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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: on how we should be thinking about these market conditions.

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Speaker 1: We do that today with a good friend of Bloomberg Radio,

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Speaker 1: Christina Hooper. She's a chief global market strategist at Investco.

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Speaker 1: They have a couple of shekels under management, one point

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Speaker 1: three billion dollars. Christina, thanks so much for joining us again.

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Speaker 1: All Right, So we've had a couple of days of

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Speaker 1: some sell offs here, and I guess people are just

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Speaker 1: it's just a little bit of a pullback. What is

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Speaker 1: showing some cracks in what had been a pretty good

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Speaker 1: narrative for this market. I think it's a short term pullback,

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Speaker 1: and and quite frankly, I think we should have expected it.

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Speaker 1: It's more sensitive. UH. And then as yields back down,

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Speaker 1: that means some pressure on stocks, particularly tech stocks, as

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Speaker 1: those investment dollars are going to go into tech. In fact,

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Speaker 1: been difficult to source employees. Yeah, Christina, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. Christina Hooper is the chief Global

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Speaker 1: market strategist at Investo, with more than a trillion dollars

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Speaker 1: is Bloomberg. Let's get over now to Mark Nelson. He's

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