1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. 2 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Merton Talks Money and News Roundup, where 3 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 2: we talk about the biggest moves in the markets this 4 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: week and what's driving them. I'm Join Stebick, senior editor 5 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: at Bloomberg and author of the award winning Money Distilled newsletter, 6 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: and enjoining me this week while Merton is visiting the 7 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 2: Mothership in New York is Marcus Ashworth. Marcus is a 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 2: Bloomberg opinion columns with deep expertise in European markets and 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: born markets, and he's also a regular contributor to the show. 10 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 2: Hi Marcus, my pressure is ever for all that I've 11 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: just been talking about your expertise in European markets and Gilks. 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: I thought first we could start with the rather good 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 2: priests that you wrote with Stewart. This week's Stuart Trout 14 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: on London and London house prices and what's been going 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: ann London. 16 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: Flats are cheap, cheap for a reason. 17 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 3: I actually started off this premise this to write on 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 3: a flat i'd seen in Fulham, one bed flat lease 19 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 3: looked in reasonable conditions, perfect little bolt hole, Pierre, a 20 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 3: tear start a flat. 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: What you want to call it. 22 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 3: It was on for three hundred and seventy thousand. I thought, wow, 23 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 3: that is a bargain in context of where Fulham normally is. 24 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,479 Speaker 3: It was a reasonable road and exactly where it was for. 25 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 2: All of our lessoners say them twenty five Fulham is 26 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: a nace but London. 27 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: La not Chelsea. Alose people Chelsea show they actually live 28 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 1: in Fulham. 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 2: Yea. 30 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 3: So it's got football club and it's got the King's 31 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: Road and then and the Fulham Road as well, which 32 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 3: are the nice bits of Chelsea, but the other end 33 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 3: of it. Nonetheless, it was a first time I've seen 34 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 3: I would say, an apartment in in London which in 35 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 3: the nicest area of London, which is I would say, wow, 36 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: that is a reasonable price. As it happens, as a 37 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 3: bit misdeed, it was up up for this thing called 38 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 3: modern method of auction. I said, she had to book 39 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 3: a big deposit down which you may not get back 40 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: to bid on it. So it's a little bit of 41 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 3: a trap that one. So we decided not to lead 42 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 3: on that. I digress. Anyways, as we as we went 43 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 3: into the sort of look at is London actually cheap papers? 44 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 3: It's come down so much over twenty percent in the 45 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 3: last few years, really since twenty fourteen fifteen, when that 46 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 3: sort of London grad Russian sort of influx, you know, 47 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 3: turned and finally stopped pushing London prices up ridiculously, you know, 48 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 3: post the global financial crisis, which I can never really understand. 49 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 3: But then all of a sudden it hasn't really performed 50 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 3: very well indeed, and recently it's got a lot worse 51 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: than non don flight. A lot of other reasons why 52 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: I think landlords have been selling because of where as 53 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 3: we go in the article, lots of pressures on that 54 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 3: sort of side of the investment market. So is London 55 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 3: cheap Well, there's a lot of other reasons behind it, 56 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 3: which you can read the article regards of cladding and lease 57 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 3: hold problems, also the coming up Printers' Rights Act, which 58 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 3: is going to make it much harder again for landlords. 59 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: But the basic point here is that London is much 60 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 3: more affordable than it was, but it's still relatively expensive 61 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 3: to the rest of the country because if you go 62 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 3: back to that twenty fourteen fifteen period I mentioned it 63 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 3: with London was the most expensive ever anything in the 64 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 3: UK market, and it's outperformans the rest of the UK, 65 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 3: and it had never been at such an extreme, So 66 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: it's just correcting back from where it got overpriced. And 67 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 3: I think it's probably a little bit more to go 68 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 3: in London. But if you got a long time horizon, 69 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: I think you know there is potential into bias market 70 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 3: you could probably pick up a relative bargain if you 71 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: can one afford and not looking to make an instant 72 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 3: gain and whatever. So yeah, in that sense, there's there's 73 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 3: some promise there. But the reason why London is unperformed 74 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 3: is there's as we go in quite some detail in 75 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 3: the article, there are very good reasons why apartments, particularly 76 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 3: in London. And once that really caught me from the 77 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 3: Hampton survey is that one in seven people selling a 78 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 3: flat in London at the moment are doing it at 79 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: a loss. 80 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a norminal loss loss. 81 00:03:58,840 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: Let alone. 82 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 3: You know, you actually look at prices since the start 83 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 3: of the century in inflation terms, you know, UK property 84 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 3: hasn't really gone anywhere. It's not actually quite the success story. 85 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 3: Everyone thinks, put money in property and you can't go wrong. 86 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 3: Buy in London, a global city. The other thing which 87 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 3: didn't make the edit was the UBS Property Bubble index 88 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 3: they have for city major cities around the world. London 89 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 3: has now dropped sixteenth. The top is Miami, Tokyo Zerich 90 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 3: as mean the most expensive potential bubble isious but London 91 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 3: is now in the low risk category, down from what 92 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 3: was previously in high and it's number sixteenth out of 93 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 3: you know, maybe twenty twenty five global cities should be 94 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 3: so well to the city, so it's in international terms 95 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: is looking good value. I just think on the ground 96 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 3: buying in London at the moment there's comes with a 97 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 3: lot of problems and I think until you see the 98 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 3: effect of the Renters Right Act bill coming through in 99 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 3: practice in May that maybe towards the end of the year, 100 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 3: then it might be worth considering. But definitely take your time. 101 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: Would you review death whatever so slightly if you're to 102 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 2: be a fostering bio as a home or in a 103 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 2: duela rather than aligned lot. 104 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 3: Even more it's the first time by as I said, 105 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 3: you really need to do all your research, particularly on 106 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 3: anything which is in the tower block or in some 107 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 3: form of high rise building or might have clouding issues, 108 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 3: because what we found increasingly is that a lot of 109 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 3: valuers won't value it. A lot of insurers well insured, 110 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 3: and a lot of lenders won't lend against particularly sold properties. 111 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: And also we've found quite a considerable effect on very 112 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: high and increasingly increasing where above inflation service charges. So 113 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 3: there are a lot of things. But having said that, 114 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 3: if you in this particular far I was talking about, 115 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: but initially was in a terraced house. It was the 116 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 3: ground floor sort of built that way of a tear. 117 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 3: Otherwise terraced house that has less issues day sorts of things. 118 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, in the right places, but take time. Definitely 119 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 3: no rush, don't need to worry about it. But a 120 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 3: mortgage rates coming away as well, So this keeps starting 121 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 3: starting a lookout, but take time. 122 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,119 Speaker 2: And don't forget the man talks money. 123 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: Golden rule. 124 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 2: Don't touch lease hold by a ten foot bastball. You 125 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 2: can find more about that one in the previous discussion, 126 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 2: or on house places you can if you go to 127 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 2: whatever you get your podcasts and look for their CDs 128 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 2: on buying homes, you'll find lots to talk about there. 129 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 2: I mean, one thing I did want to ask you 130 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 2: was obviously so London flats, yeah, down about twenty percent 131 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 2: London houses krying our flat ish the rest of the 132 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: country trend is a. 133 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 3: Trend nationally, and detached houses are doing better than terrorist houses, terrests, 134 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 3: hows are doing better than flats. It's just the bigger 135 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 3: you are, you know, that's the post pandemic sort of 136 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 3: rushed the country type effect still sort of filtering through 137 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 3: or have filtered through, and London in particular has done 138 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: very bad. At least hold us again. We got a 139 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 3: lot of details why at least holds of being problems 140 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 3: in our article grammarents onwards your name as old rafter, 141 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 3: different different issues, but you know that's it's it's the 142 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 3: effect which you can avoid. Have to buy an apartment 143 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 3: in in a tablot. You can buy elsewhere. But the 144 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 3: point is that you know no doubt about it. At 145 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 3: the moment, apartments or do we say super urban dwellings 146 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 3: have been underperforming and London is more exaggerate than anywhere else. 147 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's there's an interesting subject, so yeah, look at, 148 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 2: look at because maybe at some point on maybe your 149 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 2: opportunity time invite to their speaks news. Obviously, the most 150 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,559 Speaker 2: exciting area has been the commodities plcious males and oil 151 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 2: as well oil, which is commonly cheap or has been 152 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: for a long time. So what do you think is 153 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: driven all that well? 154 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 3: When obvious the risk of the of the closing of 155 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 3: sus Canal and the Straits of Hor moves, and what 156 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: whether Iran fights back blows up Iraqi oil infrastructure, and 157 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 3: you know other other areas around blocking ship and some 158 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 3: se Saudi and the UE and and and Qatar, et cetera. 159 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 3: So at the moment, I don't think that's that likely. 160 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: And I think. 161 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 3: Oil's had a bit of a recovery because it's been 162 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 3: so over sold and so everyone thinks it's going down 163 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 3: and clearing my eye, I've read it about myself, but 164 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 3: I mean the point is that if when markets don't 165 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 3: go down and everyone's expecting to go down, the only 166 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 3: other way they're going to do is reverse sharply and 167 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 3: have a short squeeze. And I think that's what's happening 168 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 3: in oil at the moment. So I don't think oil 169 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 3: will go much higher than it is now unless there 170 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 3: is a proper geopolitical event, which is you know, not solvable. 171 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 3: But I think Trump at the moment it looks like 172 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 3: he's watching waiting. If things were to change dramatically, and 173 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 3: it will and looked like lasting. Then maybe oil can 174 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 3: go higher, but I don't think it will last very long. 175 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 3: And I think well D. 176 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: Just lower most commodities. 177 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 3: I am more bullish on You know, we've obviously seen 178 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 3: silver going through to the moon and beyond thinks lap 179 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 3: the moon several times, you know, making gold. 180 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: Look like a laggard. 181 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 3: I think that's reaching a blow off top probably around here. 182 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 3: It's certainly not level to get in at whether or 183 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 3: not more trim some profits. If you have, then then fine, 184 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 3: be time to get back into silver and gold. But 185 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 3: I don't think that move has ended. It's just it's 186 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 3: probably a little bit two hour. 187 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: Skis on this. 188 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 2: Did you reader calling Cameron Crazies piece yesterday or Cameron 189 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 2: Kris I can't pronounce his name, but he's one of 190 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 2: the terminal only kind of guys. Mic He wrote a 191 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 2: really good piece Yester about silver, and he was essentially 192 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: looking at what happens whenever silver, whenever the gold silver 193 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 2: ratio changes this dramatically in such a short space at time, 194 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: and basically pretty much across the bold. A year from now, 195 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 2: silver is down about fifty odd percent, So I thought 196 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 2: that was quite interesting. He min used to put some 197 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 2: some numbers on what happens when you get this speed 198 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 2: of change with silver relative to gold, and he's generally 199 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: not particularly pretty. 200 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm a bit skeptic on the oil 201 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 3: gold ratio silver gold ratio that I think they're one 202 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 3: of these things that should a guy. But now more 203 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 3: on that, and we put too much store on them. 204 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 3: You end up getting badly wrong if you're not careful. Well, 205 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 3: you know, silver does have industrial uses more than gold has, 206 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 3: and in the context of what's future technologies of those 207 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 3: things in increasing one and there is an obvious short supply, 208 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 3: and that's why it's been squeezed, you know, Nelson, Bunker Hunt, 209 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 3: come back, all its forgiven type stuff, you know. But 210 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 3: you know, beyond that, this is a speculative tool, as 211 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 3: is gold. I don't think there's these are fundamental investment cases. 212 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 3: They are just speculation. You can call it the dollar 213 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 3: debasement trade. You could blame the Trump you can fed independence, 214 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 3: whatever excuse you want to do. I don't believe in 215 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 3: any of them. But this is a speculative tool and 216 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 3: people are trading it for volatility. Please look at it 217 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 3: in that context. And you know, if you want to 218 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 3: dabble and small amount, that's up to you at your 219 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 3: own risk. But don't expect this to be fundamentally backed 220 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 3: by anything on the ground. 221 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 2: You know, basically arguing that gold is just physical bitcoin, well. 222 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 1: It has increasingly become that way. 223 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 3: I mean, I obviously what's happened, if you want to 224 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 3: put a particular instance, is when the oh fact, the 225 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 3: Office for FOREIG Assets Control, the US Treasurer decided to 226 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 3: seize Russia's external foreign exchange reserves, and that has spooked China. 227 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: Every sort of bad or semi bad or vaguely lootwarm 228 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 3: you know, international Central Bank or whatever it may be, 229 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,599 Speaker 3: has the side of that, perhaps they might have a 230 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 3: little bit more gold, and it's come self perpetuating. And 231 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 3: now we're seeing retail and the funds coming in. You know, 232 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 3: they were actually net sellers for most of the last 233 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 3: year or two. So you know, whether China is still 234 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 3: buying at the moment. We never really know the truth. 235 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 3: But for sure, the only one thing you need to 236 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 3: know about gold, there's somewhere bad in the world, and 237 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 3: someone needs to make sure their money is safe, and 238 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 3: they need to get their money out of whichever country 239 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 3: they're in. The only real way you can guarantee it 240 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 3: is leaving a side bitcoin for the moment is gold 241 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 3: and that's why you know, gold, silver, platinum, et cetera 242 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 3: have their moment in the sun. And this is how 243 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 3: close to the sun, how icarus like they are becoming worry. 244 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the Chogian dollar equation. So what with the 245 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 2: next of the commodity space, because obviously Conickel and corpor well, I. 246 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 3: Mean they're goinging the more fundamental reasons. So I mean, 247 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 3: look at the US economy is going to grow over 248 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 3: five percent on an analyzed basis and call a four 249 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 3: and looks momentum looks strong. Not that too bad a 250 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 3: number out of the UK this week, but compared to 251 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 3: the US, it's just like we literally got the handbrake 252 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 3: on and nail to the floor and they're roaring away again. 253 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 3: So in that context, there is industrial demand. You know, 254 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 3: China is clearly picking up a long last and the 255 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 3: rest of Asia is doing pretty well as well. So 256 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 3: I mean, look at the Japanese stock market, look at career, 257 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 3: all these various areas. So you know, industrial commodities and 258 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 3: certainly industrial metals and the various other different parts of 259 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 3: the even softs and various other parts of the commodity 260 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,719 Speaker 3: world are set fair. I think, not saying this is 261 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 3: the right time to buy. I'm sure there'll be better opportunities, 262 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 3: but I think the trend is fairly for you know, 263 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 3: That's why glen Core Rio Tinto makes sense. You know, 264 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 3: when you start seeing M and A, you know that 265 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 3: the people are at seeing a Rosia future. So you know, 266 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 3: do you know. 267 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 2: Any thoughts who the commodities raising places of commodities may 268 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 2: affect inflation, because obviously one of the big risks this 269 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 2: year is that inflation is steackier or nastier or more 270 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 2: surprising than anyone. 271 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a. 272 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 3: Big fan of that theory, and I'm not as surprised 273 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 3: as someone you start seeing material out of performance in inflation. 274 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 3: I mean you can, you can cast suspersion on the 275 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 3: US data, but I'm not so sure you can quite 276 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 3: as much to some people are trying to that can't 277 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 3: see any good going out of it. But US inflation 278 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 3: beat UK inflation is clearly beating and will continue to beat. 279 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:48,079 Speaker 3: Euroinflation notably weaker. So I think there's enough disinflation and 280 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 3: perhaps coming from China as well as it exports whatever 281 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 3: it wants as quickly, as cheap, as much as it can. 282 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 3: I think some commodity inflation can be breathed in and 283 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 3: not they have a material effect. 284 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: Overall, we will see. 285 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 3: Obviously the one to watch probably the easiest one to 286 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 3: look at food inflation. You're seeing that through some of 287 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 3: the food inflation, particularly in the UK, has actually been 288 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 3: driven by minimum wage rises. And that's sure, it's nothing 289 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 3: to do with food at all, It's just the delivery 290 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 3: of food. But nonetheless all these things I think are 291 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 3: mostly passing through. But you know, we are going to 292 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 3: be much more vigilant on inflation rightly, so the effects 293 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 3: of that blindness from central banks post the pandemic and 294 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 3: all the massive stemas they put in which and then 295 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 3: of course the effect of Ukraine on energy costs are 296 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 3: still with us, and that's that it hasn't quite got 297 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 3: out of the system yet. But I think broadly the 298 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 3: trend is to my mind, is down and I think 299 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 3: will underperform in inflation expectations, particularly in Europe and the UK. 300 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 3: I'm less confident in the US, but as I said, 301 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 3: think the strength economy there and you know, whatever the 302 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 3: effects of something more interesting things going on the FED, 303 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 3: which we'll see I'm not as apocalyptic, and some are 304 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 3: about sort of central bank independence and whatever that may be. 305 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 3: I think they dramatically are underperformed. Their right to be 306 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 3: independent is should be sacrificed. But they need to get 307 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 3: a better performance to make it worthwhile and justify their 308 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 3: existence and than where they are, and mandates probably need 309 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 3: to change. 310 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 2: But that's the other story. Well maybe we'll do that 311 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 2: an now day. But so going on from that, when 312 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: the question of U kidd giddy gilts because well this 313 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 2: is interesting because I think a lot of our listeners 314 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 2: will be if they, if they do watch the guilt market, 315 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 2: will be looking at it and saying it will why 316 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: our interest rates going down, or yields or in government 317 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 2: points going down. We spent a lot of last year and. 318 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 3: Awful we can say that is it guilts are the 319 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 3: lowest yield over year. 320 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: Less since twenty twenty four. 321 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's extraordable market. 322 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 2: I mean will be given that we spent most of 323 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 2: the last year. Also the little. 324 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 3: Awful politics earlier this week about cunning Weez a cunning 325 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 3: plan which he's done twice already, and this is now 326 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 3: the third iteration, which is reducing the overall duration of 327 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 3: the type of debt that the UK Treasury sells. Call 328 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 3: it weighted average maturity or duration. It's the time value 329 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 3: of what's been dead. So a thirty year bond as 330 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 3: opposed to ten year bond has more sort of market 331 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 3: impact and risked for the market to take it down. However, 332 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 3: on the latest plan is to start issuing many more 333 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 3: T bills which are at the moment one three and 334 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 3: six month IOUs, which you know you buy them at 335 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 3: say ninety eight and they mature at a hundred. You 336 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 3: don't get a coupon like you might do on a guilt. 337 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 3: There's a different tax treatment to them that's not as 338 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 3: favorable as it can be on particularly very low coupon guilts, 339 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 3: which we have mentioned before. But nonetheless this is a 340 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 3: bit of a backwater. It's controlled by certain big institutions 341 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 3: who like basically said, it's their cash flow. They buy them, 342 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 3: hold them, the mature they're by the next one, and 343 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 3: it sort of never really sees the light of day. 344 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 2: But with a great idea traditional pity cash ten. 345 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's it's sort of a long standing 346 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 3: feature of the market that it's never really been up 347 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 3: to much and it's just I guess I said of backwater. However, 348 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 3: it wouldn't be great to like the US Treasury, which 349 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 3: issues a fifth of its debt in bill format out 350 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 3: they go out to two years to be fairs, so 351 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 3: there's one year bills and two year bills, et cetera, 352 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 3: and get more liquidity in the front end, which would 353 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 3: be good for the Hall, the bank if anyone wants 354 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 3: to run its its whole balance sheet down, so they 355 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 3: want to move out of long daily bonds into sort 356 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 3: of short daily repo. There's a bill market there as 357 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 3: well with liquidity. Won't that be good for everyone and 358 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 3: make it a bit more like the US, I guess. 359 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 3: But more importantly, it will reduced the cost of borrowing. 360 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 3: So a T bill yields about say three point eight percent, 361 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 3: whereas a longer day to guilt can yield at least 362 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,479 Speaker 3: four point eight or even whatever. So this is a 363 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 3: wheeze the real reason behind it. And don't forget about 364 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 3: issues of stable coins for cryptail and all this sort 365 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 3: of nonsense about you know, helping out this that the other. 366 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 3: It will have some beneficial effects clearly for retail investors 367 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 3: who want to put money safely, can't get better than 368 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 3: the government cold quality. You know, why wouldn't you be 369 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 3: able to put these in your ices or put them 370 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 3: in your pension or what have you, or but hold 371 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 3: them out right, you know there will be some different 372 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,239 Speaker 3: income tax on that, So there is compelling if they 373 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 3: really sort out and make the corporate bond market also, 374 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 3: they're going to change on journually of the nineteenth to 375 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 3: make it much more open for investors to buy new 376 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 3: issues or say Mark suspensers or a tesco issuing and bond. 377 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 3: The moment, the minimum they can buy a corporate on 378 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 3: is one hundred thousand, which basically excludes purchab retail investors 379 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 3: now in Marks suspenses one issue bond, one pound increment 380 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 3: or one thousand pound increment they can do. If you 381 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 3: combine that with allowing retail investors' access to take tea 382 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 3: bills as well, all of a sudden you have a 383 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 3: much better environment, much more competition in the banks, which 384 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 3: is both a good and a bad thing, and for 385 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 3: national savings investment in SNI and premium bonds, all that 386 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 3: sort of stuff. But there's enough liquidity out there, the 387 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 3: banks would definitely buy these tables on their own pension funds, 388 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 3: petty cash, you name it. If you start using the 389 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 3: repo markets, you know, hedge funds and clateral into derivatives, 390 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 3: margin blah blah blah. It's a good thing. The reason 391 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 3: why it's been done is highly cynical. She just wants 392 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 3: to the cost of one hundred and ten billion a 393 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 3: year that we pay in debt interest. She wants to 394 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 3: get that down. Sometimes cynical ployees are also have some 395 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 3: benefits to it. I think this is one of them. 396 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 3: The other reason, which by kills. 397 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 2: Let me just sent it off for one saying, so 398 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 2: basically what she's doing is reducing the long term date crash, 399 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 2: which is low yielding. And that's so basically there's there's 400 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 2: there's a far fewer ten and thirty year gilts, and 401 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,479 Speaker 2: that means that well, maybe not the same, that's right, 402 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 2: And that means that the next link it's supplying the 403 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 2: mind matter. 404 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 3: It's absolutely she's already dramatically reduced the long end supply, 405 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 3: particularly inflation link bonds, by more than two thirds actually, 406 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 3: and indeed longer dated guilts there's a lot less issuance 407 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 3: coming through, it's going in and we call the belly 408 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 3: of the curve the sort of fire to ten year 409 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 3: part where a lot of international investors and foreign central 410 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 3: banks by guilts happily. So by adding more liquidity in tables, 411 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,959 Speaker 3: it's just further extends this trade. She says, you've done 412 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 3: it twice already. This will be a third time. It's 413 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 3: a consultation document, but it's clearly going to happen, so that, yeah, 414 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 3: it's a car shuffle trick for the average type of bond. 415 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 3: She sells too much shorter dated therefore it's cheap of 416 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 3: for her and in theory takes pressure off the long 417 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 3: end of the guilt yields fall further. 418 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 1: Huzzah. 419 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 2: What is the don't say there for any in terms 420 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 2: of you know, like presumably okay, some people we talking 421 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 2: about it all over RESK and that it means you're 422 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 2: more exposed to shot down moves and interest rates. But 423 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 2: how much of an issue is that in practice? 424 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: Do you think? 425 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 3: Okay, the UK has a much longer weighted average maturity 426 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 3: his death than almost any other country in the world 427 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 3: because we had these huge demands of are ridiculous pension 428 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 3: rules which required pension funds to buy very very long 429 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 3: dated guilts, which we happily sold them ad nauseum. And 430 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 3: it all working brilliantly well until yeals jumped as inflation zoomed, 431 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 3: and it all fell apart, and even the Oxen and 432 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 3: Cambridge pension funds blew up. So we have an average 433 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 3: job for about say thirteen years. It was above fifteen 434 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 3: not so long ago. We are already reducing it heavily, 435 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 3: but say the US treasury has got say seven years, 436 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 3: Germany's got eight, so we are we've got plenty of 437 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 3: room to go before we are not much longer than 438 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 3: al Still, the risk here is as exactly as you say, 439 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 3: of interest rates with a jump, or we find it 440 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 3: harder to fund the in shorter dates. This would leave 441 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 3: us vulnerable. But I think there is a plenty of 442 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 3: room to go still there. But we didn't need to 443 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 3: be too extreme on this. But I think she's pushing 444 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 3: the envelope to be sall on whatever. So that is 445 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 3: clearly a risk. And you know, we have to be 446 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 3: careful that we're not doing too much of one thing 447 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 3: and we're not leaving ourselves exposed whereby we haven't funded 448 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 3: the across the Yelk curve and kept liquidity importantly across 449 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: all parts of the your curve, so everyone can fund 450 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 3: and bear mine, you know, more liquidity. And the longer 451 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 3: round is better for corporates as well because they can 452 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 3: issue off back of these gild benchmarks and they can 453 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 3: raise money a longer dates as well. So it's a 454 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 3: bit of balance I think so far as a sort 455 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 3: of concious positive welcome to this idea with a knowing 456 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 3: eye of what the real reason is great. 457 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 2: I feel we can never be too soundy Cod here 458 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 2: at Merland Talks Money ex wellble thanks again for joining us, 459 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 2: Marcus as much appreciated, and I should we'll have you 460 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 2: in plenty more times in the coming weeks and months. 461 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 2: As far as my wire, my pleasure. Thanks for listening 462 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 2: to this week's Merlton Talks Money debrief. 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