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ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu, Nvidia Earnings · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 2: Bloomberg terminal today has to do with Israel. The International
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  Speaker 2: Criminal Court issued an in rest warrant for Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin Netnyahu for alleged war crimes. Thatt's break that
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  Speaker 2: down with Dan Williams. He's a reporter for Bloomberg News.
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  Speaker 2: He is based in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 3: Dan, give us his story here. What does this really mean?
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  Speaker 3: Because the headline kind of jumps out of you here.
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  Speaker 4: It is a dramatic development. We've now seen some thirteen
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  Speaker 4: and a half months of open warfare between Israel, Hamas
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  Speaker 4: and Israel and Hasbela and Lebanon and other Iranian backparties
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  Speaker 4: in the region that has now evolved into open law
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  Speaker 4: fare with this very important court issuing arrest warrants against
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  Speaker 4: the is Raeti Prime Minister benjaminter Now and the former
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  Speaker 4: Defense Minister Joaf Gallant. Those are arrest warrants that are
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  Speaker 4: actually binding on more than one hundred and twenty countries
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  Speaker 4: that are signatories to the treaty that underpins that court's conduct.
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  Speaker 4: Israel is not a signatory, neither is the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Israel had sought, however, to contest this request for the
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  Speaker 4: arrest warrants. That failed, as we discovered today, with the
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  Speaker 4: court saying it had rejected these raady motions and upheld
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  Speaker 4: and actually decided to issue those arrest warrants as sought
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  Speaker 4: by the Special Prosecutor.
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  Speaker 2: Has a United States made any statement on this matter,
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  Speaker 2: because the support for Israel a generally quite strong in
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  Speaker 2: the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, and throughout these proceedings, we're talking about several months
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  Speaker 4: of anticipation. I believe the Special Prosecutor formally filed his
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  Speaker 4: request for arrest warrants back in late May. The Biden
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  Speaker 4: minister stration said openly that it thought this was baseless.
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  Speaker 4: Israel has obviously been far more vociferous, calling this antisemitic,
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  Speaker 4: likening it to the infamous Dreyfus trial. I think both
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  Speaker 4: countries will be looking to what the next US administration,
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration, will do, and significant parties in that
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  Speaker 4: administration are already saying that when the time comes, they
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  Speaker 4: will double down on their support for Israel. The question
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  Speaker 4: is what does that mean. Are they going to try
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  Speaker 4: to convince like minded countries in Western Europe to withdraw
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  Speaker 4: from the court or on an individual level, to state
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  Speaker 4: that they will not abide they will not honor these
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  Speaker 4: arrest warrants. As I said, it's dramatic development, and I
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  Speaker 4: think these Raelis will be strategizing very very intensely. Right now.
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  Speaker 2: Do we why historically have has Israel and the United
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  Speaker 2: States not been a party to this court?
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  Speaker 4: I think it comes down to a fear for their autonomy.
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  Speaker 4: Also the fact that, certainly since the War on Terror,
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  Speaker 4: the United States has been waging a time quite unilateral
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  Speaker 4: national security policies abroad, wars that did not always have
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  Speaker 4: international support. I think the argument is that this would
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  Speaker 4: effectively intrude on self determination, self defense, the sovereign rights
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  Speaker 4: of a country. And also they would argue that this
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  Speaker 4: court is designed to bring justice to countries where there's
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  Speaker 4: no working inside internal organic justice system. Now Israel says
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  Speaker 4: it's justicism works perfectly fine. It's had the support of
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  Speaker 4: some Western countries for that, but it seems that the
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  Speaker 4: ICC has decided not to find in favor of that
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  Speaker 4: point of view this time. So in effect, Israel or
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  Speaker 4: at least these two leaders will be treated like pariahs
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  Speaker 4: in many of the countries that are required to abide
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  Speaker 4: by it. It's a development that I think NETANIAO will
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  Speaker 4: find very very unwelcome.
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine, Dan, where is just to educate us?
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  Speaker 2: Where is the International Criminal Court?
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  Speaker 3: Where is it based?
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  Speaker 2: And are there are certain countries that have particular influence
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  Speaker 2: on this court?
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  Speaker 4: It's at Behague in the Netherlands. That's also where the
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  Speaker 4: International Court of Justices. That's a court with slightly different
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  Speaker 4: mandate and different jurisdiction. And again it's an extension of
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  Speaker 4: various treaties and conventions that arose, especially off to World
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  Speaker 4: War Two. The bulk of the world's countries are signatories.
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  Speaker 4: It means they have standing to argue, to submit. It
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  Speaker 4: also requires them to enflse when warrants, when decisions such
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  Speaker 4: as has come down.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Dan, thank you so much for your reporting.
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  Speaker 2: We really appreciate that. Dan Williams, he's a reporter for
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  Speaker 2: Bloomberg News. He's based in Jerusalem. Again on the geopolitical front,
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  Speaker 2: just another major development, the International Criminal Court issues and
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  Speaker 2: arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister of Benjamin at Yaou
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  Speaker 2: for alleged war crimes, and we appreciate getting that on
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  Speaker 2: the ground reporting from Israeli.
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  Speaker 2: where do they say, I mean, can they look a year,
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  Speaker 2: two years in advance, how do they think their business
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I mean look the fact that they're saying growth margins
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  Speaker 5: will go down to around seventy one percent over the
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  Speaker 5: to seventy five percent. So it's really a ramp up
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  Speaker 5: gross margin degradation. But once they get that in full production,
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  Speaker 5: he expects gross margins to go back to seventy five percent.
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  Speaker 2: Revenue roughly calendar year twenty two, twenty seven billion of revenue.
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  Speaker 5: a networking business and then their coreship business. So clearly
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  Speaker 2: Platform of a stupid income statement. They have fifty five
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  Speaker 7: it is all that's new, that's old. Yes, we have AI,
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  Speaker 7: is really altering not just the US economy but the
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  Speaker 7: global economies. And we've likened this to similar periods from
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  Speaker 7: nineteen ninety five to two thousand, but also from twenty
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  Speaker 7: five to twenty nine, where we also had new technologies,
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  Speaker 7: although they don't feel like new technologies. You know, the automobile,
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  Speaker 7: year at seventy two hundred to seventy four hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Wow and yees.
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  Speaker 7: That means another twenty percent. But when we went back
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  Speaker 7: and analyzed the nineties, from ninety five to two thousand,
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  Speaker 7: the end of the year, and we think we're in
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  Speaker 7: a very similar position.
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  Speaker 2: of S ANDP handle with a seven in front of it,
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  Speaker 8: I am.
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  Speaker 7: I think there's a lot to do with earnings. Markets
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  Speaker 7: really need earnings to grow, and we see the economy
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  Speaker 7: growing next year, especially since we've already had a seventy
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  Speaker 7: five basis point cut by the Fed. Now they may
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  Speaker 7: slow the pace, but they're more in an easing cycle,
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  Speaker 7: which we think is going to be very bullish considering
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  Speaker 7: the economy is growing around three percent and we're at
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  Speaker 7: full employment. The consumer has money to spend. Household network
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  Speaker 7: is at a record high. When we look at disposable income,
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  Speaker 7: there's enough disposable income for the consumer to spend, and
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  Speaker 7: think the cycle is being led by technology. This year
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  Speaker 7: it's been really all about Semis. We think that narrative
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  Speaker 7: is shifting a little bit more now to software. Not
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  Speaker 7: of their ascent can slow down, and now we see
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  Speaker 7: a cycle of software growing as we go into twenty
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  Speaker 7: twenty five. Another positive for earnings is the steeple yield
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  Speaker 7: curve for banks, and we also like the capital markets.
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  Speaker 7: Those are important ingredients to keep an economy going. I
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  Speaker 7: always say the banks are the heartbeat of the economy
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  Speaker 7: and the private markets, the private credit markets are flesh
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  Speaker 7: with liquidity to provide to companies. So we're very optimistic
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  Speaker 7: and we see also profit margins growing, so we think
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  Speaker 7: we're really in that goldilocks environment.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I may be calling the top in
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  Speaker 2: the tech market because my youngest offspring just bought some
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  Speaker 2: invidious and that's got to be the top. So if
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to diversify Marianna and try to find some
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  Speaker 2: value out there, where do I go?
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  Speaker 7: So we think the best if you're looking for value,
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  Speaker 7: we do think the best value is in the financials,
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  Speaker 7: particularly in the banks and also the capital markets. You know,
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  Speaker 7: energy is good value, but we don't really see crude
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  Speaker 7: oil firming up. We think crew going into twenty twenty
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  Speaker 7: five is going to be either range or too slightly down.
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  Speaker 7: Especially with the Trump administration, there's concern that we'll add
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  Speaker 7: to supply, and if you add to supply in a
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  Speaker 7: weaker demand environment which we're in, particularly because of China,
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  Speaker 7: we think that, you know, energy is really not the
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  Speaker 7: place to be for twenty twenty five, at least for value.
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  Speaker 7: So the values really I think best in financials. Which
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  Speaker 7: really shocking is you know, healthcare and staples, which are
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  Speaker 7: really called your defensive part of your market, are really
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  Speaker 7: falling off a cliff in terms of relative performance, we
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  Speaker 7: really don't even see any value in there. So best
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  Speaker 7: place for value would be the financials.
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  Speaker 2: Marian, how about outside the US do you guys allocate
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  Speaker 2: any many outside of the US markets?
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  Speaker 7: You know, in terms of asset allocation when you look
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  Speaker 7: at asset allocation models over a very long term period,
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  Speaker 7: diversifying internationally does work. But our thesis going into twenty
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  Speaker 7: twenty five, if we are correct that we're in this
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  Speaker 7: new technological advance, most of the technologies being developed here
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  Speaker 7: in the United States, and that means you have to
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  Speaker 7: own the companies here in the United States. So we
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  Speaker 7: see capital flows continuing to come to the United States.
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  Speaker 7: So although markets we think can go up outside of
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  Speaker 7: the United States, we think the leader of the pack
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  Speaker 7: will remain in the United States. Now it may be
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  Speaker 7: choppy back and forth, you know, up down, updown, but
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  Speaker 7: by the end of the year, we still think the
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  Speaker 7: US will do well. And then you have to consider
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  Speaker 7: the US dollar, and we see the US dollar as
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  Speaker 7: either being stable too strong. So when you invest overseas,
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  Speaker 7: if the dollar strengthens, you lose part of your return.
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  Speaker 7: So for you know, twenty twenty five, we have an
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  Speaker 7: overweight to the US.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Mary, and thank you so much. We appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Marion Bartel's she's a chief investment strategist for Sanctuary Wealth.
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  Speaker 2: out for Tom Keen. I'm calling out from Matt Miller.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Up one point eight percent ninety six thousand, two hundred.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, we are right on that one hundred thousand
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: dollars level. Let's break down what's happening. Let's see what
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: could be behind some of this stuff. Michael Reagan, he's
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: a crypto team leader. Yes, we have a team of
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: reporters covering crypto at Bloomberg, which means you need a
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: team leader to manage these folks, and that's Michael Reagan.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: He drew the short stroll. He joins us here on
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: at Bloomberg Interactive Broker Studio. At the election, I'm just
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: gonna swag it here, it was about sixty thousand. Here
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: we are pushing up against one hundred thousand.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: What accounts for that delta?
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know the expression I keep hearing over and
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: over again, Paul's paradigm shift. You know, we went from
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: sort of the near death of the entire industry with
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: FTX and all the dominoes that fell after it a
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: few years ago. Biden followed up the administration. Biden administration
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: followed up with a really fierce crackdown on the industry.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Now what Trump.
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: Has signaled as a complete one eighty, you know, instead
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: of this you know, highly regulated, very intense scrutiny on
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: the industry, he's talking about, you know, replacing Gary Gensler
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: with a crypto lover and just you know, really being
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: friendly to the to the broader industry of digital assets.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: But the real for bitcoin specifically, it's this promise that
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: Trump made in July at a bitcoin conference to create
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: what he called a strategic bitcoin stockpile. So, you know,
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: think of the strategic petroleum reserve. You know, we've had
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: strategic wheat reserves in the past.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: The thinking of him and Synthonia Loomis, his ally and
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: the Senate, the senator from Wyoming, is that if you
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: not only Trump. First of all, the government owns about
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: two hundred and change bitcoin from various criminal ASCID forfeitures.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: That's why I know that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: Okay, So that's sort of the what Trump has hinted
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: would be the basis for this reserve. Senator Loomis wants
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: to go even further and have the government by one million,
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: nothing short of one million bitcoins. We're talking about one
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: hundred billioncoins are out there for you.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: That's about five percent meaning the total amount. Yeah, so.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: You know, a big question mark, a big event risk
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: looming over this market if that bill does not sort
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: of gain more support. So far, she's the only sponsor
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: of it. There is quite a bit of skepticism that
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: she'll be able to get that passed, but the market
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: is thinking there's a good chance of that, and not
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: only that that other governments will have.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: To follow suit.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: You know, if if the US suddenly is treating bitcoin
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: like a major reserve asset, you know other governments will
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: likely be inspired her to do the same. So that's
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: kind of the backdrop for this just parabolic rally to
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: the upside that we've seen.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Because right now it sounds a little bit like they
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: would like to think about bitcoin the way we currently
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: think about gold, where we have gold sitting at Fort Knox.
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: That that's exactly right, and what the Loomis Bill would
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: do would be sell.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Off some of that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: The FED doesn't own physical gold, they owned certificates that
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: represent gold held in Fort Knox by the Treasury. Her
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: bill would require the Fed to start selling gold to
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: buy bitcoin. Wow, just sort of replace it as a
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: reserve asset. Now, obviously, you know you think about telegraphing
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: to the market one hundred billion buy at today's prices,
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: I mean Skuy's limit on the price.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: That that's the thinking at least.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Because it's I mean, is what I know about bitcoin
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I learned from Mike mcgloane, A fixed, if not declining
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: supply and presumably ever more right cases.
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, every four years, every four years, the or so
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: the amount that's mine.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: That's the new supply.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: It gets cut in half, so that that proposed government
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: buy would actually overwhelm the amount.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: That's mind all right.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Another thing that Trump's transition team is discussing the creation
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: of a White House post dedicated to digital asset policy.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah that's yesterday. Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: It's still sort of a lot of questions about what
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: exactly that would mean. But the idea is, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: give the crypto industry sort of a representative in the
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: White House to manage what they want to do with
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: regulations and that sort of thing. Again, just another sign
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: of this sort of one hundred and eighty degree paradigm
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: shift in how the government will think about crypto and bitcoin,
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: especially under a Trump presidency, compared to the very tough
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: crackdown that we saw under President Biden. So a real
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: dramatic yes change that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: So I'm asking myself, how do we get to sixty thousand,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand? That sounds like the reason that sounds
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: like three. It feels like Elon musk Is kind of
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: has his fingerprints on.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Some of this.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's a crypto officionado for for sure.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: You know, we name the Department of Government Efficiencies is
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: just named after a meme coin. But I would throw
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: in Michael Sailor and micro strategy is another really important
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: element here. You know, he's tapping capital markets for forty
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: two billion, telling the world what he's gonna do with it,
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: just buy more bitcoin, and his stock is even outperforming
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: bitcoin itself by tremendous amounts.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: So it's it's really an interesting time to watch all
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: this unfold.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: All right, folks.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, we have twenty four hundred reporters around the
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: world of Bloomberg News. Many of them, some of our
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: best are have been and continue to be dedicated to
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: this whole crypto market and reporting on the crypto market.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: And you know, at least I know how serious Bloomberg
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: News is about cryptos. And when they appoint Michael Reagan
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: to be a team leader because he's been doing this
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: stuff a long time, he knows good journalism, and he's
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: put Michael Reagan on top of this team, that means
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: we're serious about a coverage of crypto.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: So we'll stay on top of this stuff.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: But again, you know, looking at the bitcoin up twenty
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: three hundred bucks here today, just under ninety seven thousand
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: dollars per token. A lot of folks out there make
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: it some big bets on crypto. Again, my youngest who
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: bought some Nvidia, just recently talked me about buying bitcoin.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I said, not with any of the money I've contributed
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: to your account. If you want to go out and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: spend some of your money, go ahead. So that's how
• 24:12
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  Speaker 10: I joined now, So David, what now?
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  Speaker 6: Like?
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  Speaker 10: Now?
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  Speaker 11: Are you focused on what now after?
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  Speaker 8: In na video that many have said might be more
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  Speaker 8: important to the markets than the Fed. But we do
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  Speaker 8: have PCE coming up at the end of the month
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: PEC for October, and then we'll get CPI and another
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: round of data here in early December. And I think,
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: you know, for the FED, as far as the FED
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: is concerned, they're kind of between a rock and a
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: hard place. They have, you know, since September when we
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: were looking at more than two hundred basis points and
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: cuts by this time next year, we've had Unemployment has improved,
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: it has gotten lower, Growth is stronger, Inflation has crept
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: up a little bit. On the flip side of that,
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: if we look at personal bankruptcies, we look at auto delinquencies,
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: on auto loans, credit card debt, those are all at
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: multi year decade highs. So there's cracks in the economy.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: There's things to be concerned about. But in terms of
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: some of the other factors that the FED looks at,
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: I think it's I think there's a lean towards not
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: not cutting in December, and the markets won't like that. So,
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: you know, I think we're in for some volatility. We've
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: had a great twenty twenty two and twenty three, and
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: I think we're in for some volatility in twenty I'm sorry,
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: twenty three and twenty four, and in for some volatility
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: in twenty five.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: David, it was two weeks ago yesterday that we all
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: woke up to a new president. We now know that
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: we have a Republican controlled Senate and House. Did that
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: change your outlook or the way you approach markets or
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: maybe how you allocate assets here?
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we always say and we educate our clients,
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: and the thing that we try to make sure is
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: that clients or in investors in general, there's a tendency
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: to go to cash in an election year because they want
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: to wait and see what happens in election and inevitably,
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: election years turned out to be very good on average.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: This one the best election year since nineteen thirty six.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: But what we do want to do is look through
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: to what we have for Congress and the executive branch
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: and what that means as tactical asset allocators and the
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: big wild card for next year is tariffs and what
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: that mean in terms of a trade war. We know
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: what that brought in in twenty sixteen in President Trump's
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: first term.
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: So there is some concern.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: That with tariffs that's also going to be problematic for inflation.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: How much of what was campaign rhetoric versus how much
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: of it will go into effect.
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: They seem pretty serious about it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: Howard Lutnak, who was named Commerce Secretary, he's almost self
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: proclaimed tariffs are so I think there's going to be
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: a run at it. What that results in terms of
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: trade wars, the industry that effects versus others, that'll be very.
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: Important for market participants.
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: When you mentioned there was going to be more volatility,
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: what assets do you think will have the most volatility?
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: What do you're looking at, say, politics, as you mentioned,
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: you also talked about potentially skipping a cut in December.
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: Where do we see the most action?
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: Well, we're seeing a lot of volatility in bonds we
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: already have this year. Interestingly enough, is the Fed cut
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: the first time they've now cut seventy five basis points.
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: During that timeframe, both the.
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: Ten year and thirty year have gone up about seventy
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: five basis points, which is that counterintuitive reaction function. So
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: we've seen really a lot of volatility in the bond market,
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: but we'll see we think we'll see increased volatility in
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: the stock market because even though the election is behind us,
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: now that uncertainty is behind us, we have the uncertainty
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: over tariffs and just how aggressive some of these moves
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: will be. Even when we talk about eliminating or significantly
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: reducing government agencies, what that would mean to unemployment. So
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: there's just a lot of new factors to look at
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: in terms of overall investment strategy that will be driving
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: volatility into both bonds and stocks. We don't think about
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: volatility a lot for bonds, but we've seen a great
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: deal if we look at the move index, which is
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: like the VICS for stocks, bonds have been quite volatile,
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: they'll continue to be, and we think we'll see more
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: volatility in the stock market.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: So we started off David by just chatting about in Nvidia.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I thought the numbers were pretty solid, but of course
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the expectations were just massive.
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: Here.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: What did you learn, if anything, last night from Nvidia's
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: results that maybe change or affirm.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Your kind of your thoughts on technology.
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: Well, first of all.
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: You know, Navidia is if you talk about a company
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: that has a very wide mode around it because of
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: Generative AI and their place in that, it's it's Navidia.
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: They beat top line and bottom line should have been
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: a good report, you know. But the problem is investors
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: have become accustomed to these blowout numbers, just blowout numbers
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: for Navidia that they've had in past quarters. So it's
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: a little bit of a let down on the size
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: of the beat.
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: The stocks sold off.
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: Uh and and UH after I was trading pre market
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: was down and it's it's come back a little bit.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: But the bottom line is Navidia still has a long
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: run way.
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: Ahead of it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: And the you know, their new gener A chip is
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: is doing well, and I think that it still makes
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: sense as part of a portfolio.
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: What about bitcoin? Are you on the bitcoin bold train here?
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah? The you know the interesting thing about bitcoin is, uh,
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: those that have been bearish on bitcoin, fake internet money,
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: it'll eventually go to zero pons scheme whatever.
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: They've been humbled, right, they've been humbled.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: Bitcoin is as we've said, it's here to stay. It
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: may be an asset class all and of itself, but
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: just looking at what's happened here since the election, the
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: talk of a strategic bitcoin reserve. You had a segment
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: earlier on the show about it. You know, these are
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: President Trump wants to call himself the bitcoin president.
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: So we're seeing, we're seeing the.
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: Asset or the asset class of justin bitcoin by itself,
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: not the other coins, is rising on that speculation. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: we look at it like gold, really if it's digital gold.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Gold doesn't have a price to earnings ratio. It doesn't
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: have a dividend yield. Bitcoin does neither. There is more
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: gold that can be mined bitcoin. There's a fixed amount.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Right David, Thank you so much for joining us. Always
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: appreciate getting a few minutes of your time, David Coudlah.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: He's a founder, chief executive officer, and chief investment OFFSTA.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I guess I make Simon the boss at Mainstay Capital Management.
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: Appreciate that.
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