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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. Welcome to the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Daybreak Asia Podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. Economic angst re asserted

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Speaker 1: itself in US markets. We have the uncertainty around tariffs,

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Speaker 1: combined with the escalating trade war between the US and

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Speaker 1: China dominating psychology. Now, the White House confirmed that China

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Speaker 1: now faces a one hundred and forty five percent levy

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Speaker 1: on all goods it sends to the US, and remember

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Speaker 1: all other trading partners are dealing with a baseline tariff

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Speaker 1: of ten percent. In a moment or two, we'll be

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Speaker 1: joined by Patrick Kennedy. He is founding partner at All

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Speaker 1: Source Investment Management. But we begin this morning in the

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Speaker 1: Lion City. Joining me now, Mark Cranfield, Bloomberg Market Live strategist.

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Speaker 1: He joins us now from Singapore. Mark, it's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm sure it's been a busy day where

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Speaker 1: you are. And I guess we could start with the

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Speaker 1: idea that we're beginning to see signs of a slow

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Speaker 1: down in global trade already emerging. You can look at

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Speaker 1: the degree to which equity prices are already reflecting that fact.

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Speaker 1: But maybe we can begin with the volatility that we're

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Speaker 1: seeing in currencies right now, because this is pretty tremendous,

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Speaker 1: is it not.

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Speaker 2: Well is indeed Bloomberg already running stories that some American

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Speaker 2: companies are suspending their flows of goods which are coming

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Speaker 2: so they're seeing that as a negative signal for the

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Speaker 2: US dollar, among other things, allied with the fact that

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Speaker 2: they do expect for the reserve to learn interest rate

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Speaker 2: several times this year. So what we're we're seeing is

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Speaker 2: So you can see these are very significant shifts in

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Speaker 2: But the Chinese authorities have made pretty clear that they

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Speaker 2: They're getting help from their basket arrangement, which is when

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Speaker 2: But these are very fluid situations in the currency world,

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Speaker 2: we are obviously getting the reverse situation. A lot of

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Speaker 2: people recalibrating their outlook on the US dollar.

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Speaker 1: Who we had a lot of dollar weakness in New

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Speaker 1: We are building on those declines now in Asia. And

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Speaker 1: the PBOC combined with the influence of Beijing allowing it

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it certainly enters their thinking, but it's

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Speaker 1: So difficult in this current environment to get any visibility

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Speaker 1: How bad could this get? I mean, when you look

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Speaker 2: I think we've already seen investors start to move ahead

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Speaker 2: the establishment of the Hangsaying Tech Index, which happened about

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Speaker 2: So it's not something that is a complete shock to investors.

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Speaker 2: It will still have an impact, of course, should it happen.

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Speaker 2: So we're seeing much more attention to people like Ali Baba,

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Speaker 1: I'm curious about the pressure that you're seeing right now

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Speaker 2: Well, just a couple of days ago, China Center Bank PBOC,

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Speaker 2: There's nothing to suggest that it will stop anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: So put yourself in the mind of a trader right

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Speaker 1: How do you want to close out your book this week?

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Speaker 2: Imagine what it's like for people out here in Asia

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Speaker 2: who don't have much clarity at all on how these

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Speaker 1: Okay, Mark, thank you so much. It's always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Mark Cranfield, Bloomberg Market Live Strategists joining us from Singapore

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Speaker 1: here on the Debreak Asia Podcast. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Debreak Asia Podcast. I'm Derek Krisner. There was heavy selling

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Speaker 1: after President Trump backtracked on his tariff policy, ostensibly to

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Speaker 1: with the question around recession. Do you think this is

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Speaker 3: Right, Doug, thanks so much for having me back on

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Speaker 3: I do I think that anyone that plays down the

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Speaker 3: I think you know, if you go back in time

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Speaker 3: acknowledge that recession risk are much higher. You know, I

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Speaker 3: the risk for a softer recession is still definitely there.

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Speaker 3: And if a deal with China isn't made in short order,

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Speaker 3: I think that, you know, that's a real possibility, and

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Speaker 3: the risk and odds continue to go up the longer

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Speaker 3: that we put off a deal with China. You cannot,

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Speaker 3: as you know, uproot manufacturing routes overnight and bring them

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Speaker 3: you know, take Apple for example, they can jack up

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Speaker 1: So right around the time that the retaliatory tariffs were

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Speaker 1: announced by the President, we saw a heavy selling in

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Speaker 1: Am I making too much of that point?

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Speaker 3: No, Doug, I think you bring up a very valid point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great question, Doug. So, as you know, we work

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Speaker 1: Patrick Kennedy is founding partner at All Source Investment Management.

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Speaker 1: On the line from Connecticut here on the Daybreak Asia podcast.

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