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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. So

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Speaker 2: the story on US tariffs has, as we know, dominated

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Speaker 2: much of the conversation in markets. Statements from the Trump

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Speaker 2: administration recently have been at times contradictory, especially in the

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Speaker 2: run up to the new trade deal deadline of August. First,

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Speaker 2: in a moment, we'll go to Hong Kong and get

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Speaker 2: the perspective of Nadia Grant from BNP Pariba Asset Management.

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Speaker 2: On Thursday, we heard from Jamie Diamond, the CEO of

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Speaker 2: JP Morgan Chase. He was speaking in Dublin where he

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Speaker 2: warned of complacency on tariffs. He also said it's important

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Speaker 2: that an agreement is reached between the European Union and

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Speaker 2: the US for a closer look now at how tariffs

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Speaker 2: are impacting market psychology. I'm joined by Keith Buchanan. He

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Speaker 2: is senior portfolio manager at Global Investments. Keith joining today

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Speaker 2: from Chicago, Illinois. Keith, thank you so much for making

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Speaker 2: time to chat with me on this tariff story. What

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Speaker 2: is your sense of where we stand right now?

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Speaker 3: Well, thanks Degan, it's a good thing to chat with you.

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Speaker 4: Again, we've looked at the tariff story as having the

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Speaker 4: potential to inject new, almost reinvigorated inflation to the economy.

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Speaker 4: Now it depends on the whole picks of the toll.

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Speaker 1: Is.

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Speaker 3: We look at tariffs as like a.

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Speaker 4: Traffic toll and someone has to pay it or pass along,

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Speaker 4: whether it's the importer, the US corporation, or the end consumer,

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Speaker 4: whether it's corporation or individual. So we've looked at this

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Speaker 4: as you know, still a developing story, not one that's

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Speaker 4: in the review myriad as corporations have as you mentioned

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Speaker 4: in the in the break before that, there have been

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Speaker 4: some corporations that made adjustments in order to make sure

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Speaker 4: that they didn't have a full implementation of tariffs. Had

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Speaker 4: to run through price increases that perhaps their consumers couldn't take,

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Speaker 4: so they built up inventories and there are things that

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Speaker 4: might affect the cash flow but didn't affect earnings so directly.

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Speaker 4: So we're investigating how that really plays out, and it's

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Speaker 4: really critical this earning season.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering how it's going to affect the Fed's thinking

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Speaker 2: as well. Right now, if you look at futures pricing,

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Speaker 2: the markets expecting two rate cuts before the end of

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Speaker 2: the year. Do you think that's maybe a little too optimistic,

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Speaker 4: Minutes last week kind of painted a story of anticipation

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Speaker 4: that kind of aligns with what we're thinking internally with

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Speaker 4: the corporations really making sure that you know, the way

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Speaker 4: that the tariffs have been implemented won't really throw them

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Speaker 3: Standpoint, And I think that's what.

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Speaker 4: Those of the Fed have also taken notice of, is

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Speaker 4: it will take some time to really see the real

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Speaker 4: effects that can either outweigh or justify temporary even call it,

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Speaker 4: if you will, transitory change. The corporations are made in

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Speaker 4: order to elude the most negative impacts of tariff.

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Speaker 3: So I think there's a wait and.

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Speaker 4: See approach that we are waiting for corporations to see

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Speaker 4: what they have done how that impacts earnings, but also

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Speaker 4: the Federal Reserve and those decision makers on monetary policy

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Speaker 4: are also waiting to see who has those effects that

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Speaker 2: How difficult is it to try to assess which companies

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Speaker 4: too early to tell from an aggregate standpoint. We don't

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Speaker 2: The unofficial start to the season begins next week. We'll

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Speaker 2: hear from the big banks today a pretty upbeat forecast

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Speaker 4: That, And look, Delta Airlines is a microcosm of exactly

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Speaker 3: Certain that we can have more clarity is what their earnings.

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Speaker 4: So we feel like Delta really set the tone for

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Speaker 3: We're not adjusting guidance. We don't know what the next.

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Speaker 4: Step could be, and a little more clarity to help

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Speaker 4: us understand what this earnings growth this quarter could be,

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Speaker 4: So we feel like that this quarter is very critical

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Speaker 2: As I'm speaking to you, I'm watching Bitcoin set a

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Speaker 4: like it's definitely a beta plus type of measure. We'd

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Speaker 4: so we feel like economic inspectation to wait more. Even

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Speaker 2: So away from the US keith, I'm wondering whether you're

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Speaker 4: That's that's a that's a marketplace that we've paid more

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Speaker 2: He is Keith Buchanan, Senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments,

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Speaker 2: joining from Chicago here on the Daybreak Asia podcast. Welcome

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Speaker 2: back to the Daybreak Asia Podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. I

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Speaker 2: think we can agree the major challenge for markets right

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Speaker 2: a closer look now, I am joined by Nadia Grant.

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Speaker 2: and Nadia is joining from our studios in Hong Kong.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for making time to chat with me.

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Speaker 2: Tariff story is a still evolving one right now, although

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Speaker 2: I think we may be able to say there are

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Speaker 2: several highly probable scenarios. Let me begin with the growth outlook.

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Speaker 2: How are you feeling about growth going forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pleasure to be with you. The growth

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Speaker 2: When it comes to the impact of tariff's I'm curious

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Speaker 2: So many of those countries we know are exporters, and

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Speaker 1: We are absolutely so. We were really excited by China

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Speaker 2: So, Nadia, when you are on the mainland and you

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Speaker 2: Nadia will leave it there. Thank you so very much

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