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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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

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Speaker 2: We had about of euphoria gripping the US equity market

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Speaker 2: in the last session. That came after President Trump paused

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Speaker 2: new reciprocal tariffs for dozens of trading partners for ninety days.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: These reciprocal duties from most nations will be taxed at

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Speaker 2: a baseline rate of ten percent, with the exception of China.

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Speaker 2: Trump did raise duties on Chinese goods all the way

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Speaker 2: to one hundred and twenty five percent. In a moment,

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Speaker 2: we'll be speaking with Rebecca Walzer. She is president of

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Speaker 2: wallser Wealth Management. But we begin in Hong Kong. Joining

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Speaker 2: me now is Chi Lo, senior market strategist at BNP

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Speaker 2: Parabah Asset Management. Chi is on the line from Hong Kong.

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Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure. Thank you for making time. Can

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Speaker 2: I begin by getting your reaction to the price action

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Speaker 2: that we have seen in the last twelve hours or so?

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Speaker 3: By summary is in one word for volatility, which is

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Speaker 3: what we've been seeing for quite some weeks now. The

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Speaker 3: reaction last night, of course, is obviously due to President

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Speaker 3: Trump's pausing of the RECIPI reciprocal tariffs on almost all

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Speaker 3: other countries except China.

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Speaker 4: That's understandable.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The other reason for the big reaction last night was

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Speaker 3: because of the cell of you a week ago, which

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Speaker 3: to some extent was an overreaction, and now this is

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Speaker 3: another overreaction, but to the upside. So on a net basis,

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Speaker 3: we are still seeing the US stocks over all, the

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Speaker 3: Going forward, nobody knows how long this rebound could last

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Speaker 3: because mister Trump said the pause is about three months,

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Speaker 3: but you never know what he will say tomorrow next week. Also,

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Speaker 3: so volcidity is due the key thing, and risk management

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Speaker 2: So it would seem as though the fifty six nations

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Speaker 2: plus the European Union that are going to be kind

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Speaker 2: of facing these baseline tariffs of ten percent, they are

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Speaker 2: in the process of negotiating. China is not negotiating right now.

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Speaker 2: And perhaps it was the view of the Trump administration

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Speaker 2: that because China retaliated that the new tariff of one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five percent was put in place. Do

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Speaker 2: you think this is a dangerous exercise. Are we looking

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Speaker 2: at a full blown trade war? Forget the other trading

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Speaker 2: partners for a moment, let's just talk about Washington Mai Jing.

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Speaker 2: Are we dealing with the possibility that we're going to

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Speaker 2: see a long protracted trade war between the US and China.

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Speaker 3: Well, that possibility actually is always there, and this time

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Speaker 3: when we see China's very stern reaction to the reciprocal

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Speaker 3: tarrier's buyings from is another evidence that the two nations

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Speaker 3: will continue to compete in the long term, long term

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Speaker 3: meaning the next ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, in

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Speaker 3: the form of trade wars, tag wars, and all these things.

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Speaker 3: It is a dangerous game, a dangerous chickens game. As

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Speaker 3: far as this game is concerned, this time is concerned,

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Speaker 3: I think it depends on who flinches first. On the

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Speaker 3: more so. In a trade war situation like this, nobody wins,

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Speaker 3: and it really depends on who gets hurt more. Now,

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Speaker 3: seems that China would be hurt more because China exports

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Speaker 3: So when you put that into the equation, it really

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Speaker 2: So I'm wondering about the response that Beijing may have

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Speaker 4: The two options through currency depreciation.

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Speaker 4: To protect investors investments. So I think that that's important

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Speaker 3: Are assessing volatility risk in markets like China that will

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Speaker 4: Not get government support. But these are only short term measures.

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Speaker 3: A longer term, we still need to see aggressive and

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Speaker 2: What about more stimulus chie how much more can Beijing

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Speaker 4: At this point, I.

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Speaker 3: Think the risk freshold probably is another two position points

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Speaker 4: And I believe China.

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Speaker 4: Still very high. So, assuming there is no disaster.

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Speaker 3: Earthquake hitting the Chinese economy, I think the tariff impact

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Speaker 4: This point by the Chinese with more aggressive fiscal stabilism.

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Speaker 3: For the sick, next six months probably is too early

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Speaker 3: assuming the tariff does get settled one way or the other. UH,

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Speaker 3: to recover assuming that Beijing comes up with more aggressive easing.

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Speaker 4: That's the key point.

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Speaker 3: If we don't see aggressive easing by Beijing, then you

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Speaker 3: if we do see that, which I think there's a

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Speaker 3: reasonable chance that Mayjing will be more aggressive in easing

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Speaker 4: For Chinese growth and earnings growth.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's going to be pains with net expots down,

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Speaker 3: Scenes GFC more than ten years ago, the domestic sector

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Speaker 2: Gee, what about the high tech sector. We've seen the

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Speaker 4: But it's in the longer term.

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Speaker 3: A short term forget about it, because the near term

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Speaker 3: factors are still the macro volatility, political risk, tariff war

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Speaker 3: as I said that it doesn't settle. The Chinese tech sector,

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Speaker 2: She will leave it there. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: Chi Lo, their senior market strategist at BNP PAABO Asset Management,

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Speaker 2: on the line from Hong Kong. Here on the Daybreak

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Speaker 2: Asia podcast. Welcome back to the Debreak Asia Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 2: Doug Chrisner. So President Trump ignited an explosive rally in

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Speaker 2: saw the biggest burst of buying for US stocks since

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Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. The S and P five hundred

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Speaker 2: DAK composit rallied more than twelve percent today. Joining me

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Speaker 2: now for a closer look is Rebecca Waalzer. She is

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Speaker 2: the president of wallser Wealth Management. She is on the

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Speaker 2: line from Tampa, Florida. Rebecca, it's always a pleasure to

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Speaker 2: visit with you. What did you make of today's price section?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 1: What can I say, Doug? I mean, this is a

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Speaker 1: day for the record books. You know, we this is

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Speaker 1: this is unprecedented. I mean, you know, we haven't seen

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Speaker 1: the gains on the Dow since, like you know, before

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Speaker 1: dot Com basically now as DAK twenty four year record

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Speaker 1: here that we're talking about. Obviously the S and P

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, but literally it's for the record books, Doug.

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Speaker 1: And it just shows you that, you know, and an administration

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Speaker 1: have reverberations geopolitically globally across the world. So it's it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: When when you look at the tariff story, we know

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Speaker 2: that President Trump paused those new reciprocal tariffs on a

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Speaker 2: dozen trading hardness for ninety days. That was only thirteen

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Speaker 2: hours after they went into effect. But I'm wondering whether

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Speaker 2: the markets guided him. Was this a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a capitulation on the part of the president?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that there's going to be a

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Speaker 1: lot of dissection of exactly that question, Doug. You're hitting

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Speaker 1: the nail on the head there, because the question is

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Speaker 1: does he all along realize that what he's doing is

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Speaker 1: so evasive and we'll have such a deep and important

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Speaker 1: he expects it to be met with total, you know,

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