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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl podcast on Paul Swing You.

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Let's talk about the effect of

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Speaker 1: the ongoing trade war between the US and China on

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Speaker 1: medals that are used in for industrial purposes, in particular Steele.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now from Bangkok is Gordon Johnson, managing director

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Speaker 1: at Vertical Group, who is in Bangkok to present at

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Speaker 1: a conference, but it is taking time out to join

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Speaker 1: us today. Thank you so much Gordon for being with us.

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Speaker 1: I want us talk about steel because it is used

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Speaker 1: in so much construction, and that is some areas that

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Speaker 1: would take a hit potentially, especially in China given the

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Speaker 1: slowdown there and in light of the trade war. So

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Speaker 1: what do you see there? We're seeing about a five

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Speaker 1: percent to client so far you're to date in steel.

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Speaker 1: How much further do have? Yes, so we think there's

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Speaker 1: significant downside for still prices. And if you look at

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Speaker 1: just the data points, if you look at the major

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Speaker 1: economies and specifically p m I, sixty seven of the

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Speaker 1: major economy p m I s are in contraction right now,

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Speaker 1: and specifically with China. And the reason why China is

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Speaker 1: so important. They consume fifty of the world still, so

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Speaker 1: as goes China, as goes global still prices. And if

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Speaker 1: you look at the tax and p m I, the

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Speaker 1: m I, all of them are in contraction right now.

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Speaker 1: And that's despite stimulus efforts, significant stimulus efforts from China recently.

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Speaker 1: It's not working anymore. And the reason is because the

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Speaker 1: debt service is so high, so they have to stimulate

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Speaker 1: even more just to run. You know, they basically keep

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Speaker 1: running on the same treadmill. So the last thing we'd

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Speaker 1: say is um. You know, China is clearly devaluing their currency,

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Speaker 1: so that means they're going to export their devaluation or

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Speaker 1: depreciation to the rest of the world. And keep in

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Speaker 1: mind remember in two thousand fifteen, in the first quarter

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Speaker 1: commodity scare where you had still prices really collapsed down

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Speaker 1: to the three hundred and sixty four dollar per short

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Speaker 1: ton level, and we think we're headed back to those levels.

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Speaker 1: Not there yet, So Gordon Barish on the demand side

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Speaker 1: of the equation, talk to us about the supply side

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Speaker 1: of steel globally. Yeah, so that's a great question. So

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Speaker 1: with Trump's tariffs, we saw a unprecedented spike and still

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Speaker 1: up to nine, you know, just under nine hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: per short ton um. And on that increase in prices,

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Speaker 1: a lot of US still mills decided they were going

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Speaker 1: to announce capacity additions. So you have all these capacity

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Speaker 1: to driver of demand for still which is suffering. The

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Speaker 1: problem is U S still can't implement a trade case

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Speaker 1: do other than capacity, and you're seeing that from some

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Speaker 1: big problems ahead. Look, it's it's really driven by China

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Speaker 1: because China drives us still prices, um, but you also

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Speaker 1: capacity that's being added that you know, these guys can't

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Speaker 1: issue trade cases against each other, so it's kind of

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Speaker 1: backfired in a way, if you will. So what does

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Speaker 1: this mean for the investment case? I mean in terms

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Speaker 1: of how do you position around this? Right? So we

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Speaker 1: we think that um, you know, there's gonna be further downside,

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Speaker 1: uh for a lot of stocks. Think about this right

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Speaker 1: that we were presenting. We were doing two presentations at

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Speaker 1: this conference. If you look at from the early eighties

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Speaker 1: The point is what happened in two thousand four is

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Speaker 1: we think iron old prices probably dropped back down to

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Speaker 1: we think you're also gonna have still prices revert back

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Speaker 1: is to be short in general still in iron ore stocks.

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting, Gordon, as I look at the on

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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg terminal, the A n R function for your coverage,

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Speaker 1: I think I understand the bear case that you're suggesting here.

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Speaker 1: Been pretty consistent. Why the bion United States steal? What's

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Speaker 1: different about those guys? Well, we had to we we

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Speaker 1: have a bio in United States still because um, you

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Speaker 1: know about a month ago. UM. You know, we thought

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Speaker 1: that the cut and capacity from US STILL as well

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Speaker 1: But you know, since we've made that call, you had

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Speaker 1: that kind of short term positivity UM, and now you're

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Speaker 1: seeing the negative negativity feed back in so UM still

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Speaker 1: starting to outweigh UM. You know, those those those capacity cuts.

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Speaker 1: So how much is your sort of base case disrupted

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Speaker 1: clearly be a knee jerk effect UM if there's a

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Speaker 1: we think this is structural. Uh. The real issue here

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Speaker 1: We think the real issue here is special typically China. UM.

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Speaker 1: UM in two thousand, fourteen and fifteen, that ratio declined

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Speaker 1: prices um is the name of the game. Gordon Johnson,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Gordon Johnson's managing director at Vertigo

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Speaker 1: Group talking to us about to steal business. Calling in

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Speaker 1: from Bangkokery's attending a graphite electrode conference. That sounds interesting.

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Speaker 1: I guess if you're into that whole metals thing, the

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Speaker 1: yield curve is inverted. We continue to have uncertainty persisting

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Speaker 1: the offering for the US economy. To answer that question,

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Speaker 1: we welcome our good friend Jim Paulson, Chief Investment Strategies

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Speaker 1: from the Lootole Group. Lootole Group has about one point

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Speaker 1: two billion dollars under management, based in Minneapolis. Jim, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. So let's start off right

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Speaker 1: away with your thoughts about what seems to be some

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Speaker 1: if we are headed eminently for recession, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: you know, the two events, I think we make far

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Speaker 1: too much of the trade um issue. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a mild negative for the United States recovery, not a

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Speaker 1: not a recovery killer UM. And the yield curve UH

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Speaker 1: concerns me much more. I think that the signal that's

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Speaker 1: if I go away from that, what I think doesn't

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Speaker 1: So we're getting three gun goose er here of stimulus

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't get much uh much weight in people's outlooks. Normally,

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Speaker 1: I still am I still at least I paul I,

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Speaker 1: I believe that, uh, you know, we've we've done a

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Speaker 1: welcome Alberto Gallo, partner and portfolio manager for the Algebras

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Speaker 1: giving us some thoughts on uh this peloton. I p oh,

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