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

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Speaker 1: Asia podcast. I'm Dog Krisner. US Equities eked out another

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Speaker 1: game in the Wednesday session after a week reading on

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Speaker 1: private payrolls from ADP. The numbers helped to cement bets

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Speaker 1: of a FED rate cut next week. We also saw

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Speaker 1: a rotation out of information technology shares. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: closer look at what's happening in the Asia Pacific. Mark

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Speaker 1: Cranfield joins us from our studios in Singapore. Mark is

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Speaker 1: a Bloomberg Markets Live strategist. Mark, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being here. We're focused a lot on the FED

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Speaker 1: and the very high likelihood of a rate cut next week.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting that in spite of market expectations

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Speaker 1: of that twenty five bases point rate cut, the dollar

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Speaker 1: is holding in relatively well against the majors. We were

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Speaker 1: a little weak today in New York, trading only by

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Speaker 1: around three tens of one percent. If you look at

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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg Dollars Spot Index, what are you seeing now

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Speaker 1: when you look at the currency markets.

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Speaker 2: That's really a function of the other side of the story.

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Speaker 2: So although the dollar story is becoming relatively clear in

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Speaker 2: the sense that we're expecting lower interest rates, but yields

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Speaker 2: are still relatively high on a global basis. We haven't

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Speaker 2: yet got a very strong theme in favor of the

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Speaker 2: other currents. You need the Euro and the yen especially

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Speaker 2: to have a story of their own why people want

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Speaker 2: to buy those currencies as an alternative to the US dollar.

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Speaker 2: It's emerging, but it isn't something that people are willing

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Speaker 2: to bet a lot of money on yet. Until that happens,

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Speaker 2: the dollar will be able to retain a reasonable level.

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Speaker 2: It probably it is probably going to be a drawn out,

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Speaker 2: further interest rate declines in the United States. Gradually the

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Speaker 2: yield differentials will narrow between the US and other countries.

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Speaker 2: It will undermine the US dollar. But the real kicker

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Speaker 2: will only come when people are really bullish, for example,

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Speaker 2: when they see the European economies outperforming. When that kind

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Speaker 2: becomes very clear, very tangible. People want to put money

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Speaker 1: When we consider the end and the recent commands from BOJ,

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Speaker 1: Governor Will way to talking up the prospects of a

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Speaker 1: raid hike. I think right now money markets are implying

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Speaker 1: maybe eighty percent probability that the BOJ will raise its

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Speaker 2: The trouble with the end situation is that the Bank

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Speaker 2: which as you say, looks pretty much a done deal

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Speaker 2: now in December, they are still way below the neutral rate.

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Speaker 2: And if you look at the time gap. Since Governor

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Speaker 2: Luada came in, it has been changing policy, which is

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Speaker 2: seventy five. That's still deeply negative real rates in Japan.

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Speaker 2: That's what undermines the Japanese currency, and nobody is expecting

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Speaker 2: If traders see that, then they're fairly confident that the

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Speaker 1: We've had a number of bond auctions for the Japanese

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Speaker 1: what's been going on in South Korea today, notwithstanding where

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Speaker 2: But there are a few reasons why Koreas had an

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Speaker 1: So have the US tariffs imposed on South Korea? Have

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Speaker 1: your take on China. Next week we get the inflation data,

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Speaker 2: It's a big complicated picture. They probably have already done

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Speaker 1: Okay, great stuff, Mark, always a pleasure, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: very much. Mark Cranfield, Bloomberg Markets Live Strategist, joining from

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Speaker 1: Singapore here on the Daybreak Asia podcast. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Detbreak Asia podcast. I'm deg Prisner. Financial markets are

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Speaker 1: widely expecting the Fed to lower interest rates next week.

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Speaker 1: Even so, policymakers, i think it's fair to say, have

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Speaker 1: the index of prices paid for services and materials showed

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Speaker 1: the slowest growth in seven months. Now, that could suggest

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Speaker 1: some easing in inflationary pressures. Now, on Friday markets, we'll

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Speaker 1: The PCE. Economists are projecting a third straight increase in

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Speaker 1: are stable yet still sticky. Let's bring Adam Turnquist into

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Speaker 1: the conversation. Adam is chief technical strategist at LPL Financial. Adam,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for taking time to chat with us.

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Speaker 1: What did you make of this ISM print, particularly on

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Speaker 3: Well, it certainly came at a good time after the

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Speaker 3: You had As you mentioned, the price is paid component

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Speaker 1: There was a very interesting report to my mind in

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Speaker 3: So for the equity market, we're bullish going into twenty

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Here, Adam, always a pleasure. Thank you so very much.

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Speaker 1: Adam turnquiz there. He is the chief tech strategist at

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