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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pelatontal. The SMP nastac Hall advancing stocks heading

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Speaker 1: toward a record after better than forecast jobs data underscored

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Speaker 1: the strength of the world's largest economy. We have got

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Speaker 1: five hundred index up now by seventeen points to one

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Speaker 1: fifty two nineteen down Industrials up one hundred seventy nine

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Speaker 1: five hundred thirty two. The ten year down twenty five

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Speaker 1: Texas Intermediate down one tenth of one percent. I'm Charlie

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Speaker 1: Pelt and that's a Bloomberg Business Flash. This is taking

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Speaker 1: stock with Bim Box and Kathleen Hayes on Bloomberg Radio

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Speaker 1: and considering what to do with your money. There is

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Speaker 1: a lot you do not know, a lot that we

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Speaker 1: don't know, but there are many things that we do know,

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Speaker 1: and here to tell us about them is Chuck Lieberman.

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Speaker 1: He is the chief investment Officer and managing partner for

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Speaker 1: Advisor's Capital Management. They're based in Ridgewood, New Jersey, helping

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Speaker 1: to manage more than one point three billion dollars of

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Speaker 1: customer assets. Chuck Lieberman, thank you for being with me. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: I want you to continue this theme about uncertainty. We're

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Speaker 1: always going to not know a lot. There's always going

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Speaker 1: to be uncertainty for investors. No one knows what the

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Speaker 1: outcome of Brexit will mean. No one knows what the

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Speaker 1: dollar will trade out a year from now. But you

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Speaker 1: maintain there is a lot that we do know and

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Speaker 1: we can profit from it. Explain well, Uh, the feed

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Speaker 1: is actually used this uncertainty to help justify differring any

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Speaker 1: interest rate increases. But when you look at the data,

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Speaker 1: and today's employment data are really perfect for providing great insight. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty clear that the U. S economy is doing

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Speaker 1: quite well. Um, the job market has tightened considerably. H

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Speaker 1: We're beginning to see enough tightness in the job market

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Speaker 1: that it's flowing over into some of the pockets that

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Speaker 1: have been weakest, meaning those who are least educated, even

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Speaker 1: their finding jobs that are very very good clip In fact,

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Speaker 1: they accounted for virtually all of the jobs reported this

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Speaker 1: past month. Unemployment declined very dramatically for that group, whereas

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Speaker 1: it didn't budge for the most educated. So it shows

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Speaker 1: you that firms are having difficulty finding people with college degrees,

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Speaker 1: and they're being forced to hire less skilled, less educated

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Speaker 1: in order to fill positions. It suggests a degree of

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Speaker 1: of h a real need. Well, you mentioned that there

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Speaker 1: are these elements of everybody's life which are knowable, such

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Speaker 1: as you eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, you wear clothes, you

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Speaker 1: drive cars. All of these things feed into what is

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Speaker 1: potentially a profit making investment, right, And there's implicitly an

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Speaker 1: argument out there that somehow corporate profits are not going

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Speaker 1: But of course there's a lot of activity that you,

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Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, will continue. Um, we do know

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Speaker 1: A new study by the Wharton School of Business says

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Speaker 1: that most patient people grow richer and healthier than they're

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Speaker 1: more impetuous peers. Or if you could tell us some

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Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit too much emphasis and

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Speaker 1: Tell us what else you're looking for? Uh. Well, another

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Speaker 1: to pan out. Absolutely not. Um. It's funny because anytime

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Speaker 1: Clients are patient only as long as the market's going up,

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Speaker 1: and when the market isn't going up, their patients has gone.

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Speaker 1: Do you find that people have actually been having the

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Speaker 1: And the same goes for the financial industry. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: because then they don't see the rebalancing or they're not

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Speaker 1: because treasuries at that yield imply little income and lots

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Speaker 1: They offer pretty substantial yields, Thank you very much. Chuck

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