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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene Jay Lee.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course on the Bloomberg Lisa,

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Speaker 1: you and I've had the discussion about what is happening

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Speaker 1: in fixed income. The risky of parts of credit that

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Speaker 1: lank last year started to pick up in December and

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Speaker 1: a follow through has been really positive. And there's a

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Speaker 1: simple question. I think a lot of people are asking,

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Speaker 1: is it a sign of durability that the rally is

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Speaker 1: broadening out, or a sign of excess right or a

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Speaker 1: sign of the Perhaps this is not the leading indicator

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Speaker 1: that used to be. And I think that's been my

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Speaker 1: big question this morning. As you see junk bond yields

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Speaker 1: within sixteen basis points of their all time low, we're

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Speaker 1: talking about sub five percent high yield. It's not high

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Speaker 1: yield anymore, and we're back to that level and it's

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Speaker 1: rallying much more than investment grade debt. Just wonder going forward,

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Speaker 1: I mean, is this appropriate given where we are in

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Speaker 1: the credit cycles to bring up Channel News. Credit Sweet

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Speaker 1: head of FX Macro trading Strategy, Good Mornity s up.

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Speaker 1: What's the message for clients this morning. Well, we think

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Speaker 1: although these concerns that you just mentioned a real concerns

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Speaker 1: for now, we think markets continue pushing forward. The bottom

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Speaker 1: line is that from a macro perspective, we have a

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Speaker 1: situation where the Fed and other central banks indicating that

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Speaker 1: they're not looking to raise rates anytime soon. In fact,

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Speaker 1: there could be monetary policy framework shifts that bring forward

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Speaker 1: ideas like looking at inflation on average over a cycle

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Speaker 1: and waiting on its Inflation is above target for a while,

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Speaker 1: so there's no macro risk at this point that the

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Speaker 1: market can see on the monetary policy side, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the issues that's driving markets. There

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Speaker 1: was a headline out show up this morning on Spanish bonds,

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Speaker 1: and all our listeners need to know, particularly coast to

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Speaker 1: coast across America, is the number was g enormous. The

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Speaker 1: demand for paper is exceptional. Jeffrey, you with ubs one

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Speaker 1: with this earlier. This is one of his great themes.

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Speaker 1: Do you see that from where you are in foreign

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Speaker 1: exchange that there's just simply a wall of money out

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Speaker 1: there absolutely. For example, one of the themes at the

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Speaker 1: moment is the large amounts of reverse Yankee bond issuance.

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Speaker 1: So US companies issuing a reverse Yankee, that's where they're

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Speaker 1: in last place, right. No, you can say, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's essentially smiled I am familiar with. So you can

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Speaker 1: have a situation where a US company would would want

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Speaker 1: to issue debt in in Europe uh and then take

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Speaker 1: for example in the US itself. And this kind of

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Speaker 1: issuance is frequent when there's a belief that rates are

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Speaker 1: going to be lower in Europe for a long time

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Speaker 1: and that funding costs are going to be lower if

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Speaker 1: you raise money in Europe uh. And in essence, the

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Speaker 1: idea that negative yields are going to sustain in Europe

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Speaker 1: is in that sense of wall of money clearly because

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Speaker 1: companies feel that they can go to Europe and easily

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Speaker 1: fund themselves and get money. I do have to wonder, John,

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Speaker 1: you raised the issue of durability, and I think that

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Speaker 1: that's a really important one, and I think that I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be Debbie Downer. But I guess that's

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Speaker 1: where I've been pigeonholed. Oh, tomm you don't have to

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Speaker 1: give me that look he's raising his eyebrows at me.

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Speaker 1: But I will say, there's a question do you get

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Speaker 1: there is a question about liquidity, uh, the ability to

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Speaker 1: get out when you actually see a problem. Do you

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Speaker 1: rewarded for it, or do you back off? It's difficult

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Speaker 1: to back off simply because every day that you've backed off,

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Speaker 1: you you're losing money in effect um and because at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day there's a relative component to

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Speaker 1: this as well. So uh, like I said, you've got

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Speaker 1: negative rates in Europe. There's no sign that that's going

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Speaker 1: to change. And the US, the market still pricing in

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Speaker 1: it's not just the US and the rest of G ten.

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Speaker 1: macro backdrop to try to fade. When I I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you're bringing this up shot up John the hockey stick

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Speaker 1: on British rate code expectations absolutely extraordinary driven by the

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Speaker 1: policymakers more than the data. A little about turn from

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Speaker 1: Governor Carney and others as well. I find it absolutely fascinating.

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Speaker 1: Where did it come from on what three months ago?

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Speaker 1: It's obviously and it speaks for all of credit sweet research.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys glass half full or glass half empty

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Speaker 1: right now? Is a general investment statement. We're definitely glass

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Speaker 1: half full still as as overall we're less how full? Maybe? Well,

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Speaker 1: can you be less half full? We're more optimistic three

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Speaker 1: months ago, just because valuations were better three months ago,

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Speaker 1: it's not as attractive as it was. Have you said

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Speaker 1: that there's no obvious signal yet to back up and

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Speaker 1: in fact price action still tells us that too. For example,

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Speaker 1: the year. If markets really were as overwhelmingly long risk

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Speaker 1: as everybody suspects it talks about, there should have been

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, up John, us with us with

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Speaker 1: Credit Suite. Looking at JP Morgan, I think we've got

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Speaker 1: a better idea. With a number of thirty six point

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Speaker 1: four billion dollars for annual earnings, that's quite something for

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Speaker 1: a US bank on a yearly, sir, that many people

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Speaker 1: thought perhaps we'd go into recession on a year when

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Speaker 1: we had three interest rate cuts. We've had record profit

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Speaker 1: numbers out of Jack P. Mulkin. How does this correlate

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Speaker 1: with the idea that banks are in a downward slump?

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Speaker 1: Just throwing that out there, Well, the stop price of

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Speaker 1: are saying that the sort of years of incredible profitability

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Speaker 1: are over. This doesn't. He's next to us. Now tell

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Speaker 1: retroly the numbers you thoughts place. Yes, I think it's impressive.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the revenue growth, and you would combine that

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Speaker 1: share repurchase of about four percent year over year. You

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Speaker 1: put it together, it's it's dynamite. Now that I think

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Speaker 1: it's all about the operating leverage now that revenue growth.

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Speaker 1: Remember last fourth quarter was a terrible fixed income trading quarter.

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Speaker 1: and there were still a billion dollars shy fixed income

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Speaker 1: it's a matter of fact, so relative to expectations, and

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Speaker 1: the average firm in terms of our estimate. But they

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Speaker 1: had sixteen cents of share of revenue beat, and they

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Speaker 1: that rate? Is that mortgage banking. We've been expecting there

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Speaker 1: happen to be reading the direct delivery of research well

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Speaker 1: on my phone. But this is really compelling. In other words,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't all bright spots right the mortgage decline they

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Speaker 1: had to offset somewhere. I'm wondering they did what was better?

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Speaker 1: What was so amazing that actually delivered this beat that

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Speaker 1: market for fick trading and for equities was probably a

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Speaker 1: little bit more generous than people thought. And I'm going

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Speaker 1: to guess they picked up market share. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's something well, the bigger, the biggest banks

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Speaker 1: the smaller players, UH, continue to see pressure. So what's

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Speaker 1: the sweat emerge right now? I'm sorry, what's the sweat

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Speaker 1: to merge? Merge, merger. I think you're going to see

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Speaker 1: while they're doing that, they're spend at least the big

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Speaker 1: banks are spending billions of dollars on innovation. So the

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Speaker 1: other banks in the industry are seeing that. And it's

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Speaker 1: not game over for the regional banks. They just need

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Speaker 1: last year. Some of these numbers valitate some of the

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Speaker 1: year this bank had. Show me the year ahead, reasons

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Speaker 1: to be constructive? What not? I tell them. Okay, the

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Speaker 1: regular banks and the typical banks are gonna have very

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Speaker 1: little growth this year, if any, and it's because the

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Speaker 1: the rest of the industry's margin is going to be

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Speaker 1: down a lot year over year. You have to let

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Speaker 1: start to see a pick up in operating leverage again

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Speaker 1: for the banks we got I've got ten more questions,

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Speaker 1: Thomas Short, Thank you so much company, k W as well, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: A good time to speak to Jeffrey you of UBS

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Speaker 1: with one of the great insights last year of a

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Speaker 1: walla cash out there. It's inside baseball, Jeff. You but

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Speaker 1: the Spain had a ten year offering today and everybody

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Speaker 1: lined up. It was way way oversubscribe. What's its signal?

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Speaker 1: The desperation that people need to buy full faith and

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Speaker 1: credit paper. I'm saying it right now that yield environment

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Speaker 1: is still very very much in place. Are we're saying

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Speaker 1: in a disregarding credit risks or things like that? You know, perhaps,

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Speaker 1: and but you know people are willing to pay a

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Speaker 1: the view central banks, they're going to stay where they are,

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Speaker 1: if not low us, for a very long time to come.

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Speaker 1: Is it like oh, five oh six, oh seven, the

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what happened in two thousand and nineteen.

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Speaker 1: account across the SMP huge buybacks last year as a

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Speaker 1: I would think if you are you observing that we're

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Speaker 1: That's a way to make friends and family. No, not yet,

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Speaker 1: not yet. I think if you still see this year,

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Speaker 1: you can still buy the market. Alicia, I think they're

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Speaker 1: signing a trade deal tomorrow. Do we care? We definitely care.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's nothing, Okay, I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: China has agreed to purchase up to two million in

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Speaker 1: US egg products. That's very important for the farm states

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Speaker 1: will be no forced technology transfer. And as you know,

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Speaker 1: those were one of the structural issues that the US

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Speaker 1: really wanted to get for this. So this is something.

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Speaker 1: And don't forget some of the tariffs are coming off.

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Speaker 1: We should see an uptick in CEO confidence and if

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Speaker 1: See and then I guess then the question becomes not

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Speaker 1: to get greedy phase surveillance. Phase two? Is that something

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Speaker 1: is enough for the market. So right now, the phase

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Speaker 1: one really is about getting rid of the uncertainty and

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Speaker 1: not escalation of tariffs. If there's any phase two, it

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Speaker 1: will start in the next administration, of which whoever is

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Speaker 1: sitting in the White House. This is not easy. This

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Speaker 1: is about changing the Chinese economy. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: going to happen. Alicia Lavie, thank you so much to

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Speaker 1: being White Mellow. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg Surveillance podcast.

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