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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, along

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. Well, last week we had

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Speaker 1: the ten year yield range from seventy six basis points

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Speaker 1: basis points may not be a massive move in so

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Speaker 1: called normal times, but it is these days. So let's

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Speaker 1: bring in Jim Bianco of Bianco Research to tell us

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Speaker 1: what kind of volatility we're seeing and what's it get you. Jim, Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me um the fine markets volatility normally

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Speaker 1: is not a big deal, but given you know, eleven

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Speaker 1: basis points in a week is not the craziest thing

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Speaker 1: you would have seen. But given the environment we're in,

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Speaker 1: it is a massively large move, and it came on

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Speaker 1: the back of a stock market that sold off over

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Speaker 1: five That was probably the most surprising part about it

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Speaker 1: was there was no risk off rally in the bond market.

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Speaker 1: Last week, and that's what's got everybody shaking their head

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Speaker 1: right now. So, Jim, you know we have the election

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Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow. How are you kind of I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna say playing it, but how are you forecasting how

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Speaker 1: this market is going to react going forward? What's kind

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Speaker 1: of your base case what we're gonn see tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: I have a little different base case than most um.

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Speaker 1: If you if you look at the world of the

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Speaker 1: polls they're giving Trump, I'll go with the incumbent point

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Speaker 1: of view, about a five to ten percent chance of winning.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the betting markets, they're giving him

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Speaker 1: at chance of winning. The betting markets seem to align

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Speaker 1: with the financial markets. I think the financial markets think

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Speaker 1: that Biden is leading, but it's very very close where

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Speaker 1: the polls are saying it's going to be a very

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Speaker 1: lopsided race. If the polls turn out to be right

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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot of discounting in

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Speaker 1: the Senate goes. The Senate, I think is going to

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Speaker 1: probably be the real story as we go forward from here,

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Speaker 1: because that's kind of touch and go as to which

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Speaker 1: don't think that that blue waves is completely priced and

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of people think right now, well, there's

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Speaker 1: also a very real possibility of the presidency turning over,

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Speaker 1: but not the Senates in that situation. Jim, what are

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Speaker 1: four years? Well, for the next four years. History says

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Speaker 1: that that should be bullish because Wall Street is always

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Speaker 1: it wants right now as it wants a fiscal deal,

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Speaker 1: less likelihood of a fiscal deal at that point. So, Jim,

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Speaker 1: Is there a scenario in your analysis where we get

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Speaker 1: And I think there's a likely scenario with that, and

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think that might be one of the

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Speaker 1: in one where the market does in a buffets and

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Speaker 1: wal chorus and and give it to it. Hey, Jim,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. We appreciate it as

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Speaker 1: always always appreciate your thoughts and opinions. Jim Bianco, President

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Speaker 1: and founder Bianco Research. He's also a contributor to Bloom Opinion,

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Speaker 1: joining us and he's based in Chicago. Well, certainly a

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Speaker 1: portfolio Management at Federated Hermes, he joins us. Phil, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us here. What do you make

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Speaker 1: of last week's trading? Again one of the rougher weeks. Uh,

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Speaker 1: because we've got a two thirds chance of a contested

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Speaker 1: the markets over sold here in your term, but you've

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Speaker 1: contentious election. There's any number of things that can happen,

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Speaker 1: just sort of stand back, um, see how it plays out,

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Speaker 1: what's the source of that that two thirds number. That's

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Speaker 1: an interesting number, and kind of how does that How

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Speaker 1: do you define a contested election? Well, the fact that

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Speaker 1: This cycle is going to be very different because of

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Speaker 1: in either instance, and even if there is a contestation. Well,

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Speaker 1: What's a blue wave mean for you? Well, it would

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Speaker 1: mean that that the Democrats would have a legislative mandate.

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Speaker 1: We're probably looking at significantly higher corporate and individual tax

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Speaker 1: less less beneficial, less favorable for equity investors. Well, Phil,

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Speaker 1: we shall see. Thank you so much as always for

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Speaker 1: I just real quick twenty seconds. How what's been the

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Speaker 1: terms of the environment. How bad has it been? Well, Luckily,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much. We really appreciate getting your thoughts and

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Speaker 1: insights dr ox Shot Rothy Heasy, climate and energy reporter

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Speaker 1: for Bloomberg Green based in London, giving it the thoughts that, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, on day one, if President Biden were to

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Speaker 1: that plays out, but that's clearly on his focus. Thanks

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