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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside
- 0:04Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring
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- 0:18Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. A lot for the
- 0:23Speaker 1: markets to digest here right in the teeth of earning season.
- 0:27Speaker 1: We've got the ECB meeting tomorrow, the FED. We're gonna
- 0:30Speaker 1: get at something in July, I believe, is the dates
- 0:33Speaker 1: of lots for this market to digest. To take a
- 0:35Speaker 1: step back and put it on into perspective, Luca Paolini,
- 0:39Speaker 1: chief strategist for pick Ta Asset Management based in London.
- 0:43Speaker 1: He joins us, Luca, as we stand back here and
- 0:46Speaker 1: start to really get into the teeth of this earning season.
- 0:49Speaker 1: What do you expect to hear from companies? What are
- 0:52Speaker 1: you looking for? What are you kind of paying attention
- 0:54Speaker 1: to during these earnest conference calls that we're all listening to.
- 0:59Speaker 1: What morning everyone, Well, I think you know the we
- 1:02Speaker 1: tend to focus a lot on what company is gonna
- 1:05Speaker 1: tell us about the consumer, I think we should actually
- 1:09Speaker 1: look at investment because investment normally is the real driver
- 1:13Speaker 1: would really create a recession. So I think from the
- 1:16Speaker 1: consumer we know pretty much the fundamentals. We know what
- 1:19Speaker 1: can go right, what can wrong. I think the real
- 1:21Speaker 1: for me the question mark and what I want to
- 1:23Speaker 1: know if companies are holding back on investment, if they
- 1:27Speaker 1: are reduced in accounts, and I think in this especially
- 1:30Speaker 1: discerning season, we actually expectations are quite low. I want
- 1:34Speaker 1: to see the guidance and when I see companies telling
- 1:36Speaker 1: us we are company enough or not company enough to
- 1:40Speaker 1: basically expand, to increase basically to two to hire people,
- 1:46Speaker 1: and that's for me, would be the focus because I
- 1:48Speaker 1: think on the consumer we pretty much know the story.
- 1:50Speaker 1: I think for on investments it's being very strong. And
- 1:53Speaker 1: I think this is to me is the key things
- 1:55Speaker 1: to watch, not so much the residence or not of
- 1:58Speaker 1: the consumer. Are I haven't seen evidence that companies are
- 2:03Speaker 1: holding path, that they're waiting to make that decision. And
- 2:08Speaker 1: on the on the fringe, certainly on the West Coast,
- 2:12Speaker 1: starting to reduce at least the pace of hiring or
- 2:15Speaker 1: even cut back on headcount. Well we've seen obviously apple
- 2:19Speaker 1: in the data. When you look at for example, capital
- 2:23Speaker 1: good orders, I seen an outcome high. What is what
- 2:25Speaker 1: has happened though that investment expectations or plans have been
- 2:31Speaker 1: cut significantly, So again there is this kind of the
- 2:34Speaker 1: data still looks very, very solid. I think, though I
- 2:37Speaker 1: can see at the margin um some significant potentially reduction investment.
- 2:42Speaker 1: But again that's where that's why I'm waiting for companies
- 2:45Speaker 1: to tell us, because I think it's clear that momentum
- 2:47Speaker 1: is lowing. But it's also clear that you know, you
- 2:50Speaker 1: don't want to basically get rid of people, and it's
- 2:54Speaker 1: so difficult then to rehire them. So I think it's
- 2:56Speaker 1: very important for me to have a sense if companies
- 2:59Speaker 1: are confident enough and and I think that's the key point.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Looka here at Bloomberg, we really take a global view.
- 3:05Speaker 1: Our audience takes a global view. We have important day
- 3:08Speaker 1: from the European Central Bank tomorrow. What are you looking for? UM?
- 3:14Speaker 1: You know, the European Central Bank as this incredible ability
- 3:17Speaker 1: to disappoint UM. In the past two occasion when they
- 3:21Speaker 1: create in July we had a recession. I think this
- 3:24Speaker 1: time they'll have no other choice. I don't think that
- 3:27Speaker 1: the interest rate, I I think it's more like, to
- 3:30Speaker 1: be honest, for me, it's more likely to be fifty
- 3:32Speaker 1: bus this point, because I think they want to send
- 3:35Speaker 1: the message that they have in prestion under control, and
- 3:38Speaker 1: at the same time they want to send a signal
- 3:40Speaker 1: that they're there to help the terriphery. So probably that
- 3:42Speaker 1: that's a compromise that will emerge from from the council.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Twenty five or fifty bus point, I think it's pretty
- 3:49Speaker 1: much the same. I don't think it would change anything.
- 3:51Speaker 1: But I think also they're they're forced to take action,
- 3:54Speaker 1: you know, with the Europe pretty much a parity inflation
- 3:57Speaker 1: going through the roof, I think that to take action,
- 4:00Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to be a huge
- 4:02Speaker 1: market mover. I don't think that would make a big, big, big,
- 4:04Speaker 1: big difference for markets, to be honest with you. We
- 4:06Speaker 1: saw the euro at least rally back through a dollar
- 4:09Speaker 1: up to one oh three, one or two. Right now,
- 4:12Speaker 1: Um does that kind of hold or do you see
- 4:14Speaker 1: continued dollar strength here? I mean I'm looking across the spectrum.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Right one, we're back up to the pound. Um still
- 4:21Speaker 1: one thirty eight for the end, so still incredible weakness there.
- 4:24Speaker 1: But does does d x Y continue to rise? But
- 4:28Speaker 1: I I do believe that the dollar is very very
- 4:31Speaker 1: close to a major peak, secretical and and and also strategic.
- 4:37Speaker 1: But you need, though, I think, to two things. What
- 4:40Speaker 1: clear indication that you have inflation of peak. I think
- 4:43Speaker 1: it does, but this is not the view of everyone.
- 4:46Speaker 1: And second one we need to see a clear reacceleration
- 4:49Speaker 1: in China, where the evidence is also not for people,
- 4:52Speaker 1: is strong. So I do believe, and you'll be surprised
- 4:55Speaker 1: at what I'm saying, is that the currency which has
- 4:57Speaker 1: them what upside here is the end, the end, because
- 5:00Speaker 1: the end that's been effectively killed by what but interest
- 5:03Speaker 1: rate expectations going up everywhere else apart from Japan. And
- 5:07Speaker 1: and if the reason if the global economies leaps into
- 5:10Speaker 1: recession the interest really differential, we go actually in favor
- 5:14Speaker 1: of Japan. And given that the expectation are solo and
- 5:17Speaker 1: evaluations were attractive, I think and all sounds strange that
- 5:20Speaker 1: the Japanese end could be the big surprise in the
- 5:24Speaker 1: next three to six months for the year. I think
- 5:26Speaker 1: there are too many risks in terms of the war
- 5:29Speaker 1: in Ukraine, d C be Italy I think it's probably
- 5:33Speaker 1: still a little bit too early to be bullish on
- 5:35Speaker 1: the Europe. Look at real quick at thirty seconds happened
- 5:38Speaker 1: fixed income. It's been a brutal first half of the year.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Any opportunities there, Yes, there are, There are in some
- 5:44Speaker 1: emerging markets like Brazil. I think also in some parts
- 5:47Speaker 1: of the of the credit market. Corporate depth, especially in
- 5:50Speaker 1: the US, Triple A names saved names, good yelds. I
- 5:55Speaker 1: think still solid in a way, solely fundamental. Yeah, we
- 5:59Speaker 1: start to see some values again, especially in the US
- 6:01Speaker 1: and some parts of YEM, but we stay away from Europe.
- 6:04Speaker 1: All right, Luca, great stuff. Always appreciate getting your perspective.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Luca Paolini, chief strategist for picked A Asset Management. He
- 6:12Speaker 1: is based in London. Why does everyone hate rats so much?
- 6:21Speaker 1: Are they worse than squirrels or chipmunks? Yes? What did
- 6:26Speaker 1: you say? Did you say poop? Yeah? I don't think
- 6:29Speaker 1: you can say that. No, I'm not sure, but we'll check.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Ken Fell. You says, maybe that's okay, okay. Our director,
- 6:37Speaker 1: our global director, Ken Fellow says, you can, but let's not.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Let's not. Let's know that's a brutal story, all right,
- 6:43Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett, thank you so much. Here are we got
- 6:45Speaker 1: a Federal Reserve meeting coming up, said July. I think
- 6:48Speaker 1: that's the big one, Jennifer Leasy, and your economist, managing
- 6:50Speaker 1: director of Demo Capital Markets joins us. Jennifer, I mean
- 6:53Speaker 1: we're in the midst of earning season. That's kind of
- 6:55Speaker 1: got investors intention here. Um, but again, we know that
- 7:00Speaker 1: the real focus is on this Federal Reserve as we
- 7:03Speaker 1: think about inflation, as we think about recession. What do
- 7:07Speaker 1: you expect from our federal reserve? Good morning? And by
- 7:11Speaker 1: the way, just on one funn'l know what you're saying earlier,
- 7:14Speaker 1: how about raccoons? Yes, for the FT, I mean so
- 7:18Speaker 1: for the Federal Reserve, I mean we so we expect
- 7:20Speaker 1: a seventy five basis point Ray hike, Um, jesus next
- 7:25Speaker 1: we call already, UM. I don't think um a lot
- 7:27Speaker 1: of people anymore are thinking about a risk of a
- 7:30Speaker 1: hundred basis point move, just given that we've seen the
- 7:33Speaker 1: softer data lately. UM. In terms of what he the
- 7:36Speaker 1: Fed Area is going to say, I think he's I
- 7:38Speaker 1: would expect him to soften his um, his his points
- 7:42Speaker 1: about the economy. I mean, last time we heard from
- 7:44Speaker 1: him was that was in Centrup, Portugal, and he was
- 7:47Speaker 1: talking about how the US economy was in strong shape
- 7:50Speaker 1: and well positioned to withstand tighter monetary policy. And I
- 7:53Speaker 1: still think that second point is probably still valid. But
- 7:56Speaker 1: you know, we have again seen some weakening, you know,
- 7:59Speaker 1: for example in the housing market, some slightly softer you
- 8:03Speaker 1: know UM retail sales data last week, and those are
- 8:07Speaker 1: the pieces of data that Governor Waller was what was
- 8:10Speaker 1: talking about referring to in terms of what he was
- 8:12Speaker 1: going to how he was going to vote next week.
- 8:15Speaker 1: So I think centified basis points is probably the base
- 8:18Speaker 1: case UM right now, and maybe soft softening is too
- 8:21Speaker 1: a little bit on the economy. By the way, I
- 8:23Speaker 1: have a bet with Critty Gupta um dinner of her
- 8:27Speaker 1: choice that inflation has peaked. I think it. I think
- 8:30Speaker 1: nine point one percent was the high rating for cp I.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Do you think I'm at risk of losing that bet? Boy?
- 8:38Speaker 1: I hope it is UM. But I think over the
- 8:40Speaker 1: next few months the the yar year comfortables might get
- 8:43Speaker 1: a little tougher UM. But I think for the July
- 8:46Speaker 1: CPI UM report probably gonna see it pulled back, probably
- 8:50Speaker 1: probably below the nine percent level, just given that gas
- 8:53Speaker 1: prices to have. You know, we had some relief on
- 8:55Speaker 1: the on that front at least, but again, broader measures,
- 9:00Speaker 1: I mean broader measures in terms of the core measures
- 9:02Speaker 1: are still quite elevated as well. So I don't know
- 9:05Speaker 1: if they have completely hit the peak. But we've been
- 9:06Speaker 1: saying Q three and I think I've been saying September ish,
- 9:10Speaker 1: so I'm sort of waffling on that front, but you
- 9:12Speaker 1: know that I'm really hoping that n would be the peak. Jennifer,
- 9:16Speaker 1: what do you make of this U S dollar? I mean,
- 9:18Speaker 1: it's the highest if you look at the d X
- 9:20Speaker 1: Y and next the highest and almost twenty years kind
- 9:22Speaker 1: of thing they almos put that into perspective and kind
- 9:25Speaker 1: of how you think things may play out. Don't afford.
- 9:29Speaker 1: It's got a lot of it still has a lot
- 9:30Speaker 1: of tail winds behind it, just given you know how
- 9:32Speaker 1: aggressive the FED is planning is still planning to be,
- 9:35Speaker 1: you know, um raising rates expeditiously, and then when you're
- 9:39Speaker 1: looking at it versus you know, for example, the euro
- 9:41Speaker 1: even though you know everyone's expecting or we are all
- 9:43Speaker 1: expecting the easy of you to do something tomorrow, you know,
- 9:46Speaker 1: as your last guest said, you know, they have a
- 9:48Speaker 1: habit of disappointing. Um. You know, this is probably a
- 9:51Speaker 1: great opportunity for them to prove everybody wrong. But if
- 9:54Speaker 1: they don't, you know, we could see you know, the
- 9:56Speaker 1: euro dip below parody again. Um, the pound. Also, it
- 10:00Speaker 1: is getting a little bit of a tailwind this morning,
- 10:02Speaker 1: but at the same time it also has a lot
- 10:03Speaker 1: of headwinds facing it with potentially eleven percent inflation coming up,
- 10:08Speaker 1: and of course you know, much slower growth in the
- 10:10Speaker 1: second half with inflation so high. So I think because
- 10:13Speaker 1: of that, just us all broadly, I think still has
- 10:16Speaker 1: some life left in it. By the way, there are
- 10:18Speaker 1: many words we cannot use on radio to describe the
- 10:22Speaker 1: European situation this winter. How much trouble is that economy
- 10:28Speaker 1: in It's uh, that's one reach one area that I'm
- 10:32Speaker 1: very concerned about, just because of that huge heavy reliance
- 10:36Speaker 1: for too long, um on Russian energy. And even though
- 10:39Speaker 1: they are now finally trying to rid themselves of that
- 10:42Speaker 1: reliance by cutting cutting their their their dependents by two
- 10:45Speaker 1: thirds by the end of the year. You know, I
- 10:47Speaker 1: would consume you say, good luck with that trying to
- 10:49Speaker 1: build all those lergy terminals when you're still having a
- 10:51Speaker 1: big shortage of supplies and of labor. Um. But this
- 10:55Speaker 1: is the one point in time in my life I
- 10:57Speaker 1: will say that maybe it's a good thing that there's
- 11:00Speaker 1: uh climate change um and global warming because hopefully the
- 11:03Speaker 1: winter will not be really really bad and you know,
- 11:06Speaker 1: and so the gas usage will not be as high
- 11:10Speaker 1: as you know as the worst case scenario. But you know,
- 11:12Speaker 1: this is one area that that for sure, I'm quite
- 11:14Speaker 1: concerned about. Thirty seconds left gen Um, what's your recession
- 11:19Speaker 1: kind of expectation? Is it above the US? For the US? Yeah, um,
- 11:27Speaker 1: maybe a little bit over Um. We actually have a
- 11:30Speaker 1: negative sign pencilion for the early next year. Um. Maybe
- 11:34Speaker 1: not you know your traditional um two quarters in a
- 11:37Speaker 1: row of negative growth, but certainly much flower growth, almost
- 11:40Speaker 1: like a growth recession, as we have unemployment taking up
- 11:42Speaker 1: a little bit as well towards the end of this
- 11:44Speaker 1: year and next. All right, Jennifer Lee, thank you so much.
- 11:47Speaker 1: We always appreciate getting your thoughts here. Jennifer Lee, Senior
- 11:50Speaker 1: Economist and Managing director bemo Accoumpital Markets. Again the ECB
- 11:55Speaker 1: meeting tomorrow, Bloomberg surveillance will be all over that in
- 11:58Speaker 1: your early morning coverage you can rushed to short there
- 12:00Speaker 1: and then of course we will definitely overcover the ECB.
- 12:04Speaker 1: We love the e c B. Well, Christine looks some
- 12:06Speaker 1: of us love it. Yeah, some of us love it.
- 12:09Speaker 1: But again, certainly for European listeners and viewers, a big,
- 12:13Speaker 1: big meeting tomorrow will certainly have all that. Looking at Netflix,
- 12:20Speaker 1: I reported some numbers last night. I think the takeaway
- 12:22Speaker 1: was it could have been worse. Um. Looking at the stock,
- 12:25Speaker 1: the good news is it's up four percent today. The
- 12:29Speaker 1: bad news is down on a year to date basis.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Let's break it all down with Mark Douglas, President CEO
- 12:36Speaker 1: of Mountain. Mountain is an advertising software company enabling brands
- 12:40Speaker 1: to drive measurable conversions, revenue and site visits. So Mark
- 12:44Speaker 1: owned by owned by Ryan Reynolds, acquired Ryan Reynolds Creative Agency. Okay,
- 12:51Speaker 1: so Mark, how do we say this? I guess not
- 12:53Speaker 1: owned by but you got together with Ryan Reynolds. Yeah,
- 12:59Speaker 1: Ryan um chief creative officer or a Mountain. So he
- 13:03Speaker 1: Um has made a lot of movies and I didn't
- 13:06Speaker 1: want to do some other things, and he and I
- 13:09Speaker 1: teamed up and he worked in Mountain working with a
- 13:12Speaker 1: lot of our customers and obviously it's business strategy. So
- 13:16Speaker 1: it's see I said it wrong. I said Mountain was
- 13:19Speaker 1: owned by Ryan Reynolds. Actually Mountain bought Ryan Reynolds exactly
- 13:23Speaker 1: exactly the work maximum method, Yeah, maximum effort. I'm kidding,
- 13:28Speaker 1: all right, Mark, So again Netflix numbers last You know,
- 13:31Speaker 1: the tide has changed here. It's not, you know, grow
- 13:33Speaker 1: at a breakneck speed kind of thing. They're trying to
- 13:35Speaker 1: adjust to a new world order in terms of a
- 13:38Speaker 1: lot more competition that maybe the easy growth in terms
- 13:41Speaker 1: of subscriber growth is is done. What did you take
- 13:43Speaker 1: away from their results last night? Well, I think the
- 13:47Speaker 1: one thing to take away is they still are twice
- 13:49Speaker 1: as large as any of the competitors in terms of
- 13:52Speaker 1: number of subscribers. So the number of subscribers is clearly slowed.
- 13:57Speaker 1: I think Netflix people are are responding. Actually I think
- 14:01Speaker 1: a bit more to how quickly they're responding, announcing the
- 14:05Speaker 1: ads business, announcing um new ways of doing passwords sharing
- 14:10Speaker 1: that that generate revenues for them. And so I think
- 14:13Speaker 1: that's the big too, that overshadow that there's still been
- 14:17Speaker 1: some subscriber losses in the quarter. And I think you'll
- 14:20Speaker 1: continue to see that there's some growth in the stock
- 14:23Speaker 1: as people see them acting decisively. Okay, Mark, how about
- 14:26Speaker 1: this advertising opportunity for Netflix? Um a lot of analysts
- 14:32Speaker 1: on the Walsherter saying this could be a big deal
- 14:34Speaker 1: in terms of the new source of revenue. How do
- 14:36Speaker 1: you think about that? Yeah, absolutely so. I think the
- 14:40Speaker 1: opportunity here is it can be as potentially as large
- 14:44Speaker 1: as Netflix's current revenues. So they have as much as
- 14:50Speaker 1: of all viewing a TV has tone on Netflix. So
- 14:53Speaker 1: it's just a huge amount of user engagement people watching
- 14:57Speaker 1: shows on Netflix that they can potentially monitor size. Now,
- 15:00Speaker 1: there are some challenges. All that content wasn't acquired by
- 15:04Speaker 1: Netflix with advertising in mind, so they have to potentially
- 15:09Speaker 1: get rights to do ads on that content. They have
- 15:11Speaker 1: to like find places to do it. But there's also
- 15:15Speaker 1: a lot of opportunity because they have no legacy advertising business,
- 15:18Speaker 1: they don't have to have thirty second TV ads. They
- 15:21Speaker 1: can choose any format with any content over time, and
- 15:25Speaker 1: I think the revenue potential is at least as large
- 15:29Speaker 1: as Netflix is right now in terms of their their size.
- 15:33Speaker 1: What happened in this market yesterday I was at the
- 15:35Speaker 1: crypto UM convention, and obviously crypto has been pooh pooed
- 15:41Speaker 1: because of the incredible crash of bitcoin, but they all said, hey,
- 15:44Speaker 1: you know what, it's nothing compared to Netflix. You know,
- 15:47Speaker 1: Netflix has done much worse than than bitcoin, which I
- 15:50Speaker 1: thought was a silly comparison, but um, it does show
- 15:54Speaker 1: you just how much I guess froth was in streaming.
- 15:58Speaker 1: Is it all across streaming or was it just net Flix? Well,
- 16:02Speaker 1: I don't, I mean frost it's been I think it's
- 16:04Speaker 1: a pretty strong term. You have to look at it.
- 16:07Speaker 1: That Netflix lead of revolution. They completely changed the relationship
- 16:11Speaker 1: between consumers and entertainment, you know, allowing on demand viewing,
- 16:16Speaker 1: allowing you to get you know, an entire season the
- 16:19Speaker 1: shows all at once, and so that innovation I don't
- 16:23Speaker 1: think is I wouldn't perceive that as frosty. I would
- 16:27Speaker 1: consider it that the market was crashing and Netflix announcement
- 16:32Speaker 1: that we're having some subscriber losses, and you know, everyone reacted,
- 16:36Speaker 1: and I think obviously they have challenges. This is not
- 16:42Speaker 1: going to be easy to transition into having an ad
- 16:46Speaker 1: supported price point for them, But I think the potential
- 16:50Speaker 1: there is clear, and so I think Potentially people overreacted
- 16:55Speaker 1: in terms of the sell off and Netflix stock, and
- 16:58Speaker 1: you know how the not the price declines in the
- 17:02Speaker 1: last quarter and you and you're starting to see that turnaround. Mark,
- 17:05Speaker 1: what do you think about as we step back and
- 17:07Speaker 1: take a look at the streaming business? Everybody and the
- 17:09Speaker 1: brothers got a streaming service now, and they're all it
- 17:11Speaker 1: seems like they're all named plus. Um, how does this
- 17:14Speaker 1: shake out? I mean, are we going to have three players?
- 17:18Speaker 1: Five players? Ten players? Are more? Well, there is a
- 17:22Speaker 1: lot of consolvation. I mean if you look at like Netflix, Disney,
- 17:26Speaker 1: Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, I think you're looking at like
- 17:31Speaker 1: five companies or essentially half of the entertainment markets for
- 17:36Speaker 1: for you know, and television viewing at home. So there's
- 17:40Speaker 1: already somewhat of a consolidation. I think you'll see that continue. Um.
- 17:45Speaker 1: In the advertising space, actually, the brand advertising market is
- 17:50Speaker 1: not really growing that quickly, so you're looking at somewhat
- 17:53Speaker 1: of a market share war. In other words, you know,
- 17:56Speaker 1: when Netflix comes to this market with TV ads and
- 17:59Speaker 1: Disney comes in the market with Disney Plus, it's not
- 18:02Speaker 1: like Procter and Gamble is going to allocate more budgets
- 18:06Speaker 1: for TV ads. So it's a bit of a market
- 18:08Speaker 1: share war actually. So the opportunity is to expand the
- 18:13Speaker 1: number of television advertisers to basically go beyond just these
- 18:18Speaker 1: biggest advertisers or else it is going to be a
- 18:21Speaker 1: bit of a fight and um, so they have to
- 18:24Speaker 1: kind of do both things. They have to get into
- 18:26Speaker 1: that market with the biggest advertisers, and they have to
- 18:29Speaker 1: innovate with Microsoft in case case of Netflix and Disney,
- 18:33Speaker 1: you know, with their Hulu division, um, in terms of
- 18:37Speaker 1: to essentially expand the market, or else everyone's going to
- 18:40Speaker 1: be fighting over the you know, the same pool of dollars.
- 18:43Speaker 1: All right. So Mark Disney just came out a couple
- 18:46Speaker 1: of days ago with an announcement they secured nine billion
- 18:48Speaker 1: dollars in advertising commitments during its Upfront ad sales event,
- 18:52Speaker 1: which happens kind of Mark May of every year. Uh,
- 18:55Speaker 1: they're saying streaming played a big part of that. How
- 18:57Speaker 1: do you what are your takeaways there? Well? I think
- 19:01Speaker 1: the I mean, I know they love to announce up front,
- 19:04Speaker 1: but I don't see upfront as a concept lasting for
- 19:08Speaker 1: many more years. The concept what's that? But the the
- 19:17Speaker 1: thing is is that upfronts were created because you have,
- 19:20Speaker 1: you know, a certain number of advertisers that are looking
- 19:23Speaker 1: for the same shows that the same group of consumers
- 19:27Speaker 1: are watching, and so they could get people to bid
- 19:30Speaker 1: against each other to get that. But when you look
- 19:32Speaker 1: at streaming, you know, you don't target basic, you don't
- 19:35Speaker 1: care about the show. You care about who's the consumer
- 19:38Speaker 1: I'm trying to reach, and so you don't really need
- 19:40Speaker 1: the upfronts in the same way. So I think, to me,
- 19:43Speaker 1: we've reached peak upfront like that, like the parties on
- 19:47Speaker 1: on going to be on the dep line, I don't
- 19:49Speaker 1: think this is the any I think we've reached peak
- 19:51Speaker 1: up front. But the industry overall will grow because the
- 19:55Speaker 1: upfront models of fifty year old business model that is
- 19:58Speaker 1: due for a change, and I think of change is
- 20:01Speaker 1: going to our car. Yeah, it's some good stories, Matt
- 20:03Speaker 1: from some of these upfront parties. All right, that's Mark Douglas,
- 20:06Speaker 1: President CEO of Mountain getting the latest on Netflix again.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Kind of a mixed report last night, but the you know,
- 20:12Speaker 1: still talking about what is a growing streaming industry. Let's
- 20:20Speaker 1: check out with Mike mcblown, senior commodity strategies for Bloomberg Intelligence,
- 20:24Speaker 1: and he's one of Matt one of those of the
- 20:26Speaker 1: cool kids that during the pandemic relocated from the Northeast
- 20:29Speaker 1: down to Miami. And he's always, you know, boasting and
- 20:32Speaker 1: talking a big game when we're freezing up here in
- 20:35Speaker 1: January and February. Mike Howard things down in Miami in July.
- 20:40Speaker 1: It's funny I came south. I can cool off in
- 20:42Speaker 1: the summer. You guys are getting heat waves now, that's right.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Wait are you here? I just saw you here yesterday.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I was yesterday, but I had to come back to
- 20:47Speaker 1: the rough digs here in Miami. It's it's tough, but
- 20:50Speaker 1: you know, you got to do it. So do we
- 20:52Speaker 1: have what do we have going on here in Bitcoin? Well,
- 20:56Speaker 1: I think the big macro pictures. Bitcoin is one of
- 20:59Speaker 1: the biggest bull parks in history that just had its
- 21:01Speaker 1: biggest steepest discount to its Hunter week moving average ever.
- 21:05Speaker 1: That was just a few days ago. And then you
- 21:07Speaker 1: look over the other one of the biggest bear markets
- 21:10Speaker 1: in history, crude oil had its steepest premium to its
- 21:13Speaker 1: Hunter weak movement average ever and that was just a
- 21:15Speaker 1: few months ago. And I think what we're doing is
- 21:17Speaker 1: getting that reversion process now. So since we had that
- 21:19Speaker 1: seventy five bases point hike which was last month, we're
- 21:22Speaker 1: probably gonna get one next week. Bitcoin is up about
- 21:25Speaker 1: ten and crude oil is down about ten percent. To me,
- 21:28Speaker 1: that's what's going to continue to happen partly because of
- 21:32Speaker 1: this is the macro the micro and the key thing
- 21:35Speaker 1: I think to worry about it for a bitcoin is
- 21:36Speaker 1: only if we get another big plunge in the stock market,
- 21:38Speaker 1: bitcoin might drop. But it seems to be in the
- 21:41Speaker 1: process that coming out ahead. And I think that really
- 21:43Speaker 1: showed us last Thursday. Remember we had that bounce in
- 21:44Speaker 1: the stock market. Bitcoin did it first. It's like Mattisman
- 21:47Speaker 1: point out point in a lot. It's just a great
- 21:49Speaker 1: leading indicator at the moment. Still is so you tied
- 21:53Speaker 1: oil and gold together? Are they well in this year?
- 21:57Speaker 1: And that's one thing I've enjoyed it. At a few
- 21:59Speaker 1: conference people asked me why are you writing so much
- 22:00Speaker 1: about Krudel. It's one of the most significant as people
- 22:03Speaker 1: would say standard deviation moves versus the hunter week movement
- 22:06Speaker 1: average ever in crudef futures and bitcoin, when I'm just
- 22:09Speaker 1: seen as a normal discount in a bowl market, but
- 22:13Speaker 1: I have to row open Krudel. So let's remember the
- 22:15Speaker 1: beginning of the year, the FED was gonna hike twenty
- 22:17Speaker 1: five basis points at every meeting, and then we had
- 22:19Speaker 1: this massive spike in commandities led by Crudeil. Now they're
- 22:22Speaker 1: hiking seventy five basis points at two meetings in a row.
- 22:25Speaker 1: I mean they are taking up the sledge hammer on markets.
- 22:28Speaker 1: They are it's a sledgehammer, and it's okay the stock
- 22:30Speaker 1: market sponsor, that's great, but I think they're going to
- 22:32Speaker 1: just keep tightens. The stock market gives up, and Bitcoin
- 22:35Speaker 1: I think has had you know, it's pretty good bear market,
- 22:38Speaker 1: but it's had the normal nuances you'd see in a
- 22:41Speaker 1: in a you know, Nath and Technology were seeing that
- 22:43Speaker 1: the leaves of some of the bankruptcies and stuff. But
- 22:46Speaker 1: it's probably more likely just to come out ahead. It's
- 22:48Speaker 1: this question of timing and Valtilly, what was your takeaway yesterday?
- 22:52Speaker 1: I saw you at the Bloomberg Crypto conference in I
- 22:56Speaker 1: guess what do you call? It's not Midtown anymore. It's
- 23:00Speaker 1: like the Grammercy Park area district in any case, Um,
- 23:04Speaker 1: what was your takeaway there? We saw some big names
- 23:07Speaker 1: Um talking Jack Millers, I spoke with Sam Bankman, Freed
- 23:10Speaker 1: spoke with Matt Levine, UM, Michael nova Grad spoke with
- 23:13Speaker 1: Shonali Basket. What was your takeaway? Very similar Matt to
- 23:17Speaker 1: what I took away from the SALT conference in Bahamas
- 23:19Speaker 1: as lost the people in the space realized that this
- 23:21Speaker 1: has got a little bit a bit overdone, in a
- 23:23Speaker 1: little bit bubblicious, and we're personal bursting the bubble and
- 23:26Speaker 1: out of that, so many people are so positive about
- 23:29Speaker 1: the new technology, what it's gonna do, where it's gonna go.
- 23:32Speaker 1: And that was my takeaway from UM from Sam Bankman, Freed,
- 23:36Speaker 1: Nova Grant said, I really like telling you, yes I
- 23:38Speaker 1: was wrong, but moving on, this is a pretty significant technology.
- 23:41Speaker 1: And also on my panel, you know where are we
- 23:43Speaker 1: a year from now when we get past this period
- 23:45Speaker 1: of we all remember from the dot com bubble. A
- 23:47Speaker 1: year from now, we've built a better system and it's
- 23:50Speaker 1: about appreciation. Wow, So you were talking to us, but
- 23:54Speaker 1: you're still a bull You're still But I wonder when
- 23:57Speaker 1: you get when you step out of crypto bubbles, isn't
- 24:02Speaker 1: it hard to keep being bullish after a drop from
- 24:05Speaker 1: sixty whatever to well let's put it in context. We've
- 24:10Speaker 1: dropped about twenty five trillion dollars from global equity is
- 24:13Speaker 1: based on Bloomberg metrics, and we lost about a billion
- 24:16Speaker 1: a trillion in cryptos. I mean now, right now, cryptos
- 24:18Speaker 1: are a rounding error compared to what's happened in the macro.
- 24:21Speaker 1: We've had the biggest draw down in the in the
- 24:23Speaker 1: in the bond commodity, in the bond future, which is
- 24:25Speaker 1: why I started in trading pits in the eighties. Ever,
- 24:28Speaker 1: and well it's since nineteen seventy seven, so the markets.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Bitcoin is part of the and cryptos are part of
- 24:33Speaker 1: that macro. But the thing is, is the fastest horse
- 24:35Speaker 1: in the race where is it five or ten years
- 24:37Speaker 1: from now? So here's my bottom line in bitcoin. I
- 24:39Speaker 1: fully expect this twenty thousand level is going to be
- 24:41Speaker 1: like five thousand was the last beer market, and it's
- 24:43Speaker 1: just a matter of time it gets two hundred thousand.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Something has to change in the demand and adoption because
- 24:48Speaker 1: the supplies declining, that has the prices have to go up,
- 24:51Speaker 1: and I don't think that's going to change. I think
- 24:53Speaker 1: we're just going to see more dip by ever, like
- 24:55Speaker 1: do you ever go out to dinner with people who
- 24:57Speaker 1: aren't involved in crypto, or like hang out with someone
- 25:02Speaker 1: who's been burned and doesn't want to go back into
- 25:04Speaker 1: Do you have a heart doctor? Maybe he has lost
- 25:06Speaker 1: money on like Mike Novgress mentioned, well, a lot of
- 25:10Speaker 1: people got over their skis the way I look at
- 25:13Speaker 1: the bottom line for cryptos. If you're running and say
- 25:15Speaker 1: a hundred newness of any acid, you don't have one
- 25:18Speaker 1: or two of those units in crypto, you're at greater
- 25:20Speaker 1: risk than not doing it. And to me, that narrative
- 25:23Speaker 1: was kind of a smaller part of the bell curve
- 25:25Speaker 1: maybe five years ago. Every day that goes by, it's
- 25:27Speaker 1: an increasing nuance in the space. Realize, okay, I gotta
- 25:30Speaker 1: get into space. I'm willing to buy dips in crypto.
- 25:32Speaker 1: It's got the highest spade. And if if the market
- 25:34Speaker 1: goes up bitcoinsrob we're gonna go up the most cryptos.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Where will and where is it five ten years from now?
- 25:39Speaker 1: Do we really think the will going digital is not
- 25:41Speaker 1: going to adapt this global digital collateral? And then you
- 25:44Speaker 1: look at the theory, it's really the bottom line for
- 25:46Speaker 1: n f T S tokenization, which is the key thing
- 25:49Speaker 1: on of my panel there's nothing to stop the tokenization
- 25:51Speaker 1: of assets. Regulation will push back, but it's a matter
- 25:53Speaker 1: of time. And the most widely trade to cryptos on
- 25:56Speaker 1: the planet. The number one is the dollar. Key think
- 25:58Speaker 1: I remember it's a token dis version over the dollar.
- 26:01Speaker 1: All right, folks, everybody's out there. It's got a Bloomber
- 26:04Speaker 1: turmal in front of them. B I Space, c O,
- 26:07Speaker 1: M D GO. That's the commodities dashboard run by Mike mcglowa,
- 26:12Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence. It's got it all the soft commodities, the
- 26:16Speaker 1: hard commodities, all this crypto stuff is the place to go. Well,
- 26:20Speaker 1: he'll know if we had a peak. Do we have
- 26:22Speaker 1: a peak in inflation at least on the material side,
- 26:24Speaker 1: Oh sure, it's very close. In terms of commodities. Commodities
- 26:27Speaker 1: are plunge. You look at copper down in the year.
- 26:30Speaker 1: It's the most extreme versus a hundred week moving on
- 26:32Speaker 1: average since the christ since Lehman collapsed. So if copper
- 26:36Speaker 1: is pointing out that we're heading for a major deflationary perry,
- 26:39Speaker 1: services is probably the problem. Right at least that's what
- 26:42Speaker 1: I heard Tom Keen saying this morning that services could
- 26:44Speaker 1: continue to rise in price. So all right, I could
- 26:47Speaker 1: lose my bet with Critty. Alright, Mike mcglogan down in Miami,
- 26:50Speaker 1: sweating it out with the masses, but probably no worse
- 26:54Speaker 1: than here in New York City. I mean, I mean,
- 26:55Speaker 1: try go down and so it was quite hot yesterday. Alright.
- 26:58Speaker 1: Mike mcglowan, Senior Commodity Strategies bloom Intelligence. Again. That uh
- 27:02Speaker 1: ticker B I, SPACE, c O, M D GO is
- 27:05Speaker 1: all of the commodity research coming out of Bloomberg Research,
- 27:08Speaker 1: and Mike has covered everything over his several decade career.
- 27:12Speaker 1: The hard commodity is the soft commodities energy. Uh. And
- 27:16Speaker 1: now he's really established himself, as you know, within Bloomberg
- 27:18Speaker 1: Intelligence and within I think the industry itself, one of
- 27:21Speaker 1: the leading research voices for all things scriptose. We appreciate
- 27:25Speaker 1: getting some time from him. Thanks for listening to the
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