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<v Speaker 1>the chief executive of a stock that is hired today

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<v Speaker 1>by more than three and a half percent after announcing

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<v Speaker 1>about waste management that's coming up. Let's get to Charlie

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<v Speaker 1>Pellett in the newsroom now he's got a Bloomberg business flash,

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<v Speaker 1>and I thank you, Kathleen, thank you. Pim Thedal. The

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<v Speaker 1>now though decidedly negative. Tone SMP down twenty a drop

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<v Speaker 1>of one percent. Down indust reels down to sevent to

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<v Speaker 1>down three point two percent now, Facebook surging seven percent

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<v Speaker 1>after the bell we hear from Amazon dot Com. It

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<v Speaker 1>shares now lower by five point five percent. Commercial real

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<v Speaker 1>estate services companies cbr E Group beating estimates. Bob Slenttech

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<v Speaker 1>is cbr ES CEO. He was interviewed today on Bloomberg Television.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a good quarter for us around the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Across our product lines. We had good growth, double digit growth,

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<v Speaker 1>and all those services profit lines and in all our regions.

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<v Speaker 1>Um The thing that I think drove it was good solid,

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<v Speaker 1>really state fundamentals, probably better than people realizing. Fundamentals are

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<v Speaker 1>rental rates and occupancies. But also something that was really

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<v Speaker 1>important for us as we took market share in the

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<v Speaker 1>majority of the markets that we're in and across our

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<v Speaker 1>product lines. The US economy expanded in the first quarter

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<v Speaker 1>at the slowest pace in two years, as American consumers

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<v Speaker 1>reigned in spending and companies tightened their belts in response

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<v Speaker 1>to weak global financial conditions. On a plunge in oil prices.

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<v Speaker 1>Crude oil up today by thirty six cents forty five

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<v Speaker 1>sixty nine on West Texas Intermediate, a gain of eight

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<v Speaker 1>tenths of one percent. We've got gold of seventeen sixty

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<v Speaker 1>a gain of one point four percent. And now let's

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<v Speaker 1>take a look at some of the other stories making news.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you Charlie from the Bloomberg Newsroom. I'm Ramie in

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<v Speaker 1>What does former House Speaker John Bayner think of Ted Cruz. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>quote more miserable s ob in his life. Authorities say

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<v Speaker 1>of Baltimore police officer shot and wounded a thirteen year

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<v Speaker 1>old boy who refused to drop a replica of a

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<v Speaker 1>semi automatic pistol. That team is expected to survive. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. It's a replica from the automatic pistol.

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<v Speaker 1>And I looked at it myself today. I stood right

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<v Speaker 1>over top of it. I put my own eyes on it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an absolute identical replica semi automatic pistol. Those police

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<v Speaker 1>officers had no way of knowing that it was not,

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<v Speaker 1>in fact, an actual firearm. And last winner's East Coast

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<v Speaker 1>a censio Charlie, and we thank you and again recapping

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<v Speaker 1>SMP down twenty points, a drop of one percent, down

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<v Speaker 1>in dust rols down two points, drop of one I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Charlie Peloton. That's a Bloomberg Business flash. This is taking

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<v Speaker 1>Stock with Kathleen Hayes and Prim Fox on Bloomberg Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>When people talk about garbage, they usually talk about something

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<v Speaker 1>they just want to get rid of and throw out.

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<v Speaker 1>When they talk about garbage at Waste Management, they talk

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<v Speaker 1>about something that is very, very off. Well. In fact,

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<v Speaker 1>this company based in Houston operations across North America, posted

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<v Speaker 1>better than expected results for its first quarter, aided by

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<v Speaker 1>better pricing and increased volume. We're joined now from Houston

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<v Speaker 1>by David Steiner. He's the president and CEO of Waste Management.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for joining us, David, Thanks for having me

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<v Speaker 1>so uh in a nutshell? What what is driving your

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<v Speaker 1>growth and your results? Yeah, you know, so when we

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<v Speaker 1>look at what we're doing, it's all driven by the

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<v Speaker 1>customer um. You know, this is the first time we've

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<v Speaker 1>had positive volume since two thousand and twelve, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>because we're trying to provide the best customer service to

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<v Speaker 1>the twenty one million customers that we provide cut service

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<v Speaker 1>to throughout the United States. This quarter it showed with

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<v Speaker 1>the most positive volume we've seen since two thousand and twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>But we did that without giving up price. And when

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<v Speaker 1>you can get price and volume on this this fixed

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<v Speaker 1>asset base that we have is when you really start

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<v Speaker 1>generating cash, and we just did. We did just that

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<v Speaker 1>this quarter. Um generating more cash and we've generated in

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<v Speaker 1>a quarter in in four years. What is the relationship

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<v Speaker 1>between waste Management's business and trends in the housing industry?

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<v Speaker 1>And I know you answered this today in terms of

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<v Speaker 1>geographic diversity. Yeah, it's a great question. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>when you think about it, every time a subdivision is built,

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<v Speaker 1>we put a can out when they build the house,

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<v Speaker 1>and then we get a new residential customer because there's

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<v Speaker 1>a new house created. And then you've got to create

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of commercial businesses around that gas station's dry cleaners, restaurants,

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<v Speaker 1>And so every time a subdivision is built, we really

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<v Speaker 1>get a three for one pop to our volumes. We

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<v Speaker 1>get a residential customer, we get a roll off customer,

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<v Speaker 1>and we get a commercial customer. And so as we've

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<v Speaker 1>seen housing bounced back since the last recession. Um, we've

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<v Speaker 1>seen our volumes get better and better and better. Finally

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<v Speaker 1>this quarter turning positive about six months earlier than we expected.

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<v Speaker 1>So when you talk about customer service, you're to me

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<v Speaker 1>in a space that is kind of generic. Right. A

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<v Speaker 1>lot of people collect garbage, a lot of people have

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<v Speaker 1>landfills and do recycling. How do you how do you

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<v Speaker 1>use customer service to differentiate differentiate you from the competition

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<v Speaker 1>and creates just solid quarter? Yea. You know, I always

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<v Speaker 1>say we're sort of like the cable business. Um, every

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<v Speaker 1>week we all get a mailer saying we can reduce

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<v Speaker 1>your price for cable, but we don't take it because

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna have to sit at our house for a

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<v Speaker 1>couple hours when they come and fix it, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they might have to come again to install it. And

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<v Speaker 1>you really don't want to spend the time until the

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<v Speaker 1>cable starts going out, and once it starts going out,

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<v Speaker 1>you look for another provider. And that's basically what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on in our industry. You know, if you provide that

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<v Speaker 1>great service, your customers generally don't want to switch. And

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<v Speaker 1>so that's why customer service is so important to not

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<v Speaker 1>only getting a new customer, but retaining that customer. Can

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<v Speaker 1>you tell us about strength and specific areas of the

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<v Speaker 1>country such as the South and I'm thinking of Florida,

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<v Speaker 1>the Gulf Coast and even California. Yeah. Absolutely. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>after the last downturn in two thousand nine, we really

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<v Speaker 1>saw the Midwest and the East Coast leading our company.

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<v Speaker 1>And that was unusual because because obviously the Sun Belt

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<v Speaker 1>has generally led the economy, but because the housing downturn

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<v Speaker 1>drove the recession in two thousand and nine, we saw

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<v Speaker 1>better volumes up north. Now we've seen it normalized where

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<v Speaker 1>the Sun Belts actually doing better, but the North and

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<v Speaker 1>the Midwest continues to be strong. We just see it

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<v Speaker 1>even stronger down in the Sun Belt. I just have

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<v Speaker 1>to ask you a question about you. You enjoy books

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<v Speaker 1>on quantum physics, and uh, you also enjoy model trains. Wow?

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<v Speaker 1>Does quantum thinking about that help you think about waste?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna tell you a little story about that, because

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<v Speaker 1>um that happens to be on my Wickpitia page. And

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<v Speaker 1>I read that, and I said, I truly do like

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<v Speaker 1>quantum physics, and I read the books, but but I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know where the model trains came from and my

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<v Speaker 1>kids I didn't even know I had a Wickpitia page.

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<v Speaker 1>And my kids said, oh no, our friends go onto

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<v Speaker 1>your Wickpedia page and put strange things on. Did you

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<v Speaker 1>really drive this dow bony and you were when you

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<v Speaker 1>were a kid? No, I never drove us. Okay, you

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<v Speaker 1>heard it here. You heard it here, sports fans. He

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<v Speaker 1>does not does not get into model trains. I just

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<v Speaker 1>want to ask a little bit about capital investment. I

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<v Speaker 1>know you've been spending money. Tell us about something called

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<v Speaker 1>leech eight. I know this is water that has percolated

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<v Speaker 1>through a solid or leached out of some of the constituents.

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<v Speaker 1>What is leach shape and how does that affect your business? Yeah, so,

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<v Speaker 1>any fluid that comes out of our landfills is classified

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<v Speaker 1>as lee chap, and you know it's it's generally fairly benign,

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<v Speaker 1>but you want to treat it before you put it

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<v Speaker 1>back into the water system. And what happened to us

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<v Speaker 1>this year is that we got an extraordinary amount of

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<v Speaker 1>leach ape because of the heavy rains and then um

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<v Speaker 1>generally it goes to a water treatment facility, and one

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<v Speaker 1>of the regional water treatment facilities in the mid Atlantic

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<v Speaker 1>actually had too much water, so they quit taking lead chap,

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<v Speaker 1>so we had to transport it all the way up

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<v Speaker 1>the East coast, and so our transportation costs went up

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<v Speaker 1>by about our leech a costs went up by about

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen million dollars. And so what we're gonna do is

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<v Speaker 1>start building our own water treatment plants so that we

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<v Speaker 1>can have our destiny in our own hands. Thank you

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<v Speaker 1>very much. David Steiner is the chief executive of a

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<v Speaker 1>Waste of Management. Shares of wait Management today are up

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<v Speaker 1>three and a half percent. You're listening to Taking Stock

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