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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: now to Lisa Ericson. She's a senior VP and head

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Speaker 1: We've been taught. I mean, there's so much pessimism right

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Speaker 1: in markets. We were talking about JP Morgan UM coming

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Speaker 1: out and saying clients are under extreme stress. We've seen

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Speaker 1: insane volatility, and obviously for the everyday person, you've got inflation.

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Speaker 1: UM as Greg just noted, uh five dollars and I

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Matt Inclare, our editor in chief emeritus,

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Speaker 1: wrote a piece UM pointing out that CEOs are extremely optimistic.

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Speaker 1: They want to spend a lot of money, they want

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Speaker 1: to hire a ton more people. UM, how do you

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Speaker 1: see the markets right now? Well, to your point, Matt,

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Speaker 1: we really do have more of a balanced outlook right

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Speaker 1: now on the market, and the reason it is really

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Speaker 1: very similar to the UH factors that you outlined. While

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Speaker 1: certainly there's a lot of concerning events, including the human

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Speaker 1: tragedy that we have with the Ukraine and Russia of

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Speaker 1: invasion UH, if you look under the hood at the

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Speaker 1: basic fundamentals in the US economy, it actually is robust

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Speaker 1: and so on a macro basis, if we look at

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Speaker 1: our global dashboard of indicators, we see that especially in

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Speaker 1: the U S we're on solid growth ground, coming off

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Speaker 1: very high levels. And in addition, generally activity around the world,

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Speaker 1: in growth territory. And to your point, corporate indicators also

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter earnings for seasons and revisions continue to go

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Speaker 1: we balance some of the risks going on with changes

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Speaker 1: that counterbalance is what we see on the fundamental front,

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Speaker 1: and therefore really more of a balanced outlook, Lisa, you know,

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Speaker 1: what do we think about the FED meeting next week

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Speaker 1: in the way CEOs and investors see things. Yet to

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Speaker 1: your point, really Fed monetary policies one of the key

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Speaker 1: so that took a little bit of fear out of

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Speaker 1: the elevated inflation that we've had. What's the key here, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: When you come into the office every day and open

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Great having you on. I feel like

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Speaker 1: She is a national security, national sector leader, I should say, Energy,

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Speaker 1: it's a great way to recognize. Marianne is Gandarian joins

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Speaker 1: Banking UM and has a lot of experience on Wall Street.

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