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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm Pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Great example for our next topic, which is oil and gasoline.

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Speaker 1: And here to help us understand more about what's going

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Speaker 1: on is Steven Shork. He is the president of the

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Speaker 1: Short Group. Stephen always a pleasure. Happy fourth of July

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Speaker 1: to you. Uh, let's start. Where do you want to start?

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Speaker 1: We could do gasoline prices comparing those to two thousand five,

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Speaker 1: or maybe you want to talk about natural gas and kutar.

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Speaker 1: Where would you like to begin? Well, I think let's

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Speaker 1: start him. What's near and dear to everyone's heart listening,

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Speaker 1: and that is gasolene prices. Of course, of course, gasolene

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Speaker 1: prices are a function of crude oil prices, So every

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Speaker 1: one dollar move in the barrel of crude oil, you

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Speaker 1: typically get a lag of about two or three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Did knock on to guess lene on the pump is

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Speaker 1: usually between two and two and a half cents, So

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Speaker 1: given where guest lane prices war when crude prices began

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Speaker 1: to tank back right around Memorial Day, we're looking at

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Speaker 1: probably another ten cent fall in the price of gasoline.

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Speaker 1: So on the triple A survey, that would get guest

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Speaker 1: line down to about two ten cents, which is more

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Speaker 1: or less the bottom of what we saw last year.

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Speaker 1: So from a consumer standpoint, the gasolene prices through the

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Speaker 1: remainder of the holiday season this summer looks very favorable.

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Speaker 1: So what industries or businesses that depend on consumer spending

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Speaker 1: with that spending than translate into better business for those

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Speaker 1: lines of sectors, or is there something else that you

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Speaker 1: can point us to. Well, When we had the sharp

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Speaker 1: end of the concern I had was that it wasn't

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Speaker 1: just in the oil markets. It was in the steel

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Speaker 1: was in all of the heavy industrial metal markets. So

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Speaker 1: clearly the sell off in oil was more endemic of

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Speaker 1: what was happening in the general border commodity. Given that

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Speaker 1: industrial metals are are clear telltale of potential economic growth

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Speaker 1: this time around. The industrial metals complex has had a

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Speaker 1: bump from the the the current administration. When we look

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Speaker 1: at the charts of what these prices have been doing

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Speaker 1: since November, you had a big spike, then you had

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Speaker 1: a corrective pull back, but prices have been holding steady.

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Speaker 1: And I take that as a positive sign given the

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Speaker 1: potential of the demand for for these industrial commodities. If when, when,

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Speaker 1: from this administration. Um So, oil prices have decoupled, and

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Speaker 1: the decoupled for a very uh you know, basic good reason,

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Speaker 1: and that is essentially, we are producing a lot of oil.

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Speaker 1: And this is where Wall Street really made a core

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Speaker 1: the OPEC decision. That is to say, Wall Street was

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Speaker 1: putting too much emphasis on OPEC dwindling power to dictate

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Speaker 1: the United States in this current environment is now the

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Speaker 1: globe's swing producer when it comes to oil. So when

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Speaker 1: we look at US production at it over two year high,

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Speaker 1: the guys who must sell oil excuse, we must buy oil,

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Speaker 1: that mean, Well, it means that kudal demand, which has

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Speaker 1: are a crude bullish investor. That's a great uh, sort

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Speaker 1: and I maybe just give you, you know, another forty

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Speaker 1: that was really over sold, so wall speak to risk

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Speaker 1: Now I put I need to put the caveat out there,

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Speaker 1: PIM that everything I've stated is already well known in

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Speaker 1: the market, So that means if it's well known, that

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Speaker 1: means it is priced in. So that said, this is

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Speaker 1: a very telling first day of the second half of

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Speaker 1: I look at my Bloomberg that's a very barished tell tale.

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Speaker 1: We gotta, we gotta. That was perfect. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you very much as always, Stephen Shorky is the

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Speaker 1: president of the Short Group, giving us a detailed information

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Speaker 1: about the oil and energy markets. Well, we turn our

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Speaker 1: understand what's going on, I want to bring in Eric Valcunas,

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Speaker 1: our senior et F analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. Eric, a

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Speaker 1: pleasure always to have you. Maybe you could begin by

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Speaker 1: just know I'm going to put you in a tough

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Speaker 1: spot here because explain what has happened recently to markets

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Speaker 1: you you actually take a look inside yeah, So China

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