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Speaker 1: This is a Bloomberg Business Flash from Bloomberg World Headquarters.

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Speaker 1: I'm Katherine Cowdery. The stock market is retreating, on track

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Speaker 1: for its biggest drop in more than a month as

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Speaker 1: investors turn risk averse. Socks have fallen from Japan to

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Speaker 1: global growth concerns. Consumer companies are taking big losses as

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Speaker 1: investors worry about the health of the US economy. A

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Speaker 1: wage gains remain as sluggish. We check the markets every

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes throughout the trading day. Dow industrial leverage is

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Speaker 1: down eighty two points four tens of a percent trading

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Speaker 1: at eight then AZDAC is down thirty nine points three

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Speaker 1: one percent to spot gorolled up twelve dollars fifty cents

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Speaker 1: announced at ten year treasury down five thirty seconds with

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Speaker 1: the yield of one point five four percent. And that's

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Speaker 1: a Bloomberg business flash. Catherine Calderie, thank you so very much.

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Speaker 1: It is time now for the e t F report,

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Speaker 1: the day's et F report. Investors have turned against three

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Speaker 1: of the largest US crops, betting a timely rainfall will

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Speaker 1: further increase supplies of corn, wheat, and soybeans. Hedge funds

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Speaker 1: on further declines for weight. Sal Gilberti, president of two

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Speaker 1: Griam Trading, recommends taking a longer term view of agricultural

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Speaker 1: commodities through the use of his firm's exchange traded products.

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Speaker 1: Long term trends and corn, along with soybeans and wheat,

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Speaker 1: are the usage continues to increase. It's it's primarily driven

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Speaker 1: by population growth. Globally, the population expands by roughly seventy

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Speaker 1: five seventy eight million people per year. It's the equivalent

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Speaker 1: added population on the planet Earth. Gilberti makes a case

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Speaker 1: for corn, saying it's used for fuel to fill up

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Speaker 1: your tank, is also an animal feed, and is used

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Speaker 1: to make paper and those recyclable plastic cups. Gilberti maintains

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Speaker 1: that E T N s that focus on agricultural commodities

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Speaker 1: should be included in a diversified portfolio. That's ther Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: ETF Report. I'm Catherine Colderie. You're listening to Taking Stock

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Speaker 1: with Kathleen Hays and pimp Box on Bloomberg Radio. What

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Speaker 1: do drug and discount stores in Japan, real estate in

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Speaker 1: Germany and a global food company based in Switzerland all

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Speaker 1: next guest, Paul Markham, Global Equities portfolio manager of the

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Speaker 1: Newton dry Fuss International Equity Fund symbol there s N

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Speaker 1: I e X and he is from Newton Investment Management,

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Speaker 1: helping to manage more than one billion dollars of customer assets.

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Speaker 1: He's based in London and he joins us now. Paul,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much for being with us. Tell us the

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Speaker 1: strategy that you mean that you that you use to

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Speaker 1: manage this fund because it is global in nature and

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Speaker 1: it covers a wide variety of companies. Yes, that's right,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, and it's a pleasure to be to be

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Speaker 1: with you. Um. Yes, the fund is essentially an international

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Speaker 1: equity portfolio, which means that it invests around the world,

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Speaker 1: um and sectors represented. But we do use a thematic

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Speaker 1: and we allow that to drive our stock selection, and

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Speaker 1: we have a fairly focused portfolio around sixty stocks on

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Speaker 1: of these holdings are in the fun Japan Tobacco, don

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Speaker 1: prosper despite this lackluster stimulus package. What we've really tried

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Speaker 1: bit of disappointment after a strong run. Paul marcam thank you.

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Speaker 1: some of the individual holdings in his portfolio. He's Global

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