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Speaker 2: I'm Bonnie Quinn and I'm Doug Krisner. Here are the
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Speaker 1: SoftBank owned ARM Holdings made quite the splash in its
Speaker 1: Wall Street debut. Shares of the UK based chip designer
Speaker 1: jumped to get this twenty five percent. ARM raised more
Speaker 1: than four point eight billion dollars in the biggest initial
Speaker 1: public offering this year. CEO Renee has told us what
Speaker 1: the current artificial intelligence boom means for the company.
Speaker 3: AI is everywhere, and if it's your edge device like
Speaker 3: the Assistant or the Alexa, or your autonomous vehicle, that's
Speaker 3: all AI. And now we're seeing it in the cloud,
Speaker 3: in the data center, and all the growth of Nvidia
Speaker 3: in Vida announcing one of their newest products, grace Hopper,
Speaker 3: that is based on ARM. So ARM is everywhere relative
Speaker 3: to AI that.
Speaker 1: Was ARM at CEO rene has. ARM shares opened at
Speaker 1: fifty six dollars and ten cents and closed in the
Speaker 1: regular session at sixty three dollars and fifty nine cents.
Speaker 4: We're hearing Walt Disney has held exploratory talks about selling
Speaker 4: the ABC network and the ABC TV stations to Nextstar
Speaker 4: Media Group. Now these discussions apparently are preliminary, and sources
Speaker 4: telling us Nextstar would only be interested at the right price.
Speaker 4: Here's Bloomberg's Chris Palmery.
Speaker 5: Rumors about a deal like this have been going on
Speaker 5: quite a while. You know. The difference is, you know,
Speaker 5: we saw in July Bob Biker coming out and saying, hey,
Speaker 5: you know, this is probably a business we don't want
Speaker 5: to be in long term. The legacy media networks, we know,
Speaker 5: they've basically been up for sale.
Speaker 4: That is a Bloomberg'schris palm Mary. By the way, Disney
Speaker 4: saying today no decision has been made on selling ABC
Speaker 4: and it's open to options. And separately, we're hearing that
Speaker 4: Disney is cutting it's target for subscribers for the Disney
Speaker 4: Plus streaming service for twenty twenty four. The company is
Speaker 4: expecting I basically a shortfall by tens of millions of subscribers.
Speaker 4: You know, Disney Plus has been loose using customers, largely
Speaker 4: because of some hefty price increases, and it's also been
Speaker 4: impacting or impacted by collapsing demand in India. That's after
Speaker 4: the company failed to win cricket streaming rights.
Speaker 1: Funny United Auto Workers president Sean fein Doug is preparing
Speaker 1: to hit all three Detroit carmakers with targeted walkouts at
Speaker 1: strategic locations in several states. Now, a workstopage could still
Speaker 1: be avoided, but the UAW and General Motors Ford and
Speaker 1: Stillantas are approaching a deadline to agree on a new contract.
Speaker 1: Let's get more from Bloomberg's David Welsh.
Speaker 6: The vibe coming out of the union right now is
Speaker 6: the president is itching destroyed. He says he's not, but
Speaker 6: he's making plans. The writer has still really strong against
Speaker 6: the car companies, against rich executives, all that stuff, so
Speaker 6: he's getting people riled up. He says they're far apart.
Speaker 6: It doesn't sound like they are if you look at
Speaker 6: the numbers. So I think they will, and look, it
Speaker 6: could go on for a while. I don't think it'll
Speaker 6: be something like three months, but I could see strake
Speaker 6: going on for weeks, and it could vary by car
Speaker 6: company too.
Speaker 1: That's Bloomberg's David Welsh. If no agreement is reached, this
Speaker 1: could be the first time the union takes action against
Speaker 1: all three companies. At the same time, UAW President Sean
Speaker 1: Fain will be holding a news conference at ten pm
Speaker 1: wool Street time.
Speaker 4: We go to China next, where the PBOC cut its
Speaker 4: bank reserve requirements for the second time this year. We
Speaker 4: have more from Bloomberg's Yvonne Men.
Speaker 7: In Hong Kong, the People's Bank of China has lowered
Speaker 7: the triple R for most banks by twenty five basis points.
Speaker 7: The way that average triple R for banks will be
Speaker 7: seven point four percent after the reduction, and knafas say
Speaker 7: a triple R cut was expected because the large amount
Speaker 7: of special bond supply is said to hit the market
Speaker 7: this month. The central Bank said the cut will help
Speaker 7: maintain reasonably ample liquidity in the banking system. Economs estimate
Speaker 7: that the production could free up fifty five to sixty
Speaker 7: nine billion dollars. Bloomberg Economics say the PAOC could still
Speaker 7: trim its policy rate by ten basis points later on today.
Speaker 7: For the consensus is for a hold at two and
Speaker 7: a half percent. In Hong Kong. I'm yvon Mann Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 4: Well GOP lawmakers have been pressing the Biden administration to
Speaker 4: completely cut off Huawei Technologies and the Chinese chip makers
Speaker 4: MICK from their American suppliers. Now this comes after Huawei
Speaker 4: launched a new phone. It uses highly advanced technology that
Speaker 4: the US has been trying to keep out of China's hands.
Speaker 4: This phone is or utilizes, i should say, a Chinese
Speaker 4: made seven nanimeter chip. It appears to rely on US
Speaker 4: technology and it's really stoked a lot of debate in
Speaker 4: Washington over the effectiveness of US attempts to curtail China's
Speaker 4: technological and military prowess. Daybreak Asia and an update on
Speaker 4: Global News is next. As we have been reporting, we
Speaker 4: shall find out a lot more tonight about the uaw's
Speaker 4: plans for its labor dispute, how this may play out.
Speaker 4: It will unfold at ten o'clock Eastern time in the US.
Speaker 4: At Baxter has been covering this story also with an
Speaker 4: eye to what we may get out of the White House.
Speaker 8: And yeah, that's right, Doug. Question a major question today
Speaker 8: will can President Joe Biden get involved in the UAW
Speaker 8: auto industry labor dispute. Well Bloomber's Gabriel Coppola says he
Speaker 8: has imaged himself as a friend of the middle class
Speaker 8: and organized later labor.
Speaker 9: But I think that you know, he's limited in what
Speaker 9: he can do. You know, both legally and you know,
Speaker 9: but I think he can. He can't. You know, he
Speaker 9: needs the success of the automakers just as much, right
Speaker 9: because if the automakers don't have a deal that's sustainable,
Speaker 9: then they're not going to support these jobs of the future.
Speaker 8: And a sad reality. Ford CEO Jim Farley has just
Speaker 8: come out with an interview saying that things, you know,
Speaker 8: whatever is being said in public are just not moving.
Speaker 3: What the UAW is offering us is a choice between
Speaker 3: going out of business and bankruptcy.
Speaker 8: Again, the workers are set to target strike at midnight
Speaker 8: unless there is an eleventh hour agreement of some kind.
Speaker 8: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy today sending a clear message to
Speaker 8: the right wing of his party, no government shut down.
Speaker 10: I told my conference, I know tomorrow is the Jewish holiday,
Speaker 10: will be out of session, but when we come back,
Speaker 10: we're not going to leave.
Speaker 8: Meanwhile, House Minority Leader how Came Jeffrey says the threat
Speaker 8: is still there.
Speaker 11: House Republicans have made clear that they are determined to
Speaker 11: shut down the government and try to jam the extreme
Speaker 11: right wing ideology down the throats of the American people.
Speaker 8: So first there'll be a showdown between McCarthy and the
Speaker 8: right wing of his party.
Speaker 10: Threats don't matter, and sometimes people do those things because
Speaker 10: of personal things, and that's all fine.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, and then he'll have to fight with the Democrats.
Speaker 8: After a deal broke down earlier this summer, a plea deal.
Speaker 8: Hunter Biden has been indicted on federal charges. Bloomberg's Nancy
Speaker 8: Lyons has the very latest.
Speaker 12: Hunter Biden is charged with three counts related to the
Speaker 12: as of a cult revolver in twenty eighteen. He allegedly
Speaker 12: lied on the form that's required to buy the gun
Speaker 12: that he was not using drugs, but that was a
Speaker 12: period when the younger Biden had acknowledged struggling with an
Speaker 12: addiction to crack cocaine following his divorce and the death
Speaker 12: of his brother. The felonies carry maximum sentences between five
Speaker 12: and ten years in prison. A special council is still
Speaker 12: investigating Hunter Biden and could file additional tax charges in Washington.
Speaker 12: Nancy Lyons Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 8: All Right, Nancy, thank you. At Hong Kong has kicked
Speaker 8: off a campaign to stimulate its nightlife. Life is official
Speaker 8: seek to bolster the city's attractiveness and revive an economy
Speaker 8: battered by years of pandemic isolation. The promotion, called Night
Speaker 8: Vibes Hong Kong, will feature three evening bazaars at waterfront
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Speaker 4: Daybreak Asia. And our special guest it is a former
Speaker 4: head of the Dallas Fedbank, Rob Kaplan, is with us.
Speaker 4: Rob's also CEO and president of the Draper Richards Kaplan's Foundation.
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to see you once again.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: We've got this FED meeting coming up next week. I'm
Speaker 4: less concerned about what you think may or may not happen,
Speaker 4: and I'm more interested in getting your perspective on how
Speaker 4: difficult it is it is when you get to the
Speaker 4: end of a tightening cycle to kind of engineer this
Speaker 4: and allow markets to kind of adjust, but not to
Speaker 4: become overly enthusiastic that we're necessarily done with tightening.
Speaker 13: Well, every cycle is different, and this one is different.
Speaker 13: And here's how it's different. A lot of the key
Speaker 13: drivers of what we're seeing right now are happening away
Speaker 13: from the FED. What do I mean by that? Government
Speaker 13: spending unspent ARPA money, which is in the hundreds of
Speaker 13: billions of dollars at the local level, the Infrastructure Act money,
Speaker 13: Inflation Reduction Act money is all being spent in significant
Speaker 13: size in the US economy that is helping to stabilize
Speaker 13: and give resiliency to the US economy.
Speaker 11: In my view.
Speaker 13: Without those three sources of spending, my guess is the
Speaker 13: FED would have stopped raising rates maybe a couple of
Speaker 13: moves ago, might be at four and a half and
Speaker 13: four and three quarters, and we might even be in
Speaker 13: a downturn right now. So that's significant. And the second
Speaker 13: thing that's significant is because of the energy transition that
Speaker 13: we're executing here and around the world world. We're limiting
Speaker 13: fossil fuel production in the United States, We're undersupplied globally,
Speaker 13: and oil prices are very significant elements of inflation directly
Speaker 13: and indirectly. And so the challenge for the FED now
Speaker 13: is if you'd told people a year ago they'd get
Speaker 13: to five and a quarter five and a half, you'd say,
Speaker 13: oh my god, we may not need to go that far,
Speaker 13: and the economy would be very slow. It's instead very
Speaker 13: resilient and inflation is still sticky. But I would argue
Speaker 13: there are structural drivers away from the FED. So the
Speaker 13: decision for the FED is how do you end this
Speaker 13: cycle when you have this amount of stimulus fiscally and
Speaker 13: should you talk about it right now? They've chosen not
Speaker 13: to talk about it, thinking it's out of their lane.
Speaker 13: But without it, they're going to need to keep their
Speaker 13: options open that they may still need to do more.
Speaker 13: Even though I don't think they'll do anything in this
Speaker 13: septem meeting.
Speaker 1: How many more times will they need to go? The
Speaker 1: situation sounds a little more dire when you put it
Speaker 1: the way you just put it.
Speaker 13: I don't know the answer to that. I do know
Speaker 13: that anything interest rates sensitive right now is very weak.
Speaker 13: If you're a small mid sized business, it is very
Speaker 13: difficult to get a loan if you're in the goods sector.
Speaker 13: Business is very weak. So there's number of sectors of
Speaker 13: the economy that are affected by the FED funds rate
Speaker 13: feel like they're in a recession right now. Then you've
Speaker 13: got this counterforce I just talked about of government spending
Speaker 13: that's going into construction and is really going into services,
Speaker 13: Meaning if you have workers that are working at these
Speaker 13: new projects, they spend money in restaurants and they fly
Speaker 13: and all that other. And so the truth is, if
Speaker 13: I were at the FED right now, I wouldn't act
Speaker 13: in the September meeting. I'd probably be inclined to be
Speaker 13: more more patient than even November before I acted, but
Speaker 13: I would certainly leave open the option that I might
Speaker 13: have to act. The thing that would bother me is
Speaker 13: I'm not raising rates because the organic strength in the economy.
Speaker 13: I'm raising rates because of the artificial extra stimulus being
Speaker 13: created by government spending. And the thing that would scare
Speaker 13: me and worry me is when the government spending starts
Speaker 13: to dry up, not in twenty three or twenty four,
Speaker 13: but into twenty five, we may have a lot more
Speaker 13: fundamental weakness than I would like. But that's the reality
Speaker 13: I'm dealing with if I'm at the FED, so.
Speaker 4: Many things to talk about too. The balance sheet roll
Speaker 4: off seems to have been done pretty well so far.
Speaker 4: I mean, it hasn't created too much disruption in markets
Speaker 4: near as I can tell, although in March we had
Speaker 4: a lot of stress building in the regional banking complex,
Speaker 4: a couple of bank failures. Some people were pointing the
Speaker 4: finger at the FED saying, this is the consequence of
Speaker 4: aggressive tightening. We can put that aside right now. But
Speaker 4: in the interim or intervening period, there have been calls
Speaker 4: from a lot more capital on the part of banks,
Speaker 4: a lot of the regulators saying, hey, you need to
Speaker 4: put more aside in the event that there is some
Speaker 4: stress that continues to build. Jamie Diamond, for one, is
Speaker 4: pushed back against this. How do you see the overall
Speaker 4: banking system right now?
Speaker 13: So or rough estimate would be if the FED balance
Speaker 13: sheet went from four to nine trillion pre COVID to
Speaker 13: after COVID, it's now running it down to closer to eight.
Speaker 13: The best estimate I've seen is half that increase went
Speaker 13: into bank deposits. As the FED is running down the
Speaker 13: balance sheet, as you note, it puts more pressure on
Speaker 13: bank deposits, plus bank deposits are repricing to a higher level.
Speaker 13: Plus the backup and longer term yields have eroded bank capital.
Speaker 13: So most banks I talk to right now are are
Speaker 13: very concerned, quietly concerned about further bank deposits. They're very
Speaker 13: worried about their earnings being weak, and they need to
Speaker 13: show good earnings for the regulators and for the depositors.
Speaker 13: And they're being extremely careful about loans to small and
Speaker 13: mid sized businesses, and they are. And the requirements for
Speaker 13: more capital, meaning there are two ways to fit into
Speaker 13: new higher capital requirements. One is to raise more money.
Speaker 13: The other is to shrink your loan book. And what
Speaker 13: I've seen is they're doing a little bit. They're shrinking
Speaker 13: their loan book and being very disciplined on loans. The
Speaker 13: thing I don't love about the requirement to raise more
Speaker 13: bank capital. The issue we had in March was not
Speaker 13: about bank capital. It was a supervisory lapse hiding in
Speaker 13: plain sight, where the banks took asset liability risk. It
Speaker 13: was well known to the FED and to the regulators,
Speaker 13: but they didn't act to get banks to clean it up.
Speaker 13: In response, the response has been you need to raise
Speaker 13: more capital, and we're going to be tougher from a
Speaker 13: regulatory point of view. But I think a lot of
Speaker 13: banks I talked to are frustrated. They think it was
Speaker 13: a supervisory issue, not a bank capital issue. And I
Speaker 13: think that's what you hear Jamie diamond saying this bank
Speaker 13: capital is not going to help, and it isn't what
Speaker 13: the issue was in March. The last comment I'd make
Speaker 13: about the FED balance sheet, there is one sort of
Speaker 13: low fever symptom of the balance sheet runoff and all
Speaker 13: this government spending, and that's the backup in the ten year.
Speaker 13: So we don't talk about as much as we should,
Speaker 13: but the tenure treasury has backed up a good fifty
Speaker 13: basis points. That is a very significant move, and I'm
Speaker 13: not sure it's over yet. And so is there some
Speaker 13: symptom of the bank of the runoff. We don't have
Speaker 13: as many natural buyers for treasuries used to be FED
Speaker 13: was one. Banks we know were one, but they're not
Speaker 13: going to buy anymore because it created the problems in March,
Speaker 13: and so I would be watching, and I do watch
Speaker 13: very carefully. Right now, two things, where are the ten
Speaker 13: years trading? And what's the price of oil, and those
Speaker 13: are two factors away from the FED that are concerning.
Speaker 1: Well, WTI is above a ninety dollars barrel, as you
Speaker 1: well know today, Rob. It sounds like you're describing a
Speaker 1: scenario where the transmission mechanism sort of works through small
Speaker 1: businesses and next year we might get a slow down.
Speaker 1: Will there be a drop off and employment that will
Speaker 1: cause a recession?
Speaker 13: So I don't think. I don't know, of course, but
Speaker 13: I would guess there will not be a recession this
Speaker 13: year or next year. And the reason is the amount
Speaker 13: of government spending for the rest of this year and
Speaker 13: next year. And by the way, you notice that that
Speaker 13: you know, if you ask me six months ago, I
Speaker 13: think the best estimate on the deficit for this year
Speaker 13: was a trillion and a quarter. It's now two trillion dollars. Okay,
Speaker 13: we're running a very high, high pre recession.
Speaker 1: Deficittion my election here though, Does that make a.
Speaker 13: Difference, Well, I'll leave that to others. I think the
Speaker 13: point of this is this amount of spending that's a
Speaker 13: meaningful percentage of GDP is the main reason I think
Speaker 13: that we've got stability. We don't have slower GDP growth.
Speaker 13: It also means that the employment rate is going to
Speaker 13: stay unemployment rate very low. There's substantial demand from every
Speaker 13: one of these projects for jobs. There aren't enough workers
Speaker 13: to do these jobs, and there's a lot of job
Speaker 13: switching to fill these jobs. I think this is a
Speaker 13: reason why the Fed, I hope they don't, may need
Speaker 13: to do more and we'll need to keep rates higher
Speaker 13: for longer. And that's the trade. And you may see
Speaker 13: the tenure backup.
Speaker 4: For so we're at four twenty eight right now. Can
Speaker 4: you see a tenure at let's say four to seventy
Speaker 4: five and other fifty basis points.
Speaker 13: So I'll take you here's how I'd look at it.
Speaker 13: People are saying, gee, when the Fed starts to cut
Speaker 13: rates somewhere in the future in twenty twenty four, maybe
Speaker 13: the tenure will lease off. I think the bond market
Speaker 13: has already looked through that, and it's said if inflation
Speaker 13: stays sticky, price of oil might be one of the reasons.
Speaker 13: And the Fed is able to get the Fed funds
Speaker 13: rate down to say three, for example, three percent at
Speaker 13: one hundred and fifty basis point term premium that gets
Speaker 13: you to four to fifty on the tenure This is
Speaker 13: why a lot of intelligent people are saying, you know,
Speaker 13: I know there's a been backup in rates, but I'm
Speaker 13: not sure we're at fair value now. And that's why
Speaker 13: I'm watching this very carefully, because it could create a
Speaker 13: further tightening in financial conditions, assuming the Fed.
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