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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penel Podcast. I'm Paul swing you.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Brahma Wicks. Each day

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Speaker 1: we bring you the most noteworthy and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money, whether at the grocery store or

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. A big question in today's market,

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Speaker 1: how do you trade? By tweet? The question as markets

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Speaker 1: get Royal to buy a series of competing headlines, joining

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Speaker 1: us down to discuss Matt Mainly, managing director in equity

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Speaker 1: strategist at Miller, tay Back and Company. Matt, how do

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Speaker 1: you trade around? Tweets the very any Ey? That's for

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Speaker 1: darn sure. Uh. And it's it's, you know, they say,

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Speaker 1: trying to trade around in an investor around And of

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Speaker 1: course you got to keep that kind of longer term

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Speaker 1: view off things. But the one, the one thing that

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Speaker 1: concerns me a little bit about the the short term

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Speaker 1: or i say, over the next a month or two,

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Speaker 1: is the no matter what the president tweets, we have

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Speaker 1: more than just the trade issued it to face with

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Speaker 1: what's going on in Hong Kong. There's no question we're

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Speaker 1: also seeing a slowdown in the economy and and and

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Speaker 1: earnings growth. Uh. And you know, so there's several different

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Speaker 1: issues that UH creating a headwind for the market. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we're six six percent from the all time high,

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Speaker 1: which really isn't that much of a decline, uh, given

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Speaker 1: the the you know, the stretch valuations and stuff that

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Speaker 1: we saw before. So I don't think this trade issue

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Speaker 1: is gonna go away as it is. Uh. So I

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Speaker 1: think we probably have some more downside here, all right,

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Speaker 1: how much more downside? Well? But you know, it's funny,

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Speaker 1: given given what the uh's going on right now, I

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Speaker 1: could say, you know, she's a normal eight to ten

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Speaker 1: not be a big deal. The one little problem we

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Speaker 1: do have, though, of course, is that today's mechanized tradings,

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Speaker 1: and and things like that, that we tend to overshoot

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Speaker 1: this could become more of a a tend of fifty

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's cue the FED reaction function here

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Speaker 1: and wonder going forward how much the FED is going

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Speaker 1: to respond to a possible decline of ten in US

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Speaker 1: equities and whether it will matter. So what's your expectation there? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing I've been saying for a

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Speaker 1: long time is that you know, the FED is definitely

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Speaker 1: data dependent and economically dependent, but they've also proven even

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Speaker 1: more so in the last few years or last year

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Speaker 1: or so, that there are a very market dependent So

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Speaker 1: I do think that will have an impact. Now if

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Speaker 1: we get that ten to fifteent correction, Uh, that will

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Speaker 1: I think get another two rate cuts this year instead

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Speaker 1: if we see the same kind of a turmoil we

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Speaker 1: there's a good chance that they could reignite a que program. Wow,

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Speaker 1: reignite a qui program as soon as this year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good chance of that. But to

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Speaker 1: what end, right, I mean, we're looking at thirty year

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Speaker 1: treasury yields that are all time lows, benchmark yields around

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Speaker 1: much is that going to actually ignite growth? Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: as UH as we always us. As a strategist, I

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Speaker 1: gotta sit there and say, oh, what what should distinguish

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Speaker 1: So what I've just described as what I think they

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Speaker 1: will do, should they do it, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: what kind of end that kind of brings it brings in.

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Speaker 1: I mean to me, bear markets and and and recessions,

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Speaker 1: Why the fed fields that we can't go have one

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Speaker 1: I think this will present some great opportunities. And if

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Speaker 1: profit very well in next year the longer term. Matt Maylie,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Matt Maylee

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Speaker 1: is managing director and equity strategist at Miller take Back

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Speaker 1: and Company. Taking a look at how technical indicators point

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Speaker 1: to further downside ahead. Question Walmart shares surging even after

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Speaker 1: Macie's came out with worse than expected results. Looking around,

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Speaker 1: what is the state of the US consumer? How are

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Speaker 1: us here in our interactive broker studios. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: Walmart shares jumping the most in a year. UH. Solid

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Speaker 1: growth in their e commerce business, solid growth when it

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Speaker 1: comes to consumers not seeing a huge impact by tariffs.

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Speaker 1: Give us your sense, what's the most important thing we

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Speaker 1: need to focus on in these earnings. Most important thing,

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Speaker 1: Lisa is Walmart has the best CEO anywhere in worldwide

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Speaker 1: the company and ran it from so in that Doug

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Speaker 1: McMillan believes in doing doing what's right. So, for example,

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Speaker 1: in solar sustainability, environmental Walmart wasn't there under prior leadership.

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Speaker 1: the best in solar power. What's the implication for the

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Speaker 1: and lowering prices to shoppers. Everybody's winning. Let's let's dig

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Speaker 1: higher workers satisfaction, higher productivity, higher retention, greater consumer satisfaction

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Speaker 1: scores through consumer reports, dot Com, etcetera. So Walmart that

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Speaker 1: was criticized for raising prices because Mr Sam or Sam Walton,

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Speaker 1: which is right for the shopper and right for the community.

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Speaker 1: And has there been a less political pressure on Walmart

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Speaker 1: as a result, there's been less political power. McMillan, who's

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Speaker 1: upon himself to discontinue automatic and semi automatic weapons years ago. So,

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Speaker 1: in addition to solar sustainability, discontinuing merchandise with the Confederate flag,

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Speaker 1: Walmart's had in ten years and establishing co low price

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Speaker 1: the worker, the shopper and really helping to drive the economy.

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Speaker 1: In the stock market today, as you said, Walmart's up

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Speaker 1: Walmart's really breaking through very clearly. The Walmart earnings inspired

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Speaker 1: well for a long time is Penny's major debt maturities

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Speaker 1: want to broaden out generally to see what all of

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Speaker 1: Time again, economists come out, they say businesses are pulling

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Speaker 1: this is an accurate read of where we're at. It's bifurcated.

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Speaker 1: Is you reference Macy's department and specialty stores all struggling.

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Speaker 1: What we're seeing is that combat denominator. All the retailers

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Speaker 1: lower prices. So with the lower prices they profitably increased

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Speaker 1: market share, while the twentieth century proverbial Roman empires of

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Speaker 1: retail are crumbling. So what does that mean? I mean

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Speaker 1: if if if the low cost retailers are doing best.

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Speaker 1: Is that bearished? Does that mean at the consumer isn't

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Speaker 1: prices and want a go deal. It's your referencing, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: consumers can compare prices. But as you've reported this week

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Speaker 1: and as a result, those are the sweet spot for

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Speaker 1: the department stores. So they're really careful in terms of spending.

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Speaker 1: so well, whether it's price discovery, whether it's Walmart, dot Com,

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Speaker 1: Amazon or Ali Baba are getting the lowest prices and

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Speaker 1: our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio is taking a look at Walmart.

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