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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Welcome to the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. So we're less than

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Speaker 1: twelve hours away from the US employment report. Bloomberg Economics

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Speaker 1: is expecting to see a solid net gain in nonfarm

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Speaker 1: payrolls of around one hundred and sixty five thousand. Also

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Speaker 1: a stable unemployment rate at around four point two percent.

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Speaker 1: And in a moment we'll get some insight from Bill Adams.

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Speaker 1: He is the chief economist at Comerica Bank. But we

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Speaker 1: begin in the Asia Pacific where this morning the Chinese

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Speaker 1: government said it's currently evaluating possible trade talks with the US.

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Speaker 1: The Commerce Ministry has said senior US officials have repeatedly

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Speaker 1: expressed their willingness to talk with Beijing about tariffs. Joining

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Speaker 1: me now is David Finnerdy. He is Bloomberg FX and

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Speaker 1: Rate strategists. David joining from our studios in Singapore. I

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Speaker 1: know it's a market holiday in China, David, so we're

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Speaker 1: not going to get any reaction action to this, but

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Speaker 1: it's a positive sign still, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the key thing, any sign that

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Speaker 2: there's some negotiations be had, even tho It's very early

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Speaker 2: days and you certainly don't expect any deal to be

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Speaker 2: hashed out quickly. But I think any idea, any sign

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Speaker 2: that there will be negotiations to even start, will be

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Speaker 2: taken positively by the market. Obviously, you know that the

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Speaker 2: tarests between China and US are you know, well over

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent, and that's not good really for anyone

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Speaker 2: in terms of trade. So I think any resolution will

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Speaker 2: be the market will quite apply welcome that.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was very interesting that Japan's finance minister

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Speaker 1: said today that Japan's holdings of US treasuries could be

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Speaker 1: a card in Japan's trade negotiations with the US. I

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Speaker 1: in US treasuries. Is that a friendly way of making

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Speaker 1: a threat.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's certainly a shot across the bout, I think

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Speaker 2: they'd say, of course. And he did at the same

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Speaker 2: time say hey, whether we use or not as a

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Speaker 2: alluded to does sort of say hey, look, we do

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Speaker 2: Of Course, the catch to some degree is okay, if

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Speaker 2: you want to get with the treasure sor if you can,

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Speaker 2: it's like, well, where do you put that money? You know,

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Speaker 2: you have to put it somewhere, and certainly if you

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Speaker 2: be the obvious place to put it into. But again

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Speaker 2: it's not quite as deep and liquid market. It's certainly

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Speaker 2: a big market, but it's certainly not quite the treasury market.

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Speaker 2: So you know, the question I think the market will

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Speaker 2: go if you are going to shoot, say that you

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Speaker 2: are going to change holdings, and if you did know

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Speaker 2: to how much could you? But again, any reduction of

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Speaker 2: holdings is not going to be received as well by

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Speaker 2: the market if it was to happen. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: really feeds into the big question of moving forward. How

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Speaker 2: does the West or other countries keep funding US deficits

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Speaker 2: really at the end of the day, and if they

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Speaker 2: show an unwillingness to fund it to the same extent,

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Speaker 2: you know, it does create a pop for the US

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Speaker 2: at the moment. You know, historically the US has been

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Speaker 2: we don't mind. We were happy to fund them. But

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Speaker 2: if the question I think really has become in a

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Speaker 2: and we don't know how the remainder of Trump's presidency

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Speaker 2: in terms of how people view US assets for whatever

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Speaker 1: So, and I'm listening to you, I'm thinking of the

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Speaker 1: dollar's role in all of this, and so far in

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Speaker 1: the trade war, the dollar has suffered just a bit.

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Speaker 1: I mean on a relative basis. I understand that we're

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Speaker 1: the world's reserve currency, but the flows have clearly benefited

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Speaker 2: Right, Yes, definitely, I think you know, since if you

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Speaker 2: But I do think the key thing is, and I'm

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Speaker 2: you have corports and you have real money funds. To

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Speaker 2: it's been a good trade. Its overall, say overall, because

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Speaker 2: question is, okay, what a corport's move slower and real

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Speaker 2: So I think the question is because it's like an

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Speaker 2: it's made. So they are discussions going on now talking

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Speaker 2: how they want to allocate holding today, want to change

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Speaker 1: Are, So help me understand what that may mean for

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Speaker 1: the Bank of Japan. We had the meeting yesterday BOJ

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Speaker 2: Well, I think certainly it was interesting that one thing

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Speaker 2: Certainly for Dolly Yen. What happened took into my trade

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Speaker 2: You did see the CPI coming strong for Japan. I

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Speaker 1: Hike at some point this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because certainly if you look at dollar,

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Speaker 2: So the market sentiment which initially was hey, we're going

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Speaker 1: David, Thank you so much. David Finnerty there, Bloomberg, EFX

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Speaker 1: and rat Strategist. Joining from Singapore here on the Daybreak

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Speaker 1: Asia podcast. Welcome back to the Daybreak Asia Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Derek Krisner. The US equity market was hired today for

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Speaker 1: an eighth straight session, helped by gains in both Meta

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Speaker 1: and Microsoft. However, after the bell, Apple and Amazon delivered

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Speaker 1: some disappointment. Apple said that sales in China were worse

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Speaker 1: increase cost in the current quarter by nine hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Then there's Amazon forecasting operating profit in the current quarter

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Speaker 1: tariffs and trade policy may cause consumers to pull back

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Speaker 1: on their spending. So it's clear that tariffs are beginning

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Speaker 1: be reflected in tomorrow's report on April employment. Joining me

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Speaker 1: now for a look at the data is Bill Adams,

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Speaker 1: a senior VP also chief economist at Comerica Bank, on

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Speaker 1: the line from Dallas, Texas. Bill, thank you for making

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Speaker 1: time to chat with me. Is it too soon for

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Speaker 1: the impact of the tariffs to manifest in tomorrow's employment data?

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Speaker 2: Hi, Doug, I.

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Speaker 3: Think we'll start to see some of the effect of

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Speaker 3: So I think you have to draw a distinction here

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't surprise me, to be honest, My forecast going

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Speaker 3: The Fed isn't a pickle. On the one hand, it

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Speaker 1: Without getting into too much politics, how do you feel

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Speaker 3: The independence of the FED is really an anchor of

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Speaker 1: Do you have a view on how effective this tariff

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Speaker 3: I think for tariffs to cause American businesses to make

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Speaker 1: line from Dallas, Texas here on the Daybreak Asia Podcast.

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