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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you

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Speaker 1: along with my co host Lisa Brahma Waits. Each day

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Speaker 1: we bring you the most noteworthy and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money. Whether at the grocery store or

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. One of the biggest consensus trades

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Speaker 1: heading into next year is betting on reflation of steepening

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Speaker 1: in the yield curve. This concept of perhaps better than

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Speaker 1: expected earnings coming out of companies that have pretty weak

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Speaker 1: comps to to beat. Basically joining us now is Ben

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Speaker 1: Emmon's Medley Global Advisors Global macro Strategy, and Ben, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking right now at what might be the initial phases.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see the death of their inflation trade,

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Speaker 1: but the death of the inflation trade. You're seeing the

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Speaker 1: yield curve continue to flatten, and you're seeing a measure

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Speaker 1: of forward inflation five year five year up break even

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Speaker 1: rates dropped near their lowest levels since two sixteen. What

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Speaker 1: do you make of that? I can only say thanks

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Speaker 1: for much for having us Um, well, there's obviously uncertainty

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Speaker 1: has creeped in since the speech from Trump in New

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Speaker 1: York last week when he started to voice his word

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Speaker 1: about substantial rising tears as the deal doesn't happen. So

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Speaker 1: I think the bond market listened to that closely and

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Speaker 1: saw like, okay, you know, there's always a risk that

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Speaker 1: there will be no deal or will be delayed, and

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Speaker 1: then people are looking at these December fifteen tears as

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Speaker 1: the first one of the substantial rise. I think this

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Speaker 1: is what's in the market's mind right now, that that

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Speaker 1: risk isn't totally abated yet, right. You know, the real

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Speaker 1: reflationary trades you spoke about that happened in sort of

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Speaker 1: mid October was only idea that the tears would be

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Speaker 1: de escalated. So that's now been taken a little bit back.

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Speaker 1: At least the market seems to be cautious that that

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Speaker 1: that that the escalation may not happen so quickly. So

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Speaker 1: therefore I think this is why the YUK flattened. In

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Speaker 1: addition to that, what we have had in the meantime

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Speaker 1: is really soft inflation data, right, whether you look at

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Speaker 1: global disciplationary pressure from the trade wars. I think that

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Speaker 1: too presses down on the UK whoy I get this flattening. So, Ben,

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Speaker 1: if we do get a Phase one type of deal

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Speaker 1: have a little bit more of a global exposure. How

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Speaker 1: do you view that? Yeah, I'm definitely on that idea, Paul,

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Speaker 1: because you know, if you look at the performance, then yes,

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Speaker 1: the US has outperformed this mostly this entire time in

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Speaker 1: the trade war. And the areas that have been effected

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Speaker 1: and so there is of course a valuation difference there

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Speaker 1: that that you would presume that if the Phase one

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Speaker 1: in particularly global trade, which seems to be pretty depressed

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Speaker 1: I think then countries that are very sensitive to the

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Speaker 1: if you, if you will, right like so, I think

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Speaker 1: that is probably your trade next year, of course, condition

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Speaker 1: upon that this Space one deal successfully gets completed. One

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Speaker 1: has come out vehemently against this. There was concern that

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Speaker 1: this would impede or torpedo any potential for a Phase

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Speaker 1: the trade deal from here. With more matters is of course,

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Speaker 1: In other words, will the deal phase one be really

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Speaker 1: the sixty that Trump talks about, or will be less

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Speaker 1: I think then you get more uncertainty about the future

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Speaker 1: my signal to maybe to dip my toe into emerging markets? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And what most of all that matters is that people

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Speaker 1: probably discount that there will be a level of de

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Speaker 1: an economic impact, and that I think is why investors

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Speaker 1: are pre positioning themselves on that Phase one complete. There's

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Speaker 1: opportunity in these undervalued marketss Ben Emon's thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. Bend is uh metally Global Advisors,

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Speaker 1: global macro strategist, giving us some thoughts on kind of

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Speaker 1: how this could play out. Trade still very much front

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Speaker 1: And trying to uh, you know, kind of put a

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Speaker 1: and NASDAK. Where do we go in? Phil Orlando, chief

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Speaker 1: Federate Investors, I'm sure has some answers. Phil, thanks so

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Speaker 1: So so you've been absolutely on it on this equity call,

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Speaker 1: this bullish call here. Where could you be wrong in

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Speaker 1: And and the market is a forward looking discounting mechanism

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