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Speaker 2: with the promise of fiscal stimulus out of China, equities

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Speaker 2: running worldwide ahead of jobless claims in the US, and

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Speaker 2: comments from Chairman pell Evan Brown of UBS saying recession

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Speaker 2: risk needs to be further priced out. Investors poured money

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Speaker 2: into defensive trades over the last couple of months, but

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Speaker 2: resilient US economic data and a proactive FED have meaningfully

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Speaker 2: reduced the left tail. We look for treasury yields to

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Speaker 2: continue bouncing from here and cyclical sectors to help perform defensives.

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Speaker 2: Evans with us and more. Evan, good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Before we get to the market. Coch let's start with

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Speaker 2: the Cole on the economy. How'm encouraged on you by

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Speaker 2: what you saw from the Fed last week and what

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Speaker 2: you're saying from China this week.

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Speaker 3: Very encouraged. I mean, look, when you have a meaningful

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Speaker 3: change in messaging from to the most important economic actors

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Speaker 3: guess President she and the broader Paul Bureau, it pays

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Speaker 3: to listen. And what we saw from Powell was a

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Speaker 3: message of labor markets fine, we're going to keep it there.

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Speaker 3: We are going to keep it there, and so I

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Speaker 3: think the bar is very low for them to keep

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Speaker 3: doing fifties. You know, ultimately inflation has come down quite

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Speaker 3: a bit and that enables them to act more aggressively.

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Speaker 2: This is something Deutsche Bank said as well. You suggested

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Speaker 2: the next hundred basis points one hundred and fifty basis

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's an easy decision. I just

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Speaker 3: think that the the next well, yeah, look, I think

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Speaker 3: we're going to get. The more aggressive that they are

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Speaker 3: right now, the less I think they have to do later. Ultimately,

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Speaker 3: you're as you're saying, we're bringing down recession risks because

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Speaker 3: they're acting sooner or more aggressively at this point.

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Speaker 4: At a certain point, you have to wonder how much

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Speaker 4: does this leave inflation as a bigger concern, even if

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Speaker 4: recession is less of a concern. We were talking about that.

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Speaker 4: With longer term yields picking up just a touch, you

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Speaker 4: have to imagine, are we truly seeing just a return

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Speaker 4: a new inflationary environment where officials aren't willing to allow

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Speaker 4: the economy to collapse enough to create that disinflation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're a long way from inflation becoming

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Speaker 3: a meaningful concern again. I think, you know, we were

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Speaker 3: headline level, but ripples through into core inflation. The labor

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Speaker 3: the road. But I think that's kind of tomorrow's story

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Speaker 4: The story that you're painting makes me think the US

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Speaker 4: more exceptional, especially on the valuations that they're currently trading at.

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Speaker 4: Is that how you're looking at it.

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Speaker 3: I think the US is still exceptional in one clear way,

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Speaker 3: which is that we have a great productivity story here.

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Speaker 3: We have seen productivity pick up in the US. Yes,

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Speaker 3: You're still seeing ongoing supply chain issues, corporate margin issues

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Speaker 3: And so the US is still quite exceptional on that front.

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Speaker 3: When we talked about the equity markets, though, of course

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Speaker 5: You also like China, especially versus Europe. But how much

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Speaker 5: is the European story dependent on what happens next in China,

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Speaker 5: and if what's happening with fiscal and monetary stimulus actually works.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, look what happens in China, there's going

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Speaker 3: I still think Europe faces a number of domestic challenges.

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Speaker 3: You know, you still have stubborn wages, you still have

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Speaker 2: Let me jump in as an investor looking at Europe.

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Speaker 2: How do he react when the German finance ministry sounds

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Speaker 2: almost unsets with my stock coming gown? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: that's what it's not telling you about the situation in Europe,

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Speaker 2: because that's ultimately what's happened in the last two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Look I think that's that's, you know, the underlying Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Europe back. Now, I don't think I'm saying anything that's

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Speaker 3: not already reflected in European equities. They're very cheap, and

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Speaker 3: then they can receive some bounce from this China improvement

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Speaker 3: so that that helps. But structurally, it's hard to make

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Speaker 2: US VMH Right now, you mentioned luxury, a VMHIF in

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Speaker 2: So we're seeing that running and luxuries you might expect

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Speaker 2: so equities, commodities, for in exchange. Out of those three,

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Speaker 3: So I think what we'll see more most in most

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Speaker 2: What does it leave you, given that that run up

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Speaker 3: The trickiest one because of that AI. I mean, in itself,

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Speaker 3: utilities look extremely overbought. We've seen tons of ETF flows

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Speaker 4: Just listening to you, it seems like overweight small caps,

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Speaker 4: bonds and have a high holiday. Is that basically your view? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think so. I mean it's kind of like refle

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Speaker 3: It's it's like a reflation with without the refle without

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Speaker 3: the inflation. It's kind of how I'm thinking about it,

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Speaker 3: and that like this pricing out of recession, right, but

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Speaker 3: hopefully that you know, the Middle East doesn't doesn't escalate

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Speaker 3: supply reasons, you know, that's another very stimulative thing for

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Speaker 3: this this kind of uh, you know, stimulus from China,

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Speaker 3: setting up for just this better economic picture than people

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Speaker 3: thought going into your end and next year.

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Speaker 2: Always enjoy your work. Just fantastic catchup. It's been too

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Speaker 2: long as well. Come back soon, Evan Brown, if you best.

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Speaker 2: That's not with equities Equiti jump across the board still

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Speaker 2: that most sticks. I could examp on the S and

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Speaker 2: by one point five. Let's flip up the board. Switch

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Speaker 2: on the board, turn the page. You get to the

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Speaker 2: bond market story. The two year yield was lower, the

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Speaker 2: a little bit higher. So that's the change off the

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Speaker 2: through foreign exchange dollar a little bit stronger. You're a

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Speaker 2: what we're looking at for next month payrolls. Is it

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Speaker 2: really going to slow down anytime soon? Given what we've

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Speaker 4: If jobless claims are the best high frequency indicator, the

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Speaker 4: answer would be no. At the same time, people have

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Speaker 4: pointed to the fact that you're not seeing jobs getting created.

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Speaker 4: It's not just maybe people getting fired, but that people

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Speaker 4: some of the sentiment surveys. However, there is a discrepancy

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Speaker 4: between the bearishness and the fears versus what we're seeing

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Speaker 2: I just love your thoughts on jobless claims at two eighteen.

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Speaker 2: It just screams, there's nothing to see here. Everything it's okay,

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Speaker 2: it's everything okay. Well, you know, so.

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Speaker 6: You talk about payrolls coming out right, and so payrolls

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Speaker 6: is a net number, it's you know, it's two gross

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Speaker 6: numbers or what we're getting today. An initial job was

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Speaker 6: claims is people who are losing jobs. What Lisa was

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Speaker 6: just talking about is creating jobs. And so when you

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Speaker 6: look at the economy, we're not creating a lot of jobs.

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Speaker 6: We're not losing a lot of jobs either, and so

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Speaker 6: when you get that net number out next week, you know,

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Speaker 6: we're one thirty five. So there has been a slow

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Speaker 6: just not going to have as much income growth going

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Speaker 6: forward as well.

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Speaker 2: Is it inevitable that lay offs the next I.

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Speaker 6: Don't think it's necessarily inevitable because if you look at

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Speaker 6: the financial health of most businesses today, that's actually pretty good.

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Speaker 6: You know, their balance sheets are pretty strong, the debt

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Speaker 6: service ratios for most companies are very very strong as well,

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Speaker 6: and so they don't necessarily need to lay people off

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Speaker 6: at this point. But you know, if monetary policy remains

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Speaker 6: and that eventually puts actually could lead to those jobless

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Speaker 4: Do you get the sense that this market is too

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Speaker 4: complacent about the sort of soft landing nirvana as we've

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Speaker 4: bit overly complacent about the inflation side of the equation.

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Speaker 6: I think there's a very good, very good case for that,

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Speaker 5: Well reaverse that because of policy out of Washington in

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Speaker 5: But I guess what about reacceleration of inflation if it

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Speaker 2: Let's get to counsel matter of jp MOLK and asset

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Speaker 5: Well, there's there's two things to consider.

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Speaker 2: Just to back up, was that Kevina Walla that might

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Speaker 4: One of the most controversial aspects of your whole case

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Speaker 4: Picture, there's a real question about if you're more bought

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Speaker 1: So I think there's a couple reasons. First of all,

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Speaker 5: And to balance those things.

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Speaker 2: I think you need both a.

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Speaker 1: Combination of duration and high quality, but also some carry

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Speaker 2: Moment, Cassie, we've got to leave it that so it's

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