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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: get over to Marcus Morris, and Asian portfolio manager at

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Speaker 1: Zeo Capital Advisors, and let's go over the data that

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Speaker 1: we've had in the data to come. Marcus, starting with

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Speaker 1: the jobs report, what do you make of the you know,

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Speaker 1: strong numbers, but still we I guess relatively percip participation. UM,

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Speaker 1: I'm out there. Uh, thanks for having me. Um. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought the jobs number Friday was was

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Speaker 1: was encouraging. Um. You definitely saw the beginning of you know,

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Speaker 1: people coming back when not from a participation standpoint, but

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Speaker 1: the hiring and taking place. UM. These A fifty three

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Speaker 1: two thirty five thousand and upper revisions. Very strong wage

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Speaker 1: growth four point nine percent over the last year. I

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Speaker 1: think that's up from anything we've seen over the last

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Speaker 1: ten years prior UM and so there were some good

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Speaker 1: things in the jobs report, um, I think to your point,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that is somewhat discouraging is that

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Speaker 1: the participation rate has stayed relatively flat. Um. And then,

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Speaker 1: and one of the things we think about as we

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Speaker 1: think about these jobs numbers is the role of the FED.

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Speaker 1: And you saw minority underrepresented minority employment lag relative to

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Speaker 1: question in terms of like where the Fed is willing

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Speaker 1: pal did so last week that inflation is gonna run

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Speaker 1: his their focus has really been on this underrepresented minority

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Speaker 1: they came out Friday, there's still a ways to go there.

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Speaker 1: Instead of the question I think that's on the top

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Speaker 1: wage inflation is kind of representative of stickiness in inflation, right.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you have the FED betting

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Speaker 1: the FED reading this data right in the interpretation of

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Speaker 1: in the context of inflation. I think, again, there's so

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Speaker 1: much noise, and I mean I think I do not

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Speaker 1: largely because so much of big picture. I think they're

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Speaker 1: right when they tried to say transitorial, because you know,

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Speaker 1: But what they're really trying to say is their inflation

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Speaker 1: The more the focus I think is on the bead

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Speaker 1: All right, Marcus, thanks so much for joining us. Marcus

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Speaker 1: Moore there from Zero Capital Advisors. This is Bloomberg. Let

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Speaker 1: shift gears a little, mat Miller, let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: retail sector and bringing Murray shaw seni XT analyst at

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Speaker 1: Columbia fred Need to Investments. And this is interesting because

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Speaker 1: what I hear is a lot of abolitionists on the

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