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Speaker 1: What can a chins, I'm Chuil Webber and Americ Belcunas

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Speaker 1: Eric anything of note been happening in markets of late

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Speaker 1: What a year?

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Speaker 2: What a year this day has been but whiplash, Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 2: COVID like whiplash.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: The whole year it was sell America, the sell America trade,

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Speaker 2: uron stocks, Europe is the place to be and uh

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Speaker 2: well that didn't turn out to be true. The us

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Speaker 2: rallied back. Now it's positive on the year. I'd say

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Speaker 2: even that just blew away much of the negativity and

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Speaker 2: expert analysis out there. It's a little I think it's

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Speaker 2: one of those moments that's baffling for a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: But so instead of you know, selling America, everybody bought it,

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Speaker 2: and here we are back in what feels like twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four again, it feels like we're kind of like

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Speaker 2: back to normal, which is sort of like, as somebody

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Speaker 2: on this podcast is going to say, is comfortably bullish,

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Speaker 2: comfortably bolish.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, to help us walk through some of those

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Speaker 1: headlines and what's happening in markets and bonds, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be joined by Isabelle Lee Process, a reporter with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: News as well as Athanasios, Sarah Vegas ETF analyst with

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Speaker 1: Boomberg Controjans Beast time on Trillions. Bye bye America, Athanasios,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to Trillions, Isabelle, thanks for being here. See

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Speaker 1: what I did there? Good bye bye.

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Speaker 3: I heard it.

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Speaker 1: It was good. So let's I want to set this

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Speaker 1: up with you because you've been writing some interesting notes

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Speaker 1: right now. What have you been seeing on sort of

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Speaker 1: like just a metal level of how things have transpired.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Eric kind of alluded to it, but it's

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Speaker 4: the bounce back in the US market, And looked at

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Speaker 4: lot of negative sentiment. It was the US acceptavision is

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Speaker 4: over time to rotate into Europe, move away out of it.

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Speaker 4: But one thing that was interesting with THETF flows, they

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Speaker 4: now that's paid off because the market's bounced back so far.

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Speaker 4: So maybe across the world. Yeah, Europe was a little

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Speaker 4: look in like Asia, they were actually buying US stocks

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Speaker 4: you missed out on this massive, really rapid rebound, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, one of the phenomenons. And you know we saw

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Speaker 2: the president can be polarizing, and I think sometimes that

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Speaker 1: Remember I had that guy on here.

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Speaker 2: I know, I'm trying to make a metric out of

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Speaker 1: They wants more money.

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Speaker 2: Money wants more money, and that's kind of cool that

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Speaker 2: But that's something we've noticed and I think other peoples have.

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Speaker 2: There just definitely was like a disconnect between flows and

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Speaker 3: I think the headline was an attack on us.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the headline risk is real. I've actually we

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Speaker 3: we were just talking about this earlier, Joel, that one

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Speaker 1: So it's like anything that helps me feel like I

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Speaker 3: Me an advantage, yes, or even Uber deliveries. One person

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Speaker 2: And Isabelle this is a great thing to riff off

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Speaker 2: of for Athanasios, which is that where else can you go?

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Speaker 2: I think this is something that's underrated. So this idea

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think it's right about what alternative

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Speaker 4: But if you take all that out, we're still just

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Speaker 2: But you also looked at the times when Europe outperforms

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Speaker 1: Okay, another thing that's been wiplash inducing has been the

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Speaker 3: It's about TLT. So it's I shares twenty plus year

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Speaker 3: at least for us, because price tells you a different thing.

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Speaker 3: But flows show conviction. And then it's interesting because people

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Speaker 1: You got to get the timing right otherwise it'syeah, widow.

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Speaker 3: Maker, yes, and it hasn't been right for them until

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Speaker 4: The thing that I find really interesting with TLT, I

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Speaker 2: I was talking to other colleagues earlier. I used to

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Speaker 2: let's face it, when there's negative news, you get more

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Speaker 2: It's like the Weather Channel when there's a hurricane. You

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I get it. I do it too. I'm

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Speaker 2: is fascinating to me. That's a big story. Not every

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Speaker 1: Those eslie chocolate does taste better? I agree with you.

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Speaker 3: Voo is hard to beat, actually, but I was a

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Speaker 3: small part of me was preparing for you to say ibit,

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Speaker 2: We also wrote real quick on ibit. It is the

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Speaker 2: in my opinion. I was on stage with Robbie Mitchnick

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Speaker 2: These giant investors are not interested in tech stock returns.

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Speaker 2: but there feels like there's like three or four positive

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Speaker 1: I think that's a fitting place to end. So, Isabelle,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me on.

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