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Speaker 2: the ve on Wall Street this morning. This is what

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Speaker 2: it sounds like. Stephen Arthur Federated writing, we're maintaining our

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Speaker 2: outlook for more modest but volatile, positive single digit returns

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Speaker 2: in US Starstream twenty twenty seven. Steve joins us now

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Speaker 2: for more. Steve, Welcome to the program. I read the

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Speaker 2: recent note let's work through it. Do you still believe

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Speaker 2: this is just another brick in a so called climbable

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Speaker 2: wall of worry?

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Speaker 3: Well, jarthan there's a fine line between a wall of

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Speaker 3: worry and a brick wall. So for the moment, we

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Speaker 3: think it's still another brick but as you guys have

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Speaker 3: been highlighting, it really is a matter of.

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Speaker 4: How long this goes on.

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Speaker 3: The market is trying to look through the valley here,

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Speaker 3: you know, to the other side of the valley, and

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Speaker 3: you can see that in the shape of the Eel curve.

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Speaker 3: You can see it in the shape of the vall

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Speaker 3: curve of the futures market, you know, oil energy futures.

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Speaker 3: I think the spot oil is about ten dollars higher

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Speaker 3: right now than the future's price of oil at bround

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Speaker 3: sixty seven. Same way, you know with with the volatility index.

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Speaker 3: The you know, the vall out on the outside of

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Speaker 3: the curve is down in the low twenties. The thing is,

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Speaker 3: it's still higher than it was at the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the year, both volatility and oil.

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Speaker 4: Even if you go out.

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Speaker 3: More, you know further, which is what the market stocks

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Speaker 3: are pricing off of.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've talked about this on your show.

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Speaker 3: That oil market is a spot market that has to

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Speaker 3: trade commodities on a daily basis. This stock market is

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Speaker 3: looking at the future price a while, and you know

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Speaker 3: that price is lower. But the longer this goes on,

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Speaker 3: the future and the presence start to combine. So I

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Speaker 3: think You're right to be focusing on how long this lasts,

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Speaker 3: and the market is trying to look through this. It's

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Speaker 3: fortunate that we cut our target price on the S

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Speaker 4: That was just pure luck, I suppose.

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Speaker 3: But the reason we did that was we did anticipate

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Speaker 3: to be some kind of a correction, and we're kind

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Speaker 3: of setting.

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Speaker 5: The levels at which we would re.

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Speaker 3: Enter the market with new cash because I think you know,

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Speaker 3: if your target on the S and P is lower,

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Speaker 3: which it is for us, you know, you need a

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Speaker 3: little more upside before you're going to step in, especially

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Speaker 3: to a situation like this. So for now, we're holding firm.

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Speaker 3: We're watching events just like you are and waiting to

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Speaker 3: see even when the end comes nearer.

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Speaker 4: One thing is sure.

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Speaker 2: It's going to.

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Speaker 4: End, you know, that's not a question.

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Speaker 3: The question is how long it's either going to end

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Speaker 3: with a regime change or it's going to end, you know,

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Speaker 1: Steve, you said that the one challenge to your relatively

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Speaker 1: until twenty twenty seven was sustained levels of ninety dollars

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Speaker 1: or above of crude. I'm just wondering, what does sustained mean?

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Speaker 1: How long does it have to remain above ninety dollars

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that we have a precise number

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Speaker 3: two to three month range. You know, if you had

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Speaker 3: But if oil stays up this, you know, for two

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Speaker 2: Hi, Stave, I just want to deal with the word

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Speaker 2: defensive gets thrown around a lot. Being defensive means different

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Speaker 2: things at different times, and it's highly dependent on the shock.

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Speaker 2: There are times when tech has defensive quality staples, the

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Speaker 2: usual one, but this foe is different. What is defensive

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Speaker 3: Defensive is some of these hard asset companies. We were

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Speaker 3: you know, in more in the value space, and certain

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Speaker 3: like defense companies are defensive right now because they're hard

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Speaker 3: asset companies that also are seeing good, strong top line

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Speaker 3: the value indices form of companies, strong dividends, broad you know,

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Speaker 4: You know, product modes if you will.

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Speaker 3: So it's it's these companies that are very broadly diversified,

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Speaker 3: no one cares about the dividendials. So I think those

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Speaker 3: of them, not all. I mean the financials are also

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Speaker 3: in the value and the seas they've underperformed obviously, But

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Speaker 3: you know, we like those areas here, especially coming out

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Speaker 3: of this. Provide it we don't have to take another

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Speaker 3: haircut to our economic growth.

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Speaker 2: Stay with US multile index Savanance coming up off to this,

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Speaker 2: let's tend to the federal serve. The Republican Senates a

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Speaker 2: Tom Tillis prising FENCH nominee Kevin Walsh following their meeting yesterday,

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Speaker 2: but not wavering on his promise to block any FED

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Speaker 2: The former Sam Lewis FED president Jim Ballad joins us

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Speaker 2: now for more, Jim, welcome to the program. Set the stage.

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Speaker 2: How difficult a moment is this for an incoming FED share.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so you've got to get through the nomination process first.

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Speaker 6: And as I as I understand it anyway, I don't

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Speaker 6: think anything's going to happen. So nobody is going to

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Speaker 6: be on the FED board anytime soon. The way this

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Speaker 6: is going, the administration will have to come to some

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Speaker 6: So I think it's stalled for now.

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Speaker 2: It's the second time we've had to deal with this, Jim.

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Speaker 2: Before it was largely in the President's hands, and for

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Speaker 2: whatever reason, Biden stalled. He stilled, he stored, and waited

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Speaker 2: a long long time to reselect, renominate chair power for

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Speaker 2: a second term. And some people, even people who were

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Speaker 2: on the committe at the time. So that's what stopped

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Speaker 2: this FEDER reserve from hiking quick enough to respond to

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Speaker 2: the energy crisis and the inflation pandemic shock coming out

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Speaker 2: of the pandemic. Now, Jim, I just wondered this time

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Speaker 2: around how critical this moment actually is with a frenchile

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Speaker 6: Well, it's always critical, always lots of lots of interesting

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Speaker 6: things going on. I would say about this shock, it's

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Speaker 6: this is going to bring up you know, hearkening back

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Speaker 6: to the seventies. But the US is a leading oil

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Speaker 6: the recession threat from this shock is probably smaller than

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Speaker 6: it would have otherwise been because you've got the supply

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Speaker 4: Destruction that could occur.

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Speaker 6: So so I think and then on the inflation side, well,

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Speaker 6: you know, the FED looks through or press shocks anyway,

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Speaker 6: they look at core inflation. So there's only a small

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Speaker 6: effect on core inflation from this. So it's really whether

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Speaker 6: inflation expectations would start to rise because markets would start

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Speaker 6: to think that the FED was going to accommodate this shock,

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Speaker 6: which is what happened in the seventies. I don't think

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Speaker 6: So I think it's a different situation. Even though this

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Speaker 1: Jim what gives you confidence that there's enough momentum in

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Speaker 1: the underlying economy to make this not an issue of

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Speaker 1: demand destruction, not an issue of the consumer increasingly crimped.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I just think, you know, the shock would hit

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Speaker 6: But you've also got a supply side, you know, being

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Speaker 6: I would also say that we've you know, we've seen

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Speaker 6: that's a very different scenario. Markets are right to focus on, well,

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Speaker 6: how long would this conflict continue to go on?

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Speaker 4: You know, US could withdraw at.

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Speaker 6: Any point saying it's declare victory and withdrawal.

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Speaker 4: So we'll we'll see what happens here.

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Speaker 1: We see Jim expectations over at the ECB as well

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Speaker 1: as the Bank of England for a potential rate hike.

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Speaker 1: Increasingly priced and in response to higher oil prices.

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Speaker 5: Do you think that.

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Speaker 1: People will start thinking about the same here in the US.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if they go that far. I think

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Speaker 6: more would have to happen before they go that far.

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Speaker 6: I think the more likely scenarios that they just stay

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Speaker 6: under control. But again, it's the inflation expectations probably that

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Speaker 4: Than the oil price movements directly.

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Speaker 7: Well, we already see airlines across Europe and Asia increasing fares.

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Speaker 7: They're raising the fuel surcharges given what's going on in

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Speaker 7: the war. Also in America, we are farmed to table society.

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Speaker 7: All of our food comes because of petrol and gasoline

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Speaker 7: on trucks. Isn't that going to be a problem for

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Speaker 7: this Federal Reserve? Not just the fact that gasoline prices

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's going to be a problem for

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Speaker 6: headline inflation, but you know, the committee looks at core inflation.

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Speaker 4: So sure, yeah, people are really paying these things.

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Speaker 6: It really does matter, Yes, but when you're trying to

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Speaker 2: Stay with us more Bloomberg surveillance Coming up after this.

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Speaker 2: The IEA considering a record release of emergency or reserves

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Speaker 2: to easearch and crude costs. This coming as German and

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Speaker 2: Japanese officials announced plans to release part of their own

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Speaker 2: national reserves. Samantha the cohead of Global Commodities research at

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Speaker 2: Golment Sechs writing, because the straight up Homers flows data

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Speaker 2: unnoisy and the broader situation remains fluid, We've not changed

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Speaker 2: our oil price forecast, but estimate the large upset I

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Speaker 2: risk in longer disruption scenarios. Sam joined us for more. Sam,

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Speaker 2: good morning, what's your assessment of where we are right now?

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Speaker 2: Never mind the pr effort coming from officials at the moment,

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Speaker 2: what's this disruption currently look like.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so we're losing about fifteen point four million barres

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Speaker 8: offset that by about let's say two and a half. Well,

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Speaker 8: the fastest ever release that we've had from the group

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Speaker 8: you can talk about a three to four hundred million

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Speaker 5: So on that we are.

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Speaker 8: Still likely to be losing over ten million bears a

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Speaker 2: So when they say four hundred, someone like you, here's

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Speaker 8: Yeah, because at least that's what we observed in the past.

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Speaker 8: What is the mac space that they've released, So you

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Speaker 5: It might happen. We have to wait and see.

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Speaker 8: But based on what we've seen on net, we're still

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Speaker 8: and it matters because what the market is looking at

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Speaker 5: This release can slow this down a little bit. I

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Speaker 8: Mentioning this that, you know, it keeps the curve a

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Speaker 7: But when we saw the headline come out of four

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Speaker 5: To last a lot longer. I don't think it's a

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Speaker 8: But remember yesterday we also had a little bit of

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Speaker 5: So I think the rebounding.

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Speaker 5: Have been associated with that.

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Speaker 8: Oh so, the flow through hormos is not really improving,

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Speaker 8: And to be fair, the data that we have seen

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Speaker 8: All the time, so far, it does suggest that flows

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Speaker 7: When it comes to some of that misinformation that we're seeing,

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Speaker 7: How does it make it that much harder for traders

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Speaker 7: for the market to position?

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Speaker 5: It creates a lot of volatility.

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Speaker 8: The past two days are a perfect illustration of that,

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Speaker 8: because again I think the uncertainty on duration makes such

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Speaker 8: we get the release, we upset most if not all

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Speaker 5: We're actually okay by the end of the year.

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Speaker 8: There's no panic, there's no demand destruction needed. But if

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Speaker 5: It might be two months, it might be three months.

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Speaker 8: So that sense of urgency to destroy a little bit

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Speaker 8: more of the man now to avoid inventor is going

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Speaker 8: to critically low levels shows up a little more. So

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Speaker 8: this is what keeps us from above one hundred now

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Speaker 8: below one hundred. Maybe this is going to be overseeing

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Speaker 8: more confidence. Oh but the flows are still low and

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Speaker 8: then you're hit with this release from the IA. Okay,

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Speaker 8: so maybe the piece of drawdown in stocks is not

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Speaker 8: quite as fast. So to your point, it keeps the

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Speaker 8: market guessing. What are we trying to manage here? So

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Speaker 8: the two aspects of it that we're going to be

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Speaker 8: tracking day by day Number one the volumes, what is

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Speaker 5: That's number one? But number two, how long is this

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Speaker 8: Where is that confidence that this can be contained within

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Speaker 1: I'm struck by the dissonance between the financialization of some

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Speaker 1: of these futures contracts and the physical world, which takes time,

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Speaker 1: just wondering, based on what we've heard so far about

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you have a little over six million bears a

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Speaker 8: day already down from production oil of crude oil in

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Speaker 5: We estimate that.

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Speaker 8: If it were to restart today, it would take about

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Speaker 5: Four weeks. Four weeks.

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Speaker 1: So, I guess, how are people saying if this resolves

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Speaker 1: in the next week, there won't be a prolonged increase

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Speaker 5: I guess.

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Speaker 1: Can we just say that from here on now we

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Speaker 1: can average eighty dollars a barrel or eighty five dollars

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Speaker 5: Rest of the year if it ends in a week,

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Speaker 8: We have to remember that going into this year, the

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Speaker 8: a death sits. So yes, to your point, there is

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Speaker 2: Sam Lisa told about the time it takes. Can we

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Speaker 2: between those two headlines and why is it so significant?

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Speaker 8: So the way that we think about it, it's more

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Speaker 8: the difference between stopping exports and stopping production. So for example,

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Speaker 8: send that back to the market. So you're delaying volumes

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Speaker 8: as opposed to losing them. But when you're shutting in production,

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Speaker 8: when you actually halt your production because you don't have

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