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Supply Chain, Interest Rates, And Trading Sentiment (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: really been focusing on during this whole pandemic, the global
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  Speaker 1: supply chain issue, because that affects so many companies in
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  Speaker 1: so many industries on a global scale, and weekend we
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  Speaker 1: still don't. We heard about it again today from Targets,
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  Speaker 1: so huge issue. The New York Federal Reserve Bank is
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  Speaker 1: weighing in now and they've got what I'm what they're
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  Speaker 1: calling today the New York Federal New York Fed Global
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  Speaker 1: Supply Chain Pressure Index. That's what we need. I need
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  Speaker 1: a picture, I need some numbers, and Dr John grown
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  Speaker 1: joins us here. He is Economic Research Advisor for the
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  Speaker 1: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr Groan, thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for joining us here. Supply cham I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: your graph. Tell me what your index is. What it
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  Speaker 1: tries to measure and what it's telling you, sure, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for having me on. So what we're
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  Speaker 1: launching you to this this morning is what we've denoted
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  Speaker 1: as the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index or g s
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  Speaker 1: c p I, and it's a it's a single measure
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  Speaker 1: of global supply chain pressures, uh, and it's it's can
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  Speaker 1: be used to gauge the importance of the disruptions to
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  Speaker 1: global supply chains and how they infect economic conditions and
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  Speaker 1: how they these constrains uh evolve over time. Basically, all right,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm looking for the folks on radio. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at a graph here and it just kind of shows
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  Speaker 1: the standard deviations from the average supply chain time goes
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  Speaker 1: back to it's usually plus one minus one. We're up
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  Speaker 1: like plus three, four or five. I mean, give us
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  Speaker 1: a sense of kind of the the magnitude of the
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  Speaker 1: supply chain shock we're experiencing right now. Yeah, So basically
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  Speaker 1: what we've seen since to e twenties, essentially precious has
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  Speaker 1: been like at the peak, it was like five times
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  Speaker 1: as high as the average level of the whole sample. Right,
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  Speaker 1: so starting from to twenty two, uh so before twenty
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  Speaker 1: really we haven't seen anything even closer that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what what what has been closes was what happened during
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, you know, when we had the Fukushima earthquake
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  Speaker 1: that hit a lot of the Japanese supply chains, and
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  Speaker 1: then later that year the flow floodings in Thailands, which
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  Speaker 1: which had hit a lot of like companies that you
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  Speaker 1: know were supplying electric components to you know, electronic electronic
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  Speaker 1: producers and auto producers. So this is like completely unprecedented. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, that's it's it's a new unique phase in
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  Speaker 1: the global economy. So what is it taking into account? Exactly?
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  Speaker 1: Is these transportation cost is this raw input coast um?
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  Speaker 1: What are we looking at in terms of the contributors
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  Speaker 1: to this index? Right, So basically the index summarizes developments
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seven series and basically there are two main
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  Speaker 1: categories of global transportation costs and then regional surveys about
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  Speaker 1: the state of manufacturing in in in seven inter linked economy.
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  Speaker 1: So in terms of the transportation cost you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: looking we're looking at you know, the b d I
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  Speaker 1: for example, which is a measure of just war war
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  Speaker 1: raw good shipping transportation, and we're also looking at the
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  Speaker 1: container shipping rates. And then in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the manufacturing data, we we we really heavily rely on
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  Speaker 1: p m I surveys and especially data about you know,
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  Speaker 1: supply supply delivery times, backlogs and inventories of manufacturing firms
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  Speaker 1: in UH in the US, in China and Taiwan, South Korea, Japan,
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  Speaker 1: the Ara area, and in the UK. So DR going
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  Speaker 1: a lot of investors, you know, I think as they
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  Speaker 1: think about inflation, they want to get a sense of
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  Speaker 1: has it peaked to what extent and what you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of rate will it decline? What is has your
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  Speaker 1: data indicated to you that perhaps the supply chain bottlenecks
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  Speaker 1: have peaked, well, so what the what the index really
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  Speaker 1: shows that the peak up to now was kind of
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  Speaker 1: reach in December, So then we reased you know a
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  Speaker 1: level of like five times higher disruptions than than the average.
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  Speaker 1: And between December and basically April, we've seen a steady
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  Speaker 1: decline I mean at the motor pace, but quite steady,
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  Speaker 1: but still well made that historically historically high level. So
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  Speaker 1: it still was about you know, less than three three
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  Speaker 1: times the average level. What we've seen having in April
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  Speaker 1: is kind of a little bit of a resurgence in disruptions.
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  Speaker 1: So pastures went up again on the back of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the geopolitical tensions in Europe due to the Ukraine Russia
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  Speaker 1: conflict as well as the COVID lockdowns in China. So
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  Speaker 1: it went back up to just over three times the
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  Speaker 1: average levels. So yes, we speak, but it seems to
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  Speaker 1: do at the moment, seems to botton out and maybe
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  Speaker 1: become a little bit worse again. I mean going forward.
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  Speaker 1: This measure is not a forecasting measure for future supply
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  Speaker 1: chain pressures. I mean it's more like where we are
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  Speaker 1: now at the moment. But it would be interesting to see,
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  Speaker 1: you know how how it involved going forward. Alright, good stuff,
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  Speaker 1: very interesting that to young grown economic research advisor for
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the New York
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  Speaker 1: Fed releasing today a brand new index that tries to
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  Speaker 1: measure the supply chain is called the New York Fed
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  Speaker 1: Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. Fascinating stuff because again it
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  Speaker 1: is an issue that really has come to the fore
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  Speaker 1: and made all of us, i think, kind of experts
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  Speaker 1: at logistics and supply chain and all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Because Curtty we hear about it from all different types
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  Speaker 1: of companies. Yeah, we really do. I mean we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about retailers heavily in focus right now. But wasn't this
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  Speaker 1: the story for Tactics a couple of weeks earlier. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: some of these chip shortages that we've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: for going on two years now, they are still there.
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  Speaker 1: That chip shortage is still there. You hear it in
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  Speaker 1: automakers even trying to get their hands on metals. So
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a a right now story. But I think
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  Speaker 1: he made a very apt point in the nine o'clock
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  Speaker 1: is we've been talking about this for ages, why is
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  Speaker 1: the market still not pricing it in? Yeah, it's interesting,
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know, part of it is China and
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  Speaker 1: getting those factories open on a consistent basis. And we're
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  Speaker 1: starting to hear some news that parts of China are
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  Speaker 1: starting to reopen, and most notably in the Shanghai region,
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that will help things. And we had the
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  Speaker 1: head of the l A Ports on yesterday he sees
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  Speaker 1: the backlog of ships off the port coming down. You've
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  Speaker 1: got gasoline prices at the pump uh at or near
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  Speaker 1: a record high. I think about Matt having to flow
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  Speaker 1: up that twenty three gallon. I don't know what is it,
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  Speaker 1: Chevy Silverado pickup truck, gas tank that's gonna be You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna take out a mortgage to do that? All right,
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  Speaker 1: Let's check in on the consumer here. We've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of retail sales numbers, We've had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: retailers report quarterly earnings. Uh, A mixed back here, but
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  Speaker 1: inflation is the number one story we had earlier President
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago FED, President Charles Evanson with Michael McKee talking
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  Speaker 1: about the offensibility to impact and lower inflation. Let's check
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  Speaker 1: in with Jennifer Leasing, your economist and managing director for
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  Speaker 1: BMO Capital Markets. Uh. Jennifer, again, the Federal Reserve seems
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  Speaker 1: to be laser focused on inflation. In reality, how much
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  Speaker 1: can they impact inflation when some of the inflation we're
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  Speaker 1: seeing is just kind of commodity driven, whether it's gasoline
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  Speaker 1: or food prices. How do you think about its ability
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  Speaker 1: to impact and good morning? UM. I think they have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good way of a pretty as strong UM handle.
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  Speaker 1: I think on on what they or their tools of
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  Speaker 1: what they can do to UM to to curb inflation
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  Speaker 1: or to rein up back to the two percent a target.
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  Speaker 1: But it's going to be painful as that share Powell
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  Speaker 1: has has said, and you know, it's just going to
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  Speaker 1: be using higher rates and they're going to keep going higher.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like you just said that they're almost very
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  Speaker 1: much laser focused now it was. It's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: It's like last year it was almost like they were
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  Speaker 1: looking for a reason to tighten, and now it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like they're looking for a reason to stop. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to keep going faster and higher, and they're
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  Speaker 1: just going to go beyond neutral before they stop and
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  Speaker 1: take a break. Jennifer, there's a difference between an outright recession,
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  Speaker 1: a contraction of the economy and to slow down. And
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  Speaker 1: it feels like, if you are listening to the market commentary,
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  Speaker 1: we've gone very quickly from a deceleration and growth to
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  Speaker 1: an outright recession. Is that justify? So this is where
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  Speaker 1: it gets a little dicey, Okay. So in in you know,
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  Speaker 1: your textbook term of recession is two consecutive quarters of decline,
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  Speaker 1: and we've already had one quarter on the headline drop
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  Speaker 1: in GP at one point four percent annualized. Again in
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  Speaker 1: Q one and um, you know Q two's I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a decline, but I mean it
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  Speaker 1: certainly does feel like a recession. But again I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna focus now on the first quarter, Like what dropped,
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  Speaker 1: what caused GDP to slow down? It was all imports,
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  Speaker 1: like a huge surgeon imports, which speaks to very strong
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  Speaker 1: domestic demand and less or slower inventory accumulation. Businesses are
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  Speaker 1: still trying to you know, stock the shelves, but they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it at a slower pace because they can't get
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  Speaker 1: enough stuff to stuff to to stock their shelves with.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, again the headline figure is because suggest
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  Speaker 1: that there is recession, but again I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: the true true definition. Um. And I'm going to point to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the fact that we still had a really
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  Speaker 1: solid retail sales figure for April, which do you guys
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  Speaker 1: are all talking about yesterday? Um, And even though it's
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  Speaker 1: a nominal terms, you know, in real terms, it was
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  Speaker 1: sort of flat from ugal levels. But the still fact
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  Speaker 1: that consumers are still well, they're buying, I think speaks volumes.
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  Speaker 1: In the fact that there's still a very strong labor
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  Speaker 1: market for now, and that guarantees that you know if
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  Speaker 1: you have ever wage, if you sort off, you have
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  Speaker 1: a job, then that means you're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: study paycheck, which I think is um the key factor
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  Speaker 1: to all of this. You mentioned inventories. That's a really
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  Speaker 1: key piece. I wanted to kind of harp on and on.
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  Speaker 1: In Target earnings today, you heard that one of the
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  Speaker 1: costs from or when the margin pressures was coming not
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  Speaker 1: from headcount of compensation in their stores, but in their
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  Speaker 1: distribution centers. And I've actually chart this. You can do
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  Speaker 1: this folks on the terminal and chart the inventory to
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  Speaker 1: sales spread of a lot of these major retailers. It's
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  Speaker 1: essentially spiking to a twenty year high, which I believe
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  Speaker 1: is as far as the data goes. Jennifer, I have
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  Speaker 1: to ask you if you see this inventory build up
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  Speaker 1: doesn't create more reasons for the economy to slow down.
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  Speaker 1: The idea being that if you see demand slow down,
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  Speaker 1: even demand increase for that matter, and you have this
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  Speaker 1: inventory build up, there's less incentive to produce more things
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  Speaker 1: or even import more things. Does that add to the slowdown? Well,
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's um. The fact that you're adding to
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  Speaker 1: their inventories you know, um, you know, from on a
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  Speaker 1: trend basis, I guess that is actually adding um to
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  Speaker 1: growth and that's not potentially slowing it down. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course you've got it's like you just pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: you just have to look at the the demand side,
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  Speaker 1: and so far there is still and I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 1: there's still a lot of strong demand. There's still a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, a lot of businesses waiting for items
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  Speaker 1: to come through. Um. You know, I I love to
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  Speaker 1: look at the I s M surveys not for the headlines,
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  Speaker 1: but for the comments, and for these are the people
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  Speaker 1: that are directly working you know, Um, they're they're they're
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  Speaker 1: are you know, in the factories, and they're the ones
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  Speaker 1: who are counting all the widgets that are coming in.
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  Speaker 1: And all the comments still point to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they are running low on materials and that which is
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  Speaker 1: driving costs higher. Um. And still you know, there's still
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  Speaker 1: a lot of demand. But the interesting thing to all
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  Speaker 1: of this is that businesses are actually turning down orders
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  Speaker 1: still because you know, it's like it's almost like your
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  Speaker 1: money is don't go here, right you um, uh, your
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  Speaker 1: orders are coming in, but sorry, we can't fulfill it
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  Speaker 1: out of reasonable time, so you know, we we can't
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  Speaker 1: take your order right now, which is a very weird
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  Speaker 1: place to be at right now. But I still think
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  Speaker 1: that there is demand out there. As long as there
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  Speaker 1: is demand, the inventory levels, you know, they're just trying
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  Speaker 1: to build it up in order to meet that, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Lee, thank you so much for joining us giving
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts here on these markets, on this federal reserve,
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  Speaker 1: and on inflation that is rife in this economy. Jennifer Lee,
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  Speaker 1: Senior economist and Managing director for BMO Capita Markets. Looking
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  Speaker 1: at the markets here, rolling over yet again, we're down
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  Speaker 1: about two percent here on the SMP five, a little
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  Speaker 1: more than two percent on nastack. Looking at the tenure treasury, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a bit out there for the tenure treasure. Yields
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  Speaker 1: are coming back. We have the tenure yielding two point
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  Speaker 1: nine three percent. We were about three percent uh this morning,
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  Speaker 1: so yields really coming in. Oil. Crew to oil was
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit earlier, but the off just slegged
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  Speaker 1: off about a half percent for w t I crude
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  Speaker 1: oil that's called twelve dollars a barrel, still way elevated.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have a bottom in this market. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so, and not by today's trading hill off another
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  Speaker 1: one point eight percent on the smp UH five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk to somebody who does this for a
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  Speaker 1: living and talks to traders for a living. Barry metzger
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  Speaker 1: managing director and head of Trading and Education at Charles Schwab,
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  Speaker 1: joins us here in our Bloomberg in our actor Broker
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  Speaker 1: studio Live. He's in town in the Bloomberg headquarters for
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  Speaker 1: a Bloomberg Intelligence Investor conference today. Barry, thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us here. You know, I think the question
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  Speaker 1: that I started hearing more and more in the last
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  Speaker 1: week or two is are we at the bottom? How
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  Speaker 1: do I identify a bottom? When you talk to your traders,
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  Speaker 1: when you do your surveys, our traders thinking about calling
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  Speaker 1: a bottom anytime soon? Well, first of all, Paul, it's
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  Speaker 1: great to be here live, so thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, our traders are very vocal, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to calling a bottom, that's always tough.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly what we seen in this recent survey as
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  Speaker 1: clients are very bearish. They are definitely bearish given the UH,
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  Speaker 1: given the events inflation is absolutely on their mind. I
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  Speaker 1: would say issues one, two, and three are inflation, inflation, inflation.
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  Speaker 1: So when you take that into account, and we listened
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  Speaker 1: to the survey from our clients, you know that inflation
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  Speaker 1: issues the biggest one. And I would say from the data,
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  Speaker 1: a third of our clients stint inflation is going to
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  Speaker 1: stick around for a little bit. But um, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: a third of them think it's gonna last until so
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  Speaker 1: based on that sunament, that's that could be quite well too.
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  Speaker 1: Thirds thinks it's a little bit more of a shorter term.
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  Speaker 1: But um, certainly our clients are looking at what we're
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  Speaker 1: calling a Russian Bear Russian Bear meeting. All the three
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  Speaker 1: major industries are down in Bear territory by the end
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  Speaker 1: of two a Russian Bear, a Russian Bear tie to Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. Um, you know it's interesting. I camera christ
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  Speaker 1: our Macroman strategist. Always he was when my teachers used
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  Speaker 1: to tell me find the historical precedents that I've been
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  Speaker 1: obset with the nineteen sixty two President Cuban missile crisis,
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  Speaker 1: the market just slid for nine months straight and didn't
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  Speaker 1: recover until the Cuban missile crisis was over. So I
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  Speaker 1: have to ask, we're painting a lot of the sell
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  Speaker 1: off on inflation, We're painting it on supply chain issues,
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  Speaker 1: even COVID. The minute the war in Ukraine ends, whenever
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  Speaker 1: that might be, is that when we see a complete turnaround. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: certainly our clients are very much looking at the geopolitical
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  Speaker 1: roosts in Ukraine. So, as I mentioned, inflation is number one,
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine is absolutely number two. So could you see a
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  Speaker 1: bump based on what our clients are saying once that ends,
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  Speaker 1: and what does that look like? It depends, But I
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  Speaker 1: would certainly think there would be positive news based on
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  Speaker 1: what we're seeing, But a lot more goes into it
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  Speaker 1: as well. You know, it is inflation, it is Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: but it is you know, obviously the prices that they're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, the question I get after often a lot is, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if if I were to hand you ten thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: what would you do with that? You know, that decision
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  Speaker 1: was pretty easy a couple of years ago. You could
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  Speaker 1: put in your megacap socks and be happy. Now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you gotta pause, you have to think
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  Speaker 1: about it. And our clients are actually looking more towards
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  Speaker 1: real estate, um oil, gold, and even crypto as potential
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  Speaker 1: other investments besides the typical ones that we've seen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting. I mean the we had the Chicago FED
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  Speaker 1: President Charles Evans on Bloomberg Radio television earlier this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he was saying, as you were saying,
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  Speaker 1: that the Fed is absolutely laser focused on inflation. Um.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of goes to the point they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be aggressive here and they've already shown to be aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: And it kind of begs a question, what risk assets
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  Speaker 1: can perform well in that type of environment. Yeah, great question.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, when we looked at the survey, clients
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  Speaker 1: did address this. And you know, when the survey was taken,
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  Speaker 1: I think most of our clients were thinking twenty five
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  Speaker 1: basis point increase was kind of the norm. If we
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  Speaker 1: had that survey taken today, they would probably be more
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  Speaker 1: a half or even you know, three quarters, So maybe
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  Speaker 1: even a different pump um. You know, it's it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to say. I think this speaks to having a diversified portfolio.
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  Speaker 1: I think this gets back to some of the basics
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  Speaker 1: of having a financial plan, understand your goals. Look, I
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  Speaker 1: leave the trading business. But I'm still a believer in
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  Speaker 1: your wealth management principles of having a plan tied your
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: goals and objectives, having an asset allocated portfolio. And there's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: times when you need to ignore the noise um. And
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: we've heard that many, many times, and so this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for many investors, I think it is playing a little
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: bit of the long game versus trying to get you know,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: swept up in some of these short term markets, which
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I think is really really important. I'm glad you mentioned
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a short term markets because you also said the conversation
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: on where you spend your ten thousand dollars is really
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: easy two years ago, but not so easy now. So
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: let's put this to you. You have ten thousand dollars,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: You've got a three month time horizon. Where do you
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: put it? So I'm not going to leave it in
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: bank in the bank, I'm not going to leave it
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: in cash. Listen. I still go to the the the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: philosophy of you know, if you walk past the store
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and you see an item that you wanted me to
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: buy that was thirty or off, you're gonna buy it
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: right away, like wow, such a deal. But when it's
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the market um for some reason, people are hesitant to
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: take advantage that. So I would still look for opportunities
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that are tied to my objectives. Do a little dollar
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: cost averaging, maybe not all once, but look at different
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: sectors that I believe in more for the long term
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  Speaker 1: and start buying them on a discount. So that could
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: be you know, your typical large cap sectors as well.
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  Speaker 1: And but I think there are opportunities for alternative investments,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, and I do think there's some
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: other opportunities specifically in rates, just like our clients are
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: suggesting that do look opportunistic, you know, we're you know.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: There's one of the stock stories of the day today.
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  Speaker 1: Barry was a target reported some numbers with some disappointing guidance,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: citing the cost inflation impacting their business and their consumers.
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  Speaker 1: Started the day a hundred billion dollar market cap. It's
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  Speaker 1: off twenty five percent. It is rare in my experience
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to see such a large company very liquidly traded. Thirty
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: one analysts follow the stock, widely held by some of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the smartest institutional investors. What does it tell you about
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: when when you see the price action in a big
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: cap stock like that today. Yeah, I mean we're we're
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: seeing the in lots of different places. I think this again,
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  Speaker 1: ghost e fact, you certainly don't want to have all
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: your eggs in one basket, um, because you never know
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: what could happen with that basket. I mean, the markets
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: can be unpredictable. I think the important thing in all
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: sincerity is not to panic and not to make grass decisions. Uh,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: it's to stick to your fundamental plans and recognize that
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: markets move, and markets can move quickly, and it always
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: seems like, man, they fall so much quicker than they rise. Um.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: And so maybe a good day for those of you
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: invest in that To turn off the screens, that's okay,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: but take a long view approach versus getting whipsawed by
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the news on a day to day basis. Are you
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: still seeing I mean your schwab, you've got the you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you get the greatest view on individual traders and retail
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: What are the retail folks doing these days? Yah? So
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: retail folks are certainly still engaged in what we see
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: in a lot of our more active traders is um.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Even though there's more volatility, more unpredictability in the markets,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and maybe certain sectors that they had to invest in.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: They're still using this time time to stay educated. I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: think that's really important. In my role, it's trading and education,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and education, in my opinion, has never been more important.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So let's say the example you said about ten dollars,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't investor right away. Maybe I spend more
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: time researching, spend more time understanding different strategies that I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: could be utilizing, maybe looking at more risk, defying strategies,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: utilizing options, and other areas that potentially can help my
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: portfolio or had some risk. So I would say, by
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and by and large, our clients are actively staying engage,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: utilizing more education, and trying to get more knowledgeable about
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the markets. All right, verty great stuff. Really appreciate you
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: coming into the Bloomberg studio. Barry Metzger, He's managing director
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and head of Trading an Education at Charles Schwab. All right,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at d X Y index here, the dollar
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: index on a trailing twelve month basis. We started about
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a year ago down around ninety. The index today's one
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: h three spots six. Just a steady, steady move higher
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: for the green back. Is there a bear case out there?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: For the dollar. Brent Don, president of Spectr Markets, joins us. Brent,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the the US dollar has just been marching
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: higher and higher and higher. Is there a bear case
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: for the dollar? Hey, good morning, Paul. Yeah, that's a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: really interesting thing that's happened. Is the death of the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: dollar is a popular theme, right It always is a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: popular theme. Ever since I was a kid. It's been
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a popular theme. And yet it's just a theme that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: doesn't work very well. Um. Currently with two engines of growth,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: China and Europe are both sputtering and you really see
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that especially in new orders UM and expectations in Europe. UM.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: The dollar is kind of the cleanest dirty shirt right now.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: People thought that with the swift band on Russia that
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: that would be some kind of warning signed to other
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: central banks to stay away from from US assets. The
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: weaponization of the dollar potentially could have been negative for
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the dollar, but it hasn't had any impact at all,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and in fact, it hasn't even had an impact on gold.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Where people thought that was the obvious trade was if
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: central banks are going to move away from US assets,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and they certainly don't want European assets because they bend
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: they made the band as well. Then gold seemed like
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: an obvious beneficiary, and yet there's been no evidence of
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: central banks buying gold either. So what it comes back
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to is the US is the most liquid capital market
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: in the world, and when people are nervous, even if
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: US equities are underperforming, which they are, when people are nervous,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: they come and buy the dollar. Brent Donnelly, I was like,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: this name sounds so familiar in the pole, I realized
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I have his book on my bookshelf, really the Art
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: of Currency Trading. Well, he's been all currencies, yeah, HSBC,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Lehman Brothers, Nomura, I mean, totally an expert on the dollar.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But anyways, it's very cool to speak to an author
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I know for my bookshelf. But Brent, I have to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: ask you about stagflation. That seems to be a ward
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that comes up over and over and over agun Is
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that a inevitability for the United States or for Europe.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's inevitable. Um, you know, forecasting is
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: hard and that's something I say in my book, but
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I will say that so stagflation, stagflation obviously is stagnation
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and inflation. I don't think I need to talk about
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the inflation side, um, But the concern now is that Okay,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: first of all, you have Europe and China are both problematic.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Like I said, new orders, especially which tends to be
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the most forward looking, is really ugly, especially in Europe.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: But the thing is now in the US people focus
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: on on lagging data like the unemployment rate, But if
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you listen to the conference calls and you look at
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the more recent anecdotal stuff, those anecdotes add up to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit of concern, even on the labor market.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't say that it's recessionary type of concern.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: But if you look at Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, cameo Carvon,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I mean I could actually make a longer list than that.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of either hiring restraint announcements or
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: outright layoffs, and that kind of stuff doesn't show up
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: in the data for a while. So I think people
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: that are relying on a strong US jobs market to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: make the case that everything's fine are probably a slightly
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: misguided because that the unemployment rate specifically is a very
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: lagging indicator. And to me, the the drop in unemployment
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: or the freezes and or the freezes and employment are
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: very reminiscent of two thousand, two thousand one. If you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: remember that era, stocks dropped about before you saw anything
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: in in the unemployment or initial claims data. UM. So
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: now you have the disruption and work from home stocks
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: all down around and then the exact same pattern plays
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: out where hiring slows because these tech companies know that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the financing is drying up right. It's Powell Is is
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: tightening financial conditions and VC and everyone is feeling that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So anyone that overbuilt, like Carbona being an extreme example,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: but even Amazon being another example, really have to pull
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: back the reins now, UM, and specifically the tech companies
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that lose a lot of money are not going to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: have easy access to free money anymore. So I think
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that's leading to a drop in confidence, and you see
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that in the consumer confidence data. Now much of that's
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: driven by inflation, but now you're starting to see a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: little bit of concern about employment too. So I think
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: we're on the front edge of the stagnation part um,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and we really have to monitor the data and actually,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: more importantly, I think monitor the conference calls of of
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the big names because you look at Target and Walmart.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: UM also kind of concerning right, you're moving out of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the tech area and now into the consumer and that's
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit worrisome too. So I would say people
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: should be worrying about stagflation, all right, Brent, good stuff.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate you taking the time talking to us about
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: this economy, talking to us about the currency markets here,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: focusing on again not just the government information, but UH
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: info and forward forecast, forward looks from a lot of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: these companies. Brent Downley, president of Spectr Markets. He spent
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: uh many many years trading currencies across Wall streeted number
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of firms, so he's got a good feel for here,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: what moves this U S Dollar relative to other currencies,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: UM and economic winds that push these currencies, uh, you know,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: from up and down on a global scale. So I
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: always love talking to f X people just kind of
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: market rolling over here, uh cretty. So a lot of
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: folks not liking what they're seeing, not feeling like we've
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: seen a bottom in this market. Got some more room
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to go. We have this fedtle reserve of course raising rates. Uh.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And again a little bit of concern coming out of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: these retailers over the last three or four days as
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it relates to kind of the inflation impact on not
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: only their business but on the consumers. Thanks for listening
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