1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: you interviews from CEOs, market pros, and Bloomberg experts, along 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: with essential market moving news. Find the Bloomberg Markets Podcast 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts, and 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Let's talk global geopolitics, 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: global energy. There's a lot going on out there in 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: this big world. At Price, senior fellow and former British 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: trade official at n y U joins us, and let's 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: first talk about just the global energy markets. That's kind 11 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: of been on topic today again. Brent crew down about 12 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: eight percent today, below a hundred dollars just at one thirty. 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: There's a lot of cross winds out there. What are 14 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: you focusing on here right? Well, on those cross winds, honestly, 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: and it's it's a bit bizarre. Um. This war in Europe, 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: I think is something of a mixed citty, and I 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: think that that's something that everyone's looking at, including the FED. 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: On the one hand, it's it's obviously inflationary, right because 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: it's a supply disruption and that goes back to what 20 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 1: you're saying about oil prices. They spiked, everyone freaked out 21 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: at the pumps over here in the US. But on 22 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: the other hand, it's deflationary in the sense that it 23 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: could destroy global demand. Look at the I M S. 24 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: It's downgrading its global growth forecast. So I think it's 25 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: it's very it's a good phrase that you're using their 26 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: cross winds and we're just gonna have to lick our finger, 27 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: put it in the air and see which one is stronger. 28 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: What do you think ed about the story that Saudi 29 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: Arabia is in talks with China to um basically accept 30 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: you on instead of dollars for oil. I mean, um, 31 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: this has to be a huge economic issue, right It 32 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: centers around the world reserve currency and the power that 33 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: the US gets from that. But maybe a shift now 34 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: towards UM, you know, the second biggest economy. Yes, this 35 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: is I think everything that's happening now at roots is 36 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: a dollar standard story. So you can you can look 37 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: at the war in Ukraine, you can look at COVID, 38 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: you can look at US domestic inflation, and I think 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: with a big piece of paper and a market pin, 40 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: you can draw the lines between all these things and 41 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: what the world expects of the dollar and how people 42 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: are looking at the dollar in the future. So if 43 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: if the Saudis are indeed doing that, UM, that's no 44 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: bueno for us, for those of us who have a 45 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: very strong stake in the dollar standards UM. And I 46 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: think it's something that in this period of disruption we 47 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: should definitely watch, definitely look at, not get too distracted. 48 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: Everything we're looking at is a dollar standard story. And 49 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: what's kind of astounded me as as I think about 50 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: this Russia Ukraine's situation is how it seems like it's 51 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: so well coordinated some of the economic sanctions we're seeing 52 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: from not just the US, but from other countries as well. 53 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: From your perspective, how effective do you think they can 54 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: be will be on Russia, Because just on the surface, 55 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 1: to this late person, they seem pretty significant, right, I 56 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: think very significant. I've seen a few commentators saying, you know, 57 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: don't count the Russians out. These these sanctions will will 58 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: not have the sort of effect that you want. But honestly, 59 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: I would not be surprised by a complete and total 60 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: collapse in Russia in the social fabric. UM. I think 61 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: part of this is the whole information scenery. It seems 62 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: if you look at reports in New York Times and 63 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: so on, it seems that the Russians still don't know 64 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: that they're at war, most of them, which is bizarre. 65 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: But when they do find out, which you know, one 66 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: has to think will happen as as the body count 67 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: comes up, right, UM, I think that that, in combination 68 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: with what's going on in the financial system, could really 69 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: really put Russia into a serious problem. So I think 70 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: one point to make though, just conceptually, is that a 71 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about the Second Cold War. 72 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: I think the difference here is that we're not trying 73 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: to contain Russia and the Russian economy. We're actually trying 74 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: to export recession and even a financial crisis into Russia. 75 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: So I think that can be very effective. UM. One 76 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: of the interesting moves I've seen, as someone who you 77 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: know lived in Germany but I know you studied also 78 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: German history, is the shift towards, you know, finally spending 79 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: money on military equipment. They had been so not only understaffed, 80 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: but also UM didn't have enough stuff previously and weren't 81 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: spending enough of their UM weren't spending enough of their 82 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: uh G d p on. You know, they had the 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: two percent promise on military gear. Now they're gonna buy 84 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: thirty five F thirty five's and fifteen new eurofighters and 85 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: this seems to be you know, one of the um 86 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: unintended consequences of Vladimir Putin's moving to Ukraine's that he's 87 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: united Europe and you know rearmed Germany. Well, I mean 88 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: absolutely rearmament is the right phrase to use. Again. I mean, 89 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: the fact that the Germans are now comfortable with weaponry, 90 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: with rearming with a strong military force is incredible and 91 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: for anyone with interest in European and German history, this 92 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: shift is profound. It's also so something that I think 93 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: is going to be thought about in London, right because 94 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: of course the UK it's just left the European Union. 95 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: I don't think we foresaw a German standing army when 96 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: we did that. But you're right, the real impact here 97 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: is on Putin. He's made such a massive, massive error 98 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: going into the Ukraine. And I think that the obvious 99 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: bravery of the UK Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian civilians taking up arms. 100 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: The longer that lasts, the longer Europe has time to 101 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: rearm the longer a standing German army is going to 102 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: be more of the prospect. I'd put one caveat in there. 103 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: There are long standing historical ties between Germany and Russia, 104 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: and I think if you look back to the First 105 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: and Second World War, you could argue that the United 106 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: States intervene in both of those wars to prevent a 107 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: continental economy in which Russian and German economics were combined 108 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: under the leadership of either Moscow or Berlin. So in 109 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: the future after this war in Ukraine, I wouldn't rule 110 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: out one scenario, which is an armed Berlin and armed 111 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: Moscow shaking hats. All right, thank you so much for 112 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: joining us. We really appreciate your perspective here. A lot 113 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: of again cross winds here on a global geopolitical space 114 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: impacting markets at prices and senior fellow and former trade 115 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: official at New York University giving us some thoughts here. 116 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: I pulled up my g l g l c O 117 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: screen on the Bloomberg Terminal global commodities prices, and on 118 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: a year to date basis, everything is pretty much everything 119 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: is up double digits, whether it's energy, medals, aggs, and 120 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: I guess that's what you call inflation. Um, the question 121 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: is when does it peak? How click that doesn't come down? 122 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: How do I play it? Will Ryant, chief executive officer 123 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: for Grantit Chairs Advisors, joins us Will again, I'm looking 124 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: at my commodities pretty much everything is up big time. 125 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: When does this peak? Do you think this inflation in 126 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: this U S economy? Well, it's a great question. Um, 127 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: I think that's you know, Unfortunately, for as far as 128 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: inflation goes, these things tend to take a number of years. 129 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: No cycles, particularly on the commodity side, tend to last 130 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: in years, not days or months. Um. I think at 131 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: this stage you're really talking about two possible scenarios. Really, 132 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: if you're talking about inflation easing, that's going to come 133 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: from an increase in supply, and an increase in supply 134 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: you know, will happen, um as long as high prices 135 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: stay or prices stay elevated, but it takes time. The 136 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: other thing, probably the most likely thing that will happen 137 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: if prices keep continuing to rise, is demand destruction. In 138 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: other words, the consumer just gives up at some point 139 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: and says, you know what, I can't pay five dollars 140 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: per gas or six or seven or eight or whatever 141 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: it may be at that time. And once that happens, 142 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: then you start to see using because of demand for 143 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: that commodity falls. How much is how a law stick 144 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: is the oil patch? I was talking to a gold 145 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: miner yesterday who said, it's very that come out of 146 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: the right now is very inelastic. They're taking as much 147 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: out of the ground as they can, and the and 148 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: the ramp up time for new production is is much longer. Um, 149 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: what does what does oil look like in those terms? Yeah? 150 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: I think that's right. Um that you know, again, you 151 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: know it depends on what country you know you're talking about. 152 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: Definitely some more production can be brought online. And clearly 153 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: the the the easiest winds, if you want to look 154 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: at it that way, are going to be from existing 155 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: producing countries. And that's what the administration is doing, is 156 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: going to going to produces like Saudi Arabia, going to 157 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: the OPEC countries, even to Venezuela places like that, and 158 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: trying to get more barrels. So that's certainly possible. But 159 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: in terms of domestic production, you know, again those um 160 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: fields sites that are already in operation may be able 161 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: to to increase but really you're looking for much more 162 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 1: of an increase from likes of shale et cetera. What 163 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: is the problem with getting more out of the shale? Um? 164 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: I heard somebody this morning say costs to bring oil 165 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: out of the ground in the US are thirty three 166 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: dollars a barrel. Shouldn't that motivate? You know? You hear 167 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: the Biden administration talk all the time as if they've 168 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: done literally everything they can about these nine thousand leases. Um. 169 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: If that's really how it is, wouldn't the massive you know, 170 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: sixties six dollars in profit per barrel of oil drive 171 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: everybody out to bring it to use those leases? Yes? 172 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: And no? Um. So here's what happened last time. You 173 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: may remember that there was a huge boom in US 174 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 1: shale and because of that, you know one, prices collapsed, 175 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: and ultimately they did so partly because the U S 176 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: shale industrial US got into a market share war with Sadia, 177 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: Arabia and Opeque in terms of competing for market share. 178 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: The price well went down. A lot of those a 179 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: lot of those shell producers went bust, and in that 180 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: sort of rush to produce more production, banks have lent 181 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: them a lot of money as a lot of financing there, 182 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: and a lot of people lost a lot of money 183 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: in that particular collapse. So long story short is, the 184 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: producers are going to be more disciplined. They're going to 185 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: be more disciplined because the banks and the lenders are 186 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: making them mean more disciplined. But they're also fearful of, 187 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: you know, the oil price collapsing again like it did 188 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,479 Speaker 1: last time. So people are going to be more disciplined 189 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: and therefore a bit more cautious about bringing that production 190 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: on because of the cautions and retail that we had 191 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: last time. Hey, well, I'm looking at my metal screen 192 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: here and one of the medals that is kind of 193 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: lagged a little bit is platinum. What's the call on 194 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: spot platinum here? Well, plantinum is an interesting one because 195 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: palladium went to the Moon after the war broke out, 196 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: and that was because simply Russia is the largest producer 197 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: of palladium in the world. Russia is also the second 198 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: largest producer of platinum. Number one producer is South Africa. 199 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: But those metals can be interchanged one for one. They're 200 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: both used for catholytic converters to clean the emissions that 201 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: come out of an internal combustion engine. And you know, 202 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: with the price of palladium almost three times the price 203 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: of platinum, they can be exchanged or substituted one for one. 204 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: So people are looking at platinum right now, both in 205 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: terms of you know, the war situation and a supply 206 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: disruption coming from Russia, but also because with the price 207 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: of pladium so high, I thinking automakers have to come 208 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: in here and substitute these metals in the favor of platinum. Hey, well, 209 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate it. Next 210 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: time we're gonna talk a little pork bellies, maybe I'm 211 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: going to lean hogs up to five year to date? 212 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: How about that tree ripping face? Will Ryan, chief executive 213 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: officers for granted Chairs advisors will always checking when with 214 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: Will whenever there's big moves in the commodities space, as 215 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 1: there has been here over the last uh several truly unbelievable, right, 216 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: I mean, we saw Brent crude um went up to 217 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: what a hundred and thirty nine dollars of barrel like 218 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: literally seven days ago, and now it's trading at Yeah, 219 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: it's amazing. And you know, oil traders, I used to 220 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: know a few oil traders. I would trade this stuff 221 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: in the pits, and they say you will get crushed 222 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 1: in this market if you don't pay attention, and that's 223 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: certainly the case here. Dave Major's joins us the CEO 224 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: of me Com Collector Car Auctions. Before we get down 225 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: to the business side of it. Um, Yeah, what is 226 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: going on with with the prices in terms of these cars? 227 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: I mean, for regular every day like an F one fifty, Um, 228 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: we're paying out the nose. But the prices that I'm 229 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: seeing for like a goat as as as Greg Jarrett 230 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: just mentioned, are just huge. Yeah. Well yeah, first, good 231 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: morning from State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. We're getting 232 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: ready to get started with another big MICAM auction starts 233 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: tomorrow and we're expecting to see prices continue to be 234 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: in the stratosphere for collector cars. That that phenomenon started 235 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: for us back in the summer of when we came 236 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: back to auction coming out of the pandemic, and and 237 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: actually has has been picking up steam ever since, as 238 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: evidenced by our well even before that with the Big Muscle. 239 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: I remember ten years ago looking at Plymouth couta Barracuda 240 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: UM that you sold for I think three point four 241 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: million dollars um. Why is this? That's the holy grail 242 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: of collector cars? I see? So that's why because it's 243 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,599 Speaker 1: the one um It's not like a GT five hundred 244 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: or a Chevrolet um at sas now, the Plymouth Plymouth 245 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: heavy Couta has always been that that car that if 246 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: you're if you're a serious collector of American muscle cars, 247 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: you have to have one of those in your collection. 248 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: And as you said, they go for multimillions of dollars, 249 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 1: which you know, it's just incredible. But the whole collector 250 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: car market, you know, return something like thirty or forty 251 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: percent a year over the last ten fifteen years. So 252 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: that's the cream of the crop that the markets exactly. 253 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: Hey David, you know, unlike Matt, I'm not a car geek, 254 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: although I do own BMW five thirty five with a 255 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: manual transmission. So if you want to make a bid, uh, 256 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: feel free. What's driving this market? Is this just the 257 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: people saying, oh my god, they aren't going to make 258 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: any more you know, gasoline driven cars, so I better 259 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: get one, you know, gasolene cars, manual shift. Uh, it's 260 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: a lot of you know, people my age coming of 261 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: age and remembering the cards of their youth from the 262 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: sixties and seventies in particular. But now we're starting to 263 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: see cars in the eighties and nineties pick up steam 264 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: as well. And so, you know, I think a lot 265 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: of things happened during the pandemic that that built the 266 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: steam for the collector car market, and we're seeing that 267 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: continue with a lot of great cars coming to the market. 268 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: We've got fifteen cars here in Arizona, the largest number 269 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: of cars ever to come to this office. It doesn't 270 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: look like it's selling down at Yeah, we should definitely 271 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: go there. You you sell though the cream of the 272 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: crop we're talking about. You have a nineteen sixty seven 273 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: Ferrari to s G t V four, So this is 274 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: another level. But on a lower end, have things like 275 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: bring a trailer or what's Doug Demro's thing called cars 276 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: and bids um you know Hemming's have they kind of 277 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: helped push up the top end. Yeah, I think particularly 278 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: in the collector car market, that rising tide lifts all 279 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: boats certainly holds true. There's you know, they're bring a trailer. 280 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: There's a certain clientele that wants to just transact transact business. 281 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: When you come to make and makeam auction, it's more 282 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: of an experience. You want to you want to come 283 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: and look at the cars and touch and feel them 284 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: and talk to your friends. Will you never do a day? 285 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: Will you never do an online auction platform, you know, 286 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: eBay style like those others we do. We do online 287 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: live auctions. So for instance, our auction here from Glendale, 288 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: you can bid online right along with those people that 289 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: are sitting in the seats, and and if you look 290 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: on the website on makam dot com as you're bidding, 291 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: it looks just like you're sitting in the front row 292 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: of the auction. So we're we're a live auction company. 293 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: We prefer to, you know, to include the excitement of 294 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: a live auction, whether you're in person, on the phone, 295 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: or via the internet. However you want to bid with us, 296 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: you can participate, Dave. But I understand it correctly that 297 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: you're at the big football stadium in in Glenville, correct. 298 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: State Farmers. State Farmers our oldest and and largest sponsor, 299 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: and we're really happy to have this third year. I 300 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: believe that we've been at State Farm Stadium where the 301 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. I mean that suggests you're gonna have a 302 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: lot of people, a lot of Matt Miller type people 303 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: come through. How many people are going to come through 304 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: this auction, Well, we'll probably have over the four days 305 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: of the auction, we'll probably have somewhere around twenty people. 306 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: You know. I certainly wish that we could fill the 307 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: sixty five thousand seats in the arena every day, but 308 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: that that doesn't quite happen. Have you seen any effect 309 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: of I mean, I don't know Russians, uh what their 310 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: taste is in cars, but have you ever seen have 311 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: you seen any effect on the the sanctions? You know, 312 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: we haven't yet. We do have a few Russian collectors 313 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: that work with us. I assume that we're going to 314 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 1: see you know, that fall off. They're typically not at 315 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: this auction there at one of our two biggest auctions, 316 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: either in cas Semi, Florida that we just had in 317 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: January or Indianapolis, Indiana in May. But I would expect 318 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 1: that we're probably going to see them apps and hopefully 319 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: this conflict is over by the time we get to 320 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: May and things get back to normal little bit, not 321 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: just for the sake of our auctions and our collector 322 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 1: and look for the world in general. From your mouth 323 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: to God's ears. Dave, thanks so much for joining us. 324 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: Dave Major's there, the CEO of me Com Collector Car Auctions. 325 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: The auction I think its off tomorrow in Glendale. I'm 326 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 1: definitely gonna be sitting home watching it. You can follow 327 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: that TV, yeah, for sure, or or online or online, 328 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: but I'm probably not gonna be bidding during this entire 329 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 1: pandemic and the resulting economic dislocation. One of areas of 330 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,880 Speaker 1: the economy that just always amazed me to the upside 331 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: was the real estate business, whether it's new home sales, 332 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: new home construction, um existing home sales just really really strong. 333 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 1: And obviously there's a lot of reasons for that, not 334 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: the least which is a record low interest rate. But 335 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: a lot of folks are thinking about ways to play that, 336 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: and one way might be through the technology side. Uh 337 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: two weeks Court Demaunch. He's the CEO of pro Corps 338 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: technolog He joins us here. See thanks so much for 339 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: joining us here. Tell us about procure pro Core pro 340 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: Core Sorry, and how you guys kind of kind of 341 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: fit into the construction business. Yeah, no, Paul, by the way, 342 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,479 Speaker 1: thank you for having me nice too, nice to meet you. 343 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: So pro Core is a construction project management platform and 344 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: we have provided we provide solutions to everybody involved in 345 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: the construction process. So if you've ever built anything like 346 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: remodeled the bathroom or built a house, you know that 347 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: you're going to hire a general contractor and a bunch 348 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: of subcontractors and these folks are going to come together, uh, 349 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: probably never worked together as a team before and try 350 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: to solve the complexities of your project, which is a prototype. 351 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,479 Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter if it's a house, doesn't matter 352 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: if it's a nuclear power plant or a port, or 353 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: a bridge or a highway. Uh. You know, construction is 354 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: everywhere and pro Work platform brings everybody together onto a 355 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: single source of truth uh and enables jobs to get 356 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: done on time and on budget. And it's um you know, 357 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: we've we've now been in business for twenty years and 358 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: we're a global company and we're having a lot of fun. 359 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: So how much of your business is retail, residential versus 360 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,479 Speaker 1: um you know, commercial? So it's actually even way broader 361 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: than that, Pall. It's it's interesting people tend to think 362 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: of construction as being residential and commercial. Um, there is industrial, 363 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: there's warehouses, there is ports and harbors and civil engineering 364 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: projects and you know, uh, nuclear power plants. So um, 365 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: we are very diversified across a very broad spectrum. There's 366 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: very little construction on this planet that doesn't benefit from 367 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: using pro corps across all of those sectors. So we're 368 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: very much not concentrated. All right, So give us a 369 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: sense of kind of how your business fared during the 370 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: pandemic and kind of what's the near term outlook. Yeah, 371 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: so um, we we we tend to follow the macro 372 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: economic environment pretty pretty closely, which was as as the 373 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 1: pandemic came on. Um, the general sense it in the 374 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: building industry was there was some fear about what was 375 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: coming in the future. Um. So what we what we 376 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: saw was there were some headwinds in the industry, but 377 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: then there were some tail winds. So let me the 378 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: headwinds that we faced when we were going into the 379 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: pandemic was, uh, there's been a labor shortage in construction 380 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: for years and that only got more challenging during the 381 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: during the pandemic. And then you you you know, you've 382 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: probably talked a lot about the supply chain challenges and 383 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: the global economy, and that's been an issue as well 384 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: as commodity prices and inflation. So those are the headwinds 385 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: um that we see in the industry, but we are 386 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,719 Speaker 1: benefiting from some tail winds. And the tail winds are 387 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: that this industry is one of the last to go 388 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: through the digital transformation uh phase, so in it's still 389 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: early days in digital transformation, and COVID brought on two 390 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: new kind of opportunities for pro Core. One was because 391 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: of the remote work environment that came out of COVID. 392 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: A platform like pro Corp, which brings everyone together virtually 393 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: is really really beneficial to come and so it enables 394 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: people to not have to drive into the job site 395 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 1: every day that don't aren't required to be there. Number 396 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: one and number two was some of the some of 397 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: the folks that had been in the industry for a 398 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: long time retired during COVID, and then a lot of 399 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: the younger folks that were coming out of university. We're 400 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: coming in to the industry expecting the technology that would 401 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: be uh you know, mobile centric and more consumer based, 402 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 1: and that's where pro Bowl really shines. So what we 403 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: like to say, is that on net net basis, the 404 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: headwinds and the tail winds kind of um netted themselves out. 405 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,479 Speaker 1: But I will tell you that the head winds are 406 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: working themselves out over time, and we are incredibly optimistic 407 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: about this fourteen trillion dollar TAM that we're looking at all. Right, 408 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: So in terms of your company, you mentioned it was 409 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: twenty years old, came public last year, had some gold 410 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: plated underwriters there sixty seven dollars share the stocks that 411 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: just under fifty two dollars today. The good news, it's 412 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: up four percent today. The bad news is down about 413 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: the thirty year today. What's the market concern around your 414 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,160 Speaker 1: stock over the last several months. I don't believe that 415 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: our stock has been singled out. I believe that our sector, 416 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: the high growth vertical SAS market, has been uh challenged 417 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: across so our cohorts I think are spacing the same challenges. 418 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: I think we because we closed out the year so 419 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: strong and we're so optimistic about the future that I 420 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: think all of this will work itself out over time. 421 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: So talk to us about the growth driver. What's the 422 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: key growth driver that you guys are real is he 423 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: really is focusing on right now. Aside from just the 424 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: economic expansion, yeah, so um our platform is very much 425 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: driven around driving growth uh and and driving adoption of 426 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: new users and new pain customers. Interestingly enough, our platform 427 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: allows our customers to bring on unlimited collaborators onto the platform, 428 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: So if you're general contractor, you can bring all your 429 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,239 Speaker 1: subs on it no additional costs to the platform. And 430 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: because of that, we create this fly wheel effect of 431 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: more The more people on our platform that see the 432 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: value of it, the more people that want to be 433 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: our customers. So the growth factors are the network effect 434 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: that we get from the from our platform, our international 435 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: expansion of the CAM is outside the US, and our 436 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: international group last year. We have a lot of new 437 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: products that our customers can can put us on our platform, 438 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: and so there's just a lot of ways that we 439 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: look at growth in four and it's exciting. Some good stuff. 440 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: There to a quarterma CEO of pro Court Technologies joining 441 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: us here talk about technology coming to the construction business 442 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: and where the upside might be. Thanks for listening to 443 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: the Bloomberg Markets podcast. You can subscribe and listen to 444 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: interviews with Apple Podcasts or whatever podcast platform you prefer. 445 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: I'm Matt Miller. I'm on Twitter at Matt Miller. Three 446 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: pt on Fall Sweeney, I'm on Twitter at pt Sweeney. 447 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: Before the podcast. You can always catch us worldwide at 448 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio