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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: Megan Horneman. What an amazing day for me to come

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Speaker 1: back here to these markets, Megan, and after these, you know,

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Speaker 1: two big central bank decisions, what do you make of

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Speaker 1: inflation right now? I mean, um, my first thought after

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Speaker 1: reading that pal hike fifty basis points instead a couple

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Speaker 1: more could be on the way, is it must be

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Speaker 1: doing something to stop inflation already. Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: it has inflation peaked and are we going to start

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Speaker 1: rolling over and getting to some more I wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: normal levels, but at least a little bit better than

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Speaker 1: what we've seen over the past year. That's the biggest

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Speaker 1: concern I think right now from an inflation story, and

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Speaker 1: we just don't know that we'll get this this stuff

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Speaker 1: over the next couple of months. Next week is a

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Speaker 1: and then we'll look again in UM in June to

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Speaker 1: see how that works out. And Megan, I'm still trying

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Speaker 1: to make sense of the past twenty four hours or so.

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Speaker 1: Obviously that enormous rally that we saw across risk assets

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Speaker 1: during the FED presser yesterday. Now to see this really

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Speaker 1: amazing give back. UM, I'd love to hear your perspective

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Speaker 1: on whether you know markets misread what Pal was saying

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Speaker 1: explain this hiccup. I think all of the the uncertainty

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Speaker 1: here yesterday. I just think what Pal did was he

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Speaker 1: delivered a pretty good press conference, satisfying both both ends

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Speaker 1: were going to hike fifty basis points and it's on

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Speaker 1: seventy five basis point rate hikes, so it was kind

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Speaker 1: of right down the middle. You know, they're pretty good

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Speaker 1: really got three different things driving the market today. First

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Speaker 1: of all, this was discussed what happened with the Bank

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Speaker 1: see some of those productivity numbers. And then lastly, don't

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Speaker 1: forget that this morning we also finally broke through that

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Speaker 1: that I think the market was looking for. So that's

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Speaker 1: going to take some of the the wind out of that.

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Speaker 1: You know, that optimism yesterday that we had in the

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Speaker 1: of capitulation, I mean, when um, you know a central

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Speaker 1: in the most pessimistic situation. It's rare a central bank

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Speaker 1: this monetary tightening. But keep in mind, the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 1: much with inflations out of there's certain parts of it

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Speaker 1: And Megan, I mean, pal seemed to pretty definitively take

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Speaker 1: I guess leading discussions. How difficult does this make your job? With?

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Speaker 1: You know, inflation is transitory, Okay, it's not transitory. They're

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Speaker 1: That's taken a big brunt of this rise in interest rates.

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Speaker 1: Megan Horneman there she is the chief investment officer over

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Speaker 1: at Verdant's Capital Advisors. Let's bring in right now. I

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Speaker 1: me back on. And what an amazing set of numbers

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Speaker 1: So you know, you've got huge competition for natural gas

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Speaker 1: So fundamentally, I think the question that we need to

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Speaker 1: And what are the solutions to those problems? You know,

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Speaker 1: and what are you working on to do now? Right,

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Speaker 1: the world's energy system is all gas and coal. But

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Speaker 1: the extraordinary factor, the extraordinary thing about this is that

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Speaker 1: to try and replace these sorts of fuels. Now, of course,

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Speaker 1: six months, and that's what we're investing in. And there

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Speaker 1: is no solution at the kind of scale and pace

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Speaker 1: reduction projects, not by asking people to wear a wooly

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Speaker 1: its supposedly a trade or at Citybank London with a

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Speaker 1: fat finger, you know, crushed the equity markets in Europe.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's how quickly and how fast money moved

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Speaker 1: now because of the electronic trading systems and Vince. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: it was last week or the week before, rising to

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Speaker 1: its highest level since. Wrapped that into all of the

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Speaker 1: high profile warnings we've gotten about a recession coming in

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Speaker 1: the next I don't know, year to two years. What

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Speaker 1: would that mean for the dollar If there is a

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Speaker 1: recession state side, well, one of the one of the issues,

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Speaker 1: and it's not just for the dollar, it's going to

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Speaker 1: be for the a lot of the world especially. I

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Speaker 1: think this is going to impact emerging market currencies even

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Speaker 1: more than the dollars. If you have that situation where

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Speaker 1: the moment, and you have recessions, It's not going to

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Speaker 1: be just the US. It's going to be a global

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Speaker 1: recession and then you have this sort of stay inflation

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Speaker 1: feel two global markets. Um, in the past when that happened,

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Speaker 1: UK in the seventies. The dollar was under a great

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Speaker 1: deal of pressure because of that situation. If it if

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Speaker 1: it's a if it's a regional thing, which is just

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Speaker 1: really in the US, then that's what would happen. A

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Speaker 1: dollar would roll over. But I'm guessing that this is

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Speaker 1: going to be more of a global event, and so

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Speaker 1: the currencies that are going to suffer the most are

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Speaker 1: going to be the exporter of currencies and the emergy

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Speaker 1: market currencies. So the US once again is going to

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Speaker 1: be the cleanest dirty shirt pretty much. Yeah, it's the

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's one of those things where you just,

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Speaker 1: you know, when people say what people have been buying

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Speaker 1: stocks for the last fifteen years and saying where else

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Speaker 1: you're gonna go in the currency market, That's that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the situation. Unless some one area steps up, uh,

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Speaker 1: and it could be China if they turn things around. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's really no other place to hide. Vince, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. Vince Signarella. There is the global

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