
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  Speaker 8: a sector which we expected for twenty six grow to
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  Speaker 8: forty five percent. So we then start to say, okay,
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  Speaker 8: what happens if we see demand coming off in the
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  Speaker 8: Middle East locally at around ten percent, and that gave
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  Speaker 8: us about a fifty big stent for every ten percent
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  Speaker 8: that was coming off, And given that we get a
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  Speaker 8: lot of that high wealth traveling abroad also to spend,
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  Speaker 8: we felt they could quite quickly across the year and
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  Speaker 8: dependent on what would happen around the area, with around
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  Speaker 8: one and a half percent shaped off that four percent
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  Speaker 8: overall for the global industry.
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  Speaker 2: Deb of the luxury names, the luxury retailers globally, is
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  Speaker 2: anyone particularly better positioned to sort of weather the storm.
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  Speaker 8: I think we need to think about the biggest global
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  Speaker 8: makers and the most high end so we know companies
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  Speaker 8: like air Mares and Brunellocutionelli are running and expecting high
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  Speaker 8: single digital load double digit growth in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 8: Much of that comes from parts of Asia at the
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  Speaker 8: high end, very much from the US, part of Europe
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  Speaker 8: and the Middle East, so there's a very good mix there.
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  Speaker 8: And then also we could look at names like Richemond
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  Speaker 8: for example, where Cartier is being growing very strongly. And
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  Speaker 8: Richemon incidentally is one of only two who give away
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  Speaker 8: their breakdown in Middle Eastern Africa. They have nine percent
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  Speaker 8: of sales from maa region prior to being the other
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  Speaker 8: with around four percent, which is where it is on
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  Speaker 8: average for the industry overall for Middle East Africa. But
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  Speaker 8: overall we would expect Rolexas and others to do very
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  Speaker 8: well with wait to lists, so high end jewelry and
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  Speaker 8: some of the high end leather goods or apparel makers
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  Speaker 8: we would would do very well. It's quite interesting that
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  Speaker 8: into this geopolitical unrest for Q four there were some
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  Speaker 8: big names coming through with high single digital or double
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  Speaker 8: digit growth from the Middle East. So if things do
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  Speaker 8: continue for a long time, it does knock some of
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  Speaker 8: the growth away.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned jewelry and you mentioned leather goods. What about spirits?
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  Speaker 5: How is that different when it comes to the breakdown
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  Speaker 5: the categories within luxury.
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  Speaker 8: So the only spirit maker that I closely follows my
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  Speaker 8: one of my colleagues covers the high end spirits. But
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  Speaker 8: I would be looking at what would happen within LVMH group.
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  Speaker 8: Their biggest exposures were out of Asia and the US
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  Speaker 8: and where they were doing very well again in Champagnes,
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  Speaker 8: doing better in wines, but spirits, particularly cognacs were difficult
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  Speaker 8: again for twenty twenty six. So the growth outlook there
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  Speaker 8: wasn't very strong.
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  Speaker 5: Long term bonials as they go, So go mortgage rates
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  Speaker 5: housing market and Best, I guess the best way I
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  Speaker 5: want to start things off is to kind of take
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  Speaker 5: a big step back and consider just how much international
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  Speaker 5: conflicts tend.
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  Speaker 6: To affect the housing market.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, we know they lead to hire bond yields and
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  Speaker 5: or they can lead to higher boniolds in this case,
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  Speaker 5: which could increase mortgage rates. But what does it mean
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  Speaker 5: in terms of demand overall for housing in the US?
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  Speaker 4: Well, good morning, thank you for having me this morning.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think it's just more volatility and uncertainty,
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  Speaker 4: and I think, you know, we've already had sort of
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  Speaker 4: a bit of a frozen housing market and some challenges
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  Speaker 4: with affordability, and this just creates a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: sort of concern for buyers who've been on the sidelines
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  Speaker 4: a bit, and so they may hold off. Even though
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  Speaker 4: we saw rates go down there lower than they were
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  Speaker 4: the thirty year from a year ago, which is good.
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  Speaker 4: But this war is not really great for markets because
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  Speaker 4: you know, people don't know what's going to be and
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  Speaker 4: so it's it's hard to say what the impact will be.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I think it's going to be slow
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  Speaker 4: and steady, and people are watching, and you know, when
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  Speaker 4: buyers need to buy and can buy, they do, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: and in this environment, it's sort of wait and see
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  Speaker 4: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Is cash still king in the home buying market right now?
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  Speaker 2: Because we knew for a long time there was this
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  Speaker 2: trend of people who had the cash were using it.
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  Speaker 2: It was really hard for other people to go up
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  Speaker 2: against them and win in these bidding wars. Is that
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  Speaker 2: still the case or is that starting to you know,
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  Speaker 2: pull back a little.
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  Speaker 4: Bit, you know, I'm still seeing the cash is king.
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  Speaker 4: Last year we saw you know, especially in places like
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  Speaker 4: New York City where you have discretionary markets, you know,
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  Speaker 4: where people are buying their second or third home, you know,
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  Speaker 4: cash is king. And we saw more than half the
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  Speaker 4: deals last year in New York City were done in cash.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: And so yeah, I think that goes a long way,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: especially because money is more expensive. So if people have
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: the cash, they're using it to buy their homes. So
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen that mitigate at all. I see. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: think people who can afford to and have cash are
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: going to use it versus getting a mortgage.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: And a lot of the people who have the cash
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: tend to be international buyers as well. How present are
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: they in this housing market?
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Not seeing a lot of the international buyers as of
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: late I see a lot of domestic people moving from
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: within states, you know, like New York to Texas, New
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: York to Florida. But that sort of thing about I
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: don't see a huge international presence.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: When you look at affordability across the map of the US,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: where does the buyer get the most value for their
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: money at the moment.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's so it's really hard to say. I mean,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: there's certain pockets and areas, you know, in different places
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: of the United States where there are good you know,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: deals where there's ample supply. But you know, there's certain
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: parts of New York, even New York City, where there's
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: decent supply and people can and negotiate and and and
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: really get something that makes sense, where the price per
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: square foot is really a good value. Parts of Brooklyn,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: there's parts of upstate New York and Florida. There's different areas.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: It really depends on someone's circumstances and what they can afford.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: But where you see tighter plate supply, like places like
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Palm Beach and Connecticut, that's where buyers are much more challenged.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: But there's certain areas, like you know in California, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: different areas where there is decent there's a decent amount
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: of supply. It just really depends because real estate is
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: so local, and it depends on someone's circumstances and what
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: they can afford.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean one one town in one state will
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: be completely different from another town in the same state.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: What does inventory look like when it comes to existing
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: homes versus newly new construction.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: You know, you guys probably have read this stat that
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: we have a shortage of homes in the United States
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: of roughly four million, give or take, and we have
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: a real you know challenge and that we need to
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: get more supply. So you know, builders are you know,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: not as quick to build today as they were, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: so we're not seeing the same incentives to build. We
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: have challenges with zoning, and the people that own homes
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: already are taking their time to sell as well because
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: they have locked in rates that are lower and therefore
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: they don't want to list in sell. So we have
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: a challenge in both areas, and so you know, we're
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: trying to do things like as you guys are probably
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: aware of City of Yes where that was able to
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: we're able to get something like eighty thousand new units
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: into the housing market. We need more legislation like that
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: so that we can get you know, more supplying to
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: the market. So new home sales are you know, new
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: builder sales are slower, but you know, it's sort of
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: a challenge in both arenas, in the resale market and
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: in the new home market.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if it's going to if banks are going
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: to get a little stingy when it comes to mortgages
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: in the months ahead. And part of that I'm wondering
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: is is might that be a knockoff effect of the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: cracks we're seeing in the private credit market. Are there
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: any signs out there that make you think it's going
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: to be harder for folks to get a mortgage in
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: the coming months.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: And seeing anything in particular, but you know, it's been
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: somewhat slow. If you talk to mortgage professionals, they'll tell
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: you that people you know, are taking their time where
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: they're not you know, jumping into the housing market in
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: the way that they were. There's a little bit more
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: refinancing right now, but I'm not seeing anything via restrictions
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: that are prohibiting people. It's more of you know, people
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: feel they can't afford to buy their first time home.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: The stat was something like, first time home buyers are
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: now roughly forty years old when they used to be
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: twenty eight years old, just you know, a little more
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: than ten years ago. So people have been priced out
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: of the American dream, as they say, and so hopefully
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: we can come up with new incentives and ways for
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: people to be able to get back into the housing market,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: things like city of yes, good legislation, up zoning, all
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: those things. We need more supply. That's really the biggest issue.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: You know, every article you read from economists, from law professors,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: they talk about the fact that we just we need
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: more supply and we have to put more supply in
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: the market. Freezing rents, those sorts of things certainly do
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: not help the market.
• 22:07
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