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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: After reducing interest rates by twenty five basis points straight

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Speaker 2: out of the gate in that news conference, asked an

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Speaker 2: obvious question, why do this when you're expecting inflation to

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Speaker 2: remain above target? The chairman acknowledging today was a closer

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Speaker 2: call that we've cut interest rates by one hundred basis

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Speaker 2: points across three meetings. The recalibration phase is over. We're

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Speaker 2: in a new phase. Things of foggier, the darker you

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Speaker 2: move more slowly. Well, this was the price reaction to

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Speaker 2: that in the market. Equities slammed down one point five

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Speaker 2: percent on the S and P on the natstack, down

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Speaker 2: by more than two the small caps. Some outperformance on

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Speaker 2: the small caps going into the decision, real underperformance coming

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Speaker 2: out of it, the small caps down by two point

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Speaker 2: eight percent. In the bond market, big move at the

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Speaker 2: front end of the curve, yields up across the curve twos, tens,

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Speaker 2: and thirties on a two year up by more than

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Speaker 2: ten to four thirty four eighty two. And off the

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Speaker 2: back of that and foreign exchanges, you might expect the

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Speaker 2: dollar stronger against everything in G ten ripping up em

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Speaker 2: you wrote dollar breaking down through one oh four and

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Speaker 2: threatening to do the same to one oh three. You

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Speaker 2: wrote dollar right now at one o three sixty four.

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Speaker 2: We all had questions about the forecasts. Why have you

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Speaker 2: bumped it up on inflation. Why are you projecting higher

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Speaker 2: inflation than you were projecting back in September. Why have

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Speaker 2: you reduced the number of interest rate cards from four

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Speaker 2: to two in the median dot for the dot plot

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five? Is it about the data or

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Speaker 2: is it about Donald Trump? Take a listen to the

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Speaker 2: Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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Speaker 3: Some people did take a very preliminary step and start

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Speaker 3: to incorporate highly conditional estimates of economic effects of policies

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Speaker 3: into their forecasts at this meeting and said so in

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Speaker 3: the meeting. Some people said they didn't do so, and

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Speaker 3: some people didn't say whether they did or not. So

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Speaker 3: we have people making a bunch of different approaches to that.

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Speaker 3: But some did identify policy uncertainty as one of the

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Speaker 3: reasons for their they're writing down more uncertainty around inflation.

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Speaker 2: Compare and contrast that to what you heard from the

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Speaker 2: chairman back on November seventh. We don't guess, we don't assume.

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Speaker 2: We don't speculate. December eighteenth, some of us guests, some

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Speaker 2: of us assume, and Lisa apparently some of us speculate.

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Speaker 1: The we is doing a lot of heavy lifting at

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Speaker 1: a time where clearly he's reflecting a splintering committee that

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Speaker 1: is dealing with a whole host of different outcomes and

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Speaker 1: potentially political leanings. And I just want to go here,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be viewed through a political lens. Inevitably,

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Speaker 1: it already was threatening to do so. Now there are

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Speaker 1: some people who are incorporating highly conditional estimates. I wish

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Speaker 1: that we had learned more about what those estimates looked

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Speaker 1: like and whether they all were inflationary or whether some

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Speaker 1: of them were to slower growth.

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Speaker 2: Neil Datta wanted to jump onto the program. We can

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Speaker 2: bring them into the program right now, Nil Detta of

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Speaker 2: renmac neil. Is this federal resist on a collision course

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Speaker 2: with the incoming administration.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it certainly feels like they're tempting faith, you know,

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Speaker 4: I mean Powell's talking about he goes through a litany

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Speaker 4: and then he, you know, in the same sentence basically

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Speaker 4: talks about how they're dialing back rate cuts. So I

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Speaker 4: think that that's that's a problem. And you know, I

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Speaker 4: think the the optimistic take around this is by making

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Speaker 4: the forecast adjustments that they've made, they're actually, in some

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Speaker 4: respects lowering the bar for additional action, you know, early

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Speaker 4: next year. So like two point five percent on core inflation,

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's a reasonably high number. And you know,

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Speaker 4: given what we know about rental inflation, that's probably going

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Speaker 4: to slow down, given what we know about you know,

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Speaker 4: you know, over the next couple of months, you know,

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Speaker 4: just as the new administration's coming into office. So you know,

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Speaker 4: I think they're signaling a pause. But it's also important

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Speaker 5: Neil, you were my Economics of the year two years ago.

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Speaker 5: You were optimistic when few were. Now you've switched flat

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Speaker 5: is Atlanta GDP now at three point one percent? Is

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Speaker 5: Powell know something we don't know, and those visible present

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Speaker 5: numbers are just flat out wrong.

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Speaker 4: I never I never think. I mean, I don't think

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Speaker 4: meaningful degree. You know, Tom, the FED doesn't have a

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Speaker 4: GDP mandate. So it's interesting to see how much Powell

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Speaker 4: because that was sort of a way for him to

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Speaker 4: Leaving that aside, I mean, you're right, I mean I

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Speaker 4: am more cautious. I remember two years ago, around this time,

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Speaker 4: the consensus was conditioned for you know, basically everyone was

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Speaker 4: penciling in recession, and all I did was point out

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Speaker 4: the fact that the labor markets were fine and housing

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Speaker 4: stocks were moving up into the right Fast forward to today,

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Speaker 4: it's literally the opposite situation. Everyone is sanguine on growth.

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Speaker 4: It's very difficult to talk about recession. No one really

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Speaker 4: wants to hear it. And at the same time, we

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Speaker 4: know that the labor markets are slowing by Powell's owned admission. Okay,

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Speaker 4: and just pull up a chart of homebuilding stocks.

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Speaker 1: Well, meanwhile, Neil, I just want to point out the

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Speaker 1: fact that other people are taking a different tack than

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Speaker 1: you are, as you say, your contrarian thinking that there's

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Speaker 1: more weakness in the market. Peter sheher saying this he

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Speaker 1: doesn't think is necessarily political. He said, this is a

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Speaker 1: fed that is worried that inflation isn't coming down fast enough.

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Speaker 1: And well, it might play in the back of their mind.

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Speaker 1: They aren't responding to fiscal potential policy on the margins.

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Speaker 1: Some are, but he's saying in general they are not.

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Speaker 1: Why do you disagree so fundamentally with that?

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Speaker 4: Just go through the go through the document, look at

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Speaker 4: the balance of risk to the inflation forecast. It's a

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Speaker 4: dramatic increase in the number of participants that see the

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Speaker 4: risk to headline and core inflation eskewed to the upside. So,

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Speaker 4: I mean, they can say whatever it is they want,

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Speaker 4: but based on the data, it's very difficult to justify

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Speaker 4: the distribution of risk that you see in the projections.

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Speaker 4: And how are the risks to inflation going up at

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Speaker 4: a time when labor is cooling and wages are slowing.

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Speaker 4: We know that recruiting intensity is down, we know that

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Speaker 4: quits rates have collapsed. Okay, that probably implies that there's

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Speaker 4: further cooling with respect to compensation growth between now and

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Speaker 4: because of what just happened, you have to start thinking

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Speaker 4: those economies. So okay, I mean, I think based on

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Speaker 4: the data, it's really difficult to say that the distribution

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Speaker 4: of risks have changed that much. And Powell even said

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Speaker 4: that based on the inputs from core CPI and producer prices,

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Speaker 4: you'll probably get a pretty weak reading on core pc

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Speaker 4: inflation when that data are released on Friday. And the

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Speaker 4: big story again out of the inflation data over the

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Speaker 4: last week has been the normalization of housing rental inflation.

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Speaker 4: So I think, you know, to me, this is it

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Speaker 4: feels a little bit like they're pre judging potential policy outcomes.

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Speaker 2: Em currencies right now getting hammered. Neil, I don't expect

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Speaker 2: the caller. I don't expect the tide, but maybe just

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Speaker 2: a jack in next time, Noil, maybe a jack hid

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Speaker 2: you know, for some post fed show commentary.

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Speaker 6: In the studio.

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Speaker 4: Back in the studio, I'll put on you know, my

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Speaker 4: my Gucci for you.

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Speaker 2: There we go. I'll make that happen, Neil, make it

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Speaker 2: happen soon and Neil appreciate it, sir, enjoy the holidays.

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Speaker 2: Neil Dutta there.

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Speaker 6: Showing up in a Christmas sweater.

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Speaker 2: I mean, next time, white t shirt was better. I've

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Speaker 2: got one with a better bad joke on the back.

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Speaker 6: Do you really a number ten?

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Speaker 1: Produce Christmas hanging like.

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Speaker 2: Not with like you know, jingle bows going on.

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Speaker 6: Like lights, its lights. It serves Monday. I mean it serves.

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Speaker 2: Monday, Monday, definitely when I'm not here. Sarah House of

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Speaker 2: Wells Fargo joins us. Now for more, Sarah, These forecasts

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Speaker 2: some controversy around them. Neil Duttter making the argument that

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Speaker 2: he believes that underpinning that shift in inflation higher in

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Speaker 2: those dots for the dots coming down from four cuts

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Speaker 2: to two, he believes as a real Trump effect in

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Speaker 2: the forecasts. Sarah, is it the data or is it

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Speaker 2: the incoming president.

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Speaker 7: I think it's a little bit of both. John, So,

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Speaker 7: I think you've seen certainly there's been a little bit

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Speaker 7: stronger momentum in terms of the inflation numbers. That's why

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Speaker 7: you got the upward revisions to the Q four numbers

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Speaker 7: here for this year. But I think when you look

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Speaker 7: least some participants included some assumptions around policy, and some

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Speaker 7: didn't say if they were. So I think there is

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Speaker 7: a little bit of recentering the risks around the forecast

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Speaker 5: Sir, When you do all the math at Wells Fargo

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Speaker 5: as you do with Jay Brice, and when you sum

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Speaker 5: it up, what are you going to watch forward to

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Speaker 5: the next FED meeting? I mean, Neil Dudda just said

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Speaker 5: GDP is not part of the mandate. Do we watch

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Speaker 5: the jobs report? Do we look at inflation? I mean,

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Speaker 5: what really matters in the guestimate forward into late January?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's jobs and inflation. So I think after today's

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Speaker 7: meeting it's a little bit more on inflation. So I

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Speaker 7: think that's one of the big takeaways is we're seeing

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Speaker 7: that emphasis shift back towards more of a focus on

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Speaker 7: inflation after I think the labor market took more of

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Speaker 7: week jobs report, unemployment rate going up pretty quickly there.

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Speaker 7: But I think today's Today's message was they have less

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Speaker 7: where there's a lot of questions about residual seasonality. So

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Speaker 7: do we actually see enough of a slowdown where you

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Speaker 7: start to see that twelve month trend which Paul talked

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Speaker 7: about so much in today's press conference, do you see

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Speaker 7: that begin to come back down? But they are still

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Speaker 7: looking at the labor market, and I think that did

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Speaker 7: feature in not just today's cut, but also still what

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Speaker 7: is an easy bias where they do have a couple

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Speaker 7: more rate cuts penciled in for next year, because as

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Speaker 7: you heard Paul also talk about in the press conference,

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Speaker 7: they're still seeing that labor market.

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Speaker 1: Cool Right now, We're seeing markets respond pretty strongly to

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Speaker 1: this and people forecasting that maybe at least this is

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Speaker 1: the implication this could potentially make a more difficult circumstance,

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Speaker 1: particularly for smaller companies. From your vantage point on the margins,

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Speaker 1: if this is a FED that sees itself in a

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Speaker 1: dark room full of furniture or in a foggy land

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Speaker 1: that's moving more slowly that that on the margins is

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Speaker 1: going to slow your expectations, Sarah, for growth next year,

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Speaker 1: I think a little bit.

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Speaker 7: I mean, we're still looking for three rate cuts next year,

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Speaker 7: so not terribly different from what the FED has penciled in,

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Speaker 7: but of course when they come could have implications for

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Speaker 2: The next twelve months is going to be quite a ride. Sarah,

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Speaker 2: thank you. I appreciate your time. Sarah House of Wells Fargo.

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Speaker 2: This is the FED Decide to Bloomberg Savaded Special live

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Speaker 2: just joining us. A twenty five basis point reduction from

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Speaker 2: If you check out the bond market, we'll just take

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Speaker 8: But the biggest takeaway that I had is that the Fed,

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Speaker 2: That tension continues. Mike, appreciate your time, sir, great work

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Speaker 2: as always. Join us Now is Jeff Rosenberg of Blackrock. Jeff,

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Speaker 9: Well, you can see, Jonathan, you know this is a

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Speaker 9: we're not going to be as quick to cut. And

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Speaker 9: it's the cut in the policy and the favoring of

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Speaker 1: Jeff, the reviews are coming in. That was one of them.

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Speaker 1: ahead with it anyway, Jeff, do you agree with that?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know a lot of the sentiments in there

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Speaker 5: Atche Frozenberg, Ellen Meltzer, you're Carnegie Mellon come runer up

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Speaker 5: the first rule was stability.

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Speaker 6: Stability.

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Speaker 5: I don't see stability in EM I don't see stability. Granted,

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Speaker 2: Jeff, I'm pleased that Tom brought this up. The move

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Speaker 10: So it's about portfolio construction and it's about how much

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Speaker 10: That's really where the FED today that you want to

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time, Sir Jeff Rosenberg of black Rock. Enjoy

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Speaker 2: the holidays remaining the team will take you through the

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Speaker 2: clothes in just the moment. Tesla's want to watch going

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Speaker 1: And honestly, the market is responding to being a little

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Speaker 2: Could not agree more. This dollar is a whole lot stronger.

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Speaker 2: Just how much oxygen is left up here? Your equority

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Speaker 2: market's down as session loads with a negative two point

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Speaker 2: nine percent from New York. Thank you for choosing Bloomberg

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