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Speaker 1: Ye, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course, on the Bloomberg Rob

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Speaker 1: Caroline is our Bloomberg meteorologist and has provided gentle perspective

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Speaker 1: on a slow moving storm. Rob, let's start with that,

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Speaker 1: what is the why of why Dorian is moving so slowly?

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Speaker 1: While the why behind that, Tom is a high pressure

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Speaker 1: which was up over the northeast this weekend was what

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Speaker 1: was steering Dorian into the northwestern Bahamas. That system has

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Speaker 1: moved off shore. We've actually had a coal front move

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Speaker 1: across the northeast, so there's nothing helping to push that

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Speaker 1: storm along. What's going to happen is coal front in

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Speaker 1: the western Great Lakes. It's a fairly strong one. It

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Speaker 1: will drop down kind of start to draw Dorrian north

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Speaker 1: northwesterly later today, to the north tomorrow and then kick

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Speaker 1: it out to the northeast as we head through Thursday

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Speaker 1: and Friday. Is it is it a hurricane still and

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Speaker 1: when does that shift with the erosion of the energy

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Speaker 1: and the power of the inertial force. When does it

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Speaker 1: shift to a tropical storm when it gets into the

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Speaker 1: North Atlantic. It is going to remain as a hurricane

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Speaker 1: the entire time. Yeah, it's spun down now to a

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty miles an hour sustained, but that's still

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Speaker 1: a Category three hurricane, major hurricane. It's lashing on the

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Speaker 1: northern side of Grand Bahama Island that has been doing

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Speaker 1: so since yesterday morning. The devastation there is going to

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Speaker 1: be horrific. The good news is the track should keep

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Speaker 1: the strongest wins just east of the Florida coast, the

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Speaker 1: Georga True Coast, and the South Carolina coast. I think

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Speaker 1: the best chance for a potential landfall and the continent

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Speaker 1: in the morning on Friday. So this is something that

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Speaker 1: people have been talking about. The Florida and South Carolina

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Speaker 1: not totally out of the woods, yex. It would just

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Speaker 1: take a little shift to send the eye directly to

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Speaker 1: make landfall. What are people looking for? When will we

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Speaker 1: have a better sense of of what could potentially get

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Speaker 1: hit well? The good news is lisaid the fact that

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Speaker 1: the storm isn't moving right now, is what the model suggested.

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Speaker 1: What happened, so we're not seeing anything unexpected. What we're

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Speaker 1: waiting for now is that movement in the north and

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Speaker 1: northwest today and the north later today. That'll start to

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Speaker 1: give us some confidence that those stronger winds are gonna

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Speaker 1: remain off shore and not impact the Florida coast at all.

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Speaker 1: You know, Rob, I got three networks right now here

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Speaker 1: in our studios. Folks were all wired up worldwide, all

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Speaker 1: the Machendra for Bloomberg Television right now in the Green

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Speaker 1: and Parliament. But in America we got three guys were

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Speaker 1: in Patagonia standing on the shore getting splashed. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we love Rob. You don't do that. Forget about the

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Speaker 1: drama and all that. What have we learned about your

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Speaker 1: business since Andrew of decades ago? Ah, the potential for

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Speaker 1: these very small hurricanes to do horrific damage. Uh, Andrew

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Speaker 1: was the same type of storm and same type of season,

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Speaker 1: Andrew being the A storm was the end of August.

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Speaker 1: We had had a very quiet summer that year, and

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Speaker 1: not a whole lot had gun on This being the

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Speaker 1: to do horrific damage. And again, I can't imagine what

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Speaker 1: it's going to look like on Grand Bahama Island tomorrow

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Speaker 1: TV crews in there, just to push this forward. Rob,

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Speaker 1: what does it look like in terms of the rest

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Speaker 1: have been keeping their eye on, Well, it's gonna get

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Speaker 1: much more active than it's been, Lisa. We see conditions

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Speaker 1: getting ripe in the Atlantic. In fact, we can see

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Speaker 1: that this morning there's the potential system that may develop

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Speaker 1: So it's certainly gonna be much more busy in the

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Speaker 1: three months. Rob, your pro thanks so much. He is

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Speaker 1: our Bloomberg meteorologist for all of our weather storms, snow

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Speaker 1: and the rest of it. This is a joy and

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Speaker 1: to start this Tuesday, you know it's like New Year's

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Speaker 1: start with Lorie Calvacina of OURBC on the equity markets.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of naval gays in this weekend, Laurie

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Speaker 1: about what to do all this other noise, bonds, currencies,

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Speaker 1: an equity call or have you amended things? So I

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Speaker 1: would say the only thing that's really changed in our

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Speaker 1: in the short term, at least we have more conviction

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Speaker 1: that we're going to see a full on ten percent pullback,

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Speaker 1: and we've said that the risk of having that pulled

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Speaker 1: back morphed into what we call a growth scare. We

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Speaker 1: think the risks has risen significantly, So Laurie, a ten

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Speaker 1: just sort of talking about correlations, everything going down at once,

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Speaker 1: you know what we always see on these really bad days,

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Speaker 1: Those are things to watch out for. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: we we still like things like utilities, reaps, consumer staples.

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Speaker 1: a pullback. We think they go down less. Lauria, we're

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Speaker 1: interesting to see what you were talking about, Laurie, that

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Speaker 1: What we've actually found is if you go back and

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Speaker 1: We still have positioning, which we think has been quite

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Speaker 1: Retail sentiment is quite bearished. That's usually a good bye signal.

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Speaker 1: But the positioning, especially on the institutional side, which is

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Speaker 1: sentiment already is. Thank you. We will continue with thrills

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Speaker 1: and Dan I want to start there with your experience

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, as we see the increasing expectations for a

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Speaker 1: some of these trade tensions? All Right, it's a pleasure

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Speaker 1: to be on and that's an excellent question. Um I

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Speaker 1: the trade tensions, UM, I think the prospects for a

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Speaker 1: ceasefire UM are still there. Okay, So Dan, I'm just wondering,

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Speaker 1: some important signals, notably the yield curve, which are pointing

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Speaker 1: toward UM, toward a recession. But and clearly a deceleration

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Speaker 1: and a slowdown in US growth UM is already happening. UM.

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Speaker 1: But the you know, the U. S consumer which comprises

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Speaker 1: the economy is still strong. UM. There's only tentative signs

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Speaker 1: sure that the consumer is turning. The doctor on your

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Speaker 1: US valuations relative to international valuations are substantially worse in

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Speaker 1: Well so, I think Chair Powell actually indicated in his

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Speaker 1: has It has become quite clear to me that if

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Speaker 1: more supportant I think the economy could certainly use that

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Speaker 1: there's enough momentum, but I think providing that support and

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Speaker 1: to do. What is the catalyst for international improvement relative

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Speaker 1: at the moment it is all political. It is trade wars,

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Speaker 1: I think there's the profitability of international companies, and especially

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Speaker 1: in the emerging markets is good enough. It's just that

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Speaker 1: in the current context, nobody wants to buy any of

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Speaker 1: the other hand, if you have a five tenure investment horizon,

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Speaker 1: some more jobs data ended this week. What's your sense

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Speaker 1: So from from that standpoint, the near term outlook for

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Speaker 1: right now there's enough momentum in the enemy. Jobs growth

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Speaker 1: would be good, income growth is going to be good,

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Speaker 1: and therefore consumption is going to be supported. Christian on

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Speaker 1: the banks, please help us and domestic banks and international

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Speaker 1: large camp banks, where's the best opportunity now? Well so,

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Speaker 1: you know, but the domestic banks in in general, actually

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Speaker 1: banks in general, in my mind, have been the ultimate

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Speaker 1: value trap. That is, you know, if they have a

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Speaker 1: great deal of profitability, but their current business model in

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Speaker 1: the environment today of rates and all the disruption that

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Speaker 1: growth in that profitability, and that is going to be

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Speaker 1: a challenge for the sector for the foreseeable future. Having

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Speaker 1: said that, they're really good value and if you want

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Speaker 1: to kind of take up take a value approach to things,

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Speaker 1: thanks representing especially US banks represented quite good value. But

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Speaker 1: they're not going up anytime soon. You're You're there. Dividends

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Speaker 1: more than anything. El Christie, thank you so much. Thanks

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