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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg P and L Podcast. I'm PIM Fox.

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Speaker 1: SoundCloud and at Bloomberg dot com. All, let's gonna check

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Speaker 1: on what's going on in the world of retail. Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess we shouldn't even call it necessarily just retail

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Speaker 1: because Sears Holdings has become more than just a retail story.

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Speaker 1: It is a finance story in a big way. In

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Speaker 1: here to tell us More's Bert Flickinger, Managing director Strategic Resource,

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Speaker 1: a group. He can be followed on Twitter at Bert

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Speaker 1: Underscore Flickinger. Alright, Bert Underscore Flickinger Underscore what's going on

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Speaker 1: for us at Sears Holdings Because they just got a

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Speaker 1: loan but a credit facility, but they're also closing stores.

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Speaker 1: They're closing stores, and the worry, PIM UH to your

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Speaker 1: good insight is same store sales or in a free fall,

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Speaker 1: declining anywhere from UH seven to ten percent on an

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Speaker 1: annualized basis and Typically when someone another department store chain,

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Speaker 1: for example Macy's closes stores, uh Macy's same store sales

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Speaker 1: will increase in the surviving stores or the remaining stores.

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Speaker 1: That's that's not the case with Sears, and it's f

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Speaker 1: D Reports and Credit and tell of have reported very

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Speaker 1: well for a long time on Sears holdings came out

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Speaker 1: of a number of others. It's it's the ones that

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Speaker 1: can't rebalance themselves beyond the assets. The other thing FD

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Speaker 1: Credit and tel reported those the average Sears um lease

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Speaker 1: pays out at about five dollars and fifty cents of

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Speaker 1: square foot, and on the open market it's probably worth something.

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Speaker 1: We're closer to seventeen to twenty dollars of square foot. So,

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Speaker 1: like you said, okay, so sevent square foot versus five

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Speaker 1: the math. We could definitely do the math. And we're

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Speaker 1: taking the math that Cheektawaga, New York, former home of

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Speaker 1: border between the US and Canada, Sears is closing its

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Speaker 1: store in the GALERIUMI mall profitable store, very good customer

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Speaker 1: count but Sears can make millions assigning or flipping that

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Speaker 1: lease or selling it back to Galeria as supposed to

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Speaker 1: making a few hundred thousand years an operator of that store.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Sears gets to monetize its inventory

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Speaker 1: and invest in other more profitable activities rather than retailing.

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Speaker 1: Has Sears ever focused on online retailing in the way

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Speaker 1: that Walmart says they want to focus on online retailing.

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Speaker 1: That's the big opportunity that you're referencing as Sears is

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Speaker 1: their online but not near where they need to be.

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Speaker 1: And what we saw on our store checks across the

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Speaker 1: country from the Carolinas to California is Sears has tremendous

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Speaker 1: quality of pair, particularly in lands and so the UH finishings,

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Speaker 1: the fifth the fabric, the quality, the value, the color palette.

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Speaker 1: UH clearly eclipses Target, UM is on par with Coles

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Speaker 1: But Sears can't get the customer count in. So you

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Speaker 1: really have to go back and retail history. And we're

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Speaker 1: both retail historians. Is Arthur C. Martinez, CEO of Sacks,

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Speaker 1: go in with Peter Gerjeski of Young and Rubicam creates

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Speaker 1: softer side of Sears and get people coming in to

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Speaker 1: buy apparel. The margins are two to three times higher.

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Speaker 1: UH Sears wins financially. Metler and Martinez save Sears the

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Speaker 1: first time twenty years ago. Lambert to his credits, hired

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Speaker 1: a lot of good people. If you could get the

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Speaker 1: customers to give him one last chance, and with a

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollar secure letter of credit that can go

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Speaker 1: to UH two hundred million, that can go to three

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Speaker 1: Sears in twenty seventeen, but it's Larry served from F

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Speaker 1: it this time, they gotta start selling the catch registers

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Speaker 1: and cleaning out the cash drawers. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: through a couple of other retailers, because we don't. I

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Speaker 1: always want to get your expertise, Neiman Marcus Group burged

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Speaker 1: off Goodman, what's going on there? Uh pim the bonds

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Speaker 1: are really struggling. The same f D report Credit and

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Speaker 1: So while Sears is trading a triple C plus uh

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Speaker 1: Neiman Marcus Burg Doors trading at triple C. And with

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Speaker 1: Men's and Women's on uh fifth Avenue, so that that's

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Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Tell us about Jake Crew, Jay Crew,

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Speaker 1: uh fall Uh, It's it's gonna be tough. They went

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Speaker 1: years has probably got enamored with beach houses. The qualities

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Speaker 1: pellette of what's selling isn't always right in stock. But

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Speaker 1: retail uh and say same with Gena Lyons. So we're

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Speaker 1: So it really depends on the vendors there as well.

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Speaker 1: But nine nine percent of the vendors supported Sears. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: they'll support j Crew and niemen Bergdorf to the tell

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Speaker 1: me about what's going on with J C. Penny is

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Speaker 1: that to turnaround that's working. It's a turnaround that's working

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Speaker 1: because they threw out Bill Ackman and as proverbial carpet

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Speaker 1: sex along Steve said Off X CEO comes in, teams

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Speaker 1: up with Mike Aullman. They created dream team around Marvin

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Speaker 1: Ellison who got trained by one of the other seminal

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Speaker 1: geniuses of retail, Frank Blake, and Penny UH partnership with Sephora.

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Speaker 1: They've got five more stores to do for perspective. Sephora

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Speaker 1: on the Chansa Liz attracts as many visitors in Paris

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Speaker 1: is the Eiffel Tower and the Eiffel Tower as longer

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Speaker 1: hours co exclusive with with Disney, Penny dot COM's building

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Speaker 1: Penny Homes Building. So Penny is a big comeback as

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Speaker 1: his toys or us and both of them were left

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Speaker 1: for dead, both the bonds UH and the credit ratings

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Speaker 1: see those Rocky Bellboll type comeback stories. Marvin Ellison at

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Speaker 1: j C. Penny doing the job. Stock is up more

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Speaker 1: this year. Marvin Ellison's the Rocky Bellball of retail retail

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Speaker 1: uh or or the Bob townsendavas Uh we we try

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Speaker 1: harder and the win. I want that. Maybe, you know,

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Speaker 1: now at the Macy's because of course that is a

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Speaker 1: continuing story, Macy's continuing story UH closing hundred stores, the

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Speaker 1: Macy's International and Macy's Bloomingdale looks like it has high potential. UH.

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Speaker 1: Macy's has more fashion resources. Bloomingdale seems to be hitting

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Speaker 1: on all cylinders. Is we were going through North From stores,

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Speaker 1: they seemed to be having a struggle with their associate

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Speaker 1: dot Com, so the commission sales people got less money

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Speaker 1: they were interviewing at Bloomingdale's. We saw the same thing

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Speaker 1: So so it seems like Bloomingdale's and Macy's is recruiting

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Speaker 1: ultimately Macy's Bloomingdale's is the consolidator in the winter. All Right,

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Speaker 1: Well that's Terry Lundgren at Macy's that shares a Macy's

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Speaker 1: Karen Hoga. Very good leaders, quick ten seconds, Kate Spade,

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Speaker 1: love you. Thanks a lot. Managing Director, Strategic Resource Group,

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Speaker 1: talking about all things retail, Washington, d C. On January

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Speaker 1: the twenty one. Well, that will be a day after

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Speaker 1: the inauguration. What will the district leaders wake up to?

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Speaker 1: Here to tell us more is David Howell. He is

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Speaker 1: the executive vice president and chief information officer for mcinnerney Associates,

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Speaker 1: based of course in Washington, d C, which is home

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Speaker 1: to Bloomberg one and one oh five point seven h

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Speaker 1: D two. David Howell, thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You are a veteran of the real estate

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Speaker 1: industry in the district and in the region, and I

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Speaker 1: wonder if you could describe for people that are not

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Speaker 1: make about new administrations coming to Washington. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: there's a general um misperception that there's this avalanche of

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Speaker 1: new people that come to town that provide a huge

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Speaker 1: And that historically has not been the case. We don't

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Speaker 1: think it will be the case this time. Either. It

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Speaker 1: will be a boost, but it's not a it's not

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Speaker 1: numbers of people that will turn over in the new administration,

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Speaker 1: they're not necessarily going to have the money to buy

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Speaker 1: new homes. Absolutely. You know, there's roughly four thousand presidentially

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Speaker 1: twelve and eighteen months to fill all those positions. Our

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Speaker 1: experience shows, and even thus far with the new Trump administration,

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Speaker 1: roughly half the people that will fill those jobs already

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Speaker 1: live in the Washington area, and roughly half the ones

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Speaker 1: rent rather than buy. So every sale is a welcome one.

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Speaker 1: We we treasure every transaction, UM, but it's generally not

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Speaker 1: enough to move the needle in a major way. Fifty

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Speaker 1: eighty thousand, and then it swells well over a million

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Speaker 1: every day when commuters come in. Tell us some of

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Speaker 1: the areas of Washington, d C. That you see are

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Speaker 1: several years. UM. Why is that? UM? I think first

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Speaker 1: UM sort of reorienting themselves to be more attractive to businesses.

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Speaker 1: Are like most other major cities, UM, we have enormous

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Speaker 1: with UM and the district has just become a very

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Speaker 1: But you say that new construction is not keeping up

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Speaker 1: with household formation. Why not? Well, first of all, we've

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Speaker 1: got a lack of land UM. Like again most of

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Speaker 1: places to build UM, and it's it's a challenge to

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Speaker 1: we read, UM, there's roughly a shortfall of fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: household units UM to keep up with household formation over

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Speaker 1: the next five years. So that contributes done ongoing shortage

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Speaker 1: transport and the rehabilitation of public transport in the district. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's hugely important in our metropolitan area UM, and

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Speaker 1: system has had some challenges of late, being diplomatic, which

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Speaker 1: is appropriate for being in Washington. UM. We've and so

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Speaker 1: Metro has kind of got to get get its act together. UM.

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Speaker 1: But frankly, I think one of the interesting things we've

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Speaker 1: Burton Cathy. What to do with your money in ten

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Speaker 1: back on some of the staple stocks, no question, I

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Speaker 1: capital mobility for tech companies as well with VISA threat

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Speaker 1: becoming the pro economy president, he realizes that tech has

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Speaker 1: to be a sidecard to that propulsion. All right, So

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Speaker 1: if you are unbalanced in your asset allocation, take a

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Speaker 1: look at what you take a look at technology, take

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Speaker 1: a look at at healthcare and also biotechnology. I would

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Speaker 1: to producing drugs, purchasing drugs, in consuming drugs, that that

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Speaker 1: that vertical has been under assault, whether it starts with

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Speaker 1: the in the in the process of PBM really fits

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Speaker 1: they have an optim unit that accounts for about of

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Speaker 1: their profits and that is basically a technology business and

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Speaker 1: it has a pharmacy benefit management UH division within that.

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Speaker 1: How many about bonds? If you have gains in bonds,

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Speaker 1: very strong bond portfolio, given the pullback in bond prices

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Speaker 1: we think there's a lot of opportunity in the fixed

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Speaker 1: back very similarly to what took place during the tape

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Speaker 1: Re tangion to two thousand thirteen. But it has provided

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Speaker 1: still think that again, given that there's been some enthusiasm

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Speaker 1: has been equal in offsetting with the drugging that's taken

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Speaker 1: place in some of these bond sectors. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: and fixed income, particularly in tax exempts or tax exmps,

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Speaker 1: have have kind of been a double whammy insomuch as

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Speaker 1: people say, Okay, rates are going up, so we gotta

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Speaker 1: get out of our current bonds as well as any

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Speaker 1: bonds surrogates and taxes are going lower, so the benefit

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Speaker 1: tangibly or quantitatively of that exemption is going to fall.

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Speaker 1: So if you see that back up multiplied in the

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Speaker 1: muni space, we still think that it's there's some very

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Speaker 1: good value in there. Thanks very much. Doug Sioca is

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Speaker 1: the chief executive and partner at cav Our Capital Partners.

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