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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you,

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Speaker 1: along with my co host Lisa Brahma wits. Each day

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Speaker 1: we bring you the most noteworthy and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money, whether at the grocery store or

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Speaker 1: podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. I think the big issue here

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Speaker 1: is we've got equity markets off, you know, roughly fiftent

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Speaker 1: over the last seven trading days, just an extraordinary trade

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Speaker 1: down in the equity markets and financial markets. The question

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Speaker 1: I think now for a lot of investors is will

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Speaker 1: the central bankers try to come in and stop the carnage.

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Speaker 1: There's absolutely nobody better to talk to about this issue

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Speaker 1: than Robert Tip. He's a chief investment strategist in Ahead

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Speaker 1: He has crossed the river from the Jersey side, joining

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Speaker 1: us here in a Bloomberg eleven three oh studio. So, Robert,

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Speaker 1: what will the Fed do? When will they do it?

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Speaker 1: And will anybody even care? I think people will care

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Speaker 1: because there is a fundamental situation where uncertainty is rising,

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Speaker 1: and activity levels, especially abroad already in the world's biggest

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Speaker 1: driver of growth, China, have been seriously impacted. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: bottom line numbers like GDP and so on, those will

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Speaker 1: come out much later. But auto sales, for example, we're

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Speaker 1: down spectacularly, manufacturing, electricity usage and so on, and now

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Speaker 1: geometric increasing stage, and so there is going to be

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Speaker 1: a shock. The FED is away from their mandate, which

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Speaker 1: is not on the maximum employment side they're find there,

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Speaker 1: but inflation is persistently away from target. This morning we

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Speaker 1: had their preferred indicator of inflation, the PC print, and

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Speaker 1: if anything, that is moving systematically further away from their

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Speaker 1: target on the downside. So it would seem like there's

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Speaker 1: a great case for them to make an insurance cut

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Speaker 1: helpful because what we're seeing now is a tightening of

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Speaker 1: financial conditions. Granted, financial conditions were very easy a handful

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Speaker 1: make a difference going forward. Uh, financial conditions tightening, making

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Speaker 1: whatever is going to happen that would uh materialize in

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Speaker 1: think there's a pretty good argument for them to do

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Speaker 1: that now. Whether this is like that transition where they're

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Speaker 1: they really exacerbated things with that rate hike, or they'll

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Speaker 1: have a quicker turn. Uh, it remains to be seen.

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Speaker 1: But the initial indications are are not that good. But

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Speaker 1: And Jim Bullard coming out this morning and sort of

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Speaker 1: not necessarily signaling the rate cut that people were expecting. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: full rate cut. It's being priced in frankly before June

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Speaker 1: want to ask you, though, how much will that loosen conditions?

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Speaker 1: How much will that entice you as a portfolio manager

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Speaker 1: I think it will make a big difference. And when

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Speaker 1: and so on. So do you expe spreads to retest

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Speaker 1: I don't know where that's going to be. I would

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Speaker 1: Robert Tip, thank you so much as always, and I

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Speaker 1: such a great time. Yes, well, I mean this is

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Speaker 1: such an interesting market. Robert Tip, Chief Investment Strategies, of

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Speaker 1: PJIM Fixed Income. Well, that's a coronavirus spreads outside of

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Speaker 1: help us answer that, we welcome Dr Philip Chan. He's

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Speaker 1: a CEO and president of Cytosorbents Corporation that trades on

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Speaker 1: Nastack symbol ct s O. Up thirty six percent today,

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Speaker 1: up eight five percent year to date. Uh. Dr Chan,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us here in our

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Interactive Broker's studio. Just from your expertise in the

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Speaker 1: be an outbreak of the coronavirus. Well, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much Paul Lisa for having me on the show. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think to basically put my comments though in perspective,

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Speaker 1: my company. Citos Orbans is a medical device company that

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Speaker 1: specializes in blood purification to treat deadly inflammation often associated

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Speaker 1: with life threatening infection such as influenza, factoral pneumonia, virus

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Speaker 1: infections potentially like coronavirus, etcetera. UH. Cytosorp is approved in

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Speaker 1: the European Union, has accumulate more than eighty thousand uses

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Speaker 1: three million in sales last year. The cold goal of

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Speaker 1: Cytosaur is to control the deadly inflammatory response that these

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Speaker 1: viral illnesses and bacterial illnesses often generate that can then

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Speaker 1: lead rapidly to organ failure and death of patients from

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Speaker 1: the failure of organs like the heart, the lungs, and

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Speaker 1: yet approved. We're still an investigational product, but we are

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Speaker 1: in terms of your question about how prepared are we,

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Speaker 1: I think coronavirus COVID nineteen represents a very unique challenge

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Speaker 1: I think that we need better ways to prevent the spread,

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Speaker 1: that's what Citosorb is doing our product. Have you had

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Speaker 1: conversations with the government about expediting UH the accreditation of

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Speaker 1: is what we are very well positioned to do. Do you.

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Speaker 1: Are you aware of any patients that may have been

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Speaker 1: as part of the treatment outside of the US, may

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Speaker 1: have been prescribed or using your product. So the product

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Speaker 1: again has been used in more than eighty thousand cumulative

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Speaker 1: our Cytosaur product and are well positioned to potentially use

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Speaker 1: this on act on patients with coronavirus infection. We just

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Speaker 1: lot of traders probably don't want to deal with its

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot harder branch about it. Thanks so

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