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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and get to the economic data of

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Speaker 2: the morning. The notes that I'm getting seemed to then

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Speaker 2: reaffirm that Goldilock scenario, right, because we have subdued inflation,

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Speaker 3: The FED can continue to cut.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they can even cut fifty if inflations come down enough.

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Speaker 2: Ira Jersey is Bloomberg Intelligence Chief US interests rate strategist,

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Speaker 2: and he joins us. Now, Ira, is that theory like, Hey,

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Speaker 2: it's Goldilocks. Hey, inflation comes down, they can cut fifty.

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Speaker 4: It depends. It depends if the trend continues or if

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Speaker 5: Now, one thing I've been trying to get a read on,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So when you go back eighteen months, the Fed

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Speaker 2: All Right, Ira, thanks a lot, really appreciate It's like

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Speaker 5: You mentioned Pennsylvania being the grand prize this year. How

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Speaker 2: All right, taking a look at these markets here, Yes,

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Speaker 2: how do you manage all of that? NADIA level is

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Speaker 2: Me madcaps, because it feels like that some say that

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Speaker 3: Thirty Going to the markets here.

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Speaker 2: Some of the headlines is that Intel rebuffed an offer

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Speaker 2: from ARM after ARM inquired about buying a unit from Intel.

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Speaker 2: Man Deep Singh, senior tech industry analyst, joined us now

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Speaker 2: for Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 3: Man, Deep, is this just going to be like a

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Speaker 3: string of.

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Speaker 2: Random suitors for random parts of the business here, Like,

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Speaker 2: what was your take on this?

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Speaker 11: I mean, in this case, it's very specific in the

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Speaker 11: sense that Qualcomm was more about chip design. ARM is

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Speaker 11: specifically interested in the IP related to the instruction set

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Speaker 11: business that Intel has. Remember, Intel has got a lot

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Speaker 11: of assets within the company which is you know, patented,

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Speaker 11: it's IP that's very desirable. That's been the basis of

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Speaker 11: their mode for the last forty years. And ARM is

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Speaker 11: a competitor to Intel's eighty six architecture. But at the

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Speaker 11: same time, ARM wants to expand into other adjacencies and

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Speaker 11: that's where you know they are looking probably to buy

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Speaker 11: some of that IP or patents from Intel. I mean,

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Speaker 11: we don't know the details, that's just a speculation, but

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Speaker 11: I can imagine ARM getting into you know, chip design

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Speaker 11: or foundry manufacturing. That's just a way out of what

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Speaker 11: they're doing right now. So the natural extension of their

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Speaker 11: business would be to buy some of the IP from Intel.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the company's got quite a few suitors. We're

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Speaker 5: seeing shares down as much as fifty two percent year

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Speaker 5: to date. What do you think would really be a

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Speaker 5: positive outcome for the Stockwader analysts saying the route that

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Speaker 5: they should be taking.

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Speaker 11: I mean, everyone looks at Intel based on the some

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Speaker 11: of the parts spaces, and clearly the current market cap

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Speaker 11: of Intel doesn't justify you know, all the assets and

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Speaker 11: the IP that is within the company. At the same time,

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Speaker 11: they're bleeding money when it comes to the foundry side

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Speaker 11: of the business, losing almost seven to eight billion dollars

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Speaker 11: a year. They're investing a lot in capex subsidized by

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Speaker 11: the US government, but the turnaround clearly hasn't played out.

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Speaker 11: And that's where you know, the bigger you are, the

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Speaker 11: harder it is to turn around the ship. But at

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Speaker 11: the same time, one could argue, you know that X

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Speaker 11: eighty six business will rebound if this AI super cycle

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Speaker 11: has to play out, because they still have that dominant

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Speaker 11: eighty percent share. When it comes to the PC market,

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Speaker 11: and if everyone is upgrading their PCs, guess what it

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Speaker 11: will be an Intel PC. It's as if they are

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Speaker 11: losing market share on that PC side. So that's that's

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Speaker 11: the hope when it comes to the Intel turner round.

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Speaker 2: So do we know when the PC market, the consumer

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Speaker 2: market is going to start turning around? Like it feels

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Speaker 2: like the trough is in, But how long that looks

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Speaker 2: and what that looks like?

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Speaker 11: We just have to watch for data points. In fact,

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Speaker 11: Micron this week gave us one data point they called

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Speaker 11: out AIPC being you know, rebounding and twenty twenty five

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Speaker 11: being a better year than the past couple of years.

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Speaker 11: So clearly that inventory correction has happened and we have

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Speaker 11: seen a trough and now it's a question of how

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Speaker 11: fast does the units recover. And I think that's where

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Speaker 11: Intel we'll see a nice rebound on that client PC side.

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Speaker 11: On the server side, I mean, clearly there is no

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Speaker 11: fix right now. They are losing share to Nvidia ANAMD

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Speaker 11: and that's unlikely to change in the near term.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Mandy, what's about a minute on the clock. I'm

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Speaker 5: curious what will investors really be looking for from earnings?

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Speaker 5: What's the most important thing here?

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Speaker 11: Well, I think they're looking for a plan. So Amazon

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Speaker 11: you tying up with Intel to use their foundry side

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Speaker 11: for chip manufacturing. That's a positive sign. The question is

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Speaker 11: the scale at which Amazon is going to look to

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Speaker 11: use Intel versus TSMC that they're using right now. So

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Speaker 11: that foundry business is where Intel is bleeding money. Hyperscalers,

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Speaker 11: partnering with Intel on that side is great news, and

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Speaker 11: I think that's where you want, you know, more positive

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Speaker 11: news in terms of Microsoft and other hyperscalers really ramping

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Speaker 11: up on Intel foundry.

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Speaker 3: All right, man, Deep thanks a lot.

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Speaker 2: We really appreciate man Deep Say Bloomberg Intelligence senior tech

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Speaker 2: industry analyst joining us on Intel on the struggles and

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Speaker 2: kind of how you wind up moving forward from their net.

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Speaker 2: So let's get more into it. Michelle Martin is president

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Speaker 2: of Prosperity. It is an iSER amper company. To discuss

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Speaker 2: her market outlooks, she joins us now from Minneapolis. Hey, Michelle,

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Speaker 2: I feel like some takeaway from the last two weeks

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Speaker 2: has been are we actually in a global easing cycle

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Speaker 2: now that China's on board? And does that change how

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Speaker 2: you think about things?

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Speaker 9: It certainly does, and thanks for having me on today.

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Speaker 9: I think with the global easing there's more likelihood that

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Speaker 9: we might be heading for a soft landing. We're seeing

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Speaker 9: it across you know, what's happening with China today or

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Speaker 9: this week, and we're certainly with interest rates coming down,

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Speaker 9: it appears that we're in a really good place. It's

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Speaker 9: been a great week for that, and the trends are

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Speaker 9: showing that there may be more cuts ahead.

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Speaker 5: And when we're thinking about China, just as a big,

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Speaker 5: big has a big economy, how much do we really

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Speaker 5: think that this will affect other aspects more globally in

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Speaker 5: pointing it back to the US here.

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Speaker 9: So it's interesting and I think you were just talking

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Speaker 9: about this. We've been on the sidelines as it relates

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Speaker 9: to China, as many have just based upon the performance.

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Speaker 9: I think we would typically have a wait and see

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Speaker 9: attitude again, understanding what comes out of the election and

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Speaker 9: what tariffs might be in place. I think that we've

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Speaker 9: seen a general trend of companies moving away from China,

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Speaker 9: So I would say that we're we have looked at

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Speaker 9: getting back into emerging markets, particularly with this news with China,

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Speaker 9: and we would ease our way back in.

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Speaker 3: How do you do that?

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Speaker 2: Like is it local consumer facing stocks? Is it through ETFs?

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Speaker 9: It's through generally ets and mutual funds within our portfolios.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And how aggressive you said dipping your toe? So

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Speaker 2: how does that progress work? Like you dip your toe

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Speaker 2: and then what do you wait to see if more

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Speaker 2: stimulus comes, do you wait to see how assets perform?

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Speaker 9: Yes, exactly what we're really look at, NOURA is for

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Speaker 9: the trends to take hold. So in other words, it

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Speaker 9: would be dipping the toe in probably a position of

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Speaker 9: a couple percent in a portfolio, and then really really

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Speaker 9: watching what that performance looks like, what the volatility is,

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Speaker 9: and if we're starting to see the trend become solid

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Speaker 9: more than you know, more than an indication it's relatively recent,

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Speaker 9: So we would want to and from an emerging markets

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Speaker 9: perspective in our portfolios, that generally is a relatively low

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Speaker 9: allocation for us to begin with.

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Speaker 5: Can you just speak a bit more to the opportunity

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Speaker 5: in emerging markets more broadly?

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Speaker 9: Well, I think the thing that's really interesting about emerging markets.

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Speaker 3: Being a part of looks like.

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Speaker 2: We're freezing up a little bit. Let's see if you

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Speaker 2: can re establish that connect with President of Prosperity. We're

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Speaker 2: just going to re establish that connection and see if

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Speaker 2: that winds at making sense. Okay, but what you were

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Speaker 2: asking about was flows, right, and to really diversifying out right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think that's really interesting, especially as we've

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Speaker 5: really been looking at the China stimulus and how it's

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Speaker 5: really been affecting I mean, we just had Abigail Doolittle

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Speaker 5: here talking about how it's even affecting casinos thoughts. So

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Speaker 5: I'm really curious how she and other investors are really

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Speaker 5: thinking about how they're going to be allocating their money

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Speaker 5: and if they want to put some of it into

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Speaker 5: emerging markets as we're looking forward.

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Speaker 2: I've been talking to a tactical strategist and one of

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Speaker 2: the main banks and just how it's been a really

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Speaker 2: painful week for some of the investors and the flows

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Speaker 2: are now flying into stuff that we haven't seen before,

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Speaker 2: and that's been a really painful week. And take a

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Speaker 2: look at tech and the underperformance that we've seen, right,

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Speaker 2: Like Micron was a one off right this week.

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Speaker 3: But if Tech continues to kind of underperform.

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Speaker 5: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 5: What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: And then on a headline level, can the headline s

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Speaker 2: and p go up if Tech is underperforming? It may be,

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Speaker 2: but even so, it's a just cheering kind of under

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Speaker 2: the surface.

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Speaker 5: Right, And it's counted for so much of our gains

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Speaker 5: this year. It's really had the wind in the sales here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, So looking forward to that. All right, I

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Speaker 2: think she's back. Michelle Martin, President Prosperity joining us. Sorry

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Speaker 2: about that glitch, Michelle. So you were saying in terms

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Speaker 2: of flows and where it's all going, walk us through it.

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Speaker 9: So I think, you know, generally, I think one of

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Speaker 9: the from a flow perspective, I think where we're really

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Speaker 9: watching things is we've had really strong success with high

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Speaker 9: yield credit, but in the equity market, we're really looking

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Speaker 9: at the trends that are starting to take hold. And

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Speaker 9: what we're seeing, particularly over the last quarter, is that

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Speaker 9: utilities and industrials really start to you know, take hold

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Speaker 9: and outperform and perhaps become more of a position within

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Speaker 9: our portfolios. Technology has been such a strong performer, and

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Speaker 9: what we're seeing now is that technology is basically consolidating.

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Speaker 9: It's come so far, so fast, and we're starting to

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Speaker 9: see those trends start to change. That also gives us

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Speaker 9: an indication that we might want to be looking at

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Speaker 9: Europe a little bit more. We've been waiting for Europe

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Speaker 9: to uh for that trend to solidify. We have underweight

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Speaker 9: in in our international stocks in general, both in developed

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Speaker 9: international as well as emerging markets, and so this is

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Speaker 9: actually starting to look much more attractive in those in

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Speaker 9: those sectors as well.

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Speaker 5: Now, Michelle, how are you all thinking about small and

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Speaker 5: mid caps? Is there a play there?

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Speaker 9: Well? There is, and we've we've definitely been had a

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Speaker 9: presence in the mid cap space holding back on small cap.

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Speaker 9: But with interest rate cuts, there's definitely an opportunity because

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Speaker 9: particularly small businesses have much more sensitivity to interest rates.

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Speaker 9: So with the cost of credit going down, there's absolutely

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Speaker 9: an opportunity that we could see a rebound in small cap.

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Speaker 2: If and I say if, because it's like I've heard

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Speaker 2: the story before, right, I've heard the story about European cyclicals.

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Speaker 3: I've heard the story about small.

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Speaker 2: Caps before, and I always seem to manage that story

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Speaker 2: for like a few weeks and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: we're back.

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Speaker 3: To the basics.

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Speaker 2: Right, So this is the question, right, why, what conviction

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Speaker 2: do you have at this time might be different?

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Speaker 9: Well, I think we're seeing it in the results. We're

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Speaker 9: seeing some quarterly numbers that are starting to point towards

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Speaker 9: that we saw small cap rally earlier this summer, and

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Speaker 9: then we had a big pullback in it, So you know,

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Speaker 9: we're as I had mentioned earlier, it really is important

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Speaker 9: to start to see those trends take hold, to start

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Speaker 9: to see the consumer confidence with small business owners. I

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Speaker 9: think that plays into it as well, and we're you know,

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Speaker 9: to have banks be a little bit more agreeable to lending.

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Speaker 9: We're seeing credit standards being relatively tight right now, so

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Speaker 9: I think that conviction is probably still a little ways

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Speaker 9: out from our perspective on small cap so we're kind

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Speaker 9: of waiting on the sidelines ready to jump in, but

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Speaker 9: the environment is definitely more favorable than it has been.

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Speaker 5: How are you thinking about opportunity in the equities market especially,

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Speaker 5: We've been hearing people saying that we could be at

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Speaker 5: lofty levels. How are you looking at that as we

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Speaker 5: think about year end and all the rate cuts that

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Speaker 5: people are pricing in.

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Speaker 9: You know, it's so true, I think, and we actually

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Speaker 9: have been slightly underweight to equities just because of where

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Speaker 9: on the growth side of the equation, so we've you know,

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Speaker 9: I think it's stay steady invests for the long term.

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Speaker 9: I think what we're really looking at and what we're

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Speaker 9: seeing with a lot of client accounts or people that

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Speaker 9: we're talking to is that money markets have been so

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Speaker 9: favorable and so they've pulled out of the markets thinking

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Speaker 9: that they're overextended. I think that it's definitely, you know,

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Speaker 9: methodical a phase in. I think the challenge is that

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Speaker 9: if you wait on the sidelines too long, you know,

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Speaker 9: you kind of miss if we if we look back

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Speaker 9: even to like, you know, the years of after the

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Speaker 9: Great Recession in twenty ten twenty eleven, I had many

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Speaker 9: clients that we're just afraid to get back in and

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Speaker 9: sat on the sidelines and really miss that opportunity. So

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Speaker 9: I think it's a gradual phase back in for those

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Speaker 9: that are sitting on the sidelines. And then it's really

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Speaker 9: been thoughtful about tactical shifts within the equity exposure to

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Speaker 9: these areas that you know, create are showing some opportunity

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Speaker 9: most people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Michelle, we got to leave it there up against

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Speaker 2: a break. But it's such a good point and also

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Speaker 2: sort of when we're going to wind up seeing that

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Speaker 2: money come out of high yield savings account and money

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Speaker 2: market funds. Michelle Martin, a president of Prosperity Give you're.

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Speaker 3: Still getting four percent. It's still four percent.

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Speaker 2: The news over the last twelve hours was Hurricane Helen.

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Speaker 2: Helene Helene, right, Helene. Helene has just barreled into the

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Speaker 2: western coast of Florida, dangerous winds, knocking out power for

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Speaker 2: more than a million customers and threatening to unleash deadly

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Speaker 2: flooding across several states. Helene made landfall near Perry with

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Speaker 2: top sustained winds of one hundred and forty miles per hour.

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Speaker 2: And that's according to the US National Hurricane Center. It

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Speaker 2: made it a Category four on the five step scale

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Speaker 2: before weakening now to a tropical storm. And this just,

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Speaker 2: I mean, these headlines just keep on coming fast and furious.

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Speaker 2: We wanted to take a business angle to it and

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Speaker 2: look at the oil and gas industry. Vincent Piazza, Bloomberg Intelligence,

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Speaker 2: senior equity research analysts for oil and gas Vincent to

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Speaker 2: some extent, these companies are very well known.

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Speaker 3: To these risks.

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Speaker 2: They know how to shut down the infrastructure, they know

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Speaker 2: how to shut down any sort of offshore rigs, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: What have they done in the path to the storm?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you're right, you know the companies the infrastructure benefited

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Speaker 8: from Well probably not the best word to say, but

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Speaker 8: the storm moved eastwards, so it was not a direct

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Speaker 8: hit on the installations, And in fact, some of the

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Speaker 8: operators are looking to restart the platforms. I know Chevron

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Speaker 8: mentioned earlier that they'll be looking to bring production back

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Speaker 8: on the six platforms that they shut in. It's never

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Speaker 8: really about the supply side, because, as you mentioned, Alex,

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Speaker 8: the companies are well versed in executing these types of

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Speaker 8: disaster plans. Where the impact really is is on the

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Speaker 8: demand side, And especially for guys like me who cover

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Speaker 8: natural gas, you know, those without power that can be

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Speaker 8: a longer term issue across many states, and the latest

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Speaker 8: stats that we have, we're looking at at least roughly

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Speaker 8: four million people without power at the moment across states

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Speaker 8: like Florida somewhere around a million, Georgia somewhere around a million,

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Speaker 8: and I think if you had the Carolinas together at

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Speaker 8: somewhere around two million, so there's as much as four

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Speaker 8: million residents without power and that is truly devastating. Although

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Speaker 8: if this had occurred in July and August, where the

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Speaker 8: weather would would have been much warmer, it would have

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Speaker 8: a more devastating impact. We're right in the middle of

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Speaker 8: the shoulder season here, so maybe there's a little bit

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Speaker 8: of reprieve with the weather. But over the next six

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Speaker 8: to ten days our weather projections, what we see from

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Speaker 8: across the various providers is that it is somewhat still

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Speaker 8: warm in that neck of the woods, but probably not

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Speaker 8: as bad as it would have.

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Speaker 6: Been if it had hit during July and August.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you mentioned the idea of a demand.

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Speaker 5: What just how catastrophic could a backup and demand be

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Speaker 5: for oil and gas companies here.

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Speaker 8: Well, if we look at the last couple of days,

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Speaker 8: you know, you're roughly looking at two bcf a day

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Speaker 8: of demand coming off. And you know, power gen is

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Speaker 8: a very important end market for many of these producers.

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Speaker 8: It's the supply into the electricity facilities and that is

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Speaker 8: a significant source of consumption for natural gas.

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Speaker 6: So it is a very important market. It is interrelated.

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Speaker 8: Because when a storm like this hits, thousands of customers

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Speaker 8: come offline.

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Speaker 6: And of course these customers not.

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Speaker 8: Only use these facilities for air conditioning, but also hospitals

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Speaker 8: and also other areas other institutions need these facilities as well,

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Speaker 8: the HVAC facilities, especially in the south where it can

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Speaker 8: get very, very warm, and that's where this storm is hit.

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Speaker 6: If we're right, you know, four million folks without power.

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Speaker 8: That takes a long time to bring back on online,

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Speaker 8: especially now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And at the flip side, just before we let

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Speaker 2: you go, have about a minute left, I'm taking a

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Speaker 2: look at crude here WTI at sixty eight right, It

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Speaker 2: doesn't sound so bad, but I look at that curve.

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Speaker 2: We are still in backgradation. But the rerating we've seen

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Speaker 2: in the whole curve at that front end has been

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Speaker 2: quite extreme.

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Speaker 3: At what point do producers get worried?

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Speaker 8: So producers are pretty much still in a little bit

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Speaker 8: of a sweet spot here.

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Speaker 6: You know, that seventy handle is still okay.

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Speaker 8: The demand side of the equation for global crude, that

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Speaker 8: tends to be the real concern. What happens overseas, especially

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Speaker 8: in China, that still seems to be somewhat of concern

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Speaker 8: demand overall, especially here in the US as well, as

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Speaker 8: things tend to slow. But for the most part, the

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Speaker 8: producers are holding in discipline very very well. We as

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Speaker 8: analysts and investors are more concerned with that discipline.

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Speaker 6: And returning excess cash.

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Speaker 8: To investors, either in the form of dividends or share buybacks.

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Speaker 8: So the operators have been hearing that message and have

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Speaker 8: been sustaining that discipline overall.

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Speaker 2: All right, Vince really appreciated, Thank you so much. Vincent

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Speaker 2: Piaza joining us Boomberg Intelligence and your equity research analyst

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Speaker 2: Oil and Gas joining us on the impact of the

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Speaker 2: storm Hellen that has tabok there on Florida as well.

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