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Speaker 2: Vishell Canduja of Morgan Stanley Investment Management vish Ow, good morning.

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Speaker 3: It's good to see you morning.

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Speaker 2: We've just had a big month of global easing, which

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Speaker 2: you've recognized yourself. We've had a federal reserve cut by

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Speaker 2: fifty basis points. We've had China begin to take on

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Speaker 2: more of an easy posture. Is that a reason to

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Speaker 2: buy bonds or sell them?

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Speaker 4: I think after the visa, absolutely by them. I think

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Speaker 4: at two fifty bus's points till twenty twenty five, I

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Speaker 4: think it was a tough, tough slog there, and we

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Speaker 4: were backing away from it. At this point. I think

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Speaker 4: we think it's fair value at this point. But I

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Speaker 4: think the market is getting a little bit carried away

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Speaker 4: with the stimulus, as you pointed out, as well as

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Speaker 4: the one or two good data points that have come out.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't change the trend for us.

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Speaker 2: Well, tell me what the trend is for you, because

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Speaker 2: it's been very confusing for the rest of us. We've

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Speaker 2: seen contradictory dansa across the board. When it comes to

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Speaker 2: the jobs market. You can pick out the employment components

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Speaker 2: of the m week, the labor differential not great and

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Speaker 2: getting worse, or you could look to headline pay rolls

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Speaker 2: at America and just say everything's okay. Unemployment is still

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Speaker 2: close to four percent. What is it to worry about.

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Speaker 2: What's the trend for you?

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Speaker 4: This inflation is very intact for us. I think Kathy

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Speaker 4: might mention in the previous slot as well. I think

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Speaker 4: the data points that we are getting within inflation. Definitely

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Speaker 4: the ones that are a little bit more volatile are

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Speaker 4: showing up, which we don't think are going to persist

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Speaker 4: for a long time, or we are a big component

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Speaker 4: of shelter is going to drop off, as at least

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Speaker 4: from the indicators that be track. So this inflation is

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Speaker 4: very intact. Economy is still in that exuberant slash soft

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Speaker 4: landing phase, so you see the growth perk up from

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Speaker 4: time and again labor market being one component of that.

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Speaker 4: We don't think that these cuts that they've announced, or

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Speaker 4: they've started off with fifty basis points are anything to

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Speaker 4: resuscitate an economy which is going into a recession. So

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Speaker 4: these are recalibration cuts. They've used that word very very clearly, as.

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Speaker 5: Well pause an economy that's going into recession. What signs

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Speaker 5: are we seeing of any potential recession anywhere on the

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Speaker 5: horizon base and everything that everyone's saying these companies included

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Speaker 5: about how strong the consumer is.

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Speaker 4: I think narrative shifts are so severe, and we've seen

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Speaker 4: that since twenty twenty two. I think we saw the

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Speaker 4: two one in fifty basis points priced in with two

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Speaker 4: really tough NFP reports where we started to question whether

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Speaker 4: these are because of labor pool increasing or people coming

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Speaker 4: into the job force, or this is because of layoffs.

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Speaker 4: And then I think the market got very tied up

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Speaker 4: with that for probably about two and a half months,

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Speaker 4: and now we are coming back into it with one

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Speaker 4: very very strong labor report that comes out. So yes,

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Speaker 4: consumer is strong. Underneath balance sheets are very strong. We

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Speaker 4: invest in balance sheets, you have bondholders. One quick point

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Speaker 4: also I would raise is this is the issue that

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Speaker 4: people have if a big chunk of the economy is

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Speaker 4: interest rate insensitive, which is because of the stimulus that

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Speaker 4: you put in, and then you ensued a very low

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Speaker 4: interest rate environment where all of us three finance said

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Speaker 4: three percent thirty y are fixed, very similar to what

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Speaker 4: Comcast you.

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Speaker 3: Say all of us, all of us wish we had

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Speaker 3: done that. Not all of us did. Some of us did,

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Speaker 3: and some of us did, and ones around this time.

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Speaker 3: I'm very happy.

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Speaker 5: About it, and some people are pretty bitter about it.

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Speaker 5: But I am wondering you actually are seeing a tick

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Speaker 5: have how much things are coming down. The world that

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Speaker 5: you're talking about with this binary risk of narrative shifts

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Speaker 5: doesn't speak to a world where credit should be holding

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Speaker 6: Wouldn't you think if there was a.

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Speaker 5: Risk that in particular high yal bonds should be just

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Speaker 5: ticking up, sowing a little bit of a sign of

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Speaker 5: concern rather than absolutely cratering when it comes to the

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Speaker 5: extra spread that investors demand to own over very fair rates.

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Speaker 4: Very fair we are trying to demand a little bit

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Speaker 4: and we are getting priced out. So we are at

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Speaker 4: the lowest point of high yell in our portfolios. For

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Speaker 4: that one reason, I think if we slotted in the

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Speaker 4: way of how we look at the world fundamentals, technicals, valuations,

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Speaker 4: fundamentals are strong. You can take a few companies out

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Speaker 4: of that picture who are edosyncratically going through issues. Right now,

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Speaker 4: technicals are fiercely strong, and that is less of a

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Speaker 4: spread buyer, more of a yield buyer that is coming

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Speaker 4: into the market. Real yields are high, and yields are

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Speaker 4: best predictor of total dons analyzed for the next three years.

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Speaker 2: When we look at spreads, it spreads exclusively and we

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Speaker 2: compare them to a different period and we say they

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Speaker 2: are just as time as they work back then multi

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Speaker 2: decade sides. How difficult different is the index now versus say,

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Speaker 2: pre GFC, How different is this one?

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Speaker 4: Much cleaner? Balance sheets are much much stronger. Even if

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Speaker 4: growth flatlines from here at one to two percent real GDB,

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Speaker 4: I think pop will be just fine. As coming back

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Speaker 4: to that homeowner example, I think a lot of balance

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Speaker 4: sheets can have connotations.

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Speaker 2: So can I just ask an additional question please? And

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Speaker 2: I know it's difficult and I don't expect you to

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Speaker 2: have a precise answer, but typically historically three hundred basis

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Speaker 2: points two fifty on high yield is super super sigh.

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Speaker 2: Do you need to rethink that is a new number

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Speaker 2: like two hundred one fifty?

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Speaker 3: What is it? Could be?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely could be if triple cs continue the carnage that

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Speaker 4: they've been on probably over the last two and a

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Speaker 4: half months. Here you just correctly, if you take out

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Speaker 4: distress from high yield, it's another fifty basis points already

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Speaker 4: you will. We think that spreads are very commensurate to

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Speaker 4: the fundamentals and technicals we are going through. We could

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Speaker 4: be tight and frustratingly tight for a long period of time,

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Speaker 4: but we are not expensive at this point. Now. I'm

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Speaker 4: are at the lowest amount of spread risks in our

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Speaker 4: portfolios in a long time, highest quality, highest interest rate duration.

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Speaker 4: Were explaining why steepeners. We don't think that volatility adjusted,

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Speaker 4: you're getting paid for the spread risks that you're taking out.

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Speaker 4: Triple B to double is the lowest and probably about

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Speaker 4: two decades At this point. As a spread investor, I'm

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Speaker 4: always looking for more premium. I need to get too paid,

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Speaker 4: need to get paid for that volatility that I'm taking on.

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Speaker 4: So for fixed income portfolios, I can still diversified, high quality,

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Speaker 4: can still spit out probably five to seven percent total

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Speaker 4: turn in the next three years analyze, I'm taking that

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Speaker 4: probability bit higher versus going down below investment rate.

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Speaker 5: When you take a step back, you said that the

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Speaker 5: technicals are very strong for credit for bonds. Just in general,

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Speaker 5: there's a flood of cash coming in. Where's that cash

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Speaker 5: coming from. How much is coming from people who are

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Speaker 5: waking up to the realization that they're not going to

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Speaker 5: get Social Security or some of these other benefits when

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Speaker 5: they're old and I need the income and they're going

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Speaker 5: to need to really be invested and get something more reliable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I think the lock and yield effect is

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Speaker 4: very compelling at this point. I think the except for

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Speaker 4: lofty levels. I think every other part of fixed income

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Speaker 4: and sometimes the cliched way of how we put it

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Speaker 4: to be met for that long term saver that you

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Speaker 4: have income toll return, and then you have the negative

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Speaker 4: correlation to risky assets, which is back as inflation is

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Speaker 5: How do you hedge against the potential for some sort

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Speaker 5: of geopolitical disruption and oil price is surging. I mean,

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Speaker 5: there's sort of this counterintuitive connection between bonds and oil

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Speaker 5: much are you really planning for a scenario of that type.

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Speaker 4: I think it's tough to like massively shift portfolio positioning

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Speaker 4: trying to adjust portfolios is that your overweight risk were

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Speaker 4: the lowest point of our overweight, you still have an

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Speaker 4: risk which will sell off and react to these geopolitical tensions.

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Speaker 4: And then the back end of the treasury curve is

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Speaker 4: one more less geopolitical, more deficit situation that we are

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Speaker 6: Are you worried about the deficit?

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Speaker 4: We are nauseous about it in terms of the biggest

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Speaker 4: post war. Again, we can throw out stats all day long,

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Speaker 4: but I think the weight affects is you need to

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Speaker 4: as some of the European countries are already getting onto,

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Speaker 1: Do you actually think Washington would do something very tough?

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Speaker 4: I think that is one thing that they are deficits

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Speaker 4: in China is one thing. How common those two campaigns

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, at this point, if the deficit is one of

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Speaker 1: your biggest concerns, especially on a US election, does it well?

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Speaker 1: I guess what matters more for you is probably the

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Speaker 1: composition of Congress.

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Speaker 7: How are you thinking about that?

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Speaker 4: I think the bas case, I think they're looking at

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Speaker 4: the same numbers that you guys report on the dominal

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Speaker 4: etcector as well. Uh, dead heat. But then you know

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Speaker 4: centered and and and house would be split, which is

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Speaker 4: actually not a bad thing for for deficits. Might be

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Speaker 4: we might be looking at a Goldilocks, even treacherous goldilocks

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Speaker 4: stable scenario from from.

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Speaker 2: That's the least pan out, the least bud outcomes click Congress,

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Speaker 2: because they won't make it too much worse basically, but

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Speaker 2: not fix it.

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Speaker 3: It's good to see you. I appreciate it. Thank you, Michelle.

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Speaker 2: To that Morgan Stanley, sarahunt Vampine Saxon would sank with

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Speaker 2: earning multiples of robust levels. Any faltering in the growth

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Speaker 2: story could have negative consequences, even if it is more

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Speaker 2: of a stable outcome versus a deterioration. Ernie's growth is

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Speaker 2: key for equities. Sarah john Us Now for more, Sarah

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Speaker 2: Goo Mornick, good morning. Good to see what you make

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Speaker 2: of the banks so far. Big week of gains last

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Speaker 2: not just from Bank of America. About twenty minutes ago.

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Speaker 8: I think that that is a good start, and I

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Speaker 8: think that that is obviously been heralded fairly well, and

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Speaker 6: So this is what a lot of people are expecting.

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Speaker 5: That the consumers have plenty of money, and that any

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Speaker 7: But at the moment that's not the focus. So right now,

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Speaker 2: So what do you want to be in equities right now?

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Speaker 8: I think you want to be sort of across the board,

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Speaker 3: Side is a theme that you want to run with.

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Speaker 2: This is what my Wilson and Molke and Stanley was

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Speaker 8: I think that it's good to understand what is going

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Speaker 7: That's not going to happen.

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Speaker 8: I think understanding the fact that you're going to have

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Speaker 8: I would not like to see that happen. I think

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Speaker 7: To be healthy for equity markets.

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Speaker 8: But at the same time, we're almost in new It

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Speaker 8: I don't think it's as bad as it could be,

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Speaker 7: Markets would like that very much at all.

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Speaker 7: I do not think that. No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 8: I think that they're not even pricing in a probability

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Speaker 1: The equity market is pricing in what they would like

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's very equity market like though, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: So we are deep in the heart or getting to

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Speaker 6: We've already heard from some of the banks.

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Speaker 8: If you think about what's going to drive what we

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Speaker 8: Because if we do, then the bullishness is not wrong.

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Speaker 7: Is Nike having a problem because Nike's having a problem.

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Speaker 8: If you don't and you see much more stability and

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Speaker 7: I don't know. Materials have certainly been hit pretty hard

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Speaker 3: Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Let's got to see you, Sarah if I'm hired Saxon work.

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Speaker 2: We begin this out with stocks at all time highs

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Speaker 2: as earning season rams up. Max Kenner of HSBC still bullish.

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Speaker 2: A powerful combination of dubvish fed China stimulus, low near

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Speaker 2: you've talked about why you're bullish. Let's talk about where

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Speaker 2: you're bullish. High yield credit overweight even with spread sta

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Speaker 3: Why, Yeah, good morning.

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Speaker 9: I think look, when you look at your high old

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Speaker 9: I don't think you know, it's an environment where you

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Speaker 9: I think it's particularly you want to be in equities

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Speaker 3: Yes, you've want to be a bit overweighted.

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Speaker 9: And emerging market dead and highield credit in particular. But

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Speaker 9: that Lisa was just describing. That is that any news

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Speaker 9: and all of the good news or all of the

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Speaker 9: news is good news, and that is particularly favorable for

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Speaker 9: equities and in particular for the US.

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Speaker 2: This is echoed the fund manager survey from Bank of

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Speaker 2: America this morning. Max, I went through the land a

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Speaker 2: little bit earlier, but really it sounds like you wrote it.

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Speaker 2: The biggest jump in investor optimism since June twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: on Fedcutch, China stimulus and a soft landing Max. The

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Speaker 2: question you ask in your own research of yourself that

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Speaker 2: you get asked all the time, what would it take

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Speaker 2: to make you bearish? Is that question alone? What makes

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Speaker 2: you bullish?

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Speaker 9: Not alone, but definitely it's one of them. When we look,

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Speaker 9: for example, at our sentiment and positioning indicators, the interesting

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Speaker 9: thing is that actually the bearers and the bullish signals,

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Speaker 9: so the buy and the sales signals are still pretty

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Speaker 9: much on balance, pretty much the same. So what we're

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Speaker 9: seeing is that sentiment.

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Speaker 3: Overall is still pretty neutral.

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Speaker 9: So I think at least when we speak to investors

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Speaker 9: sort of the overall backdroppers investors are pretty constructive, they're

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Speaker 9: pretty positive. But I think overall there's still a bit

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Speaker 9: of caution going into the election. Going into you've got

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Speaker 9: geopolitical uncertainty. You don't really know around the labor market. Fine,

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Speaker 9: we had one good print around the labor market, but

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Speaker 9: is it really out.

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Speaker 3: Of the woods.

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Speaker 9: So there's a few questions around the cracks and the

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Speaker 9: labor market as well. Around the strengthen the US economy,

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Speaker 9: and that keeps you know, investors in a really really

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Speaker 9: weird position where they keep telling us, yeah, right, kind

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Speaker 9: of constructive, but at least, you know, in the near term,

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Speaker 9: a bit more cautious, and that is reflected in our

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Speaker 9: sentiment and position in indicators in the last couple of

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Speaker 9: weeks throughout that actually we had them closer to a

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Speaker 9: bias signal despite equities that at all time I then

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Speaker 9: closer to a sale signal. And that alone is really

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Speaker 9: part of the reason why we're so constructive and so polish.

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Speaker 3: Max.

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Speaker 5: There was a time when no landing was thought to

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Speaker 5: be negative for stocks because essentially what that would mean

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Speaker 5: would be inflation that didn't come down and bond deals

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Speaker 5: that remained high.

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Speaker 6: Why is that no longer concerned?

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Speaker 9: I think it will be a concern again when it's

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Speaker 9: properly no landing, when we really start talking about, hey,

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Speaker 9: candor fed not cunt at all anymore, or may they

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Speaker 9: even have to reverse cause and may they even have

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Speaker 9: to hike again. Let's remember that was the case what

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Speaker 9: we had in twenty twenty two, when you know, all

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Speaker 9: of a sudden, in all of these episodes, there was

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Speaker 9: way more ratetikes being priced in, and that was the

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Speaker 9: time when credit spread suffered, when equities suffered, were pretty

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Speaker 9: much everything so off. We had the same environment in

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Speaker 9: September October last year again where we had Jackson Hall

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Speaker 9: saying it's higher for longer, we can't cut rates at all.

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Speaker 9: We had the same environment in March April this year

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Speaker 9: when the rates market was starting to price a possibility

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Speaker 9: of rate hikes. Once that comes back, and once that

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Speaker 9: is really properly coming back into the pricing, then it

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Speaker 9: will become a problem for valuations.

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Speaker 3: Across all the risky assets.

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Speaker 9: But let's be honest, right now, we're so far away

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Speaker 9: from that, right We've gone from sort of nine ten

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Speaker 9: cuts by the end the next year, we've gone.

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Speaker 3: To six cuts. So what that's just a reflection of.

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Speaker 9: Good growth, good earnest growth, good profitability, good GDP growth,

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Speaker 9: And we'll take it right and only once really we're

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Speaker 9: going to see sort of one hundred and eighty degree

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Speaker 9: shift the FED not even saying pausing, but we're done.

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Speaker 9: That would be a problem I think for risk ass.

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Speaker 7: So is there just to put a bow under this?

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Speaker 5: How much are you basically saying that if the FED

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Speaker 5: were to come out and say that they were only

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Speaker 5: going to cut by twenty five basis points this year,

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Speaker 5: and it only had a few more before they might

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Speaker 5: reach neutral. That could be at or it really has

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Speaker 5: to be something more definitive where you start to see

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Speaker 5: INFLA should reaccelerate in the material way.

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Speaker 9: No, I think it would have to be something more definitive,

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Speaker 9: and it would to put a bit more precise I

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Speaker 9: think it would have been, or it would need a

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Speaker 9: really one hundred eighty degree shift from what Powell said

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Speaker 9: during Jackson Holl. Remember Jackson Holl two years ago was saying,

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Speaker 9: you know, he was saying, there will be pain. There

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Speaker 9: will be pain for households and businesses. That's what we need.

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Speaker 9: That is what is required to bring inflation down last year,

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Speaker 9: and Jackson Holl was all about higher for longer.

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Speaker 3: This year.

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Speaker 9: It was all about we don't like more pain, we

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Speaker 9: don't seek more pain, we don't welcome it, will act

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Speaker 9: against it. So it's literally bringing in the FED put again.

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Speaker 9: And let's remember there's a way way different level of

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Speaker 9: rates compared to the twenty tents. They've got an awful

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Speaker 9: lot of room to cards. So if say, for example,

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Speaker 9: one of the next two to three payroll data actually

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Speaker 9: do come below expectations, they have a lot of room

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Speaker 9: to say, fine, now let's the next time, we'll go

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Speaker 9: fifty again, and that can cushion any downside for USSET.

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Speaker 9: So the fair put, now, I would argue, is much

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Speaker 9: more credible even compared to the twenty tenths. So it

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Speaker 9: would need a really, really dramatic, much more significant shift

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Speaker 9: to become a problem and start becoming a problem for

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Speaker 9: risk assets MAX.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the Bank of America Global Fund

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Speaker 1: Manager survey released this morning, the three top tail risks

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Speaker 1: are geopolitics, inflation, US recession in that order, What do

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Speaker 1: you rank as the biggest risk?

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Speaker 9: Now, I think it is actually inflation. It is the

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Speaker 9: rate side of things. I mean, overall, we've got to

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Speaker 9: figure out what is the biggest one.

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Speaker 6: Is it more.

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Speaker 9: Towards recession or is it more towards inflation and rates.

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Speaker 9: If you are of the view, like we've been for

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Speaker 9: the last two years, that the US is not going

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Speaker 9: to go into recession, that really in the market is

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Speaker 9: underestimating the strength of the US consumer, the strength of

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Speaker 9: the underlying US economy, then by definition your biggest risk

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Speaker 9: has to be rates. And you know, at some point

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Speaker 9: perhaps yields increasing by so much again, either the velocity

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Speaker 9: or the level that it starts becoming a problem for

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Speaker 9: valuations across the board. Again, the reason why I also

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Speaker 9: think it's because it's the biggest risk, because if that

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Speaker 9: really materializes, there is nowhere to hide. Remember in March

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Speaker 9: April this year or Q four last year, everything sells off.

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Speaker 9: It's air quarters, it's credit, it's emerging markets, it's rates.

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Speaker 9: Everything sells off and the only thing the only place

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Speaker 9: to hide is the dollar. So from a hedging and

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Speaker 9: from an assellocation perspective, it is by far, I think

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Speaker 9: the biggest risk.

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Speaker 1: So, given how bullish you are, you potentially in the

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Speaker 1: no landing camp.

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Speaker 9: Now I wouldn't call it no landing. So I think

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Speaker 9: the market really always exaggerates a bit. Right. You guys

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Speaker 9: were talking about short term inflation expectations. Let's remember we

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Speaker 9: started at sub two percent short term inflation expectations at

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Speaker 9: the start of the year. They went all the way

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Speaker 9: up almost to three percent, we went down to one

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Speaker 9: point seven, we're back up to almost two and a half.

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Speaker 9: We're backing down a bit. So the market always goes

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Speaker 9: from oh my god, it's total no landing No, it's

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Speaker 9: total soft landing. It goes from one extreme to the other.

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Speaker 9: I think the reality is that it inflation. You know,

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Speaker 9: we have this inflation shock, we have disinflation, and now

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Speaker 9: we're just not quite down to two percent, right, We're

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Speaker 9: a bit stuck. That is actually not a problem. It's

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Speaker 9: not a problem at all for earnings. It's actually good

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Speaker 9: for earnings because it's a nominal figure. It's good for

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Speaker 9: nominal growth. And that I wouldn't call it no landing.

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Speaker 9: I think the market is getting a bit too obsessed

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Speaker 9: around these definitions and always swing from one extreme to

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Speaker 9: the other. I would say it just continues to be

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Speaker 9: a really supportive environment for nominal growth, and that is

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Speaker 9: an environment that is particularly supportive for equities.

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Speaker 2: And Max still bullish and it's good to catch up

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