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Speaker 1: This is a Bloomberg Business Flash from Bloomberg World Headquarters.

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Speaker 1: I'm Katherine Colly. Economic an earnings concerns are dragging the

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Speaker 1: stock market lower today. China and the UK reported weaker

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Speaker 1: than forecast factory data, reminding investors of the global economic slowdown,

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Speaker 1: and US earnings remain mixed. A i G shares are

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Speaker 1: defining after recorded a third straight on profitable quarter. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Fiser shares are gaining after it raised its outlook. We

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Speaker 1: check the markets every fifteen minutes throughout the trading day.

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Speaker 1: Down Industrial averages down one hundred fifty two points seven

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Speaker 1: eight percent. Is trading at seventeen thousand, seven hundred thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: SMP five founded down twenty points a loss of one percent,

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Speaker 1: trading at two thousand sixty one. Then NAZZAC is down

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Speaker 1: fifty six points one point two percent, trading at forty

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Speaker 1: seven sixty. West Texas Intermediate crude oil down a dollar

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Speaker 1: eight of barrel two point four two point four at

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Speaker 1: forty three seventy. Spot gold is down seven dollars fifty

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Speaker 1: cents out at thirty and a tenure treasury is up

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Speaker 1: seconds with the yield of one point seven nine. And

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Speaker 1: that's the Bloomberg Business Flash. He's taking stock with Kathleen

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Speaker 1: Hayes and Grim Fox on Bloomberg Radio, continuing a live

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Speaker 1: broadcast here in the City by the Bay where at

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Speaker 1: San Francisco's Bloomberg San Francisco Office. We had a nice

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Speaker 1: conversation today, in fact, a lovely conversation with the John Williams,

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Speaker 1: President of Federals or Bank of San Francisco, and two

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Speaker 1: of his top research economist, Mary Daily and John Fernald.

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Speaker 1: Now we want to bring in another San Francisco guest,

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Speaker 1: Michael Cogino. He's president of Pacific Heights Asset Management. He's

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Speaker 1: also a portfolio manager at Permanent Portfolio Funds. To take

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Speaker 1: a look at what John Williams said today and connect

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Speaker 1: the dots to do a stock market stocks of course

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Speaker 1: having a tough day today with concern about a slugger

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Speaker 1: pace of global growth. That maybe some uninspiring corporate earnings,

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Speaker 1: but when it comes to the global economy, John Williams

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem as concerned perhaps as a stock market. So welcome,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me down here at our bureau.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me so we can get to the

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Speaker 1: more specifics of the stock market today. But John Williams,

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Speaker 1: labor market is still growing, Inflation is not at target,

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Speaker 1: but there are signs that it's moving in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: He can see the strains in the global economy, but

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Speaker 1: absence a big shock, he doesn't see it reverberating back

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Speaker 1: to the US. And he did say that the current

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Speaker 1: status quo, if I may paraphrase him, would be sufficient

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Speaker 1: for him to be on board with that rate hike

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the stock market is in various

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Speaker 1: stages of pricing in zero, one or two rate increases

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Speaker 1: this year. So I'm not sure you know, we've come

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Speaker 1: a long way since the February lows. UM, we're down

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Speaker 1: about two percent off our highs in the SMP five

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a slow down from where we

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Speaker 1: uh awaiting every word from the Fed and trying to

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Speaker 1: adjust and calibrate accordingly UM based on whether it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be zero one or two, and I would expect that

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Speaker 1: to continue going forward. Hey Michael, you know I was

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Speaker 1: looking at the permanent portfolio and you're to date it

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Speaker 1: this up more than eleven percent. How did you do that? Well?

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Speaker 1: We maintain a disciplined asset allocation approach all the time,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, we sit here and talk about

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Speaker 1: you know, make predictions. Our whole thesis is that we

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Speaker 1: don't want to make predictions. We want to be spread

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Speaker 1: out among a bunch of different asset classes all the time.

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Speaker 1: Thereby we don't have to make predictions. And I think

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Speaker 1: in some assets like gold, like silver, like natural resource

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Speaker 1: but we think are an integral part of economic growth

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Speaker 1: and probably in their long term trends, and the world

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Speaker 1: still needs this stuff. So for it's an investor with

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Speaker 1: depending on what the FED does, UM may present some opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Michael Coo, what's the biggest mistake you've made in the

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Speaker 1: So what you can do differently now? Right now, we're

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Speaker 1: so to speak. Thank you very much. Michael Cogino. He

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