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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloombergs Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane along

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Speaker 1: Let's get into the earnings right now with Peter Roppenheimer,

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Speaker 1: Chief Global Equity strategistic Goldman Sachs. Peter, everybody's talking about

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Speaker 1: the step down for the Federal Reserve, maybe a shift

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Speaker 1: from seventy five to fifty to twenty five. Can we

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Speaker 1: talk about the step down that you're expecting in earnings

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Speaker 1: an EPs, going back from twenty one to two to three. Yeah, absolutely, John,

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Speaker 1: I think this is really going to be a crucial

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Speaker 1: factor that investors going to have to take into account.

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Speaker 1: We've seen some of the optimism building up again about

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Speaker 1: the prospect for the rate rises to start to moderate,

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Speaker 1: but on the other side of that, we're seeing a

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Speaker 1: deterioration in earnings just as been a not a disastrous

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Speaker 1: earning season, but certainly not nearly as strong as we've

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Speaker 1: seen previously. And The key thing that's happening, and we've

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Speaker 1: been arguing this for some time, is that margins are

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Speaker 1: starting to come under pressure as a result of these

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Speaker 1: higher input costs, and that means that the forward looking

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Speaker 1: earnings are also deteriorating. Revisions are starting to come down,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's too premature for markets to be

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Speaker 1: really pricing peak interest rates without taking to account the

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Speaker 1: lower earnings and growth that's coming on the other side

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Speaker 1: of that. Appear to the seismic change for next year

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Speaker 1: is we have a risk free rate, we have brevity,

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Speaker 1: as Tellub says it, Do you assume more transactions in

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Speaker 1: truly more combinations is stacks as corporations confront a reality

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Speaker 1: from decades ago. Yeah, absolutely, this is this is an

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Speaker 1: overwhelming shift that's happened. I mean, we have to take

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Speaker 1: into account that it was only at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: last year that the markets were only pricing one or

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Speaker 1: two rate rises this year in the US, nothing in

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Speaker 1: Europe until next year. And we've seen now a whole

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Speaker 1: range of significant rate increases with more to come. And

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Speaker 1: you know, just over a year ago, a quarter of

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Speaker 1: all government debt around the world had a negative yield.

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Speaker 1: People were paying for the privilege of lending to governments.

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Speaker 1: Now you're getting around four percent for US tenure treasurers.

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Speaker 1: This is a big shift, and it requires valuations of

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Speaker 1: financial assets to moderate. We've seen some of that, but

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Speaker 1: probably not enough given the scale of that shift in

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Speaker 1: the cost of capital, and that's why we think there's

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Speaker 1: more downside in the near term on on valuations and

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Speaker 1: market pricing. We're talking in general, but I was looking

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Speaker 1: at a Fang plus index that is down fort pent

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Speaker 1: from its recent peak. I mean, some of the declines

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Speaker 1: in specific sectors have been extraordinary, Peter. Have we've seen

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Speaker 1: the bulk of the pain in some of the high

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Speaker 1: flyers and some of the tech names or is it

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Speaker 1: still broad based? Is it really a more general kind

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Speaker 1: of rerating repricing that still needs to take place. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that what you've really seen is the rise

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Speaker 1: To begin with it, things like unprofitable tech, which had

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Speaker 1: its route earlier in the year. Profitable tech companies, cash

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Speaker 1: generative tech, and during long duration companies have held up

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Speaker 1: reasonably well, but they're now coming under pressure because they

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Speaker 1: are impacted by the gravity of rising rates and indeed

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Speaker 1: some slow down in the earnings you know as well.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's really about the broad index adjusting

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Speaker 1: valuations two levels which are consistent to a new normal

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Speaker 1: in terms of in terms of interest rates having settled that,

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Speaker 1: what we have seen is a bit of a reversal

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Speaker 1: where growth was hugely out performing value, supported by record

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Speaker 1: This year has been a year predominantly of value out performance,

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Speaker 1: and I think that probably has some further to go.

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Speaker 1: So the aggregate valuations probably still need to adjust downwards,

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Speaker 1: but we are seeing a you know, a shift in

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Speaker 1: the mix. And it's pretty extraordinary that despite the hit

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Speaker 1: stots through this earning season, the broader now for example,

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Speaker 1: a reflection of this shift in leadership within the market.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy that Peter that Tom wasn't listening at

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Speaker 1: the end there. Peter Oppenheimer of Government Sex Right Now

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Speaker 1: for Global Wall Street Lean Forward because Edward Morris joins

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Speaker 1: us his global herd of commodities research at City or

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Speaker 1: priamisra of TD Securities. I think of with the real

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Speaker 1: yield John, There's been other calls that we've seen through

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Speaker 1: the year. Mike Wilson and equities and Ed Morris nailed oil,

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Speaker 1: there's no question about it. When it was over a

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Speaker 1: To cut to the chase, if China reopens, many say

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Speaker 1: that will give a demand that will get oil back

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Speaker 1: depends on a lot of other things. The only way

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Speaker 1: a world where demand is slashing down. Work around the world,

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Speaker 1: had low demand. But look at where they've been in

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Speaker 1: the last two months. Since the middle of the summer.

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Speaker 1: They first went up a million barrels a day and imports.

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Speaker 1: Now there are up two million barrels a day on imports. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And we're having oil since the last okat Clus meeting,

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Speaker 1: So I think this ample supplying the market for us

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Speaker 1: So at why are we training the SPR Does that

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Speaker 1: of those who think these are unusual times. We're actually

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Speaker 1: And the instruments are basically economic instruments. Some of them

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Speaker 1: if we look at the world date, UM we've had

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Speaker 1: So we have so far in the world year to day,

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Speaker 1: Given that backdrop, do you think that we're ever going

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Speaker 1: also note that the administration has not nail day particular

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Speaker 1: the US. Thinking about what the floor again again on

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Speaker 1: best at Thank you so white. Our good news is

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Speaker 1: Michael Gabon's with us, the chief US economist the Bank

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Speaker 1: of America. Thrilled he could be with us. He's from

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Speaker 1: the University of James Bullard also known as Indiana University,

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Speaker 1: and of course with work at the International Monetary Fund

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Speaker 1: as well. Thank you so much, Dr Gavin for joining

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Speaker 1: us today. I want to cut right to the chase

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Speaker 1: the American economy Jeroan Powle faces today, and that is

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Speaker 1: within the core equation. Net exports are holding us up.

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Speaker 1: How poor our domestic final sales, so final sales to

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Speaker 1: and inventories grew at four tents in the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: and it was two tents I believe in the second

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Speaker 1: quarter is that a recession indicating no, it's It would

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Speaker 1: essentially be the FED soft landing where growth is positive

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