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Retail Sales, Fed Expectations, and TikTok on Trial · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 3: We had some economic data, of course today, Retail sales
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  Speaker 3: KIM in better than expected retail sales. The headline KIM
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  Speaker 3: at zero point one percent positive for the month of August.
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  Speaker 3: The expectation was negative zero point two percent, so better
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  Speaker 3: than expected. The prior period also revised up, So that
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  Speaker 3: kind of it's kind of a little bit different than
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  Speaker 3: what we hear from some of the retailers who kind
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  Speaker 3: of call out the weakness that they are seeing, particularly
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  Speaker 3: from the lower end of their consumers. But let's let's
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  Speaker 3: break down some of these numbers. We can do that
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  Speaker 3: with Joe Blanchard, President of Enterprise Client Solutions at Advantage Solutions. So, Jill,
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  Speaker 3: what did you make of the retail sales data we
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  Speaker 3: got this morning?
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  Speaker 4: So hello and thanks for having me back. It was
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  Speaker 4: a surprise, right, This could be indicative of many things,
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  Speaker 4: but the first thing that I'll point to is early
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  Speaker 4: holiday earlier holiday spending, and so retailers have been pulling
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  Speaker 4: holidays forward with good deals and it's kind of working.
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  Speaker 4: Sixty three percent of consumers that that they would buy
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  Speaker 4: products earlier if on sale. Holiday creep's always been a thing,
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  Speaker 4: but it's so exaggerated today that virtually every week of
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  Speaker 4: the year there's some sort of holiday in store. We
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  Speaker 4: saw that this summer with Summer ween, if you've heard
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  Speaker 4: that term before. So the back to school holiday shared
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  Speaker 4: shelf space with ghosts and skeletons, and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: orange and black TikTokers were making Jacko lanterns from watermelons.
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  Speaker 4: There were skeletons on pol floats. Starbucks brought the ever
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  Speaker 4: so popular Pumpkin spice latte out earlier than ever before,
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  Speaker 4: and home improvement stores jumped on the bad and wagon
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  Speaker 4: with halfway to Halloween in April in hopes of addressing
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  Speaker 4: their slugs sales as well as trying to deplete that
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  Speaker 4: inventory so they have less to discount come the first
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  Speaker 4: day of November. So that could also be you know,
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  Speaker 4: leaning in towards this increase spending.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Jill love of pumpkins spice Lotte, that's a good
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  Speaker 5: that's a good call out there. I wanted to know.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, when we're looking at retail sales, earnings and
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  Speaker 5: just all the data that's coming in, it can really
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  Speaker 5: feel like a slew. We can't really get a read
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  Speaker 5: on the consumer here. Has this offered us any more clarity?
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  Speaker 4: Offers more clarity? You know? Probably not, because again, consumers
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  Speaker 4: are really shifting the way that they spend. The predictions
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  Speaker 4: for this holiday seas that are to be softer than
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  Speaker 4: last year, or two percent versus three percent. We we
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  Speaker 4: we do see consumers continuing to buy, but trying to
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  Speaker 4: buy lower cost alternatives. We saw that with back to school,
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  Speaker 4: where the volume was flat but the dollars were down,
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  Speaker 4: indicating that they're buying. They're just finding cheaper ways to
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  Speaker 4: buy things. And I think we're going to see that
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  Speaker 4: this holiday season too, especially with things like the deep
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  Speaker 4: discount Chinese shopping apps t MoU, Shine, TikTok. Two thirds
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  Speaker 4: of consumers have shot those apps, and that's a number
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  Speaker 4: that will likely see go up. And I bring those
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  Speaker 4: up at the examples to answer your question because it's
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  Speaker 4: blurry out there. Things happening in both.
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  Speaker 3: Directions, Jill.
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  Speaker 7: For this holiday season, here.
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  Speaker 3: How promotional do you think retailers are going to have
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  Speaker 3: to be to drive their top line.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to have to continue to be very promotional
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  Speaker 4: to drive their top line. Historically, pricing and promotions were
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  Speaker 4: used to boost near end sales, but now they're used
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  Speaker 4: to boost everyday sales. And it's really driven by how
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  Speaker 4: consumers are spending and potentially a permanent shift in how
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  Speaker 4: they spend. And so we see a lot of growth
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  Speaker 4: from discount retailers, private brand sales in general, and consumers
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  Speaker 4: are definitely leaning in towards those strategies. In some household
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  Speaker 4: are doing even more things, you know, like using alternative
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  Speaker 4: pay pay plans like a buy now, pay later, getting
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  Speaker 4: a second job, sharing groceries, leaning on social media. The
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  Speaker 4: hashtag back to school Halls was a huge help to
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  Speaker 4: parents during back to school season.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think when we're looking at this and
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  Speaker 5: the market has really been on edge with investors really
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  Speaker 5: worrying about the consumer and how it may hurt the
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  Speaker 5: economy and the labor market, I mean, does this really
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  Speaker 5: show that the consumer may be stronger than many people think?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my, I'm so hesitant to lean into that. All
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  Speaker 4: predictions for the back half of this year as well
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  Speaker 4: as a holiday season. You know, aren't incredibly positive. Economists
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  Speaker 4: think that consumers will rein in their spending in the
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  Speaker 4: back even though we didn't see that with the results
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  Speaker 4: this morning, will rain in their spending in the back
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  Speaker 4: half of this year due to depleted pandemic savings. Lower
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  Speaker 4: income households have record levels of credit card debt uncertainty,
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  Speaker 4: and those low income households, by the way, are proportionally
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  Speaker 4: affected with inflation. We saw that a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 4: when Dollar General said that the weekest three weeks of
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  Speaker 4: their quarter were the last weeks of each month, indicating
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  Speaker 4: that consumers are really struggling to stretch that budget. So
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  Speaker 4: for those reasons, I'm super hesitant to lean into overall
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  Speaker 4: growth in the back half of this year. We still
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  Speaker 4: think it's going to be depressed.
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  Speaker 7: What is skimpflation.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great question. I'd say that this industry is
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  Speaker 4: not short of creativity, right, so we all know what
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  Speaker 4: shrinkflation is. We talked about upflation, which is that concept
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  Speaker 4: of fining a new use for an existing product. Skipflation
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  Speaker 4: is the concept of producing a product or a service
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  Speaker 4: with a lesser equality or not equality lesser price ingredient,
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  Speaker 4: So for a food product, or for a piece of
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  Speaker 4: clothing that could be a cheaper ingredient, or material for
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  Speaker 4: a service that could be something like a hotel's day
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  Speaker 4: with no cleaning service.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen that more and more, but less and less.
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  Speaker 3: Night after the pandemic, pandemic was really prevalent.
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  Speaker 7: Now it's less, so definitely.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we can't really look at any one data point,
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  Speaker 5: but as we're looking toward the Fed tomorrow, of course
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  Speaker 5: this will that's not necessarily play into this one, but
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  Speaker 5: we're looking toward the next job report. How is this
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  Speaker 5: just telling us about the strink of the economy more broadly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so there's a lot of discussion around the rate
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  Speaker 4: cuts and what that might ultimately do to spending. Historically,
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  Speaker 4: spending goes up about a half percent in the year
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  Speaker 4: following a rate cut, but also goes down to to
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  Speaker 4: four percent in a recession. Where we are, you know,
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  Speaker 4: soft but not quite a recession. You know, we could
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  Speaker 4: see a slight decline in twenty twenty five, but overall,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to take a while to revitalize the economy
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  Speaker 4: via the rate cuts.
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  Speaker 3: Just real quick, Jill, how important is brand loyalty these days.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I can't tell you how many times
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  Speaker 4: they say this. The new loyalty is disloyalty. Which, the
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  Speaker 4: new loyalty is disloyalty. We are training consumers to be disloyal.
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  Speaker 4: We are training them that there is always a deal
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  Speaker 4: to be had out there, whether it's at a different
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  Speaker 4: outlet or whether it's waiting. So loyalty has definitely declined
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  Speaker 4: and retailers are trying to get that back. So, for example,
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  Speaker 4: take retailers loyalty programs. It's a great way for retailers
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  Speaker 4: to pull that consumer into their store for that trip
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  Speaker 4: because it's the only place to get that price. But
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  Speaker 4: consumers beware. It often does have consumers buying things that
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  Speaker 4: they didn't need or more than they need. In fact,
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  Speaker 4: we just did a recent survey. We're eighty percent of
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  Speaker 4: consumers so that they're buying more product than they need
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  Speaker 4: because of a good deal.
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  Speaker 2: Ye.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a great strategy for retailers, but consumers aware.
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  Speaker 3: Entry load is what it's called. Jill Blanchard, thanks so
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  Speaker 3: much for joining us. Jill Blanchard. She's president of Enterprise
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  Speaker 3: Client Solutions. The firm name is Advantage Solutions. Joining us
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  Speaker 7: All right, it is time to get right to it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going right to our guest, daniel De Martino, Booth
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  Speaker 3: CEO and chief strategist QI Research. You want to talk FED,
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  Speaker 3: this is the go to source. We're so glad to
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  Speaker 3: have her in our studio. She's based down on Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: She was a former FED person down there in the
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  Speaker 3: Dallas Fed, so she knows a thing or two about
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  Speaker 3: this Central bank. Here, Danielle, what do you think they
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  Speaker 3: should do tomorrow?
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  Speaker 8: I think they should have I mean, since we're doing
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  Speaker 8: shows right and by the way, by the way, I
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  Speaker 8: do analog. So it's my birthday today, so I'm just.
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  Speaker 7: I'm right there with you with them. Legal to drink
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  Speaker 7: now barely possibly. It's also lis In Saunders birthday.
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  Speaker 8: It is also lis In Saunders.
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  Speaker 7: We always are like that.
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  Speaker 8: The first ones to wish each other had we go
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  Speaker 8: down Constitution Day. Anyways, I think that they should have
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  Speaker 8: if we're doing shoulda kuda lowered in July? And I
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  Speaker 8: think that they know that, and I think that had
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  Speaker 8: they lowered in July, because they had a quote unquote
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  Speaker 8: real conversation about it, according to J. Powett, the podium
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  Speaker 8: that they would subsequently be lowering again twenty five basis
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  Speaker 8: points tomorrow, which is why I think fifty kind of
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  Speaker 8: makes sense because the level of interest rates fifty basis
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  Speaker 8: points lower than what it is right now is appropriate
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  Speaker 8: given Bloomberg's bankruptcies came in at eight in the last week,
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  Speaker 8: and we've seen another one since then, the second highest
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  Speaker 8: this year. I mean, obviously the lag effect is taking
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  Speaker 8: effect in the credit markets. It's much more difficult to
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  Speaker 8: find funding if you're a bad building or a bad business,
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  Speaker 8: so I think, And it's harder by a car, and
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  Speaker 8: it's harder to refinance your home, and it's a lot
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  Speaker 8: of things say that the level of interest rate is
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  Speaker 8: too high, and I think that that's what they should
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  Speaker 8: be focused on the level.
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  Speaker 5: So you said that you think that they should have
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  Speaker 5: cut back in July. So what are your expectations for tomorrow?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, are you in the more ambitious camp, are
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  Speaker 5: you looking for fifty basis point cut or so?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I have Look, I've been around the Fed
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  Speaker 8: for a very long time, and to say, and Bloomberg
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  Speaker 8: does a great job of tracking the volatility in the
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  Speaker 8: uncertainty of the wagers on whether it's going to be
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  Speaker 8: twenty five or fifty, we haven't seen uncertainty this high
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  Speaker 8: since two thousand and seven, wow, in terms of the
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  Speaker 8: WORP WRP GO. So it's so difficult to say. And
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  Speaker 8: Bank of America came out and drew the lines hard
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  Speaker 8: this morning and they're like, it should only be twenty five,
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  Speaker 8: And Michael Furley at JP Morgan Chase is like, it
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  Speaker 8: absolutely should be fifty. My buddy, George Goncalvez at MUFG,
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  Speaker 8: kudos to him. He's been saying fifty the whole time
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  Speaker 8: because he's looking at the level. So I think that
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  Speaker 8: they've done enough broadcasting and moved markets to a great
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  Speaker 8: enough extent to break the seventy five percent rule.
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  Speaker 7: If need be.
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  Speaker 8: But that's what it would come down to, It would
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  Speaker 8: be breaking the seventy five percent probability role.
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  Speaker 3: So once the FED does begin tomorrow, what's the cadence
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  Speaker 3: after that, Like, when would they like to be done?
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  Speaker 7: Where would I mean, how does that all work?
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  Speaker 8: So I think it from my experience on the inside,
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  Speaker 8: you sort of know it's time to ease off on
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  Speaker 8: on easing, yep, when you start to see the lag
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  Speaker 8: effect from tightening dissipate. Okay, And those are things that
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  Speaker 8: are visible right because BC, why go you can track
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  Speaker 8: the level of bankruptcy, you can track the level of
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  Speaker 8: distress in the system. When that starts to ebb off,
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  Speaker 8: then obviously financing is opening up enough to provide adequate
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  Speaker 8: liquidity to the system, adequate liquidity to the credit markets.
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  Speaker 7: And so that's kind of when you know yep.
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  Speaker 8: And I think J Powell at AL, I think it's
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  Speaker 8: what's unique right now is we've got a FED that
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  Speaker 8: wants to stop with a two or three percent handle.
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  Speaker 8: They're like, you know, we can put three percentage points
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  Speaker 8: of cuts out there and still not have to worry
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  Speaker 8: about going back to the zero bound, which they know
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  Speaker 8: is a failed experiment and encouraged too much speculation.
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  Speaker 5: And going off of that, I mean, markets are pricing
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  Speaker 5: north of one hundred basis plantes of cuts through the
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  Speaker 5: end of this year. If that holds, does that mean
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  Speaker 5: that the later meetings would all be fifty basis? How
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  Speaker 5: would that work exactly?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I look, j Powell is the least political
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  Speaker 8: FED chair since Paul Volker wondered the buildings and gave
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  Speaker 8: the staff and you know, seminars on on why the
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  Speaker 8: tailor rode was broken just for fun and did not
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  Speaker 8: care what Wall Street thought. Jay Powell is very a
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  Speaker 8: political So if it needs to be fifty, it'll be fifty.
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  Speaker 8: Because he's when he says I'm data dependent, he's dated dependent.
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  Speaker 8: If we see that, you know, there's enough gig workers
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  Speaker 8: out there that have been absorbed and ergo, they're finally
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  Speaker 8: starting to apply for unemployment because we're seeing a massive
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  Speaker 8: runoff from the million full time jobs we've lost in
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  Speaker 8: the last twelve months into the part time for economic reasons.
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  Speaker 5: Pool.
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  Speaker 8: I had an uber driver yesterday, first drive of his
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  Speaker 8: Uber life.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: But you get that a lot because people are like, Okay,
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  Speaker 8: the state's gonna get wherever I live, stay x y. Heck,
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  Speaker 8: if it's tennessee twelve whole weeks, that's their max for
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  Speaker 8: unemployment benefits. I can maybe get two hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 8: five from the state, or I can get at least
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  Speaker 8: five seven one thousand dollars five hundred and seven driving Uber,
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  Speaker 8: delivering door dash, whatever it is. But at some point
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  Speaker 8: you're going to saturate that market in terms of I mean,
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  Speaker 8: it's a lot quicker to get an Uber today than
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  Speaker 8: it was nine months ago.
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  Speaker 3: So just real quick, what's the labor number that gets
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  Speaker 3: you spooked, whether it's an unemployment rate or just what's
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  Speaker 3: the labor number that gets you spooked?
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  Speaker 7: To maybe art you might already be there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm kind of are yeah, spoop. I really am.
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  Speaker 8: To see the rise in part time employment. To see
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  Speaker 8: the economic depopulation ratio already dive down into recessionary territory
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  Speaker 8: that's on par with that of the two thousand and
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  Speaker 8: seven two thousand and nine Great Recession. To see in
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  Speaker 8: University of Michigan bad news heard on unemployment go spiking.
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  Speaker 8: To see people's expectations for their income go down for
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  Speaker 8: six months in a row. That's a data series that
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  Speaker 8: goes back to nineteen eighty. We've never seen six months
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  Speaker 8: in a row of people saying my income is going
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  Speaker 8: to decline in the coming twelve months. Why is that
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  Speaker 8: because they're going from full time to part time. They
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  Speaker 8: know that what they're we have three hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 8: nine thousand and fifty five year old plus rejoin the
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  Speaker 8: workforce in August. Hey, I'm going to go back to
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  Speaker 8: work to help my kid who doesn't have a full
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  Speaker 8: time job anymore. We've got to put food on the
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  Speaker 8: table for the grandkids.
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  Speaker 3: And I just saw that Sam's Club they're raising the
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  Speaker 3: base rates starting wages in the US from fifteen to
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  Speaker 3: sixteen dollars. And I keep an eye on that because
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  Speaker 3: my last job will be as a greader at walmart
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  Speaker 3: Danielle Dee martinmo Booth CEO, Chief Strategist QI Research during
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  Speaker 3: US Live here in a Bloomerg interrector Broker studio, which
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  Speaker 3: is an absolutely perfect guest to have the day before
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  Speaker 3: the FED.
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  Speaker 7: Nor are you a TikToker?
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  Speaker 5: I am. I'm excited for this segment.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well good, I mean, I'm not even going
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  Speaker 3: to ask John Tucker he's a TikToker. I know where
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  Speaker 3: that's going to stay.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know what that is? What's that?
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  Speaker 5: You go?
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  Speaker 7: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Apparently yesterday the hearing went poorly for TikTok and it's
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  Speaker 3: legal fight against a US law enforcing servers and app
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  Speaker 3: stores stop hosting the video sharing app in January. That's
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  Speaker 3: not bueno for them. Matt Sheltonham, he follows all of
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  Speaker 3: this stuff media litigation. He's down in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: For Bloomberg Intelligence.
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  Speaker 7: MAC.
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  Speaker 3: You summarize what the case was before the court and
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  Speaker 3: what their ruling was. Are we gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: still have TikTok come January?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I think if TikTok wasn't concerned about a potential ban
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  Speaker 6: before yesterday's hearing, it should be concerned after that hearing.
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  Speaker 7: Yesterday it did not go.
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  Speaker 6: Well for the company. What's an issue here is in April,
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  Speaker 6: Congress passed a law that said unless TikTok is divested
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  Speaker 6: to a company that doesn't have its parent in China,
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  Speaker 6: that companies in the US can no longer carry the app.
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  Speaker 6: In app stores. Companies can no longer host it in
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  Speaker 6: a way that the app can be distributed, updated, or
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  Speaker 6: maintained in the United States, all of as of January nineteenth,
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  Speaker 6: and TikTok is said, look, we can't do a divestiture.
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  Speaker 6: It's certainly not on that timeline. And so TikTok's only
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  Speaker 6: chance to survive in the United States after January nineteenth
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  Speaker 6: is to win this legal case. And yesterday's hearing was
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  Speaker 6: the big, big hearing on the case, and the three
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  Speaker 6: judges on the case, in my view, were not very
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  Speaker 6: sympathetic to the company's First Amendment case.
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  Speaker 5: And so is this isolated to the United States? Are
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: there any other you know, countries that are also trying
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: to crack down on TikTok and its influence.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I think different countries are taking different approaches. The EU
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: has taken a harder approach to tech regulation generally and
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: likely would apply that to TikTok without a specific ban
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: in the same way. According to our analyst Hamlin Basin.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: There so this law is US specific. It was passed
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: by Congress specifically to target the company, and so it's
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: a different remedy here in the US. But there's a
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: tendency I think to think, you know, nothing's going to
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: happen in Congress. Nothing ever gets done there, just a
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: lot of talk. Well, here, Congress did it. It's done.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: It's law, and TikTok's only chance to overcome it is
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: to win this legal case.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: So the parent company for TikTok is Byte Dance, a
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Chinese controlled company. If I've misstated that, let me know
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: what has Bite Dance said about their options, what they
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: plan to do scenarios.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's right, that Byte Dance is the parent
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: company of TikTok. Now, TikTok is a is a US subsidiary,
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: It's a US company. TikTok is a privately owned company,
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: but it happens to have its headquarters in China, and
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: that's the concern. And you know, TikTok and Byte Dance
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: in this legal case have basically said, look, a divestiture
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: is just not technically or legally feasible. And so there's
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: really no indication that they're pursuing a divestiture at this point,
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: and at least that's their indication to the court. The
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: law allows a ninety day extension if the president sees
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: their making progress on a sale, but the company, they've
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: made no indication they're pursuing that route. They say this
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: is a blatant violation of the constitution, and so they
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: think they can win in court. But I'm not so
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: sure after yesterday's hearing.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, so what do analysts think are the brought
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: would be the broader readout for the corporate side of things.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, of course, we know so many companies actually
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: promote their products and their companies on TikTok. I mean,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: when I'm scrolling through, I'm always seeing a new pitch.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: So what does that look like in terms of advertisement
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: and the ripple effects there?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, And part of the litigation yesterday was
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: brought by users of TikTok that say, look, there isn't
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: a good substitute.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there are other.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Social media companies, but we've built our businesses here. We
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: are expressing ourselves as a first Amendment matter on TikTok,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: and the government can't take that away. And there's also
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: a big business impact in terms of TikTok's competitors. Is
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: one of the leading social media apps in the country,
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: so if it goes away, it's a great opportunity for
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: the competitors for Google, for Meta and so there are
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: serious business implications by forcing a divestiture that isn't going
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: to happen in effectively forcing a ban.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Is this something that could get to the Supreme Court.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Yes, So if TikTok loses in the DC Circuit, I
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: expect we'll see a decision by early December from the
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: DC Circuit. As I said, the key deadline is January
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: nineteenth here, so there's not a lot of time. If
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: we see a decision in December from the DC Circuit,
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: TikTok's realistic only chance at that point is going to
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: be a last ditch plea to the Supreme Court to
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: hit pause on this, to say, look, nothing should move
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: this fast when you have such a major restriction under
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: the First Amendment. The Supreme Court should issue a stay
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: and take up this case. That's going to be the
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: TikTok's last chance to dodge a man by January nineteenth
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: if this ruling goes against it, and I'm not sure
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: the Supreme Court will necessarily take it. Yes, it's a
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: major question that they might be interested in. But if
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: TikTok gets a major loss at the d C Circuit.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: The Supreme Court could say, look, you know they got
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: it right. We don't need to step in here. So
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: it's not even a sure thing that the Supreme.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: Court will take it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: We'll have to watch that in after the d C
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Circuit rules.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: All right, Matt, thanks so much for joining us. Expert
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: expert analysis there tall you folks. It's hard to find
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: that kind of analysis anywhere else but Bloomberg Intelligence. Mett
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: shutting home media litigation analysts from Bloomberg intelp just down
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: in Washington, DC.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: It's a huge case. I mean, you think about.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Not just all the people that are on TikTok, but
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: all the businesses that are built upon.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: What happens to the dances.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Are we not going to dance anymore? Exact?
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: So you'll get like fifteen second videos of some guy
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: chopping wood or somebody dancing.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: I don't know something. We're afraid that we're going to lose.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: That it's going to be big. We'll stay on top
• 21:57
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• 22:21
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• 22:47
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• 22:50
  Speaker 3: why it matters or does it matter that those types
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: of discussions.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Oh it matters, Okay, you know it has plateaued for
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: over a year now, and they're tomorrow twenty five or fifty.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: In some ways it doesn't matter because it's just the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: first step that they're taking in what we believe is
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: a cycle of cuts. It's still going to be restrictive
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: after twenty five basis points or fifty. We do think
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: that there are other considerations they need to think about,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: which is, if you go back to the March projections
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and then look at the June projections, there was a
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: huge revision, right, they got more hawkish. Now it looks
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: like the March revisions maybe they had they it would
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: have been better if they had stayed put. So if
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: we look at that, we have three cuts coming up,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: twenty five basis points each September tomorrow twenty five basis
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: points that we're expecting, and then maybe November and another
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: one in December. So that's what we've been sort of
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: relaying to our clients and certainly preparing our portfolios.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: And this has definitely been such an interesting cycle, unprecedented.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: But I mean, when you're looking at those projections for
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: cuts throughout the end of the year, is that based
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: on historical patterns or are you all you know, what's
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: the thought process behind not moving forward?
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: I don't think history helps us, right, not at all.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: No, it's you know, this was a pandemic driven inflation
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and the Fed had to do something pretty dramatic coming down.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I mean it was sort of obviously had to raise rates, right,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't at the time, but in hindsight it
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: was going down. I don't think is going to be
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: as easy.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: And the data.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Dependency, I think comes from the fact that we can't
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: rely on history. But at the same time, data dependency
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: is making things very volatile, especially on market expectations. So
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: we're literally taking I mean we're taking it three cuts
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, but also one meeting at a time.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: How about if you haven't put cash to work here,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's kind of tough one. I think
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: John Tucker was going to put some cash to work
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: in some money market at four point was it six
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: percent or something?
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: Was well known the Goldman Sachs markets market. Just like
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: my question is of our stock's going to see competition
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: from the higher or for bonds at some point fixed.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Income, well, cash has been nearer five and there was
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: no competition, right, So I'm not sure if bonds are
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: going to be necessarily any different now the price has
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: been it's been favorable for bonds, right, but that also
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: means the incomes going down, so lock them in.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: We've heard some people maybe reposition the portfolio, maybe maybe
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: take some of the gains from the stocks that really run,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: whether it's the big tech and putting.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Is that something you guys do too, and repositioning your portfolio.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: How often do you do that?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So we have institutional portfolios, so we have it's
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: pretty much fully invested and there's an ips that we
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: have to stick to. So what we do is oftentimes
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: we have seen this in the last not just two years,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: but going back to pre pandemic, a huge discrepancy between
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: growth stocks and value stocks. So we do separate them.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And when growth stocks run as they have, we take
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the gains. We take the gains and reinvest it into
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the cheaper stock. So that's kind of how we deal
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: with some of the irrationalities of the market.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: So I'm always looking at interest rate sensitive sectors as
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: I'm sure everyone is. I look at real estate stocks,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: I cover them. Are there any sectors in particular that
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: you're really eyeing as we head through this, you know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: rate cut cycle. Are there any sectors that you think
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: could really outperform from this?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: So small caps certainly, and we have seen that actually
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: starting in July. Also starting in July, what you saw
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: were some rates public rates that were recovering just to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: give a sense. I think office rates since the end
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, when FED really started to raise rates,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: it was down like forty percent or so, but you
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: really saw that recover since July. So a lot of
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the interest rates sensitive areas. Not every area was max seven,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: definitely wasn't. I think those areas are poised to.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Outperform, and again they're are performing today. The S and
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: P five hundreds up four tens of one percent, but
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: the Russell two thousand and so point seven percent, so
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: we're starting to see that already. Anna, thank you so
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: much for joining us on a Rathbund Chief Investment Officer
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: lyrical soprano. I am googling for some of her performances
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: as we speak.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: That's what I was doing earlier.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Oh no, so I'll be checking it out on the
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: commute home here see BIZ Investment Advisory Services.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: That's the day job.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: But a lyrical soprano, I want.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: To learn to hit those notes.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Oh please.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: My sister's a great singer, so she's the only one
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: that got to I think I'm like.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: An alto too. Whatever is probably maybe right before tenor okay,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: we can't do a due.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Get up there. Thank you.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: So much.
• 27:33
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• 27:56
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• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Kate just to get a So what's happening in the
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: world of global energy, natural gas, crude oil? Kate, thanks
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: so much for joining us here in our studio. Let's
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: talk about just WTI crude oil WORRE. It's seventy one
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: bucks a barrel here, we did fall below seventy here.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Give us the state of just global crude oil. Is
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: it a supply issue that's.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Been pulling oil down or is it demander a little
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: bit of both.
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: I would say it's probably sentiment more than anything else.
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: There's nothing that could explain a twenty to twenty five
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: dollars barrel drop in prices for oil fundamentally. But it's
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: very important to remember that oil is often not a
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: fundamentally driven commodity in terms of pricing, the financial demand
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: for oil and petroleum products is actually thirty times the
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: size of the physical market. So if you look at
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: all of the contracts that are treating for oil and
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: oil products such as gasoline, jet fuel, et cetera, that
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: market is thirty times the size of the actual physical
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: market for oil. And so what that means is that
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: the financial sentiment around oil can actually have an enormous
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: impact on prices that isn't actually reflected in fundamentals. And
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: I'll talk about fundamentals.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: In a second.
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: If you go back to twenty fifteen to kind of
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: illustrate the point that I just made, in twenty fifteen,
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: we had a two percent oversupply, so not horribly oversupplied
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: market that triggered a sixty percent price decline. That doesn't
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: happen in a normal market. You don't have like a
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: two percent oversupply and multifamily and a sixty percent decline
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: in rents. So that's fundamentally what we're dealing with in
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: terms of sort of the sentiment around oil, and that
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: kind of goes to the hedge fund point we were
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: talking about earlier. I will say that this sentiment around
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: oil is a little bit driven by Chinese demand. So
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: Chinese demand numbers are not great. They actually contracted in
• 29:40
  Speaker 10: Q two on a year over a year basis. However,
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: twenty twenty three was exceptionally strong, and China is about
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: seventeen percent of the market. When we look at the
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: idea that you could extrapolate Chinese demand to what's actually
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: going to happen in oil prices, I would say two things.
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: Number one, the correlation of Chinese demand to global demand,
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: so seventeen million barrels a day of demand to what
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: happens with the other eighty three million barrels a day
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: of demand is like six point eight percent, So on
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: an our square basis, that's meaningless. And if you look
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: at Chinese demand, when you look at Chinese demand to
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: non OECD demand, which has been a driver oil growth,
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: and so that's important, it's zero point one percent, so
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: obviously meaningless as well. So China's weighing on sentiment, but
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: we need to think about what that actually means in
• 30:26
  Speaker 10: terms of global demand growth. And the last thing I
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: would say is that oil and gasoline demand were at
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: all time highs last year, and they are also at
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: all time highs this year, so really nothing.
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: To explode three dollars a gallon, I'm coming.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: In gasoline correspondent, this is guy.
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, you could the FED can think oil
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: prices for being able to, you know, even entertain a cut.
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: If you had ninety to one hundred dollars oil prices
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: right now there, it would be.
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: Said on an inflation adjusted basis deflation.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Good question.
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: Oil is at two thousand and four levels. Wow, wow,
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: which is incredible for the most probably valuable commodity in
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: the world.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, of course we're sitting here in a
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: very special week. We've got the FED tomorrow. How does
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: this all play into that expand a bit more on that.
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, obviously, I think when you look at
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: the impact to consumers, we also are thinking about it
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: being an election year, and I would not say that
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: the correlation is you know, it's a spurious, spurious in
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: terms of correlation, and it may not be causal. But
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: normally we have weak oil prices in an election year.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: That's number one.
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: Number two, it's refinery turnaround season after peak driving season,
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: and so you are going to have you know, refineries
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: undergoing maintenance, so they will be consuming less oil that
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: will make demand look a little bit worse, and so
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: we're seeing a little bit of an impact from that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: But you know, when you look at like overall inflation levels,
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: inflation has cooled over the past year, but we're not
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: back to twenty nineteen levels. We're still you know, if
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: you look at the price of bread to gasoline, you're
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: still much higher than twenty nineteen levels. And oil just
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: has helped a little bit because it probably really is undervalued,
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: especially relative to the cost of supply.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Alps front, at least from my perspective and reporting on
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: this whole AI play for global energy, and it comes
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: down to simply, you're going to build all these computer
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: farms and things and all that kind of stuff. Somebody's
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: got to fuel it. And the question is it coal?
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Is it gas? Is it oil? Is it nuclear? How
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: do you guys think about that?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Whole thing?
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Is people trying to say there's an energy play here
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: to AI.
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean the future of AI is going to
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: be who controls the energy infrastructure related to it? Clearly,
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: and so then the question becomes is it natural gas,
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: is it nuclear? Is it renewables?
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: Is it coal?
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: I think that you know, what we see as big
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: tech is certainly hanging hopes on the AI revolution and
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: the growth and data centers that will be needed on
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: a nuclear renaissance, and there's some interesting things to say
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: with respect to that. So number one, uranium prices are
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: down twenty percent, and that's partly because Kazakhstan announced that
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: it's increasing production a bit. Secondly, the House and Senate
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: just passed a ban on Russian imports of uranium, which
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: is about twenty percent of the US market. US is
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: the largest consumer of uranium in the world and that
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: kicks in in twenty twenty eight, so the US consumers
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: will be needing to look for alternative sources of supply
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: for about twenty percent of their supply. And lastly, we
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: are starting to see groups like Amazon go and buy
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: nuclear power plants to see if they can power some
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: of data centers with uranium powered. Nuclear nuclear is clearly
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: carbon neutral, and it also has the most uptime of
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: any power producing asset in the world. It's like over
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: ninety percent uptime, So uranium is very interesting, especially given
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: the selloff. The other question is how much of this
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: is powered by natural gas, and that is a very
• 33:50
  Speaker 10: interesting strategic question for the US, because the US is
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: North America is a natural gas province, and we are
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, and we have cheap
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: domestics sources, especially with gas at two forty. However, gas
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: is in pretty steep contango. So December twenty twenty four
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: prices are at three dollars three dollars a M versus
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: you know, two forty spot prices, and next year it's
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: at three eighty and M. So that it shows that
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: we're in pretty steep contango. The market's expecting future higher prices,
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: but remember gas is fundamentally driven by weather, and if
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: winter doesn't show up this year, as it has not
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: for the past three winters, you could see lower prices.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Although I have to admit, I just got a tweet
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: from one of my favorite ski resorts out west. It's
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: snowed last night.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: It's coming.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Good news almost times guess that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: Guess now?
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: I just looked at my little Bloomberg charge down like
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: thirty percent from recent highs over the last year.
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: So is that a supply issue?
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, You've had a fair amount of new supply come
• 34:47
  Speaker 10: online in the US because of droll and completed wells
• 34:49
  Speaker 10: and you also have to remember that most oil wells
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: in the US produce natural gas as well. You know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: like thirty percent of permium production right now is natural gas,
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: and as those wells get older, they become gas or overtime.
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: So this is one of the reasons that people have
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: confidence in building petrochemical and lergy export facilities in the
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: US because we have such robust supply and we're even
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: getting it basically as a free buy product from our
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: oil wells.
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  Speaker 5: And I know, as we were talking about earlier, hedge
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: funds are net suor oil for the first time since
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: the datas started being collected in twenty eleven. I mean,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: when we think about smart money making this decision, do
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: you think that that permeates into the rest of the
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: market when we're looking at investors more broadly.
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: I think tactically, Number one, it's refinery season. It's refinery
• 35:29
  Speaker 10: maintenance season, so your bid for oil is less. That's
• 35:31
  Speaker 10: number one. Number Two, it's an election season, and usually
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: prices go down into an election. I mean you could
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: say that's in the interest of an incumbents. And then lastly,
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: you have a weak Chinese number and that is going
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: to spook the market, although we do not think weak
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: Chinese demand can be extrapolated to global demand today. So
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: if I were tactically positioning, I would say I would
• 35:54
  Speaker 10: be pretty net short too, however, but I would probably
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: close that trade out pretty quickly because we have probably
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: the most disciplined OPEC we've ever had, and OPEK under
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: the current Saudi leadership is very focused on price stability.
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: They do not want thirty they do not want one
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: hundred and twenty dollars oil. They really want it to
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: stay in a tight band because they view that as
• 36:13
  Speaker 10: best for their customers, and they've done a very good
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: job governing the market. So you know, just an example
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: of that is two weeks ago, OPEC came out and
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: said we were supposed to increase production one hundred and
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: eighty thousand barrels a day, and we won't. And that's
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: how they're governing the market. So I think you can
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: make these tactical trades, but you're probably trading in a
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: tighter band.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: It doesn't mean that you won't. You couldn't have a
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: temporary real trade off or trade up, but I think
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: you have a market that's being governed in bands the
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: way that it wasn't in two thousand and eight, for example,
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: is the.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Fact that the US is now a net exporter for
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the first time like in ever? Does that undercut Opek's
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: ability to really be that driver of price.
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: OPEC has teamed up with Russia and they are definitely
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: the largest producer in the world. US is like thirteen
• 36:55
  Speaker 10: percent of supply.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: So a lot though, isn't that on the margin? Does
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: that not impact that?
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: So I got some knucklehead in Texas or you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Louisiana pump and oil because he or she can and
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: their cost is for your fifty dollars a barrel?
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: Is that not impact the world markets?
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  Speaker 2: It does?
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: It absolutely does. The point I'm really making is that
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: OPEK has a cartel with Russia, controls over a third
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: of global production, and they have been committed to price stability.
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: But yes, of global production growth over the past ten
• 37:24
  Speaker 10: years has come from the United States. Right, the United
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: States is really only jurisdiction.
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: But here's here's the final question. Can you answer this one?
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: Because nobody else can and I can't and you can't.
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: Why can't we pump gas in New Jersey?
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Do you have any ideas The question of the day it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: Actually there are only two states.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: It's I don't think it's you mean where they pump
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: it for you, right.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: A pump it for you organ. That organ just went
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: to like, it's a good question.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: I think it's a luxury.
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: I agree, and it's a luxury for you. Thanks Homer.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: All right, that's how we roll, Kate. We see when
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Alex is not here, we go off the rails. Yber.
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: We appreciate it. Kate. Thank you so much for joining us.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: You know some of the smartest talk that we have
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: discussion that we have on global energy, thanks to Kate
• 38:13
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• 38:17
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