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

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Speaker 1: Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist and head of client

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Speaker 1: portfolio Management at Federated Hermes. Uh. They are big folks,

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Speaker 1: over six hundred billion dollars in assets under management. Phil.

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Speaker 1: I'm an equity investor. I'm looking at two I see

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Speaker 1: rates are gonna be rising. I see the economy is

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Speaker 1: going to be slowing. Is there any place for me

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Speaker 1: to be in the equity markets? Uh? Yeah, It's certainly

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Speaker 1: going to be a more volatile year, certainly going to

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Speaker 1: be a choppier year. But we think when the dust

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Speaker 1: settles at the end of the year, stock market will

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Speaker 1: be maybe ten percent or so higher than forty hundred

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Speaker 1: where we started the year. We think will end the

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Speaker 1: year at about fifty three hundred. But that's going to

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Speaker 1: be a very back end loaded kind of performance. The

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Speaker 1: first nine months of the year. In our mind, UH

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Speaker 1: is going to be very choppy, very volatile, with the

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Speaker 1: focus on this soaring inflation, what's the federal Reserve doing

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Speaker 1: in terms of changing policy, and so you know, we

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Speaker 1: thought there would be an eight to twelve percent correction

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Speaker 1: or so over the first couple of quarters of the year. UM.

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Speaker 1: The emphasis here is going to be preserving capital, and

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Speaker 1: and that suggests owning the stocks that are cheaper, that

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Speaker 1: have lower datas, that have higher dividend yield support. UM.

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Speaker 1: So we like domestic large cap and small cap value.

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Speaker 1: We like small cap stocks, we like international stocks, and

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Speaker 1: and those stocks have been performing a lot better than

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Speaker 1: the growthier technology stocks, which which have been trading at

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Speaker 1: at you know, sort of nosebleed valuation levels. So hang on,

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Speaker 1: you want to in preserving capital, you want to buy

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Speaker 1: a small cap stocks? How's that defensive? The small cap

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Speaker 1: stocks have gotten taken out behind the wood shed, So

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Speaker 1: the valuation is significantly more attractive than the large cap

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Speaker 1: growth names. The small cap stocks quite literally a cheaper

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Speaker 1: Most people think that it's the small cap stocks that

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Speaker 1: forward earnings. That's not the case. So the value stocks,

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Speaker 1: the small cap stocks, the international stocks are the places

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find better value. And then what do you

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Speaker 1: look for a specific sign to get back into the

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Speaker 1: broader market If we're gonna ra at the end of

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Speaker 1: want to do that, Well, certainly I think there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be chopped into the late summer early fall period. We

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Speaker 1: want to see how this inflation plays out. We want

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Speaker 1: to see what the FEDS change in policy is going

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Speaker 1: to be. We know the tapering is going to end

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Speaker 1: in March. They told us that. We know they're going

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Speaker 1: to start to raise interest rates in March. They told

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Speaker 1: us that what we don't know is are they gonna

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Speaker 1: tighten policy, raise interest rates every meeting every other meeting.

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Speaker 1: Are they gonna give us a bunch of twenty five

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Speaker 1: open questions, and importantly, We don't know who five of

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Speaker 1: later this month. So there's a lot of open questions

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Speaker 1: surrounding inflation and federal reserve makeup and policy. Phil It's

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Speaker 1: it's interesting here. We we've had, you know, this pullback

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks thinking about that. Well, there's no

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Speaker 1: you more. By the way, Philip, we're at the SMP

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Speaker 1: and crew is trading for hundred ten, hundred twenty. Where

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Speaker 1: do you see the tenure at the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: Phil always brings the goods, you know, always got some

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Speaker 1: headlines coming out of Philip Orlando. Phil, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. As always, we appreciate your clear calls

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Speaker 1: on these markets. Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist and

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Speaker 1: head of Client Portfolio Management. He's a federated at HERMIS.

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Speaker 1: Those federated folks are based in Pittsburgh, but uh fills

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Speaker 1: in New York City. All right, let's talk interest rates.

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Speaker 1: They're going higher. A lot of folks want to say

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Speaker 1: at TV Securities. Is my federal reserve gonna lift interest

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Speaker 1: rates fifty basis points in mark? Thy thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me on. We don't think not in March. I mean,

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Speaker 1: So we're looking for them to start in March, continue

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Speaker 1: stress that quantitative tightening is likely to move into strates higher.

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Speaker 1: which we think will take that tenure higher. So we're

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Speaker 1: looking forward to in a quarter on the tenure, the

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Speaker 1: and you could get a faster move to that to

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Speaker 1: in statistics. But um, so the language I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't have downpad. But you know, there can be a

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Speaker 1: couple of different scenarios when you're making forecasts. Right, On

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Speaker 1: you're looking at say um you know, year end fed

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Speaker 1: have a really broad distribution of probability these right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: as you said, we don't know what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: the year and then the fat doesn't have to hike five, six,

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Speaker 1: likelihood we're forecasting the end game is much more difficult? Yes,

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Speaker 1: start the exit soon, but after that, all options around

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Speaker 1: more hikes market pricing? In about five and a half

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Speaker 1: than Well, Also, the hikes probably aren't going to have

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Speaker 1: and as much of an effect on markets as QT

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Speaker 1: are they. I mean, if they if they unwind two

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Speaker 1: we've noticed real rates as well as the equity market

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