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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. Every business day, we

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Speaker 1: your investment professional before investing. Let's bring on our Jersey

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Speaker 1: chief US interest rate strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence IRA, give

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Speaker 1: us the latest on what your Federal Reserve plans to

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Speaker 1: do over the next let's call it six to twelve months. Hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's uh, the opinions are all over the place. My

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Speaker 1: view is that the Fed is going to go a

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Speaker 1: little bit slower than the market is currently pricing, but

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Speaker 1: also start balance sheet runoff pretty early. So um so

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Speaker 1: I think that they might announce in May, might even

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Speaker 1: really they bought so much and I was actually just

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Speaker 1: looking at some of my spreadsheets this morning, you're fallen

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Speaker 1: and that they probably bought about a trillion dollars too

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Speaker 1: much in terms of their asset buying over the last year,

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Speaker 1: so they have to get rid of that before they

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Speaker 1: could really tighten monetary policy very effectively in my view,

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Speaker 1: just hanging out at home going through my spreadsheets. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's the life of a chief fixed income strategist. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know. I read a great piece today. I think

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Speaker 1: it was Cormack Mullen talking about maybe it's too soon

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Speaker 1: to call the end of the bond bull market. And

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Speaker 1: one of the interesting things that he says is, um,

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Speaker 1: there are already a substantial amount of rate hikes priced

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Speaker 1: in two treasuries today. If that's the case and the

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Speaker 1: Fed delivers less than the market expects, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's that's bullish for treasuries. What is priced in?

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Speaker 1: And how do and how do you read what's priced

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Speaker 1: in for for someone who doesn't know? Yeah, so the

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Speaker 1: easiest way we actually have a very uh you know,

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Speaker 1: simple function on the Bloomberg terminal called w I r

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Speaker 1: you if you use that, you can see kind of

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Speaker 1: over the next year how much the markets pricing seven

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Speaker 1: that's where I think that the market maybe is getting

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Speaker 1: put out a note yesterday suggesting that something more realistic

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Speaker 1: do think that the Federal Reserve does think about um

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Speaker 1: the runoff as replacing a hike or two right that

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Speaker 1: they don't know exactly, you know what the what the

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Speaker 1: metric is is it, you know, five billion dollars a

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Speaker 1: runoff equals equals another hike or something like that. That

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Speaker 1: that's a little bit more of guests work. But importantly,

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Speaker 1: and and to your point that we are pricing in

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Speaker 1: more interest rate hikes. The difference between looking at that

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Speaker 1: long term trend that you mentioned, Matt. You know, yes,

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Speaker 1: interest rates have been going down basically from present they

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Speaker 1: the long term bond bull market goes down. But if

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Speaker 1: you're an an asset manager trying to outperform an index

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Speaker 1: or you're trying to determine, um, you know, what your

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Speaker 1: total return is going to be over the next twelve

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Speaker 1: about that long term you know, kind of two generation trend. Well,

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Speaker 1: you worry about as the cycle and keep in mind

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Speaker 1: ten year treasury yields are right now at two percent

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Speaker 1: one So so you know, that is a pretty substantial

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Speaker 1: move and and interest rates of you've lost money if

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Speaker 1: you held the Treasury index right the Bloomberg Treasury indexes

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Speaker 1: So that's a non trivial loss in a you know,

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Speaker 1: in a bond portfolio, which is supposed to be you know,

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Speaker 1: Is the Federal Reserve gonna hike fifty basis points in March?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, UM. I think that they'll they'll

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Speaker 1: I just don't think that they'll start with you you think,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm guessing you think inflation is gonna roll over,

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Speaker 1: our growth is going to slow down, because otherwise, well

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have fed do fifty basis points hike at

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Speaker 1: if we're stuck at seven and a half percent, people

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Speaker 1: base effects alone. If you're looking at year over year inflation, UM,

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Speaker 1: inflation will be low or for four or five months

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Speaker 1: we will we be trending from eight percent, which you

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Speaker 1: so how is that glidepath going to go? Which would

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Speaker 1: was good in a way. That was good. Remember what

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Speaker 1: Reagan said about inflation. Yeah sure, but and yes, this

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Speaker 1: answered before we know what that end game is, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: is seven hikes going to be? What what it takes. Look,

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Speaker 1: the bond market right now is telling you there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a recession next year. Let me say that again.

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Speaker 1: The bond market is telling you there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: And and this is where this is where this you know,

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Speaker 1: the FED making a policy mistake, Like the markets already

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Speaker 1: what we're already priced for two s tends to be

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Speaker 1: looking for when, I can't find when. But Reagan said

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Speaker 1: that inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening,

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Speaker 1: as an arm dropper and as deadly as a hit man.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Ira Jersey gif us industrate strategist for Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Intelligence bond market calling forward recession. If you're talking about

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Speaker 1: shows you that the markets pricing in seven rate increases

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Speaker 1: check in with Kevin Nicholson, Global Fixed Income co ce IO,

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Speaker 1: cohead of the Investment Committee at river Front Investment Group,

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Speaker 1: located in Lovely Richmond, Virginia, home of the University of

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Speaker 1: Richmond Spiders. Kevin, thanks so much for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: Given that interest rate backdrop, how are you guys positioning

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Speaker 1: your portfolios? Thanks for having me, Paul, And we continue

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Speaker 1: to position our portfolios in such a way that we're

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Speaker 1: So we're buying on the short end of the curve

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Speaker 1: because as we're seeing the curve flattened, it doesn't really

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Speaker 1: Um and so what we have constantly been doing is

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Speaker 1: we've looked for some spread, getting some a little bit

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Speaker 1: But one of the things that we have not been

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Speaker 1: this point. But overall, because we run balanced portfolios, we

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Speaker 1: have been underweight fixing become pretty substantially relative to our

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Speaker 1: Bank America survey yesterday shows us that credit investors were

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Speaker 1: I would say it's probably a mini bear market in

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Speaker 1: the sense that I think that you know, by the

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Speaker 1: consensus on the street is that inflation will kind of

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Kevin Nicholson. They're Global

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Speaker 1: fixed Income Co. C I O and Co. Had to

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Speaker 1: invest the investment committee as well at Riverfront Investment Group.

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Speaker 1: Talking to us about the fixed income markets. Looking at

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Speaker 1: the yield curve here, I got the ten year treasury

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us here. What is your bond

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Speaker 1: me at the moment, we have our models, we rely

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