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Novo Nordisk Gets US Approval for Wegovy Obesity Pill · Bloomberg Intelligence

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Speaker 2: Well, we talked about how Nova Noordisk is one of
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Speaker 2: the big movers today in early trading. The president and
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Speaker 2: CEO of the drug maker says the company is going
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Speaker 2: all in on weight loss drugs as his company is
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Speaker 2: the first to come out with a pill to be
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Speaker 2: sold in the US market.
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Speaker 3: He spoke with our Katie Greifeld earlier today.
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Speaker 4: This is really going to be super exciting for the
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Speaker 4: millions of patients that have been waiting to get their
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Speaker 4: hands on a gop one pill. And for the first time,
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Speaker 4: we are having a pill that has an efficacy of
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Speaker 4: some seventeen percent if you take the pill regularly, and
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Speaker 4: one in three people are going to actually reduce up
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Speaker 4: to twenty percent weight loss. I think that data speaks
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Speaker 4: for itself, and we are super excited, of course to
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Speaker 4: be the first to the market and we're going to
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Speaker 4: give a go all in trying to make this a
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Speaker 4: huge success.
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Speaker 5: Well, moving forward, I mean beyond just these first few
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Speaker 5: months after Eli Lilly does have their pill on the market,
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Speaker 5: how do you plan to compete? What is your strategy
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Speaker 5: there given my understanding is that there's likely going to
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Speaker 5: be no restrictions when it comes to food, when it
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Speaker 5: comes to drinks around Lilly's version.
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Speaker 4: So, as I mentioned, there are no other phase three
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Speaker 4: trials of oral gop one that has shown this level efficacy.
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Speaker 4: This means that for the first time ever, people do
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Speaker 4: not have compromise between either taking an efficacious injection or
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Speaker 4: a convenient pill. For the first time ever, you have
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Speaker 4: the same efficacy of seventeen percent in injection or at pill.
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Speaker 4: You can take it on a daily basis as a
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Speaker 4: pill or a weekly injection, and that I think is
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Speaker 4: the key selling points.
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Speaker 6: With WeGo v pill.
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Speaker 4: We also have more than ten years of course experience
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Speaker 4: with regards to safety data and what have you. That's
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Speaker 4: why it's called the wegov pill, which means that this
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Speaker 4: pill is not only going to reduce your weight, it
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Speaker 4: also has protection for your cardiovascular systems. So this is
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Speaker 4: a phenomenal pill, second to none, I would say, and
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Speaker 4: we are very ready to compete with it.
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about how you're going to sell it through.
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Speaker 7: What channels?
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Speaker 5: Will you sell this way go v pill and will
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Speaker 5: all of those channels be available at launch?
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Speaker 4: The quick answer is yes, we're going all in. We're
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Speaker 4: of course going to sell this through our own websites,
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Speaker 4: no WorkCare pharmacy, as well as all of our partners
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Speaker 4: be a Row, Live, MD, Costco, weight watchers, everyone that
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Speaker 4: you can imagine is going to start launching this at
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Speaker 4: the same time on the day of the launch. Trum
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Speaker 4: Our ex of course we'll be coming up soon as
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Speaker 4: well well as well as of course the traditional channels
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Speaker 4: that usually medicine is pro crud in us.
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Speaker 3: All right, that was the CEO of Novo Nordisk.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring in John Tozzy now he's a Bloomberg Healthcare
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Speaker 2: reporter on this milestone for the Swiss drug maker.
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Speaker 3: Because Novo Nordisk was the first.
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Speaker 2: Mover here when it comes to the obesity treatments, but
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Speaker 2: it quickly lost its lead to Eli Lilly.
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Speaker 3: Does this put it back in the lead again?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean so for the Danish drug maker. I
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Speaker 8: believe it's Danish. Yeah, No, I think it is. Listen,
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Speaker 8: it is a milestone for sure. You know, patients have
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Speaker 8: been waiting for an oral version of these weight loss drugs.
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Speaker 8: This is the first pill to get approval in the
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Speaker 8: United States. Ili Lily is not far behind. They've said
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Speaker 8: they expect their pill to be a pill version of
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Speaker 8: their weight loss drug zep bound to be approved as
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Speaker 8: soon as March potentially in the US. So, you know,
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Speaker 8: I think it's still quite a competitive space, but this
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Speaker 8: is still certainly a milestone for Novo Nordisk.
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Speaker 9: So I would think that this would be kind of
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Speaker 9: a step function in demand for the industry to have
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Speaker 9: these error products available because I'm guessing there's just a
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Speaker 9: bunch of people out there that don't like to get
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Speaker 9: injections and that's a non starter for them. What's what's
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Speaker 9: the expectation what this could do for the marketplace when
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Speaker 9: we get more and more of these.
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Speaker 8: Oral Yeah, I mean, Novae CEO certainly said that they
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Speaker 8: expect us to expand the market. I think will know
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Speaker 8: pretty soon, right whether you know. I mean, first of all,
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Speaker 8: the question of how many people currently using the injection
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Speaker 8: convert to the pill form and how many new people
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Speaker 8: start who have been reluctant for whatever reason. To take
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Speaker 8: the injection, you know, whether it changes things like adherents.
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Speaker 8: We know with these drugs that there have been you know,
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Speaker 8: questions along how about how long people stay on the
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Speaker 8: medications and whether they go on and off because of
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Speaker 8: some side effects. So, you know, I think it is
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Speaker 8: you know, potentially likely to expand demand.
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Speaker 4: But we'll see, we'll see.
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Speaker 2: And I remember Novo had a what they call the
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Speaker 2: next gen treatment, cagri Semi, which didn't do well, and
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Speaker 2: that tanked the stock. And it's partly why the stock
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Speaker 2: has fallen by about half this year. Is that kind
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Speaker 2: of an experiment that just went off the rails. And
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Speaker 2: this was always kind of in the offing.
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Speaker 8: I mean I think, uh, you know, companies have been
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Speaker 8: looking for an oral GLP one weight awes drug, you know,
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Speaker 8: for uh, you know, for years. I think this has
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Speaker 8: been a goal of the of the market. I mean,
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Speaker 8: there is an oral pill for the diabetes indication.
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Speaker 10: Ye sorry, all right, that's good.
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Speaker 9: I mean I think this will just it'd be big
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Speaker 9: for a lot of folks and hopefully the cost will
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Speaker 9: continue to come down and now I'll make it available
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Speaker 9: for more and more people.
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Speaker 10: John Tazzi Healthcare Report Bloomberg News.
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Speaker 9: Thanks so much for joining us here again, a good
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Speaker 9: day go for Novo Nordisk bloodmore coming up.
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Speaker 9: All right, here's the story that kind of caught me
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Speaker 9: by surprise. I just wasn't on my radar screen. Sax
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Speaker 9: Mull's bankruptcy year after raising billions for a turnaround.
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Speaker 10: When did that happen?
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Speaker 2: I know they've been having problems with paying off their
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Speaker 2: debt and just kind of trying to restructure everything.
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Speaker 3: But this has been like a slow moving train rad.
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Speaker 10: I mean, it's a phenomenal brand.
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Speaker 11: Here.
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Speaker 10: Let's get to get the latest reporting on this.
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Speaker 9: Basu joints us here Bloomberg News credit reporter so Reshman.
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Speaker 10: What's going on with our friends at sas.
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Speaker 7: Sax is running out of money and the over the
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Speaker 7: weekend we saw some lenders go into enter into confidential
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Speaker 7: discussions to discuss the company's new money needs.
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Speaker 3: And what are the options on the table. At this point, a.
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Speaker 7: Chapter eleven is a possibility. Given the company is running
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Speaker 7: out of cash. It's been having issues with its suppliers,
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Speaker 7: so right now everyone's kind of scrambling to figure out
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Speaker 7: how to salvage the company.
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Speaker 9: So talk to us about what they've been doing over
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Speaker 9: the last several years and trying to stage this off
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Speaker 9: and maybe raise some other capital.
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Speaker 10: What's what's been the recent pass life for this company?
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Speaker 7: Well, Sex has always had some issues with its vendors,
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Speaker 7: and in late twenty twenty four they decided to partner
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Speaker 7: up with Neiman Marcus in a two point seven billion deal,
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Speaker 7: but the integration has not been growing great and the
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Speaker 7: company is still struggling with negative EBITA, dealing with late
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Speaker 7: payments to vendors. So it's just been having a lot
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Speaker 7: of issues, a lot of pressure points coming all together
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Speaker 7: once right before the holidays.
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Speaker 2: Who are the investors that have a lot at stake
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Speaker 2: in this debt situation for Sex.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a lot of you know, the Wall Street
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Speaker 7: lenders that are involved in this name, and they've just
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Speaker 7: seen you know, they're having a really tough time right
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Speaker 7: now with like brounds, et cetera. So they're seeing you know,
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Speaker 7: in Sacks, we're now seeing the debt trading in like
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Speaker 7: the single digits.
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Speaker 10: How much debt do they have outstanding?
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Speaker 7: So they have more than two They did a two
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Speaker 7: point two billion deal and on top of that, they
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Speaker 7: did rescue financing back in August which added another like
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Speaker 7: six hundred million, So.
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Speaker 10: There's this is real money for the banks are on
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Speaker 10: the hook for.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, this is a lot. This is a lot of
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Speaker 7: pain that's going to be going around.
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Speaker 3: So how do you see this shaping up?
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Speaker 2: What will you be looking for in twenty twenty six
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Speaker 2: as this continues to be a story where SAX is
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Speaker 2: working with creditors trying to persuade them to you know,
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Speaker 2: pitch in more or restructure their existing agreements.
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Speaker 7: We'll be looking to see how the company and its
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Speaker 7: lenders are going to structure the new money raise, whether
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Speaker 7: or not that's going to take the form of a
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Speaker 7: bankruptcy loan or a dip. And we'll also be looking
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Speaker 7: to see who's ultimately going to take the keys, if
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Speaker 7: we're going to see a change of control, and if
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Speaker 7: lenders are going to assume control of the company. We're
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Speaker 7: looking to be seen whether or not we see SAX
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Speaker 7: and Nieman kind of separate from each other.
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Speaker 10: I mean, boy, some of this is brutal here.
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Speaker 9: So they have interest payment one hundred million dollars due
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Speaker 9: like December thirtieth, nine hundred and forty one million dollar
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Speaker 9: portion of sex second out notes. Not sure what a
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Speaker 9: second out note is. And I've been in that business
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Speaker 9: a long time. Trades for seven and a half cents
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Speaker 9: on the dollar.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that is brital. That's just stress level.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and about seven hundred and sixty two million of
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Speaker 9: more senior debt was quoted at forty eight cents.
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Speaker 10: So yeah, market's telling you.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the market's saying that there's not a lot of
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Speaker 7: value here. Like Sacks and Neeman markets were kind of
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Speaker 7: known for their real estate value. But what we're seeing
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Speaker 7: is that's really maybe not the case. So that's something
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Speaker 7: that's going to be deliberated over the next coming weeks.
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Speaker 7: How much is that real estate worth? How much are
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Speaker 7: is the company's name worth?
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Speaker 2: Reshmie, let me ask you a question because I know
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Speaker 2: a lot of our listeners are AMEX Platinum card holders,
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Speaker 2: which means they get a fifty dollars credit at Sacks
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Speaker 2: every six months and they'll be going into the stores
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Speaker 2: to use that. Does this affect the operations on the ground,
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Speaker 2: Will customers see any difference when they go into Saxsmith Avenue?
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean right now, we're seeing a ton of
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Speaker 7: promotions taking place right now, and that's something that we've
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Speaker 7: seen in retail for years now, a very promotional environment.
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Speaker 7: So there's going to be a lot of discounts out there.
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Speaker 9: Are there other Sacks type stories out there that you're
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Speaker 9: monitoring the name that could be a real credit problem.
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Speaker 7: Credit problem maybe Container Stores is the one that we
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Speaker 7: are kind of keeping an eye out. They filed for bankruptcy,
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Speaker 7: they exited, but there's you know, we're seeing a lot
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Speaker 7: of discounts taking place there as well.
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Speaker 2: But this feels very different from you know, the problems
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Speaker 2: that First Brands or Tree Colore had, which kind of
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Speaker 2: came from out of nowhere. This feels, I was saying
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Speaker 2: to Paul, like a slow moving train wreck. We've known
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Speaker 2: about these problems at Sacks and Cantake for a while
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Speaker 2: and it's a matter of just the two sides working
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Speaker 2: it out right.
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Speaker 7: Like Sachs and Niman, the integration has just gone so
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Speaker 7: wrong in so many ways and it's really not capturing
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Speaker 7: the synergies that maybe lenders had initially hoped for when
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Speaker 7: they did the deal.
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Speaker 9: Is there a call maybe for just a new management
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Speaker 9: team that kind of come in there, if there is in.
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Speaker 10: Fact a reorganization here or filing, I mean.
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Speaker 7: We could definitely see lenders taking control of the company
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Speaker 7: and installing their own people.
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Speaker 10: All right, Rushmi, thanks so much. Appreciate that that was
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Speaker 10: the story. I was not aware of.
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Speaker 9: Rashmi Basu. She's a credit reporter for Bloomberg News joining
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Speaker 9: Slacker in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio. And you know,
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Speaker 9: if you bring somebody in here and you say, oh
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Speaker 9: my gosh, is this a trend? And what do we
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Speaker 9: hear with first brands and clear no, it is idiosyncratic.
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Speaker 2: Right yes, and one off well, and that really shocked
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Speaker 2: people because it felt like it came from out of nowhere.
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Speaker 3: They didn't have a sense that this was happening.
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Speaker 2: Clearly, the integration with Neiman Marcus has been kind of troubling,
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Speaker 2: so people had a sense that this was not going
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Speaker 2: so well. And we know that the department stores as
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Speaker 2: a whole just don't have a business model that resonates
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Speaker 2: with younger consumers.
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Speaker 10: Yep.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, And if you don't have a digital strategy down
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Speaker 9: then you're just in a world of hurt here and then.
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Speaker 9: And it just I think being a former banker with
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Speaker 9: the screams to me is just the capitol structure isn't
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Speaker 9: appropriate for the business the way it is today. You
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Speaker 9: can't capital, you can't have that much debt on this
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Speaker 9: type of business. Maybe you could have a generation to go,
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Speaker 9: but given the economics of the department store business, as
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Speaker 9: you mentioned, it just doesn't feel like this story capital structure.
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Speaker 9: So somebody's gonna have to pay, and it looks like
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Speaker 9: those junior note holders it's seven and a half cents
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Speaker 9: on the dollar they're going to pay, and even the
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Speaker 9: senior stuff they're going to pay as well. So stay
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Speaker 9: on top of that story for sure. SMP of fifteen,
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Speaker 9: the Dow up a needing.
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Speaker 9: I haven't seen the Bloomberg reporting all morning about how
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Speaker 9: many gajillions of people are gonna be flying this weekend.
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Speaker 10: I mean, it's just crazy.
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Speaker 2: I feel like this schedule has changed a little bit
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Speaker 2: of calendar has changed since COVID because people are able
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Speaker 2: to leave it a little bit earlier work from home,
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Speaker 2: you know, for the few days before the holiday.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, apparently like yesterday the day before where it was
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Speaker 9: the crazy day. So that just kind of brings you
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Speaker 9: to how are the airlines doing that there? And what's
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Speaker 9: the out look for twenty twenty six for the airlines?
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Speaker 9: Here George Ferguson, Senior Aerospace, Defense and Airlines anast from
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Speaker 9: Bloomberg Intelligence.
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Speaker 10: It says he's on Zoom from the Jersey office. I'm
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Speaker 10: not buying it. I think it's a beach and you.
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Speaker 9: Got a backdrop there that's CGI. But I look at him,
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Speaker 9: he's in the Princeton office. I mean, all right, George,
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Speaker 9: thanks for joining us here. I appreciate you putting the
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Speaker 9: effort there, sir, talk to us about the airline business.
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Speaker 9: How healthy is it today and kind of what's the
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Speaker 9: outlook for tomorrow? Because every time I got on a plane,
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Speaker 9: it's packed, dude.
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Speaker 11: It is. But remember, you know, those revenue management officers.
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Speaker 11: They don't like to let airplanes go down the runway
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Speaker 11: less than eighty plus percent full anymore. So you need
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Speaker 11: to tell me the price that everybody paid before I
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Speaker 11: get really excited about packed airplanes. Anyways, I'll get off
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Speaker 11: that soapbox right now. Look, I think you know, as
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Speaker 11: we get into twenty twenty six, we're looking at schedules,
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Speaker 11: we're seeing a lot of the growth coming from the
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Speaker 11: big full service carriers. United especially continues to sort of
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Speaker 11: pour on the gas here and put a lot of
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Speaker 11: capacity in the marketplace. Delta a bit less than them,
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Speaker 11: America even a bit less than them. And as we
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Speaker 11: get into the new year, we're going to have Southwest
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Speaker 11: starting to sell premium seats, and everybody's got a plan
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Speaker 11: for bringing more premium seats to the marketplace. So you know,
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Speaker 11: when we just look at the full service carriers, they're
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Speaker 11: going to grow higher than GDP levels. They are going
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Speaker 11: to be I mean, actually not the latest GDP number,
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Speaker 11: which is a bit hot, but we're going to see
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Speaker 11: like three four percent seat growth in the first half
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Speaker 11: from those big full service carriers. I think that means
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Speaker 11: there's probably a risk premium seats are going to start
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Speaker 11: to feel some pressure on fares, and that's been you know,
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Speaker 11: the really big driver of this business, especially for those
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Speaker 11: big full service carriers, has been driving their profitability on
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Speaker 11: the on the you know, economy end. We're seeing Spirit
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Speaker 11: airlines there sort of between this world and that world
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Speaker 11: a little bit. We're trying to figure out if they're
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Speaker 11: going to survive, might get bought by Frontier. They've dropped
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Speaker 11: a bunch of airplanes. We're seeing some of these carriers
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Speaker 11: cut capacity because of weakness in those seat prices. So
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Speaker 11: I think we'll start to see at least some you
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Speaker 11: know firming up of that of that basic economy as
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Speaker 11: the market tries to get that back in balance. So
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Speaker 11: I think that's what we're going to see in the
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Speaker 11: first half of the new year.
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Speaker 2: So it sounds like there's going to be a surplus
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Speaker 2: of those premium seats and then that leaves big empty
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Speaker 2: hole here for the frontiers and the spirits. Are they
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Speaker 2: going to be forced to offer also some kind of
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Speaker 2: premium version of what they currently have an offer?
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 11: I mean, I think everybody's trying to figure out a
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Speaker 11: way to get more premium in their airplane. They're not
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Speaker 11: you know, they're not forced, but they want they want
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Speaker 11: that premium travel that's gonna just keep flying through, you know,
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Speaker 11: through good and bad economic times and not have the
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Speaker 11: challenges of inflation on their budget and things like that.
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Speaker 11: So I don't know if they're forced, but we're definitely
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Speaker 11: seeing all of them look at ways to increase the
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Speaker 11: price they can get the customer to pay for a seat,
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Speaker 11: whether it's block a middle seat, you know, so it
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Speaker 11: might be three by three kind of airplane, they might
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Speaker 11: block the middle seat. Some of them are talking about putting,
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Speaker 11: you know, more reclined and nicer seats in the front
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Speaker 11: of the airplane. So everybody, I think everybody as a
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Speaker 11: plan for how to get more premium in their airplane.
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Speaker 11: And again that's gonna mean like everything in the airline
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Speaker 11: business will get off sides on premium before it's all done.
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Speaker 11: I think it begins in the first half. I don't
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Speaker 11: think premium seat prices are going to create Unfortunately, we're
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Speaker 11: not gonna be able to go anywhere really super cheap
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Speaker 11: flying in front of the airplane in the first half
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Speaker 11: of the next year. But I don't think it'd be
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Speaker 11: as good as it was in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 9: Wages, that's a big cost component for these airlines. I
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Speaker 9: want my pilots happy and want them feeling like they're
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Speaker 9: well paid.
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Speaker 10: Talk to those about the wage the dynamic in the industry.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, look, you know, we still see you know,
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Speaker 11: I don't know that I want to call it a shortage,
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Speaker 11: but you know, it's a it's a difficult balance between
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Speaker 11: the number of pilots out there and what's needed by
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Speaker 11: the airlines and the you know, the number of people
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Speaker 11: coming into the industry and getting air transport licenses and
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Speaker 11: things like that, and so the pilots are still decently paid.
17:39
Speaker 11: You know, they came off years decades ago. They just
17:43
Speaker 11: had many, many bad years. There was a surplus of them.
17:46
Speaker 11: So they've been catching up and they got these twenty
17:48
Speaker 11: percent increases in the last couple of contracts. And in
17:51
Speaker 11: the last contract we saw a twenty percent increase and
17:54
Speaker 11: then a four percent five percent, so actually it was
17:56
Speaker 11: a couple it was a five and a couple of
17:58
Speaker 11: fours before two percent salary gains increases. They're pretty nice
18:04
Speaker 11: in this economy, and the airlines really can't afford that
18:07
Speaker 11: kind of inflation. In their cost base. The pilots are
18:10
Speaker 11: a big part of it, and so they keep rolling
18:12
Speaker 11: out bigger airplanes. And that's another challenge in the marketplace.
18:15
Speaker 11: Right as you put a bigger airplane behind the pilot
18:18
Speaker 11: so you could defray their costs over more seats, you
18:21
Speaker 11: got to fly all those seats into these markets, and
18:24
Speaker 11: sometimes you're discounting more to fill the airplane. So that's
18:27
Speaker 11: a challenge and continues in the new year. We think
18:31
Speaker 11: the airlines would be managing cost inflation there and maintenance
18:35
Speaker 11: and gates everywhere.
18:36
Speaker 2: So wager is a big part of the airlines costs
18:39
Speaker 2: the biggest part, but then fuel is the second biggest
18:42
Speaker 2: or it can be and jet fuel has actually come
18:45
Speaker 2: down in twenty twenty five. Is that going to continue
18:48
Speaker 2: to be a tailwind in twenty twenty six.
18:51
Speaker 11: So you know, we kind of we looked at it recently,
18:53
Speaker 11: put it out on the Bloomberg Terminal BI Space AI RLN.
18:56
Speaker 11: We did some scenario analysis on this look. I have
18:59
Speaker 11: a hard time seeing fuel prices dip significantly lower than here.
19:03
Speaker 11: But I am no oil man. Right if I was,
19:07
Speaker 11: i'd own a football team, But I'm not oil man.
19:11
Speaker 11: I don't necessarily where those prices are going. All I
19:13
Speaker 11: could tell you is that they stick around two dollars,
19:15
Speaker 11: the airlines will get The airlines had a nice tailwind
19:18
Speaker 11: from fuel last year as fuel prices fell, it buffered
19:21
Speaker 11: their margins. If they stick around two dollars, they probably
19:24
Speaker 11: get a bit of a tailwind in the first quarter,
19:28
Speaker 11: but as they roll into the back part of the year,
19:30
Speaker 11: they're not going to get a lot of gains from fuel.
19:32
Speaker 11: That's not going to buffer their margins. But we'll see.
19:35
Speaker 11: I mean fuel has dip below two dollars, it could
19:39
Speaker 11: stay below two dollars. I guess if you see slower
19:41
Speaker 11: GDP growth, could be a bit of a buffer. But
19:44
Speaker 11: we don't think as much as in twenty twenty five.
19:46
Speaker 9: Did the airlines hedge their fuel exposure, because boy, I
19:49
Speaker 9: think I'd be hedging right here if I were CFO.
19:53
Speaker 11: Not anymore. I think every so often they surprise you
19:56
Speaker 11: and so I hear what you're saying, Like, you know,
19:58
Speaker 11: you could see one of those crazy the cfo's out
20:00
Speaker 11: there going, hey, we might as well edge here, could
20:03
Speaker 11: be as good as we get. We saw Southwest do
20:05
Speaker 11: that a number of times in their history and win
20:07
Speaker 11: big but for the most part recently, what we've seen
20:11
Speaker 11: is almost the entire field does not hedge fuel prices anymore.
20:16
Speaker 11: If you think about it, they kind of sell tickets
20:17
Speaker 11: out six eight weeks, so they have sort of a
20:20
Speaker 11: future commitment for fuel prices out that far. If fuel
20:24
Speaker 11: prices rise dramatically, I think everybody in the marketplace adjusts
20:28
Speaker 11: fares fairly quickly because they're not edged. And so I
20:31
Speaker 11: think you know, when they look at the pack that
20:33
Speaker 11: they're flying in maybe the airlines, they think no one
20:37
Speaker 11: else hedging fuel. I'm not going to run the risk
20:39
Speaker 11: to be wrong in a hedge, will stay on hedge,
20:41
Speaker 11: and that's what the US guys.
20:42
Speaker 3: Hard to stick your neck out.
20:43
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess I don't know, unless you think you've
20:45
Speaker 9: got to handle on the market.
20:46
Speaker 10: George Ferguson, thanks so much, appreciate it as always.
20:48
Speaker 9: George Ferguson, a senior aerospace, Defense and Airlines analles for
20:51
Speaker 9: Bloomberg Intelligence.
20:52
Speaker 10: I think I figured out George. He's in the office today.
20:54
Speaker 12: But then I bet you a bunch of them are
20:56
Speaker 12: going to noon bag out good to Tiger's tawn. But
20:59
Speaker 12: he's sent his work for the Yeah, they're can go
21:01
Speaker 12: to the Tiger's Tail and have a little holiday and
21:04
Speaker 12: you wish you're there with you exactly.
21:05
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21:09
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Speaker 2: with Nathan Dean, he is Bloomberg Intelligence Senior policy Analyst,
21:37
Speaker 2: to kind of wrap up the year that was in
21:38
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five and look ahead to twenty twenty six.
21:41
Speaker 2: Because you can't overstate just how much of an influence
21:46
Speaker 2: politics and policy had on the markets this year.
21:49
Speaker 9: Clients actually demand access to Nathan Dean and the and
21:53
Speaker 9: his notes get huge readership because politics definitely impacts investments.
21:57
Speaker 2: I mean, you just look at the crypto space, for instance,
21:59
Speaker 2: look at the fininancial space, a banking space.
22:01
Speaker 3: Nathan, thank you so.
22:02
Speaker 2: Much for joining us today on the eve of Christmas,
22:04
Speaker 2: eve which industry saw the biggest impact, for better or
22:08
Speaker 2: for worse from policy.
22:11
Speaker 13: So obviously, I think the first thing to do is
22:13
Speaker 13: look at President Trump's one big beautiful bill, and really
22:15
Speaker 13: that's clean energy. You know, we saw a lot of
22:17
Speaker 13: the tax credits curtailed in terms of just both solar
22:21
Speaker 13: and wind, and both industries are really significantly being felt
22:24
Speaker 13: in terms of you know, those actions. I would also
22:27
Speaker 13: say is there's a lot of sentiment out there in
22:29
Speaker 13: terms of crypto and financial services, like you just said,
22:32
Speaker 13: but twenty twenty six is going to bring even more
22:34
Speaker 13: deregulation for those two sectors. And that's why we think
22:37
Speaker 13: for twenty twenty six, crypto and financial services in particular
22:41
Speaker 13: are going to see quite a benefit.
22:43
Speaker 6: Just in the banking space.
22:44
Speaker 13: For example, you know, back of the Napkin math, because
22:46
Speaker 13: we haven't seen some proposals that haven't come out yet,
22:49
Speaker 13: we're estimating around seventy three to seventy five billion dollars
22:51
Speaker 13: in capital that we returned to the big banks, So
22:54
Speaker 13: think of Bank America, Chap Morgan, and City Group. And
22:56
Speaker 13: then in the crypto space, obviously, you know, we had
22:58
Speaker 13: some stable coin legislation passed that is now going to
23:02
Speaker 13: be implemented in twenty twenty six. But also we see
23:05
Speaker 13: Congress debating this crypto Market Structure Bill, which we think
23:08
Speaker 13: is a seventy percent chance of success passing the first
23:11
Speaker 13: half of next year, which would then bring regulatory clarity
23:14
Speaker 13: for firms like coinbase and Robinhood.
23:16
Speaker 9: It's also an election year in twenty twenty six. How
23:18
Speaker 9: does that impact how legislation gets passed or doesn't pass?
23:23
Speaker 10: How's that work?
23:25
Speaker 13: Yeah, so you know for twenty twenty six, every day
23:27
Speaker 13: that all four and thirty five members of the House
23:29
Speaker 13: and thirty three members of the Senate are here, it's
23:32
Speaker 13: to day that their opponent is back home campaigning against them,
23:35
Speaker 13: and look, they don't want to be here. So we're
23:37
Speaker 13: telling our clients is that legislation is going to be
23:39
Speaker 13: very difficult to come by in twenty twenty six. Now
23:41
Speaker 13: the Republicans want to have another bite of what's called
23:43
Speaker 13: the reconciliation apple. This is essentially the one big beautiful
23:47
Speaker 13: bill pathway again, so think of this is going to
23:49
Speaker 13: be more healthcare related.
23:51
Speaker 6: We're somewhat barish on this just because.
23:53
Speaker 13: The margin of the margins of the House representative are
23:56
Speaker 13: pretty thin right now and Look, if it was easy,
23:58
Speaker 13: they would have already done it, the Republicans. But there
24:01
Speaker 13: are some other bills out there, like I mentioned the
24:03
Speaker 13: Crypto Bill. But twenty twenty six is a story about
24:05
Speaker 13: deregulation because regulators live here, they don't go home, and
24:09
Speaker 13: they're going to be working on these rules. And it's
24:11
Speaker 13: also a story of tariffs, because we do anticipate the
24:14
Speaker 13: Supreme Court in January is most likely going to say
24:16
Speaker 13: that President Trump's eight the tariffs are unlawful, and then
24:20
Speaker 13: the Trump administration is going to have to figure out
24:21
Speaker 13: another way to implement these tariffs because just as off
24:24
Speaker 13: this morning, President Trump said that these are really good
24:26
Speaker 13: things for the nation.
24:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be something we're going to really
24:30
Speaker 2: focus in on in twenty twenty six. If the Supreme
24:33
Speaker 2: Court does rule against the President, what does that mean
24:36
Speaker 2: for the efforts by importers to claim a refund or to.
24:41
Speaker 3: Try to get back some of that money.
24:44
Speaker 6: You know.
24:44
Speaker 13: So Bloomberg News had a call um a couple of
24:45
Speaker 13: weeks ago and they use the term refund chaos.
24:48
Speaker 6: And I love that two word phrase because that's just.
24:50
Speaker 13: Going to show you how difficult it will be to
24:52
Speaker 13: get refunds because to the best of our knowledge, it's
24:55
Speaker 13: not like one company like Amazon could go to and
24:58
Speaker 13: just say, look, give me a check for f one
25:00
Speaker 13: hundred million dollars. You have to go down to the
25:01
Speaker 13: line item, by each individual line item because each individual
25:05
Speaker 13: line item has certain tariffs associated with it.
25:07
Speaker 6: So it's going to be messy.
25:09
Speaker 13: And there's also no way to we can figure that
25:11
Speaker 13: there would be an electronic version of this, wire would
25:14
Speaker 13: have to be a paper check.
25:15
Speaker 6: So I think there's a lot of folks out there saying, look,
25:18
Speaker 6: if the refilms are coming, it's going to be quarters,
25:20
Speaker 6: if not years, And I would just say, is that.
25:23
Speaker 12: You know.
25:23
Speaker 13: The other thing to keep in mind is that the
25:24
Speaker 13: Trump adminstration most likely will launch these investigations. So if
25:28
Speaker 13: you're in the press, you see section two thirty two
25:30
Speaker 13: or section three oh one, think investigation. But those investigations
25:34
Speaker 13: take time. And the biggest question that we have we
25:36
Speaker 13: don't have this answer yet, is will President Trump reimpose
25:39
Speaker 13: these tariffs three, four or five months before the elections
25:42
Speaker 13: when they're extremely unpopular with the populace.
25:45
Speaker 9: Jeez, I mean, that's going to be crazy to see
25:47
Speaker 9: how that plays out. What else here Nathan is the
25:52
Speaker 9: expectation in Washington that the Democrats will win back the House.
25:57
Speaker 6: Perhaps, so it's certainly looking that way.
26:00
Speaker 13: I mean, just go historically, and the minority party has
26:02
Speaker 13: always done extremely well. I mean, think of President Obama,
26:05
Speaker 13: the Tea Party comes in, think of President Trump, Nancy
26:07
Speaker 13: Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House. So historically that which
26:10
Speaker 13: suggests that the momentum goes back towards the Democrats. But
26:13
Speaker 13: we've seen, you know, in Virginia, New Jersey, Miami, New
26:16
Speaker 13: York City, that the Democrats are performing much better than
26:19
Speaker 13: they would have even just within that historical norm. And
26:22
Speaker 13: we've seen a lot of retirements from the Republican side
26:24
Speaker 13: as we head.
26:25
Speaker 6: Into these midterms. Now, if you think of how.
26:27
Speaker 13: Do the midterms actually impact the investing side, I would
26:30
Speaker 13: say is one, it takes away the opportunity for this
26:32
Speaker 13: reconciliation method again. So they get twenty twenty seven, You're
26:36
Speaker 13: not going to see a very large tax cut bill
26:38
Speaker 13: or deficit inducing bill.
26:40
Speaker 6: It brings things back down to gridlock.
26:42
Speaker 13: I'm not saying nothing can get done, but it just
26:44
Speaker 13: means that legislation is going to be less of an emphasis.
26:47
Speaker 13: And President Trump to implement policy is going to focus
26:50
Speaker 13: more on executive orders and then the deregulatory method.
26:54
Speaker 2: Is there any appetite Nathan in Washington to address AI
26:58
Speaker 2: and to set up some more standard guidelines for companies
27:03
Speaker 2: to operate in. I mean, I think about Nvidia and
27:04
Speaker 2: how it's the poster child of the AI revolution here
27:07
Speaker 2: in the US, and Jensen Wang has pretty much gotten
27:10
Speaker 2: everything he wanted.
27:12
Speaker 13: Yeah, So President Trump issued an executive order on artificial Intelligence,
27:16
Speaker 13: essentially combating the state's abilities to create their.
27:19
Speaker 6: Own rules on AI.
27:20
Speaker 13: Now, our legal analysts, Matt Shaddam has looked at it
27:23
Speaker 13: and said, most likely this would not pass court muster,
27:26
Speaker 13: so that AI executive order probably doesn't have much teeth
27:29
Speaker 13: to it. But in that executive order, President Trump also
27:32
Speaker 13: directed the Executive Branch to come up with a national standard.
27:35
Speaker 13: And so if we see the Executive Branch and the
27:38
Speaker 13: various agencies come out and say, look, this is what
27:40
Speaker 13: we think the national standards should look like, at least
27:43
Speaker 13: it's an area for debate, a foundation, if you will,
27:46
Speaker 13: for Congress to begin to start thinking about this, because
27:49
Speaker 13: you know, right now it's very hands off industry in
27:52
Speaker 13: terms of regulation. You know, I didn't talk about it
27:54
Speaker 13: in twenty twenty five because it really isn't all that
27:57
Speaker 13: much regulation for it. But if this foundation and this
28:00
Speaker 13: debate continues, and you will see a lot of anti
28:03
Speaker 13: data center messaging as we get into the twenty twenty
28:06
Speaker 13: six midterms here in Northern Virginia. We saw it already
28:08
Speaker 13: in our election. You know you are going to see
28:11
Speaker 13: this coming to the political spectrum. So I do think
28:13
Speaker 13: over twenty twenty six you'll see this debate. But again,
28:16
Speaker 13: I don't think you're going to see anything actually put
28:18
Speaker 13: down on a piece of paper and say this is
28:20
Speaker 13: what the national standard is.
28:22
Speaker 10: All right, Nithan Deane, very good, appreciate it as always.
28:24
Speaker 9: Nathan Deane, Senior policy analyst for Bloomberg Intelligency is based
28:27
Speaker 9: down there in Washington, DC.
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