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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. Transportation

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Speaker 2: stocks in Asia are slumping. That's after President Trump on

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Speaker 2: veiled tariffs on foreign made autos. This is a key

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Speaker 2: reason for the weakness that we had stateside in the

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Speaker 2: US equity market. And in a moment, we'll be hearing

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Speaker 2: from Robert Shine. He is the chief investment officer at

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Speaker 2: Blankie Shine Wealth Management. But we begin in the Lion

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Speaker 2: City and joining us now is friend of the program,

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Speaker 2: Mary Nicolas. She is Bloomberg Markets Live strategist, joining us

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Speaker 2: from our studios in Singapore. It's all about tariffs, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It is?

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Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the stocks right now in Toyota

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Speaker 2: down more than three percent, Hondai Motor off more than

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Speaker 2: two and a half percent. I found it interesting that

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Speaker 2: you wrote earlier on the Markets Live blog there's essentially

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Speaker 2: no sign of leniency.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing, because essentially what we heard is

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Speaker 1: especially from Hyundai. Hyundai has been praised by President Trump

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Speaker 1: for building a factory and expanding investment in the US.

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Speaker 1: Yet we haven't heard anything, and so you would think

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Speaker 1: that when President Trump said that there's leniency, that the

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Speaker 1: markets would get excited. However, it doesn't look like there's

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Speaker 1: much in terms of give that we've seen, so for example,

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen that. Sure, he's mentioned the idea of leniency,

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Speaker 1: but what has happened as a result, Because we know

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Speaker 1: these auto tariffs.

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering if anything could change next week when we

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Speaker 2: get the reciprocal tariffs. Is that likely do you think?

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Speaker 2: Or not so much?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think the main thing is there's just

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Speaker 1: going to be this huge sigh of relief in terms

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Speaker 1: of some degree if there's a lot of tension being

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Speaker 1: that there's something and we know what it is. Right

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Speaker 1: in terms of implementation, that always tends to be a

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Speaker 1: clarity in terms of what are the reciprocal tariffs and

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Speaker 2: You know, President Trump has been described as being transactional,

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Speaker 2: and I thought it was very interesting today that he

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Speaker 2: said that he would consider lowering tariff rates in post

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Speaker 2: on China to secure Beijing support for a sale of

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Speaker 2: the US operations of TikTok to an American company. This

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Speaker 1: Negotiation, absolutely, and I think that was very clear in

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Speaker 1: Chinese authorities show any sort of budge, they could see

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Speaker 1: some signs of relief. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I think there's alway. Is the factor of you know

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the key issue that was going

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Speaker 2: Which brings us to the China story and the fact

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Speaker 2: I think we can't agree mary, has been the high

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Speaker 2: tech space in China, particularly after the kind of deep

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I think one of the things is that

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Speaker 1: So there's still a lot of support for the tech

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Speaker 2: But there are some dark clouds and I think we

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Speaker 1: General caution for US tech, but I think it's because

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Speaker 2: There's a bit of a concern I think that the

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting, it depends how the FED sees it.

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Speaker 1: So J. Powell had mentioned that he sees tariffs as inflationary.

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Speaker 2: What else are you really kind of talking about in

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Speaker 2: What are you looking at in the week ahead? Is

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Speaker 1: Labor market? Absolutely, I think that's going to be the

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Speaker 1: pivotal point because everyone's been so focused on inflation, and

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Speaker 1: of course the April second deadline. We can't escape tariffs.

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Speaker 2: Singapore here on the Daybreak Gasia podcast. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: the Daybreak Asia Podcast. I'm Doug Krisner. So the US

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Speaker 2: equity market was in retre in the last session on

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Speaker 2: some concern over the impact of the trade war. We

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Speaker 2: Trump imposed tariffs on imported autos. This is a twenty

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Speaker 2: It's going to go into effect April. Second, let's take

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Speaker 2: Robert Shine. He is the chief investment officer at Blankey

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Speaker 2: Shine Wealth Management, on the line from Palm Desert, California.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking the time to chat with us, Robert.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to.

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Speaker 2: Begin by getting your assessment on the impact of tariffs.

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Speaker 2: Do we really know at this point whether it's going

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Speaker 4: That's the question that markets investors and everyone's trying to

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Speaker 4: sift through. I think this short term volatility will have

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Speaker 4: What we're seeing is all of this uncertainty that's playing out,

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Speaker 4: and you know, we've seen it the first term of

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Speaker 4: President Trump when the US and China they imposed Phase one,

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Speaker 4: But that was, you know, over a couple of year

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Speaker 4: President Trump, there was a lot of volatility when he

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Speaker 4: went for the tariffs, you know, and fair trade practices,

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Speaker 4: but it turned out to be a positive.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting. One member of the FED today was saying

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Speaker 2: have an inflationary impact from these tariffs proving to be temporary.

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Speaker 2: I'm referring here to the head of the Saint Louis FED,

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Speaker 2: ALBERTU Mussalom. He said secondary effects could prompt the Fed

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Speaker 2: Could there be an inflationary impact of the tariffs.

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Speaker 4: He absolutely is of a point, and that is the

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Speaker 3: Now, it's just.

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Speaker 4: The opposite of saying, wait a minute, the tariffs impact

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Speaker 4: on prices are an unknown, a question mark, So what

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Speaker 4: does that actually mean. That means that the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 4: But more importantly, it's the if they lower interest rates,

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Speaker 4: that out and it's only time will tell. Traditionally, tariffs

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Speaker 3: In the short term. That's okay. Long term, yeah, we.

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Speaker 4: We do need that bill of extension of We just

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Speaker 2: So we've talked about a lot of things. How does

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Speaker 4: You know, the balance in diversification has won out. We

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Speaker 4: you know, treasures are still paying us four percent. We

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Speaker 3: But don't just sit there.

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Speaker 4: Take advantage of some high quality companies, dividend compounders, companies

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Speaker 4: that will be there not only in the next six

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Speaker 2: So don't miss out, all right, Robert, we'll leave it there.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Robert Shine there. He is the

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