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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg P and L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: trade wars, strength of the US dollar strikes in Argentina.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about emerging markets with Arvin Rajan, Managing Director

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Speaker 1: and the head of Global and Macro at p JIM

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Speaker 1: Fixed Income, helping to manage more than seven hundred billion

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Speaker 1: dollars of customer assets. Are Vin a pleasure to have

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Speaker 1: you with us. Give us your thoughts right now on

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Speaker 1: what is going on with emerging market investments. Yeah, thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me on TIM. It's it's a fascinating

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Speaker 1: time and markets because um as often happens during periods

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Speaker 1: of tightening global liquidity and global votility. Emerging markets have

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Speaker 1: been taking it on the nose. So we have had

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Speaker 1: nine consecutive weeks of outflows. We've had a bit of

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Speaker 1: a slow lead, but there's not yet a total capitulation.

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Speaker 1: In terms of emerging assets UM. In fact, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's countries with which have current account deficits that have

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Speaker 1: that benefited the most from YEO chasing inflows. We've had elections,

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Speaker 1: you know, just now in Turkey, but looming in Mexico

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Speaker 1: and Brazil. Trade wars obviously are taking a tool, and

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Speaker 1: geopolitical issues and idiosyncratic problems in EM. But I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you why I still like EM in spite

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Speaker 1: of all of this, and it is somewhat of a

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Speaker 1: falling knife. I don't think the sell off is necessarily

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Speaker 1: over yet, but I see several bright spots here, so

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Speaker 1: emerging market debt in particular, all right, So is it's

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Speaker 1: idiosyncratic bright spots where you're looking at specific countries and

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Speaker 1: it more broad than that. It's actually a bit of both.

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Speaker 1: So the on the broader side, i'd say that the

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Speaker 1: assets are now much cheaper, So we've had a five

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Speaker 1: to eight percent sell off in depth hard currency as

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Speaker 1: well as local currency, and I believe that the leverage

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Speaker 1: cycle broadly speaking and emerging markets is not as scary

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Speaker 1: as it was in the past, a more diverse group

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Speaker 1: and strong commodities UM, and so far pretty healthy China.

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Speaker 1: Having said that, obviously a China US trade war could

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Speaker 1: challenge that last point. UM. What I'd say basically is

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Speaker 1: that idiosyncratically, there are a couple of things going for

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Speaker 1: but also there's policy responses to the volatility. So emerging

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Speaker 1: rate increases and with macroeconomic. Macroeconomic responses that would strengthen

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Speaker 1: these countries just have to break in there. Because we

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Speaker 1: saw that Argentina raised interest rates to three times in

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Speaker 1: they were not getting control over their currencies. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people are speculating that in an emerging markets that

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Speaker 1: some of these central banks have lost control. Do you disagree? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I do disagree. I think that in certain individual cases,

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Speaker 1: and I think you might have vargued for a for

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Speaker 1: a response that came sooner rather than later. So UM,

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Speaker 1: now remains to be seen whether after the election and

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Speaker 1: power to take more definitive economic reform actions and policy actions. Um.

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Speaker 1: In Argentina's case, as you know, they have actually gone

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Speaker 1: and it's because of investor related portfolio outflows. It is

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Speaker 1: true that some of these countries have two large a

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Speaker 1: spite of decent economic management. Our ex amples of places

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Speaker 1: that are now presenting value, Just real quick, in about

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Speaker 1: you know, the pull of capital out of emerging market

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Speaker 1: countries should abate. Aranjan, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Arjen Managing director and head of Global and

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Speaker 1: Macro at PGIM Fixed Income, talking about why he likes

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Speaker 1: Chinese investments. Brooke, what have you learned in terms of

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Speaker 1: looking at export controls of key US technologies. Now, I

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Speaker 1: I mean, what break this down for US? What are

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Speaker 1: But there's just so much flexibility, so much latitude once

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Speaker 1: could be a real threat to Boeing. As it is,

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Speaker 1: current tweeting environment. When it comes to Treasury Secretary Stephen

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Speaker 1: you know, he always speaks very very carefully. UM. I

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Speaker 1: think it's interesting that he said quote the statement will

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a public side of any report and

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Speaker 1: there's a private side. So our sources have told us

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Speaker 1: that is all about China and China's economics aggression. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It is rare for him to call out a specific

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Speaker 1: look forward to getting that the news release. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you very much Selia Molson for your story

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Speaker 1: well worth reading on Bloomberg dot com Treasury Department planning

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Speaker 1: to heighten security of Chinese investments in sensitive US industries

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Speaker 1: under an emerging see law, and we'd wait to hear

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Speaker 1: if there's any update on that. Much appreciated for your reporting.

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