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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Krisner.

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Speaker 2: We're expecting a flurry of economic data points in the

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Speaker 2: week ahead. In the Asia Pacific. The big numbers are

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Speaker 2: due on Friday, when China will report on retail sales

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Speaker 2: and industrial production. Now in the States, Tuesday's report on

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Speaker 2: retail inflation will be a major focus. These numbers should

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Speaker 2: help firm expectations on the timing of the next FED

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Speaker 2: rate cut. Also Tuesday, we'll have a rate decision from

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Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank of Australia. And in a moment we'll

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Speaker 2: hear from Swati Pondi, Bloomberg ECOGUV reporter in Sydney. But

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Speaker 2: we begin here in the States. Joining me now is

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Speaker 2: Eric Stirner. He is the chief investment officer at a

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Speaker 2: Pollen Wealth Management. Eric, thank you so much for making

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Speaker 2: time to chat with me. Quite up rally that we

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Speaker 2: had in big cap tech Friday, Nasdaq comps a record

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Speaker 2: closing high twenty one four fifty. Are you continuing to

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Speaker 2: buy into this thesis that you've got to be in

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Speaker 2: big cap tech, particularly given the trade in artificial intelligence?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, first, thanks for having me, And yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's interesting because so many have predicted that other

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Speaker 1: leading away, and their earnings are just continued just to

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Speaker 1: knock the ball out of the park. And I still

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Speaker 1: think we're in the very early endings of this AI revolution.

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Speaker 1: And yes, you know some have not the make a

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Speaker 2: So I mentioned a moment ago that we have CPI

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Speaker 2: she's urging her fellow policymakers to begin making that type

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Speaker 2: right now for the Fed?

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Speaker 1: Well, what, you know, I believe that the Fed should

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Speaker 1: But we've just even before those those revisions of the

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Speaker 1: Junior Report, we've seen plenty of evidence of the labor

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Speaker 1: market moderating between elevated continued claims. We still are in

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Speaker 1: this low higher, low fire environment where it's really hard

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Speaker 1: And even the ADB Private Payrolls has really shown how

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Speaker 2: Of the year most definitely, And right now, I think

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Speaker 1: It's something that certainly we we factor it into our

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Speaker 2: Are you focused squarely on the equity market these days

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we know. We like at all markets, both on

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Speaker 1: So that's why I remain on the short and medium

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Speaker 1: We're also when we put together portfolios, looking at private markets,

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Speaker 2: Are you looking at markets offshore as well?

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Speaker 1: Yes, oh, absolutely. We've always maintained allocations to international well.

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Speaker 1: At an aggregate level, I think the consumer remains healthy.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner.

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Speaker 2: Traders in the Asia Pacific will be watching tomorrow's rate

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Speaker 2: decision from the Reserve Bank of Australia now. Back in July,

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Speaker 3: We've got an unemployment rate that's not only trending high,

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Speaker 3: but it's also above what our Central Bank has been projecting.

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Speaker 4: Swati last meeting, we thought this is it, We're easing,

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Speaker 5: That's what a lot of people are saying as well.

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Speaker 5: Economists expecting a cut, and one of the reasons is

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Speaker 5: the RBI is pretty small. Now markets are expecting fully

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Speaker 5: pricing in a cut. Economists are ascribing a seventy five

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Speaker 5: We had inflation data which showed a cooling down in

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Speaker 5: it does look like the RBA could ease by twenty

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Speaker 5: it's the case is similar for economists as well, and

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Speaker 5: I think Michelle Burdock is likely to either she will

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Speaker 5: say that we are fine with that pricing or signal

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Speaker 5: that against that pricing, saying signaling that the RBA is

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Speaker 4: Well, there was some strong expectation that we would get

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Speaker 5: Yes, the RBAS communication has been a bit whiplashy this year.

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Speaker 5: So there was a lot of uncertainty in the market,

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Speaker 5: they were again hawkish, and then July they did not cut.

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Speaker 5: So it's people are saying that it's really hard to

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Speaker 5: discern their signals. It's hard to understand what they would do.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 5: In RBA's defense, they have a new monetary policy board

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Speaker 5: now and they have a new structure where they are voting,

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Speaker 5: so it her defense, Michelle Bullock said that it's very

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Speaker 5: hard for her to pre enpt what the board would

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Speaker 5: and that adds to the uncertainty. So I think through

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Speaker 4: And of course RBA policy so closely linked to the

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Speaker 4: national sport of real estate, can we pretty much time

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Speaker 4: our watch to easing from the RBA to another rise

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Speaker 1: A long time.

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Speaker 5: It's already happening. It's already happening. House prices are on

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Speaker 5: that every single day, twenty four unaffordable houses are being

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Speaker 5: saying that every single day the number of unaffordable housing

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Speaker 5: problem of unaffordability. Some economists are saying that is one

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Speaker 5: of the reasons we will not see a huge spike

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Speaker 4: All right, Economy reporter Swatty Pandi theres we count down

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Speaker 4: to the ABA decision on Tuesday.

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