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

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: Jill Garvey, Senior VP and senior wealth strategist at the

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Speaker 1: Huntington's National Bank UM and and get your take, Jill

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Speaker 1: on the markets. I mean, on a day when we're

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Speaker 1: ripping up after la Kremlin hated that hinted that, uh,

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Speaker 1: progress and Pete's talks with Ukraine. UM, looks good. The Ukrainians,

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Speaker 1: UH kind of did the same. So UM and this

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Speaker 1: ahead of a FED rate hike that we were all expecting. UM.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about equity indexes right now? Good

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Speaker 1: morning Manton, Paul, it's great to be with you. Well.

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Speaker 1: Number one, our thoughts are with the forty four million

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Speaker 1: Ukrainians in the care of all human strategy, and number two,

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Speaker 1: in terms of the market, we're really going to be

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Speaker 1: focusing on the language around the increase we think that

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Speaker 1: the FED will make a basis point increase today. We

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Speaker 1: expect maybe three more increases this year, So we're watching

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Speaker 1: the markets very carefully. We think the volatility is going

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Speaker 1: to stay elevated in the markets during the first half

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Speaker 1: of two and there are three sources, one from inflation,

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Speaker 1: to from the central bank responses, and three from the

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Speaker 1: continued conflict in the Ukraine. So Joe, coming into this year,

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Speaker 1: good friends on on Wall Street and they said get

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Speaker 1: ready for volatility in employ What they write on that

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Speaker 1: call is that something you expect to continue here over

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Speaker 1: the course of this year's we try to digest some

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Speaker 1: of these geopolitical risks as well as economic and financial risks. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we absolutely expect volatility to continue, and we're viewing that

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Speaker 1: as an opportunity. Mant and Paul, we have clients who

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Speaker 1: are sitting on a lot of cash, as you know,

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Speaker 1: representing clients nationally as a as a top national bank,

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Speaker 1: we're seeing tons of liquidity events. So our clients have

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Speaker 1: extend their dollar cost averaging programs and strategically go into

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Speaker 1: the market. Our equity team has a strapping list and

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Speaker 1: we're being bearra strategic in how we deploy our cash.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we're focused heavily on equities and being US centric.

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Speaker 1: And again, unless we're actively deploying the cash going to

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Speaker 1: the market, we're telling our clients to hold back on

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Speaker 1: the amount of cash that you have and remain bond

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Speaker 1: increasing interest rates. First of all, I want to say,

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Speaker 1: uh that Ohio is a great place to be if

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Speaker 1: you have cash? Is that right? Mean? Having cash is

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Speaker 1: probably good no matter what. But being in Ohio it's

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Speaker 1: just a very inexpensive place to live, isn't um and

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Speaker 1: a fantastic place to live? Um? You know, culturally rich,

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Speaker 1: pretty good football team, a great sports early across the board.

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Speaker 1: But where where would you buy equities in terms of

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Speaker 1: UM industry groups? What would you look at? Anything stand

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Speaker 1: out for you? Are you doing bottoms up research? How

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Speaker 1: does it look? Well? It depends on what our clients

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Speaker 1: are focused on. So we think of our clients overall

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Speaker 1: portfolios in a few different segments. Number one lifestyle. So

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Speaker 1: and in that case we also like healthcare. We're also

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Speaker 1: looking at rates and consumer staples. So it really depends

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Speaker 1: on our clients goals and we're ready to act and

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Speaker 1: invest depending on those. How concerned are you about inflation?

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Speaker 1: that as it relates to kind of equity returns? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's certainly a common concern um. And even though

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Speaker 1: I traveled to Ohio a lot, I'm in Growth Point Farms,

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Speaker 1: again we are tackling that and being very strategic about

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Speaker 1: So uh. First of all, I agree, Gross Point is gorgeous. Also,

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Speaker 1: the automakers though, since you're so close, just down the

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Speaker 1: in advance out of the leases, so it really haven't

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Speaker 1: impaired the auto dealers revenue streams. Hey, Joe, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. We always appreciate getting your thoughts

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Speaker 1: in perspective. From the Great Midwest, Gross Point, Michigan. Joe Garvey,

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Speaker 1: Senior vice president and senior wealth Strategist at Huntington's National Bank.

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Speaker 1: Senior economist and Managing director at BMO Capital Markets. Jennifer,

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Speaker 1: from FED chair J? Pal? Good morning? I think the

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Speaker 1: UM as to how he sees rate hikes going forward?

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Speaker 1: UM will be closely watched, and you know I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he's going to use the words like nimble and humble

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Speaker 1: that's critical now for for any central bankers, is to

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Speaker 1: remain nimble and humble and and because there's so much

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Speaker 1: from here, Jennifer especially, I look at the word function

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Speaker 1: and yeah, you're right. Let mean, inflation is is definitely

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Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of go, Jennifer. Inflation, I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: You know thinks about its role in fighting inflation? The

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Speaker 1: be looking for? Again? But I wonder about Sarah Bloom Raskin.

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Speaker 1: Can we can we about Raskin? Um? So that's off

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Speaker 1: great state of Ohio. Um. But uh, now we need

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Speaker 1: maybe they change that plan. Still, Um, Powell may not

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Speaker 1: mean he he hasn't been confirmed yet. Well, he can

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Speaker 1: which he's separately confirmed. But UM, it's they are probably

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Speaker 1: if they take control of the sentence. Well, and if

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Speaker 1: gonna say no way, Jose. Yeah, same thing happened with

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Speaker 1: would not expect that seat to be filled for a while. Wow,

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Speaker 1: all right? Is that enough from Mike? Should we let

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Speaker 1: him go to TV? I usually like to haug In,

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Speaker 1: I think they were making some ugly faces. Why aren't

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Speaker 1: they walked by? Did they leave? Oh? I thought they

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Speaker 1: come in here. I don't know, I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: know where they are. They're getting ready for the big

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