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Speaker 1: I Michael McKee along with Tom Keene allgan in the
Speaker 1: news this morning. Of course, they're failed union with Fiser
Speaker 1: left them looking for ways to try to boost share prices.
Speaker 1: Are going to do that by buying back up to
Speaker 1: ten billion dollars in shares four to five billion, and
Speaker 1: open market researches repurchases over four to six months, they say,
Speaker 1: and then they will see how it's going. Credit Sweet
Speaker 1: CEO T jn Dam telling us today he's confident in
Speaker 1: delivering planned cost cuts this year, which is important because
Speaker 1: they had a second quarterly lost in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: this time three two million Swiss francs, which translates to
Speaker 1: three d eleven million dollars. They made a profit of
Speaker 1: a billion francs a year earlier. Volks, so I can
Speaker 1: apparently close again on a fix for those diesel powered
Speaker 1: vehicles in the US. Affix. A software upgrade might reduce
Speaker 1: the risk of an expensive buy back, according to people
Speaker 1: familiar with the matter. You might also get a new
Speaker 1: catalytic converter. Today's big earnings report. Disney analysts watching ESPN
Speaker 1: and theme park revenues, but much of their attention will
Speaker 1: be on what, if anything, the company says about succession
Speaker 1: after that Thomas Staggs resignation forced out as CEO. That
Speaker 1: is after the belt today. Now a second with Michael
Speaker 1: R and get the latest world of national headlines. Mine,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Mike. It his primary day for
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Speaker 1: NBC Sports Update with John Stasha, don't stay Warriors of
Speaker 1: games this season. They still have not lost two in
Speaker 1: a row. There eightieth win overall one thirty two to
Speaker 1: one five overtime in Portland and they come home up
Speaker 1: three games they won. The story was Steph Curry, who
Speaker 1: they said was doubtful with the knee injury that forced
Speaker 1: him out of the first three games, but he did
Speaker 1: play and he scored forty points seventeen in overtime, which
Speaker 1: has never been done before regular or postseason. Speaking of overtime,
Speaker 1: Miami needed it to beat Toronto seven to tie that
Speaker 1: series at two, three and four games of Toronto OT overtime.
Speaker 1: Again in Nashville, they played three OT s the previous
Speaker 1: game there again, the Predators won four three over San Jose,
Speaker 1: so they'll play game seven tomorrow, so will Dallas and St.
Speaker 1: Louis at the Stars won Game six three two. Good
Speaker 1: start to the Mets four game series in l A.
Speaker 1: Curtis Grandison led off the game of the home run.
Speaker 1: Mets beat the Dodgers four to two, Stephen Matt's No.
Speaker 1: Five and won the bullpen with three hitless and into Believe.
Speaker 1: Yankees had five solo home runs, all off the Royals
Speaker 1: Chris Young, all in the first three getings. They beat
Speaker 1: Kansas City six to three. With the Bloomberg NBC Sports
Speaker 1: up team, I'm John Station. All right, thank you John.
Speaker 1: Right now we're looking at stucks. They lost all all altitude.
Speaker 1: They're gaining it back now. SMP futures were down to
Speaker 1: a four point game. Now they're up to a six
Speaker 1: point gain. As we get ready for training day, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that in a moment with Jim Swanson. This
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Speaker 1: I'm Michael McKee along with Tom Keene on a day
Speaker 1: where we're seeing a global rally, not just SNP futures.
Speaker 1: But the stock six hundred in Europe is up by
Speaker 1: two points seven tenths of eight percent, so we're seeing
Speaker 1: some some gains around the world. The Shanghai come even
Speaker 1: in Shanghai, the Chinese stock market finished higher, not much
Speaker 1: but up a little bit. Uh. The dollars stronger today.
Speaker 1: Point of it one for your d x Y. The
Speaker 1: end is weaker, the euro is weaker as well. Time
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Speaker 1: lost forever. That's this morning's Bloomberg j I T Stem Report, Michael,
Speaker 1: thank you. Revert. James Swanson had an interesting college experience,
Speaker 1: earning an m b A with classmates George W. Bush
Speaker 1: and Jim Cuts, the founder of Sam Adams Beer. That
Speaker 1: must have been an interesting group of people to hang
Speaker 1: out with. Uh, James, he's the chief investment strategist of
Speaker 1: MFS Investment Management. What did you guys talk about? Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting also Mitt Romney as well, So it was
Speaker 1: funny from the very first day we thought Mitt Romney
Speaker 1: was running for president. This is the age of twenty six.
Speaker 1: He shows up in a suit and we're in sweatshirts.
Speaker 1: But Jim Cook would always talk about being a corporate
Speaker 1: lawyer on Wall Street, and it's interesting to see how
Speaker 1: his career evolved with beer and Uh, it's actually been
Speaker 1: great funds and that George W. Bush guy, nobody ever
Speaker 1: heard from him again? Right, yeah, you know, no one.
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting the characters into school, but definitely
Speaker 1: all right, let me ask you this after the Job's report.
Speaker 1: Everybody is out there with their opinion on what the
Speaker 1: Fed's going to do. You think keeps them on hold.
Speaker 1: But how important is the FED to somebody's investment strategy
Speaker 1: right now, whether they raised rates basis points in June
Speaker 1: or not. Look, I don't think they matter at all.
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering about all this print and rhetoric about
Speaker 1: FED when I'm looking at the US consumer balance sheet
Speaker 1: and they're basically de leveraging, their amount of debt still
Speaker 1: coming down during this whole cycle to their disposed by income,
Speaker 1: and you know, basis points I don't think matters to them.
Speaker 1: They have been spending not great, but not poorly during
Speaker 1: this whole six and three quarter year cycle added you know,
Speaker 1: a nominal rate of four or four and a half
Speaker 1: percent without the use of debt. I think that means
Speaker 1: it's a sustainable cycle. And basis point increase doesn't change
Speaker 1: any of the real economic landscape here. Well, what did
Speaker 1: seem to change the stock market landscape is when the
Speaker 1: FED stopped adding to its balance sheet. We were doing
Speaker 1: a chart on Bloomberg Survalance TV this morning. The minute
Speaker 1: they stopped, the S ANDP flattened out. Can the market's
Speaker 1: trade higher without the FED. I think they can because
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying, and I've seen those charts.
Speaker 1: But the omitted variable here during this cycle might be earnings,
Speaker 1: and over the arc of long history, it is prices
Speaker 1: on the SMP do line up with earnings and free
Speaker 1: cash flow. And I agree there are a lot of
Speaker 1: players out there who are looking at liquidity what the
Speaker 1: FED is gonna do quarter to quarter, months and months,
Speaker 1: but year to year it's going to be a story
Speaker 1: of earnings and free cash flow from these companies. And
Speaker 1: that's what I'm disappointed about in this quarters earnings and
Speaker 1: why I've said, let's stand back, because all the ingredients
Speaker 1: I thought we're working for us, low cost of capital, capital,
Speaker 1: light unit, labor costs, all these things have been working
Speaker 1: for us for six and a half years have kind
Speaker 1: of petered out. So I personally don't think and not
Speaker 1: reliant on the FED one way or the other. I'm
Speaker 1: reliant on the ability these companies that generate earnings, which
Speaker 1: you have to remember are up higher than the market
Speaker 1: going back to March of oh nine. Yeah, but we've
Speaker 1: had this earnings recession for the last four quarters. Is
Speaker 1: that coming to an end or does it get worse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's where I come in here. I was thinking
Speaker 1: this was an earnings recession, and typically, and we've had
Speaker 1: we've had a few of these in history, two or
Speaker 1: three they last two quarters maybe three. Now it's four quarters.
Speaker 1: And now it's spread to other sectors. And this is
Speaker 1: where I have said, I write this blog, and I said,
Speaker 1: let's step back. The market usually doesn't go anywhere in
Speaker 1: the summer, usually does not go anywhere before in the
Speaker 1: summer prior to a presidential election. And now we're getting
Speaker 1: this sort of creepy news that margins are deteriorating and
Speaker 1: everywhere except consumer discretionary telecom. Let's talk about that more
Speaker 1: when we come back. And Tom Keen's gonna definitely want
Speaker 1: to talk about free cash flow with you. He loves
Speaker 1: free cash flow. Jim Swanson, chief investment strategist of MFS
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