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Speaker 2: So pressure seems to be building on FED Chairman Jpal

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Speaker 2: this morning urging the Fed to lower interest rates and

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Speaker 2: challenging FED Chairman Jpal personally on a personal level as well.

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Speaker 2: It seems like Tom Oor, like Bloomberg Economics Chief Economists, Hey, Tom,

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Speaker 2: how concerns should the marketplace be about President Trump and

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Speaker 2: the political pressure he is applying to the Fed into

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Speaker 3: Well, I think there's a couple of reasons to be

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Speaker 3: concerned about it, Paul. The first reason is that we

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: The experience from the nineteen sixties the nineteen seventies, when

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Speaker 3: if you're in the bond market, if you're in the

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Speaker 3: a big source of concern. The second, of course, is

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Speaker 3: think we can think about that on two lines. The

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Speaker 3: course we don't need to go further than Trump's truth

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Speaker 4: Okay, So to that point, let's just game theory this

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Speaker 3: So I think the concern is that inflation is still

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Speaker 3: Credibility stretching back from Volka, through green Span, through Banankey,

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Speaker 2: Tom, So what's your concern here?

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Speaker 5: I guess about the dollar?

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Speaker 2: Here we seem just pronounced selling of the dollar down

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Speaker 3: It is interesting, Paul. The economic textbooks tell us when

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Speaker 4: So tom to that point, when you know, we talked

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Are we in the type of extreme situation in the

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Speaker 5: All right, Tom, thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: I always appreciate getting a few minutes of your time.

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Speaker 2: Tom or like he's a chief economist for Bloomberg Economics

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Speaker 4: Within the markets, taking a look at an SMP off

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Speaker 4: for Easter Monday. Phil Orlando as chief equity market Strategists

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Speaker 4: and he joins US. Now, Phil, do you buy these dips?

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Speaker 6: First of all, Alex, Happy Easter Monday to you. No,

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Speaker 2: Phil One could argue the weakness in the equity markets

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Speaker 2: Tariff seem to be the tool of choice here for

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Speaker 6: sort of fades in the longer term picture looks great.

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Speaker 6: financial market performance. You know, you've got two very different

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Speaker 6: We don't think so. FED independence, in our mind is

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Speaker 6: But I think what you're doing is the Trump administration

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Speaker 2: Obviously, one of the big news stories of the day,

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Speaker 2: Pope Francis, promoter of more compassionate Church, dies at the

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Speaker 2: age of eighty eight. The pontiff was praise for is

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Speaker 2: focus on poverty and human suffering. He was born in

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Speaker 2: question is now, where does a Catholic church go from here?

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Speaker 2: Let's get the latest reporting. Ross Matheson joins us Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: News Director for the Middle East and Africa. So, Roz,

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Speaker 2: can you frame up for us kind of how the

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Speaker 2: process will work. The timeframe for electing a new pope.

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Speaker 8: Well, it could be quite a lengthy process. I mean historically,

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Speaker 8: at one point it took years to select a new

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Speaker 8: pope through this process known as the conclave. But it

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Speaker 8: interesting to see in this case, obviously, because Pope Francis

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Speaker 8: to see a contest here between the socially liberal wings

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Speaker 8: And so this conclave is likely to begin, possibly within

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Speaker 8: about two weeks. Normally it takes about fifteen days after

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Speaker 8: for example, as has also happened previously, and then all

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Speaker 8: the cardinals gather, but it can only be one hundred

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Speaker 8: so they'll have to work that out, and then they

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Speaker 8: to know again how long it could take. Once it begins,

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Speaker 4: Wow, there's definitely going to be quite a process. Ros,

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Speaker 4: do we have a sense of I mean just talking

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Speaker 8: Well, of course, Pope Francis wasn't shy about wading into that,

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Speaker 8: need to be compassionate.

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Speaker 8: For those who are poor, who are suffering, and included

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Speaker 8: of put the Catholic Church in a slightly different direction

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Speaker 5: Polarized moment globally.

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Speaker 8: You can see the rise of more conservative administrations again

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Speaker 8: And do we see, you know, the selection of the

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Speaker 8: Catholic Church and its leadership.

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Speaker 5: Going to represent in that world?

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Speaker 8: And does the selection of the pope dare I say

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, all right, Ros, We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Raz Mathis and Bloomberg News Director for Europe, the Middle

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Speaker 4: As we were discussing earlier, the market continues its downside.

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Speaker 4: You're looking at the NASTAC almost off by three percent.

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Speaker 4: Julie Beale as chief market strategist and portfolio manager at

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Speaker 4: Caine Anderson Rudnick, and she joins us. Now, where is

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Speaker 4: a safe haven right now?

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Speaker 5: Julie, I think for your long term investors.

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Speaker 7: This has good opportunities to be able to scoop up

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Speaker 7: some of those companies that are good quality and will

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Speaker 7: be around for the long term. You just have to

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Speaker 7: be willing to buy those and then forget about them.

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Speaker 7: I think it's a really difficult time right now for

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Speaker 7: long term investors. They want to be able to call

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Speaker 7: the bottom, and it's really not possible.

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Speaker 5: To be able to call the bottom.

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Speaker 7: You really have to be confident in what you own

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Speaker 7: and be able to kind of sit still, not try

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Speaker 7: to own the good quality companies that you think will

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Speaker 2: Julie, I like it in your notes you quote Howard

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Speaker 2: where whether today's asset prices are right for the environment ahead.

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Speaker 2: Given that backdrop, I guess it's easy for a lot

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Speaker 2: Here are you trying to be tactically smart? Here are

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Speaker 7: Probably, Yeah, I think Howard Marx also says this great

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Speaker 7: thing that I love so much. You know, the old

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Speaker 6: That is very totally well.

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Speaker 7: In some case on Saturdays, I'm great at yet. But

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Speaker 7: in many cases, you know, a lot of clients will

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Speaker 7: be asking me, oh my god, what are you doing

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Speaker 5: Ones that you really want to own.

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Speaker 7: And then you have to resist the urge to try

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Speaker 5: That's not what this time is about. That's why I

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Speaker 5: love Julie. What are my resilient cockroaches? Yes? Bring that on?

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Speaker 5: So really, what are the resilient cockroaches?

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Speaker 7: The resilient I really like the businesses that you know

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Speaker 5: Great business model if you can get it.

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Speaker 7: That's always going to need to exist, and that's not

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Speaker 7: necessarily going to be interrupted by tariffs. You're going to

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Speaker 5: And that's actually what you kind of want to be

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Speaker 2: So what do you make of the adage or just

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Speaker 5: Do you abscribe to that?

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Speaker 2: And what does kind of quality mean to you?

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Speaker 7: So? I think that when I think about quality, to me,

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Speaker 7: and how is it going to recover? That's way more

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Speaker 7: important to me, I think when you're thinking about value,

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Speaker 7: Just ask my parents, right, their heart's broken all the

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Speaker 5: That they can own those.

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Speaker 7: The thing is is that there's a lot in value,

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I think like we don't love the term value,

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Speaker 7: Served giving that cash back to shareholders because they're in

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Speaker 7: I don't think you need to be quite as didactic.

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Speaker 7: I think it's more important that you just own good

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Speaker 2: So how much earnings risk do you think is out

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Speaker 5: How do you think about that?

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Speaker 7: I agree with you. I think that it's look, I

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Speaker 7: And I think that that's just a reflection of what

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Speaker 5: I think that you're going to see.

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Speaker 5: Like what is this business going to earn? I don't

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Speaker 7: I think what's more important is can it continue to

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Speaker 4: One thing we do have I did have is capex spend,

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Speaker 5: At all due to the uncertainty.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I really wouldn't be surprised. I think

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 7: It's like it's a great excuse for them to be

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Speaker 7: It's not that we haven't come up with a good

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Speaker 5: It's the tariffs.

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Speaker 7: So I think that they have good cover to do that,

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Speaker 7: and I think it would be a positive thing because

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Speaker 7: I think this is a great opportunity for them to

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Speaker 7: really prove out all of these promises that they've made.

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Speaker 5: For the level of capex.

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Speaker 7: But it's important, right for the broader economic outlook, right,

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Speaker 7: the hyper scalers. If we don't have that, do we

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Speaker 7: still have a great economy that people want to invest in?

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Speaker 5: It's less clear.

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Speaker 4: One hundred percent. And that was sort of the question

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Speaker 4: mark that you know, is it just the mag seven

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Speaker 4: and everybody else at the end of the day? Are Julie,

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Speaker 4: thanks lot, really great to get your perspective. I love

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Speaker 4: the resilient cockroach. I'm definitely using Matt stealing it. Julie Beale,

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Speaker 4: Chief Market Strategies and portfolio manager at Kane Anderson.

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