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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg P and L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Abramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: SoundCloud and at Bloomberg dot com. This is shaping up

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Speaker 1: to be one of the most challenging years ever for

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Speaker 1: analysts to come to concrete predictions for Doug Ramsey, c

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Speaker 1: io of the Lootold Group, just came out with their

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Speaker 1: new Green Book of market research and it's It's an

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Speaker 1: extensive book of forecasts and expectations for the year ahead. Doug,

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Speaker 1: just from the outside, how difficult was it for you

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Speaker 1: and your team to come up with a base case

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Speaker 1: scenario for next year? Uh? Well, the the issue, at

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Speaker 1: least I guess with coming up with a forecast at

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Speaker 1: this point in the cycle is that it is a

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Speaker 1: very mature economic and stock market cycle, and valuations are

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Speaker 1: are very high. I mean, forecasting is dangerous I think

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Speaker 1: at any point in the cycle. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: one phase where you might have a higher degree of

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Speaker 1: confidence would be early Bowl market. You know, we're unemployment

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Speaker 1: rates are still high, but coming down, valuations are still reasonable,

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Speaker 1: FED liquidity is still plentyable. We've got really none of

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Speaker 1: that today. We have a very low unemployment rate. Someone

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Speaker 1: say we're at full employment. Valuations are historically very high.

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Speaker 1: We think second only to the tech bubble years, uh

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Speaker 1: in terms of peak valuations. And UH so we're we're

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Speaker 1: reticent to make a let's say, a full year forecast,

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Speaker 1: but we do have a fairly high degree of confidence

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Speaker 1: that we will see higher highs at least during the

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Speaker 1: first half of the year. And it really just has

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Speaker 1: to do with the internal strength of the market. And

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, animal spirits are a sort of

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Speaker 1: becoming rekindled here with more pro business talk coming from

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Speaker 1: the incoming administration. I think you know, that combination of

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Speaker 1: uh confidence being rehabilitated coming up from from pretty uh

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Speaker 1: skeptical levels and uh and just the action in the

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Speaker 1: market itself had us bullish for you know, at least

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Speaker 1: the first half of the year. Doug Ramsey, can you

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Speaker 1: just broaden the conversation a little bit by telling us

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Speaker 1: about market breadth and what that's showing you Sure, what

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Speaker 1: we developed a pretty simple indicator, just that we tally

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Speaker 1: each time the SMP makes a new bull market high.

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Speaker 1: So the latest was Tuesday, And we look at UH

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Speaker 1: the spirit indices and indicators like the New York Stock

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Speaker 1: I mean, all of these are also poking out to

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Speaker 1: new all time highs. And just I mean, the history

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Speaker 1: the spinal peak and the Blue chips is actually a

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Speaker 1: pretty lonely event where it's really just those two indices

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Speaker 1: I've just got to believe in a bullmarket that's lasted

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Speaker 1: process that is going to be you know, spread out

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Speaker 1: always a death now and this is of very interesting point.

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Speaker 1: It flies in the face of some commentary that we've

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Speaker 1: saying that, uh, if if treasure yields keep rising to

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Speaker 1: that's going to put pressure on the SMP five hundred.

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Speaker 1: Why do you disagree, Well, I think there's an offset.

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Speaker 1: that's a bond yield figure that sounds normal to me

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Speaker 1: some point, I mean sometimes I wonder if that might

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Speaker 1: a great recovery, but it's certainly been far superior to

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Speaker 1: the European multinational stocks. We've got to leave it there,

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Speaker 1: but thanks very much. Doug Ramsey, chief investment officer the

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Speaker 1: Loothold Group based in Minneapolis, uh I think that's a

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Speaker 1: good headline, isn't it. That the euro dollar might trade

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Speaker 1: in the nineties, maybe even in the low nineties over

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Speaker 1: the next six to twelve months. That would be a

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Speaker 1: huge game changer. Already Europe has seen some advantages from

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Speaker 1: So this will be a very interesting dynamic in the

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Speaker 1: year ahead. But we're trying to imagine what the effects

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Speaker 1: And here to tell us more, as Mark Gilbert Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for being with us. I note

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Speaker 1: that the pound right now trading at one against the

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Speaker 1: Tell us what's going on, Well, we had the vote

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Speaker 1: in June, the referendum, Brits decided they wanted to leave

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Speaker 1: the European Union, and you can some of the situations

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Speaker 1: since then. In one word, it's uncertainty. If you look

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Speaker 1: at the pounds on a trade weighted basis this year,

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Speaker 1: it's down about fifteen in total. It's rallied seven percent

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Speaker 1: And if you look at all of the forecast for

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Speaker 1: are looking at a faster inflation rate. So you've got

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Speaker 1: the Office for Budget responsibilit to an independent body here

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Speaker 1: the Bank of Englaan's two percent inflation target will get met,

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Speaker 1: probably in the first quarter of next year, and then

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Speaker 1: inflation will continue to rise, studying out at about two

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Speaker 1: the weaker pound, which in turn has been sparked by

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Speaker 1: this decision to leave the EU by Brexit. You know,

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Speaker 1: one thing that I'm struck by is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: inflation has been the holy grail of central banks for years,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now the UK is getting it.

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Speaker 1: But this seems to be bad inflation. It doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: translate to higher wages. What are we seeing in terms

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Speaker 1: goods that are increasingly becoming more expensive. Well, so far

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Speaker 1: this decade, inflation has been banged on, averaging two percent,

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Speaker 1: eight percent, So Britains have effectively had a pay cut

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Speaker 1: expected to accelerate, but wages are respected to stagnate, and

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Speaker 1: cut again. Marcus, there are a debate about different sectors

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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to expect to understand this. Today the

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Speaker 1: to some of this higher inflationary pressure, will this caused

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Speaker 1: the power and to appreciate significantly? I mean, is that

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Speaker 1: like like most central banks, they say they don't target

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Speaker 1: its claim that it will it will allow faster inflation

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Speaker 1: I mean, in many ways it's a pass through entity.

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Speaker 1: it's not the case. I mean, we have seen deterioration

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Speaker 1: So that that's if there's a pressure point in terms

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Speaker 1: and to that point, I mean, the as you talked

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, however, in the market, I think

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Speaker 1: have continued prospects for potential continue US dollar strength. Is

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Speaker 1: in late nineteen ninies. I mean, there's one or two

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Speaker 1: everything from foreign reserves to to to some better balance

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Speaker 1: It's different and so at least they're not all in

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Speaker 1: the same bag. And so I don't think we're going

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Speaker 1: to see a set of rolling crisises um, but we

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Speaker 1: will see some pressure points. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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