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Yields, Web3, Credit Suisse, Retail, And Cruises (Podcast) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside
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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day, we bring
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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. All right, we got
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Speaker 1: some p p I data tomorrow. That's the producer prices
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Speaker 1: in next, and then cp I Thursday. Wow, this is
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Speaker 1: disturbing image. Matt Miller just walked in with a huge
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Speaker 1: thing of peanut butter. Yes, well, I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 1: We have these machines upstairs and they grind the peanuts.
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Speaker 1: They make it fresh for you, so it doesn't take
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Speaker 1: anything like peanut butter, the worst thing in the word.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you. It is so good and it's much
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Speaker 1: better for you than Jiff, which is my previous fat
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Speaker 1: Matt loved eating Jeff peanut butter or skippy, but skinny
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Speaker 1: Matt likes fresh ground peanuts. It's so much healthier. Alright, folks.
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Speaker 1: For those of that don't know, Matt's been on a
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Speaker 1: diet for the last couple of months and has lost
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Speaker 1: a meaningful amount thirty three pound the end of July.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. Good for him. Ira save us
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Speaker 1: here Ira Jersey, chief US interest rate strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence.
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Speaker 1: I've got inflation data over the next couple of days.
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Speaker 1: People like you tell me I need to pay attention.
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Speaker 1: What's the FED looking for when I get some of
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Speaker 1: these data points over the next couple of days. Well,
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Speaker 1: they're really hoping for them to be lower. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: of course, Bloomberg Economics actually has a relatively high print
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Speaker 1: for or or things that it will be relatively high
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Speaker 1: print month on month. But if if the expectation is
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Speaker 1: met here on CPI, particularly core CPI being up only
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Speaker 1: zero point four uh instead of the zero point six
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Speaker 1: it was up last month, I think the FED will
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Speaker 1: kind of applaud that a little bit. And you know,
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Speaker 1: don't look at the headline number being up or down
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Speaker 1: a little bit, because there's you know, it's probably gonna
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Speaker 1: be up a little because gas prices are up a
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Speaker 1: little bit. But it's really the core inflation number that
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Speaker 1: is going to be the focus. I think that the
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Speaker 1: next month or two for for the FED and certainly
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Speaker 1: for market participants. What about retail sales. I've heard a
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Speaker 1: couple of people say that, you know, retail sales is
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Speaker 1: going to be a big number to pay attention to
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Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, so retail sales is always is always
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Speaker 1: a big number. In fact, I would say in this world,
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Speaker 1: it's really um the top three, you know, it kind
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Speaker 1: of has been eclipsed a little bit by CPI recently
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Speaker 1: in terms of market reaction and market function. But retail sales,
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Speaker 1: if it continues to slip, you know, X automobiles for example,
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Speaker 1: like it did last month, UM, then that certainly is
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Speaker 1: a sign that these higher prices are leading to demand destruction.
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Speaker 1: And I think that that's the real um, you know,
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Speaker 1: real concern for UM for the economy in general and
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Speaker 1: things like corporate earnings. Will those keep up because if
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Speaker 1: obviously its top line revenues start to fall significantly, it's
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Speaker 1: not going to be good for risk assets. UM. You know.
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Speaker 1: But but then again, like one of the reasons why
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Speaker 1: falling headline CPI is important and certainly headline UM core
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Speaker 1: inflation is that that real wage is might wind up
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Speaker 1: being higher. Right, the wage numbers that we got last
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Speaker 1: week weren't that bad, you know, so so bad in
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Speaker 1: what sense bad for the FED or bad for the economy. Well,
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Speaker 1: I when I say weren't that bad, I mean that
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Speaker 1: they were high enough that it looks like real growth
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Speaker 1: is still going to be positive. And that's where, um,
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Speaker 1: I think the the issue is right, nominal nominal growth
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Speaker 1: rates have just skyrocketed in part because of prices, but
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Speaker 1: but demand has kept up right, So so that's why
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Speaker 1: those retail sales numbers that we're going to get on
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Speaker 1: Friday are going to be, you know, pretty important facts.
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Speaker 1: So I just saw pretty good walking by the Bloomberg
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Speaker 1: Interactive Broker studio and I brought her in here, um
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Speaker 1: put her in front of a mike because Cretty, you're
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Speaker 1: the one from whom I heard this. I think you
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Speaker 1: were talking yesterday with Carol masser Um on Bloomberg Business
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Speaker 1: Week and saying that maybe the retail sales number is
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Speaker 1: as important or more important than, um the CPI number. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the logic there was that, uh, if the CPI number
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Speaker 1: and the PPN number, basically it's becoming a question of
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Speaker 1: the margin of of deceleration when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: inflation figures. But the retail number is different because it's
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Speaker 1: speaking more to the demand side rather than the supply side,
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Speaker 1: whereas the CP and PPI is more supply side driven.
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Speaker 1: The retail numbers that we're going to say, are people
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Speaker 1: still spending and it's coming out of time when a
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Speaker 1: lot of people are kind of expecting inventory levels that
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Speaker 1: are extremely high and therefore these massive sales and discounted
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Speaker 1: prices for the retail sector. So the question here is
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Speaker 1: if net net the GDP is going to kind of
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Speaker 1: um or I should say that the net sales are
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Speaker 1: going to drop in the fourth quarter going into holiday season.
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Speaker 1: What you want to make up for the lower prices
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Speaker 1: or the lower sales is higher demand UM And that's
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Speaker 1: why the retail sales number could couldn't make or break
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Speaker 1: that theory that people are still spending into the holiday
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Speaker 1: season rather than cutting back because of UM inflation or
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Speaker 1: higher prices or disposal when you do your Christmas shopping.
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Speaker 1: And Matt I don't completely disagree with that. So so
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Speaker 1: the number within the retail sales number on Friday you
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Speaker 1: really want to be focused on is that retail sales
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Speaker 1: control group because it that is all the what inputs
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Speaker 1: into GDP that looks at at overall prices. Remember this
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Speaker 1: is a September number, so obviously going into like like
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's accurate to say, hey, are we
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Speaker 1: going to have a decent holiday sales numbers? Um, and
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Speaker 1: September is a little bit early for that. But but
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Speaker 1: still if we have a zero point three as the
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Speaker 1: consensus is expecting for that control group, that will be
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Speaker 1: a pretty decent number. And actually that would mean that
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Speaker 1: real control group sales was basically flat. And and you know,
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Speaker 1: if demand continues to keep up with these price increases
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Speaker 1: and things are good. And by the way, Matt, I
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Speaker 1: just looked while we were talking, um, good things to
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Speaker 1: go to that that fresh peanut butter, because peanut butter
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Speaker 1: in the CPI report is up you know so far
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Speaker 1: this year. So you are free in the Bloomberg pantry.
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Speaker 1: But is a poultry and like eggs like up or something.
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Speaker 1: Some some sectors in the food are are are quite
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Speaker 1: significantly um. But keep in mind like like things like
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Speaker 1: like the the actual commodities that are in CPI, UM,
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Speaker 1: you know that that's for the consumer, so so a
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Speaker 1: lot of that is still shipping costs. So things like
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Speaker 1: gasoline prices being much higher means that it's, you know,
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Speaker 1: just cost more to get the good stores. All right,
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Speaker 1: Skippy superchunk is the way to go. And I would
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Speaker 1: die on that hill. Iro Jersey, chief US interest rate
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Speaker 1: strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, Thank you so much. We didn't
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Speaker 1: even get to talk soccer. That's a wasted opportunity. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: all right, we'll do it tomorrow. Let's bring our next
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Speaker 1: guest professional big time. Cole Speed, President portfolio manager of
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Speaker 1: Smeet Capital Managements. Some really really good performance there. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this market. It's just been a blood
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Speaker 1: bath all year. I mean, I've got cash in my pocket.
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Speaker 1: Should I just leave it there? What should I be doing? Well?
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Speaker 1: To your point, what we're witnessing this year is what
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Speaker 1: we call stock market failure, okay, and this is the
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Speaker 1: seeds of this were sowned by the spectator of euphoria
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Speaker 1: that we saw um in twenty one, whether it be
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Speaker 1: Spacts or the Robin Hood Yolo traders, as Spencer Jacob
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Speaker 1: from the Wall Street Journalist book lays out um. And
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Speaker 1: so we're just we're bearing what we have to do
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Speaker 1: with based on this, and by the way, we might
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Speaker 1: not be done with this bear market until Matt has
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Speaker 1: his next neat whiskey just okay. So so I just
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Speaker 1: say that because to your point, I think the topest
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Speaker 1: thing for investors right now is some investors want to
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Speaker 1: go right back to what was just popular okay. In
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Speaker 1: other words, there is a large population of the professional
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Speaker 1: stock pickers out there that are hiding out in big
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Speaker 1: cap tech because they think they'll pass through price pricing
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Speaker 1: better than anyone else. The question is will the valuation
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Speaker 1: protect them even if they can pass on pricing On
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Speaker 1: the flip side, where you'd have to go, in our
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Speaker 1: opinion to make you know, wonderful money looking forward is
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Speaker 1: you need to go into economically sensitive places that have
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Speaker 1: been bombed out based on the circumstances, based on the
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Speaker 1: fear of macroeconomics, based on the FED I think to break, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: And that's where it looks like the best prospects are
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Speaker 1: for making money in stocks. You know, I uh, there
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Speaker 1: were a lot of hot stocks meme stocks during the
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Speaker 1: pandemic that I've gotten crushed and most of them didn't
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Speaker 1: make any money. But I, in in my health pivot,
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Speaker 1: have founded another way of taking the edge off. When
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Speaker 1: I get home, it doesn't involve alcohol, and I'm wondering
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Speaker 1: if you have taken a look at weed stocks. I mean,
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Speaker 1: talk about cheap valuations. Some of these stocks are trading
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Speaker 1: at two times earnings and they're trading at three times sorry,
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Speaker 1: two times sales and three times earnings. I mean they're
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Speaker 1: they're trading for very low valuations and they make money,
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Speaker 1: and the outlook has to be right, right. Uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just don't know how society is better off if
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Speaker 1: we're all high to be. But you should be worried
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Speaker 1: about making money. You're not making value judgments, you're not
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Speaker 1: making ethical calls, right You you want to make money,
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Speaker 1: you want to maximize profitability, and you want to buy
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Speaker 1: stuff that's cheap. I can take all the ethical questions
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Speaker 1: and the ideological questions on by owning energy stocks and
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Speaker 1: get way wealth here. Okay, that's the difference in orders.
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Speaker 1: There's an ideology going on out there about how bad
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Speaker 1: that industry is. And by the way, it's effectively portfolio
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Speaker 1: managers being shamed so that they don't touch it. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I mean when we can look across the value por
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Speaker 1: folios and find no energy holdings, Um, you know that
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Speaker 1: the shaming has been tough because even the value people
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Speaker 1: have given up on this, So we don't have to
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Speaker 1: make that judgment call. We don't have to wonder how
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Speaker 1: big they'll be, we don't have to wonder how profitable
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Speaker 1: they could be. We can buy all those economics right
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Speaker 1: now in the energy business and use it. People ask
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Speaker 1: us often, you know, what does day to day trading
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Speaker 1: look like to you? I mean, Friday was a big
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Speaker 1: up day in the oil and the stocks rolled down.
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Speaker 1: Today's a down day and oil and the stocks are down.
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Speaker 1: So what goes on day to day in these stocks,
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Speaker 1: whether you know, tied to the oil price, it really
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Speaker 1: hasn't correlated much. Any day over ninety is a drain.
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Speaker 1: We're just getting fat and happy and everyone else is frustrating.
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Speaker 1: So well on that, What is your kind of your
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Speaker 1: central energy call here? Is it tied to the price
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Speaker 1: of oil per se or is it something else? Macro? Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean the lack of supply. It's massive. And when
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Speaker 1: I say massive, you know, let's just say in the interim,
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Speaker 1: you know, parts of say Western Europe have slowed down
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Speaker 1: because their energy crisis. That's that's probably likely, right, which
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Speaker 1: means there's just subtle demand that's taken off, but again,
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Speaker 1: supply can't grow. UM supply is continued to disappear when
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Speaker 1: the Saudis are out there making the case that we
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Speaker 1: cannot sustain at these levels. You know, there's real problems
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Speaker 1: that The big myth to so we're all aware, is
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Speaker 1: that out of nowhere OPEC can snap their finger, ten
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Speaker 1: million barrels can just show up. And that's false, right
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Speaker 1: that that's western myth is what it is. And the
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Speaker 1: reality is if we're going to be we're gonna be
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Speaker 1: producing a lot more oil the United States and can it.
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Speaker 1: I've got to be a primary driver that. Just so
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Speaker 1: we're all aware, all right, good stuff, Cold, really love
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Speaker 1: getting your perspective there, coll Smeat President folio manager Smeat
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Speaker 1: Capitol UH Management with a you know, a bullish call,
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Speaker 1: which it's really been surprising how well, well, I guess
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Speaker 1: it's not surprising, but it's just interesting to see how
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Speaker 1: well UH Energy has done over the last several years.
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Speaker 1: It was so out of favor for so long, Peak
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Speaker 1: oil and all that, but boys and how and how
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Speaker 1: well they've done Bill and it's I mean, they they
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Speaker 1: have UM produced incredible performance at a time when other
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Speaker 1: funds just long stocks. Are getting crushed. Absolutely good stuff.
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Speaker 1: G l c O the Global Commodity Price Dashboard on
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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg Terminal, that's where you find all the commodity stuff,
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Speaker 1: energy metals, aggs, all that kind of good stuff. And
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Speaker 1: that's typically where you're find you know, people like Mike mcglowan,
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Speaker 1: Senior Commodity Strategies for Bloomberg Intelligence. But nope, he's not
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Speaker 1: on the farm checking out the corn, you know, or
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Speaker 1: the cotton and soybeans or any of that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: He's in Vegas and he's at something called the web
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Speaker 1: Crypto Conference. Mike, what are you doing in Vegas? And
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Speaker 1: what is the Web three Crypto Conference? Hey boy, I
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Speaker 1: was invited to attend by a group called the Wolf
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Speaker 1: of All Streets and I've been presenting on the macro
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Speaker 1: and um talking to you, um and but yeah, I
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Speaker 1: was out in the cornbell a couple about of months ago,
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Speaker 1: bus the family and it was shocking how good the
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Speaker 1: corn crop was this year and the parts I went
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Speaker 1: to Illinois. UM. But in terms of the rest of
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Speaker 1: the space that you know, I look at, commodities is
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Speaker 1: kind of like a futruty nail as the global macroeconomic
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Speaker 1: tide recedes and that's what you're seen in in crude
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Speaker 1: oil and things like that. It had its bounced, but
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Speaker 1: I think it's just resuming and during bear market as
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Speaker 1: we see stocks headlower. Two So what is where are
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Speaker 1: the opportunities in the global commodity space? And and and folks,
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Speaker 1: Mike mcgloan has been covered doing this for four decades.
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Speaker 1: He covers everything in the commodities, which is now included
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Speaker 1: over the last decade U cryptocurrencies as as well, and
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Speaker 1: he understands that as well, are better than anybody on
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Speaker 1: Wall Street. So, Mike, when you talk to your institutional
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Speaker 1: investor clients out there in the commodity space, where are
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Speaker 1: they putting their money? Where they spending their time? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the key thing. Everybody's looking for a place to hide.
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Speaker 1: And I the sense I get here and keep I
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Speaker 1: keep saying. And when I'm getting since I'm getting for
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Speaker 1: a lot of the money managers I speak to is
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Speaker 1: their selling equities on rallies and they're buying two you
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Speaker 1: notes on dips and are buying on dips. And I
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Speaker 1: think that's going to continue. At some point They're gonna
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Speaker 1: make some good money. Even so from Jamie Timing yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Now cryptos and that space, I'm sensing a decent amount
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Speaker 1: of institutions are coming into the bigcoin space and looking
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Speaker 1: to buying the bitcoin space. And that's really showed because
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Speaker 1: it's been the same price since June. But again, it's
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Speaker 1: it's also been the fastest horse in the race, and
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Speaker 1: it's going down. But that's my sense, and the key
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Speaker 1: question is where it stops. The key thing I like
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Speaker 1: to point out is there's been a lot of people
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Speaker 1: calling for very bullish calls and crude all this year,
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Speaker 1: and I think they're missing the macroeconomics and being tied.
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Speaker 1: And now I'm afraid that this is just going to
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Speaker 1: excel rate, and particularly because we have the sledge hammer
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Speaker 1: from the FED out there, and sledge hammer is just
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Speaker 1: pounding harder and harder every day. When when do we
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Speaker 1: see bitcoin move out of this range? I mean, it
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Speaker 1: hasn't really since June. Um. Okay, it's been up a
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Speaker 1: little to like twenty four thousand in August, and it's
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Speaker 1: been down a bit too, you know, eighteen, occasionally dipping
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Speaker 1: under that, but really it's been hovering around nineteen or
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand for months now. Why yeah, exactly, well and
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Speaker 1: more Sollars just like in obvious what my sensence, what's
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Speaker 1: happening with bitcoin. It's in that transition to becoming global
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Speaker 1: digital collateral and trading more like gold and long bonds,
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Speaker 1: and they're both down to so far this year. But
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Speaker 1: it's showing that stabilization. The key thing I've been really
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Speaker 1: watching as you saw what happened in theerium. It bought
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Speaker 1: him at a thousand, it had the merge and went
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Speaker 1: to two thousand. Now it's back towards and I think
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Speaker 1: that those are two things where we see what's looked
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Speaker 1: five ten years for that's the rapidly advancing technology. It's
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Speaker 1: much likely to more likely to appreciate, and I think
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Speaker 1: people get that. And then you see the old like
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Speaker 1: you like proof of steak, Well, I like it, Matt,
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Speaker 1: But it has the income. Now you can get involved.
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Speaker 1: Institutions are getting involved, and they can measure discounted cash
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Speaker 1: flows and that's what's a really unique space for its
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Speaker 1: hearing though that didn't exist before. So it's getting the attention.
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Speaker 1: But right now we are in a macroeconomic beer market.
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Speaker 1: Cryptos are part of it. And this is the fact
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Speaker 1: that bitcoin has been able to stabilize as we see
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Speaker 1: a new low in the NASA today is showing that
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Speaker 1: it's moving forward, looking to a better future. It's just
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Speaker 1: right now, it's October. We all know the Feds tightening
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Speaker 1: and markets haven't gone down enough yet. Unfortunately, by the way,
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Speaker 1: in crypto circles, Paul, this month is typically referred to
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Speaker 1: as October October yeah, because average average returns to two
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Speaker 1: thousand twenty one for bitcoin has been I'm sorry, two
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Speaker 1: thousand fourteen has been about usually it's a game. Usually
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Speaker 1: it's a game, all right. My important question where you're
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Speaker 1: staying in Vegas at the win this is a resource. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's rough, Diggs here, Yeah, you've got to play
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Speaker 1: to go. Is the wind the place to get the place?
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Speaker 1: Now I'm a Blagio guy, but the wind is the
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Speaker 1: setting the bar like like he always does. I mean
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Speaker 1: you guys, I mean Mr Wynn is just the just
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Speaker 1: the visionary in which is crazy term use since he's
16:12
Speaker 1: partially blind. But I thought that was secret or you're
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Speaker 1: not supposed to admit or tell him that he's blinds
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's no big Oh. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was a thing that he didn't like I've I've
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Speaker 1: always I've always talked him about it. But anyway, Uh so, Mike,
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Speaker 1: you're at this crypto conference in in the midst of
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Speaker 1: a bare global bear market. What is the conversation from
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Speaker 1: crypto folks in Vegas this week? They're One key person
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Speaker 1: I spoke to yesterday was a minor and adventure capital
16:41
Speaker 1: investor and he've got much more capitalist to the point,
16:44
Speaker 1: and his quote was, I really prefer bearer markets because
16:47
Speaker 1: you get rid of the silly speculation. And he's just
16:49
Speaker 1: looking at to play more capital. Um so there's a
16:52
Speaker 1: lot of positive there from people like him. Partney says, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I've got good investor returns and I've got a lot
16:57
Speaker 1: of good discounts here. But that's the main sense. It
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Speaker 1: was the first day in a semi Holley associate. What
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Speaker 1: really kicks it today? But it's an investor conference. It's
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Speaker 1: certainly be enthusiasm from a few months ago was gone,
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Speaker 1: which most people here for the institutions think, thank you.
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Speaker 1: It's good to get rid of that. Oh I haven't
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Speaker 1: been there in years. You gotta go. I mean, so, Mike,
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Speaker 1: how is Vegas? Is it? Is it hopping? Is it
17:19
Speaker 1: kind of like the old days. What's going on? Give
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Speaker 1: us a read? It's my first time here, is really what?
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Speaker 1: It's your first time ever in Las Vegas. I have
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Speaker 1: to admit that, yes, my wife and I walked on
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Speaker 1: the strip yesterday and we found a nice place to eat.
17:32
Speaker 1: But I'm not much of a gamble. I can lose
17:34
Speaker 1: a lot enough, a lot of much money in markets,
17:36
Speaker 1: even with an edge. So but it's it seems to
17:38
Speaker 1: be hopping. It's happening. But the key thing is there's
17:40
Speaker 1: so much construction and building and so much going on here.
17:44
Speaker 1: It's just quite an amazing place. So it's cool, cool
17:46
Speaker 1: to be here for the first time from and the
17:48
Speaker 1: key thing there for you know, people who invest in,
17:51
Speaker 1: you know, these gaming companies, is the conference business. That
17:54
Speaker 1: is the kind of Yeah, I thought that that's what
17:57
Speaker 1: we're talking about, and I've I haven't been there in years,
18:01
Speaker 1: but it's great to go for that purpose. You know,
18:04
Speaker 1: I don't gamble much either because I just end up
18:06
Speaker 1: losing money, but I do like to go to conferences
18:09
Speaker 1: or um, you know, I've been down there to a
18:11
Speaker 1: few track schools. Lamborghini has tracks schools down there, super fun,
18:16
Speaker 1: good stuff all right, Mike, Well, we'll let you get
18:18
Speaker 1: back to it. Let you get back to the tables.
18:20
Speaker 1: Mike McLoone senior commodity strategist for Bloomberg Intelligent out of
18:23
Speaker 1: Vegas at Crypto conference. But again, you think about they
18:26
Speaker 1: have so much conference space out there. I mean, the
18:28
Speaker 1: Consumer Electronics Show in January, it's just a monster. You know,
18:31
Speaker 1: a couple hundred thousand people descend on the city. Win
18:34
Speaker 1: looks like the biggest. I mean I'm looking at the
18:36
Speaker 1: RV function, which shows you relative value of one company
18:40
Speaker 1: to others. So I put up Win Resorts um it's
18:43
Speaker 1: the biggest by market cap six and six point six
18:46
Speaker 1: billion of any of the American ones. Of course, they
18:49
Speaker 1: have Win Macau, which is another three point three billion.
18:52
Speaker 1: And now that I hear, it's the place to say
18:54
Speaker 1: they're setting the bar. I want to go down there
18:56
Speaker 1: and get a get a suite, go out there. Yes,
18:59
Speaker 1: go out there, out to Vegas. But when you talk
19:01
Speaker 1: about the gaming companies, it's all about Asia Macau. I mean,
19:04
Speaker 1: that's McCaw's such. It dwarfs the strip on Vegas. So
19:09
Speaker 1: you think about what moves the needle for these gaming companies,
19:11
Speaker 1: it's for the majority of them, Las Vegas Sands wins
19:14
Speaker 1: those big ones. It's been Macau because that is a
19:17
Speaker 1: huge gaming market for these companies and they put monstrous
19:20
Speaker 1: investments in there. So it's kind of fun to get
19:22
Speaker 1: some feedback from Mike mcgloan in Vegas. We have to
19:29
Speaker 1: get to Allison Williams. We've got Allison coming up and
19:31
Speaker 1: we'll talk to We always talked. We talked to pretty
19:34
Speaker 1: a lot on linked to talk to her, but we'll
19:35
Speaker 1: get more coming up. But I need to talk to
19:37
Speaker 1: Alice Williams because starting Friday, we'll get the big banks
19:40
Speaker 1: reporting numbers. And that's big for a lot of reasons.
19:43
Speaker 1: A for the for the banks themselves and for their sheralders,
19:45
Speaker 1: but also for their their read on the overall economy.
19:48
Speaker 1: Alison Williams joints the senior Global Banks and Asset Manager
19:51
Speaker 1: analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. So Alison, I wanted to start
19:54
Speaker 1: first with Credit Swiss that I guess the latest twist
19:58
Speaker 1: in this story is if they want to survive, if
20:01
Speaker 1: they want to implement their restructuring, they may need more capital.
20:04
Speaker 1: Is that kind of the read? That is the read?
20:07
Speaker 1: And that's actually you know that is been the concern
20:11
Speaker 1: with the stock. I think every other day we get
20:13
Speaker 1: a we get another number that's being thrown out there. Um,
20:17
Speaker 1: you know, I think there was numbers to the multi billions.
20:21
Speaker 1: But but but the bottom line is that the amount
20:23
Speaker 1: of capital they need depends on you know, a what business,
20:27
Speaker 1: what businesses in their portfolio are they going to keep
20:30
Speaker 1: um and seek to fund um If they're selling businesses,
20:35
Speaker 1: obviously that they can get capital without raising stock. They
20:38
Speaker 1: can get it from from other investors um. But then
20:42
Speaker 1: you know, what are the steps ahead and you know
20:45
Speaker 1: what money do they need to pay for those taps
20:47
Speaker 1: steps in terms of restructuring. And so that's why when
20:50
Speaker 1: you see sort of various numbers out there, any of
20:53
Speaker 1: these numbers could be correct. It really just depends on
20:56
Speaker 1: what we're going to hear from them on the So, Alison,
20:59
Speaker 1: is are the so over? Like when I was a
21:01
Speaker 1: Credit Swiss we felt we could pitch any deal anywhere
21:04
Speaker 1: around the world and be really competitive. Are those days
21:07
Speaker 1: kind of over for this new Credit Swiss? So? I think,
21:11
Speaker 1: And that's not really where the challenge lies. I think
21:15
Speaker 1: in general, um, you know, across the firm they have
21:18
Speaker 1: to be feeling Um, you know some pressure as you know,
21:24
Speaker 1: clients as well as investors are looking at them with
21:27
Speaker 1: some uncertainty, but they really do you know, they have
21:31
Speaker 1: a good m and a franchise. UM, equity underwriting and
21:34
Speaker 1: leverage lending. These are all areas that the bank is
21:37
Speaker 1: wrong on. But as we know that there's not that
21:39
Speaker 1: none of those deals are being done right now, aren't
21:41
Speaker 1: being done. Leverage lending is a book where we're is
21:44
Speaker 1: a business where we're seeing write downs. Um, just given
21:47
Speaker 1: the markets this year, so there's structural issues with credit
21:53
Speaker 1: Swiss and then the cyclical pressures I think are just
21:56
Speaker 1: you know, really um bringing those issues to bear. So
22:00
Speaker 1: we're going to hear from the big banks JP Morgan
22:03
Speaker 1: on the fourteenth. What day is today? Today is the
22:04
Speaker 1: eleventh Friday? Okay, so we're gonna hear from JP Morgan
22:08
Speaker 1: on Friday, Wells Fargo as well, City Group as well,
22:12
Speaker 1: and then the following week Bank America, UM State some
22:16
Speaker 1: other states treat as some mother's truest you always think
22:19
Speaker 1: is not a great name. Um, what do we expect
22:22
Speaker 1: to hear? Yeah? And so yeah, so Friday, as you said,
22:25
Speaker 1: we'll get JP Morgan, City Wells and Morgan Stanley. UM,
22:30
Speaker 1: you know, the big thing that we're watching is what
22:32
Speaker 1: happens with UM credit provisions. We think that credit is
22:36
Speaker 1: good right now, but the question is how are banks
22:39
Speaker 1: looking out into the future and factoring that into UM
22:43
Speaker 1: their lost provision. So it's more a view towards what
22:47
Speaker 1: the risks are head We saw UM headlines yesterday UM
22:52
Speaker 1: from JP Morgan's comments talking about our recession next year.
22:55
Speaker 1: When the banks set these reserves, they look over the
22:58
Speaker 1: loan life so if they see increasing odds of a recession,
23:01
Speaker 1: if they see a recession looking tougher, we'll see it
23:04
Speaker 1: in those reserves, and so we're watching that number more
23:07
Speaker 1: for three risk UM. From a revenue perspective, the negative
23:14
Speaker 1: is investment banking fees, as we talked about wealth inesset
23:17
Speaker 1: management fees, mortgage fees, lots of fees going down. Fixed
23:21
Speaker 1: income trading will be the highlight in the investment bank.
23:24
Speaker 1: But the revenue story is really not interest income that's
23:28
Speaker 1: going to come in very strong for the banks UM.
23:31
Speaker 1: There's potential upside relating to rates UM, but the question
23:35
Speaker 1: for the outlook what is how our loans growing. Again,
23:39
Speaker 1: that comes back to the economic risks and then what's
23:42
Speaker 1: happening with their cost of deposits? And on the cost side, Allison,
23:47
Speaker 1: when we talk costs, we usually talk people, Uh, you
23:50
Speaker 1: know better than anybody. Are we going to get some
23:53
Speaker 1: big announcements from some of these banks. Is this an
23:55
Speaker 1: opportunity for them to really pair back their head count?
24:00
Speaker 1: I think that I think what we're going to see
24:02
Speaker 1: in the quarter is more on the compensation side of things. So, UM,
24:07
Speaker 1: when we look across banks, are our expectation is that
24:10
Speaker 1: they'll bring down comp um at a similar amount to
24:13
Speaker 1: the related revenue. So keep in mind that many of
24:16
Speaker 1: these banks are diversified UM. Morgan Stanley and Golbin Sachs
24:20
Speaker 1: are are sort of more focused on the capital market.
24:23
Speaker 1: So we'll see it. UM. They're the most revenue down
24:26
Speaker 1: CALMP down UM. The issue is that some of the
24:29
Speaker 1: non compense station costs are going up. We have inflation broadly, UM.
24:33
Speaker 1: We have wages and businesses that are not related to
24:36
Speaker 1: capital markets that are impacted by inflation. UM. So net
24:40
Speaker 1: net investors are not going to like, uh some of
24:42
Speaker 1: the negative operating leverage that we're going to see at
24:45
Speaker 1: the banks. UM. So we think that there will be
24:47
Speaker 1: pressing questions in terms of what's coming in the final quarter.
24:51
Speaker 1: Will compensation appruals be depressed further to help UM offset
24:56
Speaker 1: some of the lower revenues that we've just discussed, And
24:59
Speaker 1: how are they looking at investments and discretionaries spending? Will
25:03
Speaker 1: there be some pullback there as well? So, I mean
25:08
Speaker 1: in the in the deals, in the fees space, I
25:13
Speaker 1: can't remember the last time we had a juicy m
25:14
Speaker 1: N a trade other than Elon and Twitter. I can't
25:17
Speaker 1: remember the last time we had a really big juicy
25:20
Speaker 1: at all, the opposite of juicy, ye, So I mean, no,
25:26
Speaker 1: it's definitely gone from feast to famine. Keeping keep in
25:29
Speaker 1: mind that, you know, to your point, you can't remember
25:31
Speaker 1: when we've seen some interesting transactions, you know, I p
25:35
Speaker 1: O s are are very scarce. Last year was a
25:38
Speaker 1: phenomenal year, record m and a record equity fees, and
25:44
Speaker 1: we came into the year UM. You know, sort of
25:47
Speaker 1: we were talking about compensation when we came into this year.
25:50
Speaker 1: UM the pressure was extreme because not just it's not
25:54
Speaker 1: just investment banks right like hedge funds, other people are
25:57
Speaker 1: looking to hire UM the staff, so and the competition
26:01
Speaker 1: from technology also raising UM sort of the cost to compete.
26:05
Speaker 1: Now we've had the markets are sort of uh pulled back,
26:10
Speaker 1: So that's going to pull back some of the pay pressure.
26:12
Speaker 1: Also on the tech side of things, UM, as their
26:15
Speaker 1: cost of capital goes up with these tupper markets, they
26:18
Speaker 1: have less access to capital. That also UM has a
26:21
Speaker 1: little bit of a relief aspect to their cost base.
26:25
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, Allison, thank you so much as
26:28
Speaker 1: always for joining us. We know you're gonna have a busy,
26:30
Speaker 1: busy Friday coming up, Alison Williams. She covers all the
26:33
Speaker 1: banks on a global basis for Bloomberg Intelligence. Alright. One
26:40
Speaker 1: of the many many tickers Met Miller has taught me
26:44
Speaker 1: over the years is one is m O V movers.
26:46
Speaker 1: It gives you the big movers. You type in SMP
26:49
Speaker 1: next and it gives you, you know, what are the
26:51
Speaker 1: big gainers? What are the big losers of today? The
26:53
Speaker 1: losers today number one, number two casino stocks win Las
26:57
Speaker 1: Vegas stands. What's going on? And we just talked to
26:59
Speaker 1: Mike mc loan. He's at Vegas. He said this strip
27:02
Speaker 1: was hopping. Conferences are back, So we said, let's get
27:05
Speaker 1: Brian egger On here. He does all this kind of
27:06
Speaker 1: stuff ran Nigger, senior gaming and lodging analyst. Also the
27:09
Speaker 1: cruise lines and all the fun stuff. Guy hasn't worked
27:12
Speaker 1: a day in his life. Let me tell you he's
27:14
Speaker 1: a Bloomberg intelligence Brian, what's going on with the casino sucks?
27:17
Speaker 1: I thought like China's letting people go gamble away their livelihoods.
27:22
Speaker 1: Vegas has hopping. What's going on? Yeah, you're right, Paul,
27:25
Speaker 1: I mean China really is the issue now. On the
27:27
Speaker 1: one hand, to your point, we do have some good
27:30
Speaker 1: news on the travel from We've gotten resumption of China
27:33
Speaker 1: tour groups coming up, as well as the issuance of
27:36
Speaker 1: online or e visas, which had helped travel volumes going
27:39
Speaker 1: to next year. But at least a totally the feedback
27:42
Speaker 1: is the Golden Week holiday was weaker than expected from
27:46
Speaker 1: a gaming volume perspective, So we've still got a MACCAU
27:49
Speaker 1: market with a lot of pressures after v I P
27:52
Speaker 1: Junk of credit was basically banned West December. I think
27:55
Speaker 1: those travel openings which I mentioned are good news going forward,
27:59
Speaker 1: but you know, I sim it's going to take time
28:01
Speaker 1: for those to pan out. The market is still quite
28:04
Speaker 1: weak compared to pre pandemic levels. Who do you want
28:07
Speaker 1: to own? I mean I was looking at when before
28:10
Speaker 1: just because um, we were talking about how great it
28:13
Speaker 1: would be to stay at one of their suites, and
28:15
Speaker 1: then I ran the RV function relative value to see
28:18
Speaker 1: who's bigger. Um, I look at competition like Las Vegas,
28:22
Speaker 1: Sands like Boyd, like Pen like Caesar's, which is the
28:27
Speaker 1: most desirable of the group. So the way I think
28:30
Speaker 1: about this is if you if you want to avoid
28:33
Speaker 1: fundamental exposure to Macao because you know that market likely
28:37
Speaker 1: to be down at least this year versus pre pandemic levels,
28:41
Speaker 1: then you know, really of the companies in North America, UM,
28:45
Speaker 1: you know, Sands and Win arguably the most exposed. You know,
28:49
Speaker 1: falled by MGM. Um. You know right now it is
28:52
Speaker 1: true that domestic but doesn't Win have their Macau business
28:55
Speaker 1: broken out to Win Macau. It's still part of the
28:59
Speaker 1: consolidated company, right, So you know when as a when
29:02
Speaker 1: resorts as a company still has through its Macau subsidiaries,
29:06
Speaker 1: substantial exposure to Macau, and now it's Sands out of Vegas,
29:10
Speaker 1: it's really all the cow in Singapore. So if you
29:13
Speaker 1: want it to be more domestically exposed among the bigger destinations.
29:18
Speaker 1: You know, companies like MGM and Caesar's don't have that
29:20
Speaker 1: McCaw exposure. And then of course all the regional companies
29:24
Speaker 1: right now in North American gaming at least compared to
29:26
Speaker 1: pre prodemic levels is by most standards back, which is
29:30
Speaker 1: good news. But MACAU has the lingering effects of not
29:33
Speaker 1: only the pandemic, but you know, clamp down on junk
29:36
Speaker 1: at credit and other pressures. Yeah. If I look at
29:38
Speaker 1: I always look at the comp screen, as you know, right,
29:41
Speaker 1: and um total return over the last five years for
29:45
Speaker 1: Las Vegas sands down thirty for when down fifty five.
29:52
Speaker 1: But if you look at you know, BOYD is up
29:55
Speaker 1: eighty seven, Caesar's up thirty five, Pen up four mg
30:00
Speaker 1: of five, so everybody else is killing it. Ye. Hey, Brian,
30:03
Speaker 1: you know the only time I've I've been to Vegas
30:05
Speaker 1: a lot. I love Vegas, but basically every time I
30:08
Speaker 1: go to Vegas it's because of a conference, you know,
30:10
Speaker 1: the c E S conference, the n a B, the
30:12
Speaker 1: National Association Broadcasters, or any other conference I can glom
30:15
Speaker 1: onto for for that matter, what is the concert business
30:19
Speaker 1: in Vegas? Now? It was such a driver is such
30:21
Speaker 1: a driver is it back the pre pandemic. It's un
30:25
Speaker 1: back to where it was, which would be total room
30:28
Speaker 1: nights for a company like MGM, but it's it's coming back,
30:31
Speaker 1: and the bookings have been there. Of course, the question
30:34
Speaker 1: is if you have meeting planners and trade associations and
30:37
Speaker 1: businesses begin to experience some waiting confidence because of a
30:41
Speaker 1: shaker economy, that could certainly effect the tone of bookings.
30:44
Speaker 1: But based on the lag to seat back we have
30:46
Speaker 1: and we're due for an update discerning season, the bookings
30:49
Speaker 1: are winding up fairly well. I mean, ce yes, they're
30:53
Speaker 1: gonna have a couple hundred thousand people there in January,
30:55
Speaker 1: so I don't know. But all right, let's switch over
30:57
Speaker 1: to cruises because I think Matt's thinking about his next
30:59
Speaker 1: vacation and I think he should do a cruise. Take
31:02
Speaker 1: the whole family, go down to you know, the Caribbean,
31:04
Speaker 1: and you know, see see that part of the world.
31:07
Speaker 1: How's the cruise business, Brian? So the Chris business from
31:10
Speaker 1: the perspective of bookings, I mean, the good news is
31:13
Speaker 1: the fleets are back in operation, um after that long
31:16
Speaker 1: pandemic pause, and uh, you know right now they're not
31:21
Speaker 1: only the fleets back, but after a lot of the
31:23
Speaker 1: pandemic protocols are lifted, bookings have improved. The question of
31:27
Speaker 1: course is whether or not profitability returns at a fast
31:31
Speaker 1: enough pace. So the company is to continue to manage
31:34
Speaker 1: liquidity and to manage their debt obligations, which which they have.
31:38
Speaker 1: You know, we we were just at an investor media
31:40
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago for Norwegian cruise Lines and
31:42
Speaker 1: they expect to see record revenue yields and ibadad next year.
31:46
Speaker 1: You know, so there's some good news in the out there.
31:49
Speaker 1: You know, the recent feedback from Carnival was a little
31:51
Speaker 1: bit more mixed, I thought in terms of the booking space,
31:55
Speaker 1: but you know, there's you know, there's obviously concern what
31:58
Speaker 1: happens in a slowing on To me, I think the
32:01
Speaker 1: good news at least is that the chips are back
32:03
Speaker 1: in operation and is pandemic protocols get lifted, bookings have revived,
32:07
Speaker 1: so discretion or income, which is kind of how your
32:10
Speaker 1: companies make their bread and butter bride, whether it's a
32:12
Speaker 1: casino or a cruise line or a hotel. In a recession,
32:16
Speaker 1: how sticky is that spending or is that one of
32:19
Speaker 1: the first things that go I pull back on my vacations.
32:21
Speaker 1: My cruise is my vagus, you know kind of trip. So,
32:26
Speaker 1: I mean, historically, the cruise industry across the multiple decades
32:29
Speaker 1: has performed well in economic downturns. This one is more
32:33
Speaker 1: complex because you've got potentially rising inflation, You've got the
32:37
Speaker 1: lingering effects of how consumers behave after the pandemic. But
32:41
Speaker 1: you know, it depends, I think really on the severity
32:43
Speaker 1: in the hell effects overall consumer discretionary income, I mean gaming.
32:47
Speaker 1: I think it really depends on the part of gaming
32:49
Speaker 1: that we're talking about. Those regional markets have to date
32:53
Speaker 1: held up really well despite higher gas prices and inflation,
32:56
Speaker 1: so you know, it's some of the businesses are more
32:58
Speaker 1: cyclical than others, the hotels, but I think a lot
33:02
Speaker 1: of it depends on whether or not the consumer holds
33:04
Speaker 1: up as well as it has so far. And you're
33:08
Speaker 1: also just on the cruise ships. They stopped by the
33:11
Speaker 1: gas tank there. It's a lot to fill up a
33:12
Speaker 1: cruise ship, isn't it getting less and less? Right? Yeah,
33:15
Speaker 1: I guess he would have beens been to help, and
33:18
Speaker 1: obviously any any back off in bunker fuel prices would
33:22
Speaker 1: be bunker helpful as much as they help the bunker
33:25
Speaker 1: fuel so as much as they do hedge. You know,
33:28
Speaker 1: it's a it's another cost pressure that has certainly you know,
33:31
Speaker 1: weight on the companies. Can't put bunker fuel on my truck, No,
33:34
Speaker 1: I don't think so it's got to be at least
33:37
Speaker 1: octane doesn't Okay, which is the best. It's running about
33:40
Speaker 1: four dollars and fifty cents. That's the credit price near me.
33:43
Speaker 1: Just wait, but you gotta go electric. Maybe we'll get
33:45
Speaker 1: electric cruise ships at some point. Brian Edgar, Senior Gaming
33:48
Speaker 1: and Lodging ANALYSTEE covers the you know the cruises. I
33:50
Speaker 1: mean again, the guy has not worked a day in
33:52
Speaker 1: his life. You should see the trips he goes on.
33:54
Speaker 1: Supposedly for research intelligence reasons, but it's a scam. But
33:58
Speaker 1: he does that. He's been doing it for decades on
34:00
Speaker 1: Wall Street. One of the time I know he's he's
34:03
Speaker 1: gamed it. He's not a dumb guy. He went to
34:05
Speaker 1: Wharton undergrad. You never Chicago for an NBA, so he
34:07
Speaker 1: knows what he's up. And he's been doing this on
34:09
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