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

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Well, the earnings we've

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Speaker 1: gotten so far this week from the big retailers have

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Speaker 1: really put pressure on the broader equity markets, really bringing

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Speaker 1: to the four inflation and what it means for consumers

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Speaker 1: and consumers spending. Um, It's raising questions about stagflation, about recession,

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Speaker 1: and then question for a lot of folks is how

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Speaker 1: do equities perform in that type of environment. Let's bring

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Speaker 1: in our favorite strategist, Gina Martin Adams, chief equity strategists

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Speaker 1: for Bloomberg Intelligence. Gina, would you take away from the

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Speaker 1: earnings this week we saw from the retailers, more importantly,

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Speaker 1: the markets response to those earnings. Yeah, first of all,

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Speaker 1: thanks for calling me your favorite strategist. All that absolutely

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Speaker 1: through today. Nonetheless, you know what have we learned as

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Speaker 1: a lot of more of the same, except for the

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Speaker 1: market is finally paying attention, and I think the market

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Speaker 1: is finally paying attention because the companies have gotten to

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Speaker 1: the point where the margin pressures are so severe they

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Speaker 1: have a really hard time forecasting where things are headed

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Speaker 1: into the second quarter, and they took down expectations materially.

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Speaker 1: So more of the same was really We know that

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Speaker 1: this group has been contending with increasing amounts of margin pressure,

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Speaker 1: but it's just been broadening and deepening over the course

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Speaker 1: And you know, they may have missed expectations that generally

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Speaker 1: and that's the big difference this time around. So we

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Speaker 1: did see a massive capitulation moment on the retail trade

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Speaker 1: had of been and anticipating that there were areas to

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Speaker 1: a great place to hide when really, uh, when inflation

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Speaker 1: the earning stream. Gina, you've done so much smart work

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Speaker 1: on margins, and they always like to ask you about

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Speaker 1: margins every time you come on. UM, so you're probably

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Speaker 1: I never get tired of talking about markins. This is

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Speaker 1: year or so. I'm so glad you did. Because Andrea

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Speaker 1: Felst dead one of our Bloomberg opinion writers. She covers

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Speaker 1: consumer goods. Um. She wrote this really interesting column last

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Speaker 1: that rotation interest rate through the other trigger typically, Gina,

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Speaker 1: just quickly, here, um valuation, where is this market? I

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Speaker 1: two looking for perspective. Gina Martin Adam's chief equity strategist

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Speaker 1: She was a chief strategist there at Wells farg A

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Speaker 1: to Schnali Basset. She covers all things Wall Street for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News. She joins us here in on our Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Interactive Brokers Studio and SI big story out today. I

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Speaker 1: we appreciate it. Shannale Bassett covers All Things Wall Street,

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Speaker 1: your clients? What's your message these days? Good morning, Paul. Yeah,

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