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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm Pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Abramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot com. Lisa,

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Speaker 1: you ever think of moving to Toronto, perhaps maybe living

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Speaker 1: the same kind of cosmopolitan, sophisticated life but at a

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Speaker 1: lower price point with people. Yes, indeed, and we have

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Speaker 1: one in our studio right now. Derek Holt is the

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Speaker 1: vice president and head of Capital market Economics for Scotia Bank.

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Speaker 1: He's based in Toronto, but he joins us here because

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Speaker 1: he was participating in a panel that took place earlier

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Speaker 1: this morning, a Canada's housing outlook from Bubble to Buffett.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for being here. Thank you. Well. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so my setup was at one point, Toronto and Canada

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Speaker 1: indeed was thought of as a less expensive alternative to

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Speaker 1: perhaps other high priced real estate in other North American cities.

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Speaker 1: Not so anymore correct. It depends on what currency you

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Speaker 1: have to invest and if you have US dollars in

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Speaker 1: this kind of a marketplace. Internationally speaking, Toronto Vancouver there's

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Speaker 1: still well down the list in terms of the world's

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Speaker 1: What about people in Canada, people that actually use the

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Speaker 1: different picture. That is a story of strained affordability and

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Speaker 1: the cycle of the past ten of fifteen years or so.

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Speaker 1: But it's we're still encouraged by the outlook. We don't

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Speaker 1: think we're going through a big pullback as opposed to

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Speaker 1: a temporary hiccup. Well yeah, and just over the summer,

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Speaker 1: prices in Toronto did decline pretty significantly, although they're still

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Speaker 1: That also, you said that this market could offer value

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Speaker 1: the longer term, I'd expect price gains per year in

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Speaker 1: and around the five percent range. So how are you

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Speaker 1: I do expect a cooling housing market environment nationwide, in

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Speaker 1: relatively strained. It's just that the interest rate reset risk

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Speaker 1: So that would be good for the housing market. It

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Speaker 1: you explain how that would work what you're talking about

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Speaker 1: in the Bloomberg eleven Thrio studio. Earlier today, the chief

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Speaker 1: I was looking at the stock. A stock is not

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Speaker 1: in UM, that's no good. UM. I think you know,

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Speaker 1: its reputation. Yeah, I think it's a it's a good question.

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Speaker 1: the Aquifax CEO deciding to retire. Obviously, this company has

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Speaker 1: host pim Fox. This is Bloomberg. The Chinese Ministry of

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Speaker 1: Finance said last week that it was a wrong decision

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Speaker 1: for SMP to downgrade China's sovereign credit rating. Indeed, the

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Speaker 1: also ignoring the country's distinctive financing structure. And here to

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Speaker 1: tell us more is Brendan Hearn. He's the chief investment

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Speaker 1: officer of Crane Shares. Brendan, thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: and whether the SMP downgrade of Chinese sovereign debt was

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Speaker 1: really warranted. Well, I think an element of the sp

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Speaker 1: we did see a pretty significant response in property stocks

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Speaker 1: This is clearly sourge relations between the two countries. Do

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Speaker 1: there could be, Yeah, there could be. And for sure,

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Speaker 1: But to be honest is when you look at the

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Speaker 1: I would love to get your final thoughts and what,

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Speaker 1: from your perspective holds the best value as an investment

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Speaker 1: within Canada right now. I think it's just growth. I

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Speaker 1: mean Joe's bettom growth. I mean again, the Canada economy

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Speaker 1: is Joe's growing four percent right now. We have it

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Speaker 1: betting on growth through equity or digent markets, I think

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Speaker 1: it's it's a good bit on the fact fixing market

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Speaker 1: dollar and that's what we're thinking about now. There. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for being with us, Much appreciated. Carlos

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Speaker 1: Copistron is the head of Canada and Mexico Economics at

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Speaker 1: Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He was participating in the

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Canada Fixed Income summit that took place earlier today

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