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Speaker 3: Big Take. And today it's about banker bonuses. Wall Street

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Speaker 3: bonuses often come in the form of restricted stock units,

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Speaker 3: So how did that actually perform? It's dicey, it's unpredictable.

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Speaker 3: Do you actually make money off of those things?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: Joining us now is one of the authors of the story.

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Speaker 3: Laura Noonan, Bloomberg News finance reporter Walkers to your story, Laura.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: So the story basically looked at the restricted shares over

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Speaker 6: a period from the Frantic christ Sinteszan Night, and the

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Speaker 6: question we wanted to ask is how does the number

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Speaker 6: on the letter you get on bonus day compare to

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Speaker 6: how much you actually get by the time those shares best.

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Speaker 6: So we assume certain things, and what we showed was

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Speaker 6: that in the case of the US banks, you usually

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Speaker 6: end up making more, in the case of the European banks,

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Speaker 6: you usually end up making less. And in some cases

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Speaker 6: the numbers were quite severe. So there was one case

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Speaker 6: we looked at where the Bank of America people who

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Speaker 6: got bonuses in twenty eleven slash twenty twelve, they ended

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Speaker 6: up if they had sold them as they could over

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Speaker 6: a three year period, they would have got two hundred

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Speaker 6: and seventy thousand dollars for every one hundred and for

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Speaker 6: every one hundred thousand dollars in the letter. So that's

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Speaker 6: a big upside off the end of the spectrum of

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Speaker 6: the credit Switez. Bankers who got bonuses towards the end

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Speaker 6: of credit spesis life would have seen the money effectively

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Speaker 6: disappear when credits fee is collapsed in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Are we see investment banks pay more of the bonus

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Speaker 4: in stock or RSUs less cash more. Is that a trend.

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Speaker 6: It's been a trend since the financial crisis, which is

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Speaker 6: why we started the analysis there. So the idea was

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Speaker 6: to align the risk taking of the people who are

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Speaker 6: making bonuses with the longer term fate of the banks that.

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Speaker 4: They work for.

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Speaker 6: Within the EU, there are rules about this, so you

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Speaker 6: have to get a certain percentage of your bonus in

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Speaker 6: these kind of restricted instruments, and the percentage that you

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Speaker 6: get is higher depending on how senior you are. So

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Speaker 6: it's certainly something the banks have been doing for risk management.

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Speaker 5: They're also doing it in terms of.

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Speaker 6: Pretention, in terms of if you are a really strong

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Speaker 6: bank and your share price they expected to appreciate, and

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Speaker 6: we want people to stay working for you, it makes

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Speaker 6: sense to give them things which kind of align their

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Speaker 6: fate with the fate of the bank because it makes

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Speaker 6: them stay, which is what banks are trying to do,

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Speaker 6: especially as they face more competition for for staff from

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Speaker 3: Paul's here shaking his head like it.

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Speaker 4: I'm just going to keep my mouth shed here because

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Speaker 4: I think about the Europeans in their pay structure, and

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Speaker 4: you don't like that.

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Speaker 4: That's why there's no global investment bank coming out of Europe.

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Speaker 4: That's why there's no technology coming out of I mean.

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Speaker 3: It's a fair point, like okay, I mean is a

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Speaker 6: There are a lot of issues in European investment banks

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Speaker 6: and we will be telling you more about that. Those

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Speaker 6: to see how people respond in terms of do people

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Speaker 3: Can I just ask about the whole credit Sueeze debacle there,

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Speaker 3: like what happened to all of those bonuses and payouts, etc.

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Speaker 3: When you take a look at Deutsche Bank and Credit Sweeze.

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Speaker 6: So Deutsche Bank has just had a very troubled share

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Speaker 6: you know, I knew people who had Deutsche bonuses and

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Speaker 6: The share price did not recover. It fell further and

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Speaker 6: time share price wise. Creditsweez was interesting because if you

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Speaker 6: actually Credit sweez stock did really well, and that was

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Speaker 6: when those shares effectively got zeroed by the collapsash takeover

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Speaker 6: from Yes, there's a lot of nuance there. What I

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Speaker 6: should also say is, for this analysis, we looked at

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Speaker 6: twelve banks, the twelve banks who most commonly give bonuses. However,

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Speaker 6: we have a tool for the terminal users. You can

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Speaker 6: go on that you can click on it. You can

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Speaker 6: enter any listed company in the world. You can enter

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Speaker 6: any kind of vesting structure. You might have any dates,

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Speaker 6: and you can see how your life would have been

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Speaker 6: different if you got your bonus at a different bank,

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Speaker 6: like twenty five, or you know how your colleagues down

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Speaker 6: fun that you can have. If you're into playing with

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Speaker 6: Excel sheets, you're.

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Speaker 2: In for a fun weekend.

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Speaker 4: And I guess, I mean, you have some great stuff

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Speaker 4: in here about how the best year for bank bonuses

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Speaker 6: That prices were not good. Yeah, so it's something some

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Speaker 6: but they have to recover. So I've seen people make

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Speaker 6: some pretty bad decisions thinking that that, thinking that things

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Speaker 6: will always rebound to some kind of normal. The one

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Speaker 6: is like me and reversion hasn't really been a thing

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Speaker 6: Some business models turned out to be, you know, structurally flowed,

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Speaker 6: structurally fatally flowed in the case of credit sweet So

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Speaker 6: you can't always assume that it's going to bounce back,

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Speaker 6: because I mean, if you talk to the credit feece Banger,

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Speaker 6: they talk to the Liman bankers who live a different era.

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Speaker 6: But they also and then I know a few people

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Speaker 6: who work for both Lehman and Credits Feet and you

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Speaker 6: know the Times Violin. They're silk white rich guys. However,

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Speaker 3: All Right, Laura, thanks a lot. We're gonna leave it there.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Lauren and a Bloomberg News finance

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Speaker 3: Stock on the move to the upside is Baker Hughes.

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Speaker 3: It is the best performing stock in the energy sector

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Speaker 3: within the SMP. Baker Hughes is an oil services company.

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Speaker 3: It has two main lines. One is literally oil services,

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Speaker 3: so if you're an oil driller, you call Baker to

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Speaker 3: help you drill the oil. The other is industrial and

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Speaker 3: energy technology that's much more related to sort of the

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Speaker 3: future of what the business will be. Encapsulates LNG export facilities,

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Speaker 3: which they are a huge provider of. And this stock

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Speaker 3: has car rushed its competition. You look at a comp

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Speaker 3: chart Baker Hughes versus A, Halliburton and SLB. They've crushed

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Speaker 3: it over the last year. They reported earnings last night

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Speaker 3: the beat very high estimates and yet the stock is

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Speaker 3: still up by about six percent. Were pleased to have

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Speaker 3: the CEO, President and Chairman, Lorenzo Seminelli joining us. Now, Lorenzo,

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Speaker 3: good to chat with you. I gave you a nice

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Speaker 3: if Pears don't.

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Speaker 5: Say that again, Alex, what do.

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Speaker 3: You have that your other peers don't in your best estimation?

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Speaker 7: Well, Alex, firstval it's great to be with you and

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Speaker 7: very pleased with the results of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 5: And I think it.

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Speaker 7: Really talks to the portfolio and the capabilities of baking US.

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Speaker 7: And as you mentioned, we have these two segments, one

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Speaker 7: being oil field services and equipment and then the other

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Speaker 7: being industrial and energy technology, and that capability of really

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Speaker 7: being focused on where there's less cyclicality, less volatility. As

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Speaker 7: you look at oil field services and equipment, we're much

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Speaker 7: more on the production side, weighted and looking at the

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Speaker 7: mature asset solutions. And when you look at the industrial

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Speaker 7: energy technology, really on the liquefaction side, the gas infrastructure

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Speaker 7: and also new energy and again we exceeded the guidance

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Speaker 7: for another robust twenty twenty five. And it really comes

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Speaker 7: down to the differentiation in the portfolio. And we're really

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Speaker 7: not just an all field services company. We're an industrial

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Speaker 7: energy technology company, and you know, we've created a portfolio

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Speaker 7: that's unique within the space.

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Speaker 4: All Right, Lorenzos, I've been telling Alex, who is the

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Speaker 4: true expert here in Bloomberg for energy. I have watched

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Speaker 4: season one of land Man, so I now consider myself

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Speaker 4: an oil and gas expert. Just putting that in front

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Speaker 4: of you there. Love to get your thoughts. Lorenzo on

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Speaker 4: the implications of this new administration coming up. How much

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Speaker 4: of a change in policy do you and your peers

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Speaker 4: expect out of a Trump administration.

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Speaker 7: You know, we've seen administrations in the past and changes,

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Speaker 7: and obviously we had Trump administration previously as well. As

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Speaker 7: we look at the outlook again, we think that an

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Speaker 7: number of our customers and EMPs are going to continue

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Speaker 7: to be disciplined, and we're seeing activity levels and production

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Speaker 7: at least in the US slightly increasing. As we look

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Speaker 7: at international again we see flatish year over year. But

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Speaker 7: again I think as we look at the macro side,

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Speaker 7: it's over the course of the next few years and

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Speaker 7: the next decade and increasing demand for energy, and that

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Speaker 7: means it's an all of the above strategy. It's going

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Speaker 7: to be oil gas, it's going to be more renewables,

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Speaker 7: and we see a good outlook on the macro side

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Speaker 7: for Baker Hughes.

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Speaker 3: In that environment, he does talk about Landman like all

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Speaker 3: the time. So to break that down a little bit,

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Speaker 4: It's great to chat with you.

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Speaker 3: I love catching up with you. Lorenzo Saminelli, President, chairman

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Speaker 4: News came out today that surprised me, talking about the

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Speaker 4: was this expected, what's going on here.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Paul, it wasn't expected. I think there were some

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Speaker 8: Woomer was next week a DJ decided to step in.

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Speaker 8: What's the problem, Well, it's all about Wi Fi and

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Speaker 8: it's clear that HPE can't live without its Wi Fi either.

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Speaker 8: You know, the combination of HPE and Juniper would create

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Speaker 8: essentially saying that it would create an anti competitive environment

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Speaker 4: Both stocks are kind of flat to a little bit

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Speaker 8: The market is telling us for a Juniper standpoint, there

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Speaker 8: HPE needs to walk away. What we did right this

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Speaker 8: Now from an HPE standpoint, you know, it's something a

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Speaker 8: So the stock is down about ten percent and some

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Speaker 4: What could they do to save this deal?

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Speaker 8: But you know, with Antonio trying to do to keep

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Speaker 4: Which about thirty seconds left. What's your favorite name here

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Speaker 8: Ironically, it's HPA Okay, and the quick AI. It's the

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Speaker 4: Appreciate that so again, Hpe, Juniper do oj blocking kind

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