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Speaker 1: Signed Charlie Pellot. The down SMP trading little change, nez

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Speaker 1: and Chevron gaining more than eight tenths of one percent

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Speaker 1: as crude rose in volatile trading. West Texas Intermediate Crude

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Speaker 1: up six tenths of one percent, now up twenty eight

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Speaker 1: cents of barrel forty six fifty one on West Texas

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Speaker 1: Intermediate Gold down six fifty ounce to twelve sixty nine,

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Speaker 1: a drop there of five tenths of one percent. The

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Speaker 1: four percent. I'm Charlie Pello. Then that's a bloom Bird

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Speaker 1: It focuses on corporate bonds that were investment grade at

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Speaker 1: the time that were issued and we're later downgraded to

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Speaker 1: below investment grade. This one has six is double b

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Speaker 1: single B and triple C. So it's almost like a

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Speaker 1: touch above high yield. But it's a kind of a

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Speaker 1: hidden hidden gem, I think, And the reason people haven't

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Speaker 1: really noticed it, I think is people generally just view

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Speaker 1: the world into high yield or investment grade when bonds um,

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Speaker 1: and they don't consider this sort of I called purgatory

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Speaker 1: these bonds are living there and g L has one

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Speaker 1: nine million dollars in total assets and a twelve months

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Speaker 1: dividend yield of five point four is gained eleven point

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Speaker 1: nine percent since the start of the year. That's your

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg ETF report. I'm Katherine Cowdery. This is taking stock

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Speaker 1: with PIM Box and Kathleen Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. Never

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Speaker 1: say never, never say always, always re evaluate, and never

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Speaker 1: give up. Does that sound like Jeff Saut while at

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Speaker 1: might he's the chief investment strategist of Raymond James, helping

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Speaker 1: to manage about four hundred billion dollars of customer assets

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Speaker 1: based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Jeff Saut, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for beating with us. A pleasure to talk with

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Speaker 1: you again. Pim, So, where does this saying fit into

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Speaker 1: an investment strategy? Well, it's more of a it's more

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Speaker 1: of a life statement than it is a stock market strategy.

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Speaker 1: My my model, proprietary model. When the SMP UH five

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Speaker 1: didn't follow its brethren, the SMP total returned to new

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Speaker 1: all time highs about three weeks ago, the model turned

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Speaker 1: negative and was looking for a low sometime this week,

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Speaker 1: looked to me like the model was was gonna be wrong.

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Speaker 1: for the fifth time since the April high. So I'm

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Speaker 1: never giving up. You're never giving up, all right, So

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Speaker 1: what do you do? I mean, if you don't give up,

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Speaker 1: you've got to be doing something or are you just

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Speaker 1: waiting for some more information. I'm exercising the rarest commodity

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Speaker 1: actually looking for a lower low than that. But you

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Speaker 1: take what they give you. What are they giving you

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Speaker 1: in terms of where to put fresh money to work? Well,

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Speaker 1: You know, my UM Fundamental Analysts has a strong by

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Speaker 1: rating on a Ridium, the low satellite orbiting company, and

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Speaker 1: they have a convertible preferred with about a six percent

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Speaker 1: one of my friend Rod Baron's favorite stocks. He's probably

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Speaker 1: and twenty five cents down about two uh percent so

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Speaker 1: far this year. This is the Global Satellite Communications System

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Speaker 1: voice and data communications. Correct, Yeah, that's that's correct. But

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Speaker 1: any time I can get a dividend yield out of

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Speaker 1: what looks to be a pretty dynamic situation, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to go for the dividend yield. What do you say

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Speaker 1: to people that look at the price of energy and

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Speaker 1: say that they can trade equities off price of energy. Well,

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Speaker 1: we actually were recommending some of the MLPs back in

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Speaker 1: not the upstreams. I think the upstreams business model is broken,

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Speaker 1: but you could buy an investment grade package of those

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Speaker 1: that made a lot of sense back then. Now, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: we're going uh into a recession. That well, in recently

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know how much I travel. I'm fine

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Speaker 1: What will that do to the dollar? If anything, I

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Speaker 1: think the dollar is peaked. I look at the dollar,

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Speaker 1: the Dixie Index. I've been saying for a year, it

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Speaker 1: looks like a great, big rounded top. I get club

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Speaker 1: by some of the economists by saying, but the trade

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Speaker 1: you bring up an interesting point, Chefs thought that you know,

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Speaker 1: many of the indicators that are used by professional investment

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Speaker 1: that correct? I think that's absolutely correct. Why is that

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Speaker 1: that Merrill Lynch, who does his own independent channel checks,

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Speaker 1: Right when you travel around the country, and I want

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Speaker 1: using gasoline. The cost of gasoline may have increased marginally recently,

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Speaker 1: it hasn't showed up yet. I think they're still stunned

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Speaker 1: I think they were going to loosen their pocket books

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Speaker 1: as we get into the back half of this year.

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Speaker 1: And Jeff Sawt this last point, You I haven't heard

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Speaker 1: just talk about the election, the political season. Does that

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Speaker 1: matter for investors? Uh? There will be winners and losers

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Speaker 1: depending on who's who's going to be elected. But I

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Speaker 1: I don't like any of the candidates. I think you've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of company there. All right, Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Jeff Sawt is the chief investment strategist for

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Speaker 1: Raymond and James. He's based in St. Petersburg, Florida, but

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Speaker 1: as he said, he spends a lot of time traveling

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Speaker 1: an own the country, helping to manage four hundred billion

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Speaker 1: dollars of customer assets. Thank you very much for joining us.

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