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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: about the US dollar and that's why we have Douglas Barthwick.

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Speaker 1: He is managing director in the head of FX at

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Speaker 1: Chapola Dane and a company and he joins us now. Doug,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much for being with us. Just a question

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Speaker 1: about the dollar is why is the dollar not looking stronger?

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe it's a sort of fastle argument, but uh,

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Speaker 1: let's see macro backdrop. US growth is good, tax cut

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Speaker 1: has already been one, and perhaps even another one in

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Speaker 1: the offing. A dollar, though, has fallen if you go

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Speaker 1: back all the way in November sixteen the end of

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Speaker 1: it's fallen more than ten percent against the basket of currencies.

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Speaker 1: Why are there no dollar bulls out there? Well, there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of dollar bulls about back in November

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Speaker 1: they've sully been squeezed out of the woodwork. I think

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Speaker 1: that there's an expectation. Are folks certainly expected that as

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Speaker 1: a fed race rates that be positive for the dollar,

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Speaker 1: but they forgot at the same time as that, as

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Speaker 1: the fed rais rates, other countries that also start raising

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Speaker 1: rates as well, or start moving out of the quantity

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Speaker 1: of easing that they were getting into. And against Europe specifically,

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Speaker 1: you've seen Europe turner and and now start to discuss

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Speaker 1: getting rid of their quantity of using. You've got the

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Speaker 1: Chinese talking about getting rid of theirs, and that creates

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Speaker 1: some headway against which the dollar has a tough time

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Speaker 1: and strengthening. But at the same time, you have to

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Speaker 1: remember the global central banks have been incredibly overweight the

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Speaker 1: dollar dollar, especially given what was happening in Greece about

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Speaker 1: no one talks about. These CenTra bank reserve manders are

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Speaker 1: reallocating back again and they're taking some of that overweight

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Speaker 1: euro is a good example of where money's going. Money

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Speaker 1: money is going into the Chinese currency because the Chinese

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Speaker 1: currency is not seen as a reserve asset as well,

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Speaker 1: and so instead of allocating money towards the dollar, you're

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Speaker 1: seeing center banks now allocated to different currencies, and that's

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Speaker 1: also seeing dollar weakness, you know, and Doug your rays

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Speaker 1: really interesting question. How much is this a normalization of

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Speaker 1: how much is this an overcrowded trade the dollar will

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Speaker 1: keep on weakening. Well, it would be I think that

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Speaker 1: the dollar would be an overcrowded trade if if if

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Speaker 1: center banks were extremely underweight the dollar. Unfortunately, they're still

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Speaker 1: extremely overweight the dollar, where as much as portfolios are

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Speaker 1: still in the US dollar. However, maybe their trade flows

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Speaker 1: you continue see this reweighting going on for quite some

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Speaker 1: that you'res trading at one twenty three the figure. So

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Speaker 1: in my mind, you know, maybe we're halfway through in

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Speaker 1: the move. But essentially, but before the European crisis, the

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Speaker 1: But I think the center bank managers, especially when it

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Speaker 1: in putting less weight into buying US treasuries and more

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering what would you have to see to make

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Doug Barthwick, Managing

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump has said that Amazon does not pay

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Speaker 1: its fair share of taxes. The President also has said

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Speaker 1: Postal Service, and indeed, the President on a tweet recently

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Speaker 1: said that it's reported that the U. S Post Office

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Speaker 1: each package it delivers for Amazon. Here to help us

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Speaker 1: he's always a pleasure. Now just give people a little

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Speaker 1: Thank you, PIM. I have been dealing with the Post

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Speaker 1: putting out fake news. And there is a Postal Regulatory Commission,

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Speaker 1: post Office has to demonstrate to them that they are

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Speaker 1: covering their cost not just a variable cost, but also

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Speaker 1: much for joining us and for that really interesting and

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Speaker 1: important perspective. Satisha Jandel is president of s J Consulting

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Speaker 1: the family that controls the multi trillion dollar enterprise. Well,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to investing, are you a raccoon? Are

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Speaker 1: Rob Coach could be all these things. He's the managing

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Speaker 1: thanks very much for being here. I mentioned raccoons and

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Speaker 1: And uh, let's speak of my asking you about what

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Speaker 1: across different asset classes. So when you're talking about conditioning,

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Speaker 1: the dip was really the only thing it added quote

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Speaker 1: unquote alpha last year. Rob Coachy, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being here. Really interesting to hear your perspective. Rob Croachy,

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Speaker 1: Managing director of Quantitative Strategies at Salient, which is based

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Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas, talking about the shift, the dramatic shift

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Speaker 1: in conditioning people getting a little more pessimistic despite frankly

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Speaker 1: the optimistic economic data that's been coming out. A lot

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Speaker 1: of questions are really interesting. Thanks for listening to the

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