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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio NEWSOM. I'm Nancy Cook, a

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Speaker 1: senior national political correspondent for Bloomberg News, in for Stephanie Flanders.

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Speaker 1: This week, Welcome to trump Anomics, the Bloomberg podcast that

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Speaker 1: looks at the economic world of Donald Trump, how he

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Speaker 1: has already shaped the global economy and what on earth

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Speaker 1: is going to happen next. So this week we're bringing

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Speaker 1: the focus back from Europe and the Middle East and

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Speaker 1: asking a question that centers around the mood on Wall Street.

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Speaker 1: Our bankers still celebrating Trump's return. What does the way

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Speaker 1: Wall Street is moving money tell us about their feelings

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Speaker 1: with me from our offices in New York. Are our

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Speaker 1: two star reporters from our finance team, schreidhar naderin our

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Speaker 1: chief Wall Street correspondent. Welcome Stree. I thought of you

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Speaker 1: as soon as I wanted to do this story because

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Speaker 1: we had so much fun together at the Democratic National

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Speaker 1: Convention in August.

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Speaker 2: And how different was the mood back then. I think

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Speaker 2: I remember we were tripsing through that convention floor with

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Speaker 2: all the balloons falling down. Unfortunately for the Democrats, that

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Speaker 2: mood did not carry over into November.

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Speaker 1: You are so right. And then Hannah Lovett, who covers

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley and has been speaking with

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Speaker 1: a lot of executives in the last few months. Welcome Hannah, Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Of course, so it's probably

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Speaker 1: worth remembering. We got an early read on how bank

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Speaker 1: executives were viewing Donald Trump's return to the White House

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Speaker 1: at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year. They were,

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Speaker 1: for the most part elated about the prospect of fewer

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Speaker 1: regulations and more deals. The consensus was a market focused

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Speaker 1: and that would present a new era of opportunity with

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Speaker 1: money to be made. So here we are, roughly one

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Speaker 1: month later, and how to finance executives feel now and

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Speaker 1: what can we learn beyond the rhetoric and more the

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Speaker 1: actual trades. Sree, why don't we start with you?

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Speaker 2: If you want a good proxy for feelings and vibes

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Speaker 2: on Wall Street, I think the best indicator is obviously

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Speaker 2: the stock price for those individual companies and their firms.

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Speaker 2: And if you look at what's happened since November fifth,

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Speaker 2: The private equity stocks have also been climbing since November.

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Speaker 2: So the feeling there at least the immediate reaction to

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Speaker 2: the result has been this will be good for big business,

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Speaker 2: This will be good for big Wall Street. One of

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Speaker 2: the points you just mentioned was deal making. We've so

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Speaker 2: far had about five hundred and sixty billion dollars worth

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Speaker 2: That explains why. When Wall Street executors were talking at

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Speaker 2: a major financial services conference last week, one of the

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Speaker 2: questions that analysts kept asking them was, you've all talked

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Speaker 2: the answer was truly, yes, it is slower. We're having

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Speaker 2: a lot more conversations. A lot of these dealmaking discussions

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Speaker 2: You could have the gusher open anytime. But it does

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Speaker 2: go back to the idea that yes, there are a

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Speaker 2: But there is also the Trumpian policy uncertainty that they

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Speaker 1: On that, Hannah, you've been talking to a lot of executives.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how they're feeling about that point that Tree

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Speaker 3: And he's described Trump as a negotiator and said that

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Speaker 2: about seven years ago, now there was this predominant concept,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I would just say JP Morgan, which has

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Speaker 3: So I think that really sums up, you know, ratifies

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Speaker 1: And then I'm also curious, sort of who are the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street whispers in the Trump White House. I know

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Speaker 1: a big complaint of the Biden White House was that

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Speaker 1: and so I'm wondering what you're hearing about those two things.

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Speaker 2: Let me first start with the second part of your question, Nancy, So,

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Speaker 2: So they've benefited greatly from that. So if you have

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Speaker 1: Howard Lutnik is the Commerce Secretary. He wanted to be

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Speaker 1: That's a great point. I do think this stock market

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Speaker 1: was sort of his primary form of polling in his

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Speaker 1: first term. But I think you're right I think he

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Speaker 1: in how he's moving. And so you're right, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure sort of if that if the stock market and

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Speaker 1: how it's performing will be a checks and balances on

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Speaker 1: him this time. Shre thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: This was wonderful to have you.

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Speaker 2: Always great chatting with you.

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Speaker 1: Nancy and Hannah, thank you so much. It was great

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Speaker 1: to speak with you from New York.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for having us.

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Speaker 2: Mhmm