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Speaker 1: Let's get back to Harold von der Linda from HSBC. Harold,

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Speaker 1: you were cut off there. I want you to continue

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Speaker 1: with your train of thought. Yeah, thanks a lot, we

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Speaker 1: get cut off. Yes, So what is important for the

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Speaker 1: Asian equity market is the outlook for inflation in the US.

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Speaker 1: And these are just signs people have always stopped. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't get their products, say six months ago, they needed

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Speaker 1: to make sure that they had stuck up in inventory.

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Speaker 1: Now demands maybe a little bit weaker than anticipated, and

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Speaker 1: they're cutting prices and that's yeah, that means that maybe

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Speaker 1: the inflationary story is is is a little bit on

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Speaker 1: his back lacks yet, So let's see how that impacts

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Speaker 1: over inflation numbers. But that is important for US in

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Speaker 1: Asia because lower inflation in lower bonds uts and lower

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Speaker 1: bund juts, that's good for Asian equities. Very quickly, Harold,

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Speaker 1: what does it tell us about the consumer twenty seconds?

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Speaker 1: What does it tell us about the consumer in twenty

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Speaker 1: seconds is that the outlook maybe for consumption demand is

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Speaker 1: not as strong as what we anticipate. And this is

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Speaker 1: important for Asians well because we help, of course a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of exporters in the region, particularly in Korea

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Speaker 1: and Taiwan tech exporters, and yeah, maybe the outlook for

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Speaker 1: them is a little bit we we've already seen that,

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Speaker 1: which is in that particular secrecy earning being cut in

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Speaker 1: that monthly sales momentum that comes through in Taiwan being

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Speaker 1: quite weak guidance from company. And Harold, you did mention

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Speaker 1: when we were speaking earlier about opportunities in Asia. I know,

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Speaker 1: Asia Tech, you identify some very attractive pe ratios. At

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Speaker 1: the moment, are you adding to your positions then no,

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Speaker 1: not yet. The evaluations are low for that sector. Asia

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Speaker 1: Tech is down on something like third excent. But the

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Speaker 1: problem is to sell through. I mean, you guys just

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Speaker 1: spoke about Lamart the discounting products. Uh, the demands might

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Speaker 1: be weaker in for for that products, So that's going

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Speaker 1: to be a bit of an issue. So you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be highly selected in that sector, I think. And Brian

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Speaker 1: highlighted the fact that second quarter GDP and South Korea

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Speaker 1: much above forecast, nearly double what economists were expecting, a

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Speaker 1: gain of seven ns of one percent. It looks like

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Speaker 1: spending not only from households but the government as well,

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Speaker 1: helped to turn things around. I mean, do you have

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Speaker 1: any reaction to this? Yeah, I mean that's good for Korea.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think part of it is also post

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Speaker 1: co fee a little bit kind of a church from

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Speaker 1: his activity comes back most to post code in South Korea.

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Speaker 1: But for the bigger tech companies in in Korea, that

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Speaker 1: is not overly relevant, to be honest, because it takes

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Speaker 1: so most of the products in Europe and in the US,

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Speaker 1: So it's what happens in those markets that's that's sort

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Speaker 1: of really important to them. Yeah, we do talk a

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Speaker 1: lot about recession risk, mostly though pertaining to the US

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Speaker 1: and and knock on risks for the rest of the world.

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Speaker 1: But but what about that risk when viewed through the

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Speaker 1: Asia Pacific lens. You know, we we just didn't have

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Speaker 1: that decent GDP read out of South Korea. Are the

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Speaker 1: probabilities different for this part of the world. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think an age the inflation store is a bit different.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit more mixed, to be honest. We have,

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Speaker 1: on the one hand, probably deflation the precious and issues

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Speaker 1: in in China. No, you're not mecessarily deflation, but the inflation.

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Speaker 1: Inflation is basically not a big issue in in China

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Speaker 1: because amount is weak and they're trying to actually move

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Speaker 1: it and getting a little bit getting people to buy

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Speaker 1: again and get confidence back again. Um. And then you

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Speaker 1: have important food inflation in markets such as India and

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Speaker 1: in Indonesia. The good news is that rice prices haven't

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Speaker 1: little bit. But we still have to deal in particularly

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Speaker 1: that part of Asian institure with food inflation in the

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Speaker 1: second half of the year. Well, you mentioned energy. Their

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Speaker 1: crude oil prices today in New York were up quite

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Speaker 1: a bit where rose more than two percent and stale.

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Speaker 1: We're fluctuating very near hundred dollars of barrel and w

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Speaker 1: t I. At some point this is going to it.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't already began to buy it across many economies

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Speaker 1: in the APAC region. Yeah. Absolutely, And and the one

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Speaker 1: that it's well above it now. That's really a bit

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Speaker 1: you get that important inflation in in countries such as India. Um,

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Speaker 1: And we see already there that they want to typen

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Speaker 1: in the needs. You might have to do this as

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Speaker 1: well second half the year. That's more to related foot

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Speaker 1: not so much as oil. But yeah, that means that

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Speaker 1: to typen. And that's probably on the margin not so

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Speaker 1: good for those equity markets there. So what assets around

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Speaker 1: the regional flashing a buy signal for you? Right now?

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Speaker 1: I think the buy signals are very clear. I think

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Speaker 1: in China, Um, it looks like things are turning slowly

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Speaker 1: around in China. There are certain sectors where the outlook

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Speaker 1: is starting to improve a little bit of the me

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Speaker 1: from a very low base. So UM, I think another

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Speaker 1: market people should be looking at this Thailand as as

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Speaker 1: the world opens up again. Um, Thailand is going to

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Speaker 1: be better as a tourist destination. Tourist numbers have dropped off,

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Speaker 1: like even if they come back a little bit, there's

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Speaker 1: going to be quite a good impact for for for

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Speaker 1: four Thai companies. So those are two markets I would

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Speaker 1: really take a look at all right, Harold Vanderlynd, head

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Speaker 1: of APEX Equity Strategy at HSBC, We will leave it there.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us on Bloomberg at Daybreak

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