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Speaker 1: someone that's going to make a smarter about the US
Speaker 1: economy is Elena Shueteva, senior US economist to for Bloomberg Intelligence.
Speaker 1: And well, okay, you can. It's always great to have you, Elena.
Speaker 1: You know you're you're a little self deprecating yours. Yes,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about what it sounds like. You're not leaving,
Speaker 1: are you alright? Because all right, tell me what happened.
Speaker 1: GDP two point nine print estimate was for two point
Speaker 1: five big deal. Oh, these numbers are very encouraging in
Speaker 1: a sense that they do a highlight that growth has
Speaker 1: rebounded in the second half of the year. So in
Speaker 1: that respect, it's it's very positive, but as always, you
Speaker 1: need to look at the details, and the details to
Speaker 1: us seem to be a little bit less encouraging. Although, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the bottom line from the report, let me
Speaker 1: just say that is that will provide comfort for the
Speaker 1: FIT to raise rates in December, but the underlying details
Speaker 1: might not necessarily mean that they will continue at a
Speaker 1: very rapid pace in the next year, So they might
Speaker 1: have to continue only on a gradual pace next year.
Speaker 1: The channet yell and send you an email. I mean
Speaker 1: that sounds earlier this year, right, we were talking about December. Correct, Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's take into some of those details that are
Speaker 1: giving people comfort that the federal move for not too quickly.
Speaker 1: What are you looking at? So the details of the
Speaker 1: reports showed considerable deceleration in consumer spending, which could be discouraging,
Speaker 1: could be encouraging. So it is discouraging because this is
Speaker 1: the biggest part of the economy and that is slowing
Speaker 1: down considerably. On the other hand, that means less dependence
Speaker 1: on consumer spending alone and some acceleration in other sectors
Speaker 1: of the economy. So diversification is always good, right. So
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, if you look at the details,
Speaker 1: for example, you see that the inventories at its sixty
Speaker 1: one basis points to growth in the third quarter, and
Speaker 1: the net exports at it eighties three basis points, so
Speaker 1: together they account for half of that growth rate that
Speaker 1: we saw in the third quarter. But it's not good.
Speaker 1: Don't we want to be exporting more? And don't we
Speaker 1: want to These numbers could be very volatile, and uh,
Speaker 1: you really need to see several quarters of growth to
Speaker 1: UM actually to see this is a sustainable kind of
Speaker 1: growth in these sectors. Exports net exports could be distorted
Speaker 1: by the engine UM shipping company bankruptcy, so that could
Speaker 1: be something going on there and it might not be sustainable.
Speaker 1: Inventories is another wild card. We were talking about considerable
Speaker 1: pickup in stockpiles and uh, you know this seems to
Speaker 1: be UM not happening that inventories are going to contribute
Speaker 1: uh quite a lot going forward, so to me it
Speaker 1: seems unsustainable. So but overall for the year as a whole,
Speaker 1: h GDP needs to grow only by one point nine
Speaker 1: percent in the fourth quarter to reach the fat target
Speaker 1: of one eight percent for for the years a whole,
Speaker 1: So that seems to be attainable. Helena. We got new
Speaker 1: home sales this week, we got durable goods orders, jobless claims, now,
Speaker 1: we got the g DP print is this up or
Speaker 1: down week for the for the land of the economy.
Speaker 1: So let me think it's always a always a mix.
Speaker 1: We can say that everything's going along, everything is going
Speaker 1: on chug chugging along just fine. And next week we're
Speaker 1: going to get the payrolls report correct on Friday. Yes,
Speaker 1: a big deal, not a big deal. But we care
Speaker 1: as long as the paces within the kind of the
Speaker 1: same kind of range, it doesn't need to accelerate from here,
Speaker 1: that's going to be fine. You know one fifty is
Speaker 1: still fine. And you think that the market has already
Speaker 1: baked in twenty five basis points that bonds, for example,
Speaker 1: I was surprised. I was talking with Lisa earlier today
Speaker 1: when we got the two point nine g d P report.
Speaker 1: I was surprised that the bond market did not sell off.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the same thing on the desk
Speaker 1: actually earlier this morning. Um, well, as long as the
Speaker 1: probability on the weird right uh days above. Yes, but
Speaker 1: I do think, I mean, we got the University of
Speaker 1: Michigan survey of consumer confidence in this inflation expectation again
Speaker 1: we're back at that new low. Yes, but I tend
Speaker 1: to be very skeptical of the survey data ahead of
Speaker 1: the election. Okay, so any survey data ahead of the election,
Speaker 1: you might want to wait until sentiment could be very
Speaker 1: much distorted. Listen to the rhetoric that we're hearing Pale exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's it's really like it happened before, Like the
Speaker 1: Michigan survey was distorted during the dead ceiling crisis back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eleven, and so what nothing happened
Speaker 1: to consumer spending, So you have to be very careful
Speaker 1: with sentiment numbers, both consumer and company sentiment. Elena Shugliatieva,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with a senior US
Speaker 1: economist for Bloomberg Intelligence breaking down at the GDP report
Speaker 1: and why the bond market just doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: responding right now A tenure U S Treasury is pretty
Speaker 1: much flat at one point eight five percent. This all right,
Speaker 1: let's solve the quandary of oil and the price of oil.
Speaker 1: Joining us is our expert, yes, Vincent Piazza. He is
Speaker 1: the senior US oil and Gas analyst four Bloomberg Intelligence.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to see you. Thank you. I was
Speaker 1: looking at X on today stock is down more than
Speaker 1: one percent. I was looking at Chevron stock is up
Speaker 1: more than three percent. What's going on between these two companies. So,
Speaker 1: I think the broad narrative today is that output growth
Speaker 1: continues to be a challenge for both UM and today
Speaker 1: it seems output growth is more of a challenge for
Speaker 1: x On relative to Chevron. With the broader takeaway, the
Speaker 1: broader narrative is output growth continues to be a challenge.
Speaker 1: The cap X decline with the spending decline that we've
Speaker 1: seen since the price decline from a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: is impacting the ability for resource capture. So lower output, Yes,
Speaker 1: spending is down, but the the ability to book the
Speaker 1: resource UH is challenging as well. The tailwind that refining
Speaker 1: was during the price decline has now become a headwind.
Speaker 1: So the outsized gains, the over earning from the refining business,
Speaker 1: the downstream business, the chemical business now becomes more of
Speaker 1: a tail wind for both entities. Now, Exxon did say
Speaker 1: that because of these lower prices UH, it may have
Speaker 1: to take a look at impairing some of these reserves
Speaker 1: in North America to the tune of roughly eighteen or
Speaker 1: t UM and that is a headwind for them. For Chevron,
Speaker 1: UM sentiment coming into the quarter was somewhat murky. Uh.
Speaker 1: They came out with a modest uh level of output
Speaker 1: UM year over year, and they did provide guidance for
Speaker 1: December output. So for four Q output slightly higher relative
Speaker 1: to three Q UH so UM modestly more positive for Chevron,
Speaker 1: less less so for Exxon. But remember what these businesses are, right,
Speaker 1: they are integrated networks. Uh So they are more defensive.
Speaker 1: They are lower beta equities because of this, less volatile
Speaker 1: earnings and cash flow stream. So during a price recovery,
Speaker 1: you want leverage to the upstream, the more direct exposure
Speaker 1: to the price recovery, and not these integrated platforms where
Speaker 1: they're downstream the chemicals and refining business tends to offset
Speaker 1: any benefit from a higher price in the upstream piece.
Speaker 1: So I want to go back to Chevron. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've posted their first profit in a year and seem
Speaker 1: to be more upbeat, and their shares are up almost
Speaker 1: first is fourteen percent less than that thirteen percent gain
Speaker 1: year to date for Exxon. What's Chevron doing to gain
Speaker 1: investors confidence more than at least Exon. Well, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's relative sentiment as well, right, So coming into
Speaker 1: the year better sentiment for Exxon relative to Chevron, and
Speaker 1: Chevron is outperforming that lower sentiment, right, so under promise
Speaker 1: over deliver in a sense. And for Chevron this quarter
Speaker 1: you had some issues with uh some downtime and Nigeria unrest,
Speaker 1: so that hurt volume as well. UM. For Exxon, the
Speaker 1: one uh, the one item this quarter that probably has
Speaker 1: longer near term effects is this issue of the reserve bookings,
Speaker 1: any potential impairments um come the close of the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: So taking a bigger step back, X and Chevron, they
Speaker 1: both delivered their earnings. Uh. Do they give a better
Speaker 1: sense of what they expect as far as oil prices
Speaker 1: in the year ahead. Well, I think everyone else. Uh,
Speaker 1: they are perplexed. It's it's a challenging environment out there. Uh.
Speaker 1: The the potential OPEC cuts UM also may impact them
Speaker 1: because they are partners as well, and how much of
Speaker 1: that cut they would have to take on is uncertain. Uh.
Speaker 1: Exxon said that on their call today. So, UM, there
Speaker 1: is as much uncertainty UM that they see as the
Speaker 1: the the upstream player here in the US. UM. And
Speaker 1: so we are in the midst of a younger recovery UM,
Speaker 1: there are still challenges ahead. UM. We're probably oversupplied by
Speaker 1: roughly a million barrels. UM. We need to see that
Speaker 1: sustainable demand growth to sort of truncate those imbalances, but
Speaker 1: that remains to be seen. OPEC. We need to get
Speaker 1: some clarity as to what type of agreement there really is.
Speaker 1: If there is an agreement, UM, and that will give
Speaker 1: us some additional clarity, but that remains a very big
Speaker 1: unknown and that will be the driver, uh for that
Speaker 1: will forge any type of price recovery from from the
Speaker 1: From this point, Vincent Piazza, you are not only just
Speaker 1: an expert in terms of the macro oil stuff, but
Speaker 1: in terms of balance sheet and understanding how companies work.
Speaker 1: Can we just talk for about about a moment of
Speaker 1: free cash flow from these because these are dividend pairs right,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, And you know we've been through this with BP,
Speaker 1: with that terrible thing in the Gulf of Mexico, the
Speaker 1: a condo. Well, I mean, when you monkey with the
Speaker 1: what you changed rather the dividend, right, that's going to
Speaker 1: change your investor base, right, And that's a very good point.
Speaker 1: We're talking about shareholder engagement, So shareholder engaged engagement is
Speaker 1: through the dividend and is also through shrry purchases. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you fund those sherry purchases and that dividend through
Speaker 1: your free cash flow, and it sometimes you borrow forward
Speaker 1: as well. Now, the dividend yield for Chevron and Exxon
Speaker 1: is three and four percent. The average dividend yield for
Speaker 1: an SMP company is around somewhere around two percent. You're
Speaker 1: owning it for that capital repatriation um and for EXCEN
Speaker 1: they'll throw off somewhere around four or five billion or
Speaker 1: free cash flow this year um. Chevron will still be
Speaker 1: in a negative cash flow, so they're still they are
Speaker 1: borrowing to pay that dividend UM. But in general that
Speaker 1: remains the key that shareholder engagement because these are lower beta,
Speaker 1: less volatile investments relative to the capital appreciation you would
Speaker 1: see from an upstream player. So real quick, I want
Speaker 1: to go back to the idea that XN may have
Speaker 1: to write its reserves off by why haven't they done
Speaker 1: so yet? Well, you do that throughout the you do
Speaker 1: that from year to year. Once you once you have
Speaker 1: a full twelve year period and you're able to take
Speaker 1: the average of those individual twelve months to make that
Speaker 1: final cut off for the for the for for that
Speaker 1: fiscal year period. So in other words, there could be
Speaker 1: a lot of realized losses across the industry. Well, we've
Speaker 1: seen this last year as well for the upstream players. UM,
Speaker 1: So this is not a new phenomenon. I think it's
Speaker 1: the size that has some UM concerned. UM and it
Speaker 1: probably has led to some of the under underperformance relative
Speaker 1: to Chevron today. Thank you so much. Got it? Vincive Piazza,
Speaker 1: senior US oil and Gas analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, breaking
Speaker 1: down the tail of two oil companies of Exxon which
Speaker 1: is losing value of versus Chevron, which is gaining an
Speaker 1: oil certainly being one of the driving factors pim behind
Speaker 1: expectations of inflation going forward, oil sort of hovering around
Speaker 1: forty nine dollars a barrel, still in that fifty two
Speaker 1: dollar barrel range. I don't know what it will take
Speaker 1: for us to break out of this. Perhaps Vincent Piazza
Speaker 1: knows in his his seat, uh, And Lisa bramwoits, I'm
Speaker 1: here with pim Fox. This is Bloomberg. I would like
Speaker 1: to learn more about what to do with money, particularly
Speaker 1: seventy two billion dollars which is how much will Being
Speaker 1: can Trust overseas. And Tony Roth, chi's chief chief investment
Speaker 1: officer at Willman can Trust, is responsible with coming up
Speaker 1: with a strategy. So Tony, I want to start with cash.
Speaker 1: We're hearing a lot about people who are hoarding larger
Speaker 1: stockpiles of cash to capitalize on the market. What it
Speaker 1: turns is that what you're doing now, we we think
Speaker 1: that the market is already turning. Lisa, by the way,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me today to you, and Tim Um
Speaker 1: it's great to speak with you. We think the market
Speaker 1: is actually already in the process of turning, and we
Speaker 1: think that that cash is better put to work today
Speaker 1: unless it's earmark for very short term purposes. We can
Speaker 1: see that, UM, when we look at the global economy,
Speaker 1: looking at oil stability, inflation, stronger dollar change, in the
Speaker 1: commodity supercycle. UM, there's a lot of opportunity in the
Speaker 1: market right now. We're preconstructive, so we'd rather see that
Speaker 1: cash put to work. Where are you putting it to
Speaker 1: work right now? Well, we like emerging markets, UM. So
Speaker 1: I mentioned the commodity supercycle, and if you look at
Speaker 1: UM measures like the CRB raw industrials and decks, for example,
Speaker 1: which moves very closely with the emerging markets UM. It's
Speaker 1: been moving upwards UM since about February, and we think
Speaker 1: the merging markets are going to continue to see UM
Speaker 1: an upward trend. UM credit and equity. Credit and equity
Speaker 1: are just uh, how how exactly you're going about that? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: credit and equity. So UM China for example, has been
Speaker 1: a real underperformer. And when you think about the two
Speaker 1: draw downs that we had in the market over the
Speaker 1: last fifteen months, UM August and then uh January February
Speaker 1: this year, right, really triggered by China. And we think
Speaker 1: that China has really gotten ahead of its problems in
Speaker 1: terms of the credit bubble and in terms of its
Speaker 1: management of its currency. So there's a good opportunity I
Speaker 1: think in the Chinese equity market right now, UM and
Speaker 1: more broadly UM Partuity believe with respect of the consumed
Speaker 1: commodity consumers which haven't had as big a rally as
Speaker 1: the commodity producers like Russia and Brazil, etcetera. Tony, I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if you feel that it's a small contradiction that
Speaker 1: Chinese companies are venturing outside of China to acquire assets.
Speaker 1: They seem to want to buy almost everything that is
Speaker 1: not nailed down. And particularly you had the purchase I
Speaker 1: believe of insurance the Waldorf Historic Hotel group, and then
Speaker 1: most recently you've had you know, Chinese investment in the
Speaker 1: United States in a variety of industries, had the Genworth
Speaker 1: Financial deal this week. Absolutely listen to. China has a
Speaker 1: lot of capital, So why would that be wanting to
Speaker 1: go out of the country if it's such a good
Speaker 1: deal to have it in the country. Well, one of
Speaker 1: the things to remembers that the Chinese currency is clearly
Speaker 1: on a trajectory of appreciation. So if you're a Chinese company, right,
Speaker 1: and you can't a choir skills and capabilities UM that
Speaker 1: you can mirror inside China by buying foreign companies UM,
Speaker 1: and you can head your currency exposure and diversify your
Speaker 1: revenue streams. That can make a lot of sense from
Speaker 1: the perspective of the US based investor that's looking for appreciation. Certainly,
Speaker 1: UM to the extent we have the ability to hedge
Speaker 1: currency exposure in China, UM, it's probably how we would
Speaker 1: invest in today's market. Going back to the idea of
Speaker 1: energy prices, and where they are currently. KKR Credit Co
Speaker 1: had nat Zeka spoke with Bloomberg's Eric Shasker yesterday and
Speaker 1: basically said that KKR is selling a lot of its
Speaker 1: distressed debt holdings and a lot of its energy related
Speaker 1: holding salk in gains so far. Why are they wrong? Well,
Speaker 1: if we look at what's happening, the US is now
Speaker 1: the spling energy producer in the world, right, So number one,
Speaker 1: we see a trajectory where we're still um dropping in
Speaker 1: terms of US production. So production is down about eleven
Speaker 1: and a half percent from the peak, and while we've
Speaker 1: seen a little bit of a rebound and recounts, we're
Speaker 1: still massively down around se down from the peak and
Speaker 1: there's a big lag effect. So when we see that
Speaker 1: the fact that US as a swing producer is still
Speaker 1: dropping from a production standpoint, And on top of that,
Speaker 1: we look at the fact that ARAMCO write the big
Speaker 1: spotty UM state Energy Enterprise oil enterprise is gonna have
Speaker 1: an I p O sometime in the next twelve to
Speaker 1: eighteen months, and maybe a very strong incentive keeping the
Speaker 1: oil price upward as well. UM those are all fairly
Speaker 1: strong UM supports for the oil price. On top of that,
Speaker 1: look at the g d P number today, right two
Speaker 1: point nine percent. So we see not just in the
Speaker 1: emerging markets, but even in the US, we see strengthening
Speaker 1: global global activity, which is going to be further aided
Speaker 1: and embedded by what I call step back from monetary insanity. Right, so,
Speaker 1: we've had, you know, a broad practice of monetary insanity
Speaker 1: across the globe. I think that UM, central banks are
Speaker 1: gonna start to step back from that in the next
Speaker 1: twelve months, much more quickly than we've anticipated, and that's
Speaker 1: going to help stabilize the environment as well. Is that
Speaker 1: going to be bullish for commodity stocks? And if so,
Speaker 1: do you want to buy commodity stocks that do business
Speaker 1: around the world like Freeport mcmuran, or do you want
Speaker 1: to focus on domestic players. I do think that UM,
Speaker 1: it's going to be helpful for commodities. I do think
Speaker 1: that we've turned the cycle on commodities. UM it's going
Speaker 1: to be a slow process. UM We're not going to
Speaker 1: see an aggressive growth trajectory for commodities. But I do
Speaker 1: think that materials, for example, in the US, has really
Speaker 1: not done well recently, and I think that there's a
Speaker 1: mean reversion opportunity for commodities, domestic commodity stocks UM, So
Speaker 1: I think that either way to play, it is actually
Speaker 1: going to be UM, whether it be domestic companies or
Speaker 1: UH emerging market companies, etcetera, foreign producers. I think they're
Speaker 1: both going to do fairly well over the next two
Speaker 1: to three years. And again, it only can trust for
Speaker 1: long term investors. So I'm not looking to trade, if
Speaker 1: you will, on the most recent data point, but we're
Speaker 1: looking for the the trend, and we do see this
Speaker 1: trend in the commodity space. So Tony switching asset classes
Speaker 1: taking a look at bonds. If you think that stocks
Speaker 1: are going to do well broadly, is your sense that
Speaker 1: developed market government bonds are going to do badly? And
Speaker 1: if so, how badly? We think they'll do badly on
Speaker 1: a relative basis. So if you think about where to
Speaker 1: look for income, right, we think the dividend in today's environment, right,
Speaker 1: which is right, bonds are still have significantly negative real
Speaker 1: yields and so while we're not that concerned about the
Speaker 1: credit side of the bond market, we are very concerned
Speaker 1: about the rate side, and so we would prefer pick
Speaker 1: up income UM and MLPs dividends UM. To some degree,
Speaker 1: the municipal bond market will always stay a little bit
Speaker 1: underweight there UM today UM relative to our strategic acid allocation.
Speaker 1: But UM we would stay away from UM. You know,
Speaker 1: any kind of duration over five years in today's environment.
Speaker 1: We don't expect to see a complete normalization of the
Speaker 1: rate environment in the next year or two. Right. We
Speaker 1: think that we're going to see clearly a hike now
Speaker 1: in December. I think that's pretty much consensus UM, but
Speaker 1: also two hikes next year. UM. That'll leave us around
Speaker 1: UM once a fee or so on the policy rate UM,
Speaker 1: and it'll leave room for a little bit more rate
Speaker 1: rate hiking. But we're not going to end up at
Speaker 1: a police rate of three percent or so anytime soon.
Speaker 1: So we don't see a huge shift UM in the
Speaker 1: rate environment. UM. That's gonna crush bonds, but we don't
Speaker 1: think that they're particularly attractive with durations over five years.
Speaker 1: Tony Roth, thank you, Chief investment officer, Wilmington's Trust, managing
Speaker 1: seventy two billion dollars. I'm pim Fox along with Lisa Abramowitz.
Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg. Well, it's not hard to imagine what
Speaker 1: happens when you're in a business that is competing on
Speaker 1: price and is also looking at record infant tory in
Speaker 1: some cases, I want to bring in Mike Jackson. He
Speaker 1: is the chief executive of Auto Nation. He joins us now.
Speaker 1: Mike Jackson, thanks very much for being with us, My pleasure.
Speaker 1: Good morning. All right. So, you know, if if I had,
Speaker 1: if I had a way to console you, I would
Speaker 1: because you know, you've been through a little bit of
Speaker 1: a trial by fire here. The stock is down I
Speaker 1: believe about three and a half percent today, it's down
Speaker 1: so far this year. Uh, you're in a tough business
Speaker 1: and you're trying to find new ways to invigorate the
Speaker 1: automobile retail business. You're opening standalone used car outlets. Tell
Speaker 1: me what's going on with the business and how you're surviving. Well.
Speaker 1: We understand that the new vehicle business is cyclical, uh,
Speaker 1: in one of three phases, growth, plateau, and decline. Years ago,
Speaker 1: we said we wanted to have a way to grow
Speaker 1: when this marketplace plateau. So we launched the Auto Nation
Speaker 1: brand from coast to coast. It's been very well accepted
Speaker 1: and trusted by consumers, and we launched the Auto Nation Express,
Speaker 1: our digital capability from which we get of our business today.
Speaker 1: So now we're spanning dramatically into the pre owned and
Speaker 1: UH customer care business, building free center UH, freestanding service
Speaker 1: and sales centers UH within our markets, which will be
Speaker 1: under the brand Auto Nation, and in order to have
Speaker 1: a compelling value story and a good experience for our
Speaker 1: customers in those centers, UH, they will all be one
Speaker 1: price on the pre owned vehicles, and we will launch
Speaker 1: Auto Nation parts and accessories in these centers and also
Speaker 1: offer those parts and accessories in our franchise business. So
Speaker 1: as I look at it now, we're the largest retailer
Speaker 1: of premium luxury vehicles in the US, with almost a
Speaker 1: hundred premium luxury franchises including Mercedes, Ben's, BMW, Porsche across America.
Speaker 1: We have a very large franchise volume business, and now
Speaker 1: we will have freestanding pre owned sales and service centers
Speaker 1: across our footprint. You know, we were talking to Bob
Speaker 1: Shanks yesterday UH CFO of Ford, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about how the cycle is maturing. UM. From your perspective,
Speaker 1: you talk about plateau ng in the auto industry, what's
Speaker 1: the risk and how can you measure it? Of a
Speaker 1: potential significant downturn in auto values and in appetite for
Speaker 1: new for new vehicles. So once the industry enters the
Speaker 1: plateau phase, it can run many years. There. We've gone
Speaker 1: five six years in plateau, and if I look at
Speaker 1: the availability of credit and the cost of money and
Speaker 1: the price of gasoline, we are in an extended period
Speaker 1: a plateau. But ultimately a declient will come, but that
Speaker 1: would take much higher rates or restriction of credit compared
Speaker 1: to what we have today. So but even in plateau,
Speaker 1: it's a challenge to us as a company to have
Speaker 1: the ambition to still grow. And hence we've built a
Speaker 1: brand and hence we've built this digital capability that we're
Speaker 1: now extending a new business field. So we have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to continue to grow just quickly. Mike the as
Speaker 1: Lisa was saying, having to do with the fourth CFO,
Speaker 1: any area of the country that is a better or worse,
Speaker 1: any particular product that's better or worse, give you about
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. Well, we can go right to what's the
Speaker 1: most difficult part of the country, and that would be
Speaker 1: the energy markets, whether it's Colorado or Texas or up
Speaker 1: into Oklahoma. While it's stabilized. It's stabilized at a lower level,
Speaker 1: and um, those are the most difficult markets. The two
Speaker 1: coasts are doing fine. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg
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