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Speaker 2: This is the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Jonathan Ferrow, along

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Speaker 2: has this to say. The lofty initial expectations for second

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Speaker 2: quarter runnings growth have caused some megacap high flyers to

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Speaker 2: fail to clear this elevated bar, causing investors to wonder

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Speaker 2: if other megacap disappointments should be anticipated. Sam joins us

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Speaker 2: now for more. So, Sam, let's get to the calendar.

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Speaker 2: Let's go through next week, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple. Do

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Speaker 2: you think we're set up for some disappointment here?

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Speaker 3: Hey, Jonathan, Well, certainly, next week, forty percent of the

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Speaker 3: cap weighting of the S and P five hundred tech

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Speaker 3: sector will be reporting earnings even though expectations are that

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Speaker 3: we've seen a better movement in earnings for the technology

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Speaker 3: sector now at about seventeen percent, up from sixteen percent

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Speaker 3: and change. I think yeah, investors will definitely be paying

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Speaker 3: a lot of attention to what is said and implied

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Speaker 3: with these upcoming earnings. The chip companies typically do have

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Speaker 3: some challenges when it comes to third quarter areas, and

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Speaker 3: our feeling is that, you know, while there could be

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Speaker 3: some stumbling, we are maintaining our overweight recommendation on tech,

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Speaker 3: mainly because companies will soon be looking at twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: right now in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Some let's take the earnings so far this week, Let's

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Speaker 2: pick out one name, Let's talk about the likes of

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Speaker 2: our and we can think about how the way the

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Speaker 2: market responded to what Alphabet had to say. Based on that,

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Speaker 2: what our investor is in the mood to reward and

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Speaker 2: what I invest is in the mood to punish. And

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Speaker 2: I think that's something really interesting that we've got to

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Speaker 2: try an answer an anticipation of the NINGX next week,

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Speaker 2: because it felt like investors were in the mood to

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Speaker 2: punish excess investment out of Alphabet, whatever you would call excess.

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Speaker 2: I want to understand how that might set us up

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Speaker 2: for next week, Sam, How do you think about that? Well?

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Speaker 3: I think what that implies is that they're really investors

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Speaker 3: are really only looking short term, because the investment that

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Speaker 3: Alphabet was making is obviously for twenty twenty five, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six, which is the cause for our optimism longer term.

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Speaker 3: But in the near term, investors are basically saying that

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Speaker 3: recently we had tech selling at a seventy eight percent

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Speaker 3: premium to its average twenty year PE ratio, the market

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Speaker 3: itself at a thirty eight percent premium, and the relative

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Speaker 3: sectors back to where we were during the dot com bubble.

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Speaker 3: So I think that investors are saying, if there's any

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Speaker 3: hint of disappointment, I'd rather sell first and ask questions later.

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Speaker 2: Sam.

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Speaker 4: I guess another way of putting this together is how

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Speaker 4: low is the bar right now heading into next week

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Speaker 4: for some of these earnings. After the sell off, we've

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Speaker 4: seen a true correction down about thirteen percent since the

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Speaker 2: How much do you anticipate that.

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Speaker 4: Any additional disappointment or even just not superlative type of

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Speaker 4: what we've already seen.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking at history. I would tend to say

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Speaker 3: well as for the first half. And as I had

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Speaker 3: of this election year. Let me also mention that when

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Speaker 3: it comes to elections, there's the possibility of a red wave.

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Speaker 3: And whenever we have had waves in the past, We've

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Speaker 2: So let me get this right, Stam.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people are saying that a red wave

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Speaker 4: as the opposite that actually any kind of dominance in

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Speaker 3: That's what has historically happened. But obviously it's going to

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Speaker 3: do see in a sense very high walls in terms

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Speaker 3: to our exports, would certainly smell or have the sniff

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Speaker 3: test of the Smoot Hawley tariff back in the early

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Speaker 3: nineteen thirties, which restricted global trade. So I don't think

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Speaker 3: very much aware of that.

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Speaker 4: Sam. Just taking a step back, it seems like you're

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Speaker 4: still pretty constructive on the overall backdrop for the US economy.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like you're sort of expecting my major

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Speaker 4: have to see to change that view? For some of

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Speaker 4: the growth worries to become a true growth scare for you.

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Speaker 3: Well, as I had mentioned, the valuations were stretched, in

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Speaker 3: my opinion seventy eight percent premium for tech. Now it's

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Speaker 3: downward rotation for tech I think would be encouraging. I

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Speaker 3: the rotation beneath the surface, our lowry Technical Analysis ARM

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Speaker 3: has been showing an encouraging amount of supply demand indicators

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Speaker 3: that they monitor to say that while a short term

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Speaker 3: pullback could certainly be in order, that they are looking

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Speaker 2: Let's say what we get in twenty minutes? Hi Sam,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir Sam.

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Speaker 5: Stuff with a CF all right, it's.

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Speaker 2: A licens this morning. Donald Trump's campaign refusing to commit

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Speaker 2: so I to pay with Vice President and Kamala Harris

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Speaker 2: saying it would be quote inappropriate to schedule things because

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Speaker 2: Democrats very well could still change their minds. Harris responding

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Speaker 2: on social media saying, quote, what happened to any time,

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Speaker 2: for more, Tay, a bit of news this morning. Already

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Speaker 2: the elusive endorsement gets delivered by the Obamas to Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 2: There's a bit of a honeymoon period over the last

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Speaker 2: couple of days, Tobin. I'm just wondering, from your perspective,

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 1: I think that depends in large part on how Vice

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Speaker 1: President Harris continues to perform on the campaign trail. Part

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Speaker 1: of the reason why Democrats have been so energized and

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Speaker 1: I think Democrats are like very ready to remain enthusiastic.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a sort of helpable eagerness to have

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Speaker 1: something to root for. But you know, obviously her her

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Speaker 1: It's totally possible that we see things start to go

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Speaker 1: then I think we'll start to see cracks on the Democratic.

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Speaker 2: Side, Tobin.

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Speaker 4: I thought that the New York Times Siena poll that

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Speaker 4: that there was more of a tie between Kamala Harris

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Speaker 4: former with President Biden, but this part is said that

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Speaker 4: nearly ninety percent of voters said they approved of mister

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Speaker 4: Biden's decision to exit the race. When have you ever, Tobin,

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Speaker 4: see ninety percent of voters agree on something so pivotal

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Speaker 4: as the sitting president stepping down from a race.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's about as high a number as you can

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Speaker 1: get in polls, As someone who has run a lot

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Speaker 1: it just goes to show again how much palpable relief

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Speaker 1: There were certainly some people, including you know, for example,

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Speaker 1: But now that he has left, I think there's very

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Speaker 1: very little second testing of that. And you know, again

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Speaker 1: there are some people who were hoping to have another

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Speaker 4: Cheer for Tobin. There are a lot of people who

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Speaker 4: are scratching their heads at the JD. Vans pick by

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Speaker 4: former President Trump as the vice presidential pick, fact that

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Speaker 4: he is very closely to Trump when it comes to

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Speaker 4: momentum is there for picking a vice presidential candidate that

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Speaker 4: really is more centrist even than perhaps Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what's going to happen. There's questions

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Speaker 1: think common sense and the reporting about who is being

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Speaker 1: she's looking for somebody who has some you know, moderate

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Speaker 1: In terms of people to round out the ticket again,

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Speaker 1: could be governors, could be Senatra Kelly in Arizona, who,

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Speaker 1: like I think, reads a little bit less Washington than

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Speaker 1: a Senator usually would by virtue of his experience as

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Speaker 1: an astronaut rather than a career politician. But one way

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Speaker 2: It's been interested to see the media and Democrats in

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Speaker 2: the last couple of days or so almost remodel trying

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Speaker 2: to remodel perceptions of Kamala Harris's role in this administration,

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Speaker 2: to separate her from the border by pointing out repeatedly

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Speaker 2: we might have called her the border Sar, but she

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Speaker 2: was never the border Sara. This was about root causes, tope.

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Speaker 2: And I just wonder whether you can pick and choose

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Speaker 2: whether as the vice president, you can say I was

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Speaker 2: Can you really do that? How much distance will there

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Speaker 2: be between her and the Biden legacy?

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Speaker 1: So you know, obviously she's going to face attacks for

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Thanks for having me. You're right. We do

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Speaker 6: There have been attempts in then also distant past to

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Speaker 6: Look, I think the Ugmate Test will be the World Club,

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Speaker 2: Georgia, let's come back to you. I'm happy to say

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Speaker 2: Well's the fan. It's good to hear. Georgia. Good luck

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Speaker 2: tomorrow and hopefully we can catch up soon. Georgia Falani,

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