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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. Welcome to the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. Stocks in Asia got

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Speaker 1: off to an uneven start earlier today after a rally

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Speaker 1: in US megacap tech names. In a moment, we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking with Larry Tantarelli of blue Chip Daily Trend Report.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a closer look at some of the price

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Speaker 1: action in the States, but we'll begin in Hong Kong

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Speaker 1: for a look at some of the recent volatility that

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Speaker 1: we've been seeing in the foreign exchange. Joining me now

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Speaker 1: is Jiwong, head of Greater China FX and Rate Strategy

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Speaker 1: at BNP Periba, joining us from Hong Kong. Jiuw Wong,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for making time to chat with us.

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Speaker 1: I think we can agree that a lot of the

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Speaker 1: volatility that we have seen recently in the foreign exchange

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Speaker 1: is really a story of dollar strength, and that really

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Speaker 1: has been driven by US trade policy from the incoming

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Speaker 1: Trump administration.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we've seen the expectation building up for potential tariff

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Speaker 2: since the US elections, and we're already three four months

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Speaker 2: into the traits and at the current level, I think

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Speaker 2: a lot has been pricing given the fact that the

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Speaker 2: president did not announce tariffs in day one. I mean,

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Speaker 2: of course he's still see talking about potentially introduced twenty

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Speaker 2: for China by Feberal first, but the market thinking maybe

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Speaker 2: there's still some uncertainties, particularly given he has announced the

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Speaker 2: seventy five days reprieve for tiktoks, and I think the

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Speaker 2: market treated that as a sign they could be still

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Speaker 2: quite high. Hence we've seen the effects market treated quite

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Speaker 2: a volatile dollar lower on are the day after the inauguration,

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Speaker 2: but yesterday there was some squeezing backup in dollar reminb.

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Speaker 2: But I would say overall the volatility the noise is

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Speaker 2: still quite high. Here.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is very interesting. There is the understanding,

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Speaker 1: or at least the interpretation from a number of economists

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Speaker 1: in the US that tariffs would be inflationary, and I

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Speaker 1: think for the people at the Federal Reserve that is

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Speaker 1: elevated to guard against inflationary pressure, that's only going to

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Speaker 1: add to a stronger dollar. Will it not?

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, That's in line with the BNP's view that

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Speaker 2: FED may not be able to cut rates as the

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Speaker 2: market originally thinks. And then we also hold the view

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Speaker 2: that the dollar will stay relatively high for longer, the

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Speaker 2: say for the very very new term, the uncertainty is high,

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Speaker 2: particularly given the positioning is already very long dollar and

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Speaker 2: making tariffs effective immediately. It does suggest that he also

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Speaker 2: is highly aware that inflation is a bit concern in

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Speaker 2: the US. So, if anything, market treated his inauguration speech

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Speaker 2: but second to that would be inflation. So certainly with

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Speaker 2: him paying a lot of attention to inflation, that has

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Speaker 1: So if the dollar remains strong and tariffs do remain

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Speaker 1: a threat, what will the policy response in China look like,

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Speaker 2: Do you think a median term once the tariffs become effective.

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Speaker 2: The PVC, the Chinese Central Bank will allow the dollar

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Speaker 1: In terms of the risk of capital outflows, when it

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Speaker 2: the same time, we do think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: I know your focus is mainly on Greater China, but

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Speaker 1: Expectations are that we're going to get a rate hike

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Speaker 1: do you expect that to affect the foreign exchange? Hasn't

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Speaker 2: the cnhyang is also at a relatively high level, so

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Speaker 2: risk reward is quite good to sell the cnch versus Yang.

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Speaker 1: At the moment, Jiuwang will leave it there. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for making time to chat with us. Jiuwang

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Speaker 1: ahead of Greater China FX and rate strategy at BNP Parabad.

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Speaker 1: Joining us here on the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia podcast. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. The

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Speaker 1: US equity market rose to near record highs today on

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Speaker 1: now by Larry Tantarelli. He is the chief technical strategist

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Speaker 1: at blue Chip Daily Trend Report. Larry, thanks for making

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Speaker 3: It doesn't right now.

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Speaker 4: We actually just came off of a major breadth thrust

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Speaker 4: where for six days in a row, over sixty eight

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Speaker 4: market's got to be overbought as far as the internals go.

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Speaker 4: So I think today's pullback under the surface is constructive.

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Speaker 4: The index was higher, but as you said, only thirty

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Speaker 1: What about the froth if I can use that term,

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Speaker 1: that's been assigned to a lot of the these stocks that

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Speaker 1: are related to artificial intelligence. Today we heard from the

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Speaker 1: head of JP Morgan Chase Jamie Dimond. He was saying,

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Speaker 1: there are signs that the market may be overheated, and

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Speaker 3: I don't see it.

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Speaker 4: If we look at valuations and the companies today versus

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Speaker 1: One of the things that the bond market has been debating,

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is a concern. So bond yields.

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Speaker 4: The ten year treasury yield recently broke out to about

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Speaker 4: the ten year treasury yields pulled back twenty three basis points.

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Speaker 4: So I absolutely pay attention to Fed policy because the

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Speaker 4: Luckily, they don't have to raise, and I think that

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Speaker 4: they can just sit wait to see how the economic

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering how you're viewing markets offshore right now. Are

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Speaker 4: Europe is starting to show a lot of strength. The

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering whether you're looking at maybe the reconfiguration

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Speaker 4: I think that the tariffs might be more of a

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Speaker 3: Wants to upset the apple carts.

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Speaker 4: So I know that tariffs are out there as a

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Speaker 4: then it could put some pressure on profits. That could

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Speaker 1: What is the one theme, the investment theme that you're

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Speaker 4: I think right now it still has to be technology

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Speaker 4: So I think it's a very big commitment. And what

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Speaker 4: and it's a long term secular theme. This is not

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Speaker 1: Larry will leave it. There are interesting insights from Larry Tenterelli.

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