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Speaker 2: One of the undercurrents out there in the marketplace is

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Speaker 2: credit quality, particularly in the private credit business. We've been

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Speaker 2: reading stories over the last several weeks and months, including

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Speaker 3: Then Blackrock.

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Speaker 2: Today Blackrock curbed withdrawals from its HPS corporate Lending fund

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Speaker 2: after client requests for redemption. Spike, I wasn't expecting Blackrock,

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Speaker 2: that this is such a high quality name. I was

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Speaker 2: not expecting to see the Blackrock come into this conversation.

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Speaker 2: But let's get the latest reporting there. Brian schapotap It

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Speaker 2: Brian talked to us about what's happening in the private

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think you talked about at the

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Speaker 4: jump you weren't expecting necessarily Blackrock, And you know, one

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Speaker 4: So what you were seeing here in this fund is

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Speaker 5: Well, Brian, you know Blackrock saying that this step is

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Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that we've kind of observed

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Speaker 4: And then they also actually put some of the firm's

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Speaker 2: Just up a little technology stocks. Here's here's a note

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Speaker 2: an uncertain Iran military conflict in the Middle East, adding

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Speaker 2: to the nervousness already in the tech trade with the ghosts,

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Speaker 2: with the AI ghost trade and anthropic worries abound. The

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Speaker 2: Technology research at web Bush Securities. Here Dan, love to

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Speaker 2: But what is the AI ghost trade, Dan, And how's

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Well, Paul, I mean the AI ghost trade.

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Speaker 7: It goes back to like the anthropic worries that's crushed

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Speaker 6: The software layer.

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Speaker 7: And I'd take to somebody it's also been a huge

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Speaker 6: But we continue to view it. It's a good trade.

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Speaker 7: I think last week's anthropic event earlier in the week

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Speaker 7: we've already seen it in software, and I think it's

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm sure Dan that you've read a training

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Speaker 5: What'd you take on that scenario? Are you an account

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Speaker 7: But I believe we're in the early d's of an

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Speaker 7: even when you look like everything that's happened with Anthropic

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Speaker 6: It's a plug and play in terms of the models

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Speaker 7: but you can't paint them all at the same rush.

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Speaker 7: And that's why this is the most disconnected selloff that

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Speaker 2: Skip talk to the real estate business, and we always

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, Laurien, I think one of the things that

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Speaker 8: Look, the perspective matters, and I look across Morgan Stanley's

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Speaker 2: So why is Morgan Stanley so good have been forever

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Speaker 8: We have an extraordinary team, and we have the combination

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