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Speaker 2: Reserve is expected to hike rates for a tenth straight time.
Speaker 1: But a former Fed president said the Central Bank should
Speaker 1: not make the move.
Speaker 2: Regional banks remain in focus after yesterday's.
Speaker 1: So off, and the clock is ticking for Washington to
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Speaker 1: And I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today.
Speaker 2: We begin this busy news day with a highly anticipated
Speaker 2: FED meeting. J Powell and company are expected to raise
Speaker 2: rates for a tenth straight time. Today we get a
Speaker 2: preview from Bloomberg's Michael McKee.
Speaker 6: Investors are convinced the Fed will raise rates once more
Speaker 6: by a quarter percentage point, but after that one they're done.
Speaker 6: They will signal rates are high enough and need to
Speaker 6: stay there for at least the rest of the year
Speaker 6: to ensure that inflation continues to slow. The owners for
Speaker 6: convincing Wall Street they will follow through will fall on
Speaker 6: Chairman J.
Speaker 4: Powell.
Speaker 6: Markets are pricing in two rate cuts by the end
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty three. Powell will also get questions about
Speaker 6: the status of the banking system and regulatory reforms the
Speaker 6: Central Bank needs to make, and no doubt about the
Speaker 6: debt ceiling, although that's an issue he's likely to dodge
Speaker 6: for the time being. Michael McKee, Bloomberg Daybreak.
Speaker 1: All right, Mike.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 1: While the betting on Wall Street is for a twenty
Speaker 1: five point raid hike, one former FED official wants a
Speaker 1: different approach. Former Dallas Fed president Robert Kaplan tells us
Speaker 1: rates should stay where they are.
Speaker 7: I would prefer to do what's called the hawkish pause.
Speaker 7: Not raise, but signal that we're in a tightening stance
Speaker 7: because I actually think the banking situation may well be
Speaker 7: more serious than we currently understand it.
Speaker 1: And former Dallas FED President Robert Kaplan made the comments
Speaker 1: in an interview with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hayes. Stay tuned for
Speaker 1: more of that conversation coming up shortly on Bloomberg Daybreak.
Speaker 2: Well, Karen, Kaplan's not the only one asking the Central
Speaker 2: Bank to pause, so are a couple of lawmakers, including
Speaker 2: Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. They wrote a letter
Speaker 2: to j Powell urging the Fed to stop hiking rates.
Speaker 2: They cite the recent banking turmoil as a strong reason
Speaker 2: to pause.
Speaker 1: And Nathan that banking turmoil remains in focus again today.
Speaker 1: US regional lenders tumbledon yesterday on fresh anxiety over financial stability.
Speaker 1: Pac West Bancor plunged twenty seven percent, while Western Alliance
Speaker 1: dropped fifteen percent, and both our lower again this morning.
Speaker 1: They're down roughly two percent. PGM CEO David Hunt tells
Speaker 1: us we have yet to feel the full impact of
Speaker 1: the regional banking crisis.
Speaker 8: We are actually just starting on the implications of the
Speaker 8: banking crisis that we are now going to see a
Speaker 8: increased regulation of banks, in particular focused on the regional
Speaker 8: banks as you mentioned.
Speaker 9: We're also going to.
Speaker 8: See the result of that being a pullback in credit,
Speaker 8: which will help of course non bank lenders, and we're
Speaker 8: going to see more bank consolidation.
Speaker 1: And David Hunt of pgmc's widespread fallout, but that's not
Speaker 1: the view from Larry Summers. The former Treasury secretary tells
Speaker 1: us the worst of the banking crisis is likely behind us.
Speaker 10: I think that we actually are probably over the vast
Speaker 10: majority of the banking of the banking traumas. But look,
Speaker 10: we still have institutions that have looked vulnerable for some time,
Speaker 10: and those are the ones that are most affected today.
Speaker 1: Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers made the comments in an
Speaker 1: interview with Bloomberg's David Weston Catch that interview coming up
Speaker 1: shortly on the program.
Speaker 2: Well, Karen, A bigger bank is also making headlines this morning.
Speaker 2: Morgan Stanley is in talks with US prosecutors and regulators
Speaker 2: to resolve a probe into its block trading practices. We
Speaker 2: get the details from Bloomberg's Doug Prisner.
Speaker 11: The bank is currently discussing a resolution with the SEC
Speaker 11: and the US Attorney. Previously, Morgan Stantley said the inquiries
Speaker 11: focused on whether employees violated securities regulations by sharing or
Speaker 11: using information on impending block trades. Now Morganstantley has discharged
Speaker 11: two bankers. The company said the move was tied to
Speaker 11: allegations about their communications on block trades and client activity.
Speaker 11: Wall Street has been watching closely as prosecutors probe how
Speaker 11: banks work with hedge funds and other buyers to privately
Speaker 11: carry out stock sales big enough to move prices in
Speaker 11: New York Time. Duck prisoner Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: Gab all right, Doug, thanks man. Now let's shift to
Speaker 1: politics and get the latest on the debt ceiling debate.
Speaker 1: The deadline for a potential default just got a little closer,
Speaker 1: and that means there could be a need for a
Speaker 1: short term fix. May get the latest from Bloomberg's Amy Morris.
Speaker 12: Between now and June first, when the Treasury could run
Speaker 12: out of sufficient cash, President Biden and members of the
Speaker 12: House and Senate our scheduled to be in town at
Speaker 12: the same time for one week. That's not enough time
Speaker 12: for the White House and lawmakers to strike a bargain
Speaker 12: before the deadline. A short term extension is now likely,
Speaker 12: but could force Republicans to break their promise against a
Speaker 12: clean debt ceiling bill or force Democrats to concede, setting
Speaker 12: a precedent before negotiations even begin. Amy Morris, Bloomberg Daybreak.
Speaker 4: Okay, Amy, thank you.
Speaker 2: Along with the deadline, the White House is also under
Speaker 2: pressure over a potential migrant surge this spring. Now, the
Speaker 2: Biden administration plans to deploy fifteen hundred members of the
Speaker 2: US military along the Mexican border. We get that story
Speaker 2: from Bloomberg's Ed Baxter.
Speaker 13: The administration says there's already been a spike in migration,
Speaker 13: and Brigadier General pad Ryder says this is a head
Speaker 13: of an expected surge of migrants once pandemic restrictions are
Speaker 13: lifted later this month.
Speaker 14: For ninety days, these fifteen hundred military personnel, who will
Speaker 14: be sourced from the active duty component, will fill critical
Speaker 14: capability gaps such as ground based detection and monitoring.
Speaker 13: General writer says they will not participate in law enforcement.
Speaker 13: Immigration is expected to be a major campaign issue in
Speaker 13: the twenty twenty four election cycle. In San Francisco. I'm
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Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. To
Speaker 2: hike or to pause? That is the question for the
Speaker 2: Federal Open Market Committee, and we will find out this
Speaker 2: afternoon what the committee does about interest rates when its
Speaker 2: May meeting draws to a close. But opinion is divided
Speaker 2: among leading economic voices. So let's bring those voices to
Speaker 2: you now. In a conversation with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hayes, sherry
Speaker 2: On and Heidi Stroud Watts, former Federal Reserve Bank of
Speaker 2: Dallas president Robert Kaplan called for a hawkish pause amid
Speaker 2: regional bank turmoil. Let's bring you part of that conversation.
Speaker 9: You think the FED should pause, Why, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I do think they should pause for a few reasons.
Speaker 7: One is, I think we're in the early stages, not
Speaker 7: the late stages, of this banking situation. I think there's
Speaker 7: been a pretty significant change for the prospects of small
Speaker 7: and mid sized banks. They provide most of the lending
Speaker 7: to small mid sized businesses in the United States, and
Speaker 7: we've just seen the first phase of this, which is
Speaker 7: the asset liability mismatch, which is sort of the most
Speaker 7: obvious issue, but the credit issues are about to start,
Speaker 7: and I think that's why you're seeing the reaction in
Speaker 7: the markets. The other issue for me is from a
Speaker 7: risk management point of view, if I were sitting in
Speaker 7: the seat, I think it's more important to be able
Speaker 7: to sustain the current rate for an extended period of time,
Speaker 7: longer than the market thinks, then get another twenty five
Speaker 7: or fifty basis points and risk having to cut again.
Speaker 7: I think that would be very troubling. And I'd say
Speaker 7: one more comment if I were at the FED, I'd
Speaker 7: call out that we need a whole of government approach
Speaker 7: to fight inflation. Right now, the FED is saying we've
Speaker 7: got this.
Speaker 9: We can solve it. I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 7: I would prefer to do what's called the hawkish pause,
Speaker 7: but signal that we're in a tightening stance, because I
Speaker 7: actually think the banking situation may well be more serious
Speaker 7: than we currently understand, and I'd like to turn over
Speaker 7: a few more cards rather than regret not doing that
Speaker 7: three months from now.
Speaker 16: Okay, put on your former golden vice chair hat. If
Speaker 16: you were advising a desk, a trading desk, an investment desk.
Speaker 9: What do you think the risk is now?
Speaker 16: Have we not seen the end of it? It seems
Speaker 16: we know that there's shorts out there. Are there?
Speaker 9: No people are nervous?
Speaker 16: But is there fundamental risk right now that could keep
Speaker 16: this small and medium sized banking turmoil problem going?
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Normally when we're discussing problems with banks, it's after we've
Speaker 7: been through a credit cycle. We have not been we
Speaker 7: haven't even started the credit cycle. We've just had an
Speaker 7: asset liability mismatch issue where banks were overinvested in long
Speaker 7: term treasuries and bank equity has been marked down just
Speaker 7: based on that. We've got the credit issues yet to come,
Speaker 7: we're at a different stage in the cycle. And there's
Speaker 7: also potential deposit instability down the road when those credit
Speaker 7: issues start to unfold. And so I would say we're
Speaker 7: in the second or third inning of this situation, not
Speaker 7: the first inning or seventh inning. I should say we
Speaker 7: just finished the first phase potentially, but there's a lot
Speaker 7: more to go. The credit phase, I think normally is
Speaker 7: more serious.
Speaker 17: Robert, on your point about pausing at this moment, you
Speaker 17: don't expect that there might be the risk that if
Speaker 17: you pause at this level, then you might be forced
Speaker 17: to hike again like we saw with ASTRADI the eye
Speaker 17: and what is really more detrimental to credibility at this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I think there's a way to position this.
Speaker 7: And let's say they raise then pause, or they pause
Speaker 7: and signalog so called hawkish pause. Either way, the rhetoric
Speaker 7: needs to be that the FED stands ready to raise rates.
Speaker 7: All you're doing is we've raised a lot very quickly.
Speaker 9: We want to absorb and digest some of it.
Speaker 7: I think people will understand it, think it's prudent, but
Speaker 7: signal we're prepared to do more. And I think the
Speaker 7: markets will understand that message. If they give that message.
Speaker 17: And your concerns about credit tightening coming out of time
Speaker 17: when we saw the Jewel's numbers really fall, we're seeing
Speaker 17: layoffs out of a two three year high. How concerning
Speaker 17: is this for the most vulnerable part of this of
Speaker 17: the American population, especially when you're thinking that a lot
Speaker 17: of people will be left out when inflation is this fast.
Speaker 9: So normally at this stage you worry about the unemployed.
Speaker 7: Right now, we're in a crisis of the employed. The
Speaker 7: problem that's going on out there, fifty million workers that
Speaker 7: make fifty thousand dollars a year or less cannot make
Speaker 7: ends meet, okay, And part of it is there's been
Speaker 7: a substantial amount of fiscal spending which hasn't stopped, by
Speaker 7: the way, and substantial about monetary easing, and really the
Speaker 7: low moderate income families are paying the price of it.
Speaker 7: So you do need some adjustment in the labor market.
Speaker 7: We've got demographically in the United States shortage of workers
Speaker 7: for as far as the eye can see, at fifty
Speaker 7: thousand or less, and so I think you could tolerate
Speaker 7: some loosening in the labor market. I'm more worried about
Speaker 7: the family who is working that tells me they can't
Speaker 7: make ends meet, and that is a widespread group of
Speaker 7: people right now.
Speaker 16: Does the FED to deserve bear responsibility for what is
Speaker 16: happening to these banks.
Speaker 7: I don't blame the FED for making the hikes, although
Speaker 7: I would have eased off monetary policy a couple of
Speaker 7: years ago so these weren't necessary. But once they had
Speaker 7: to do it, I don't blame it for that. I
Speaker 7: do think there's a problem with a lack of supervision
Speaker 7: once they knew they were in a hiking mode, and
Speaker 7: I think it was up to the FED to supervise
Speaker 7: and make sure that if there were outliers, like two
Speaker 7: of the largest fifteen banks, that they caught that earth
Speaker 7: early so we wouldn't be going through what we're going
Speaker 7: through right now.
Speaker 16: You left the FED at twenty twenty one, the new
Speaker 16: framework was being put in place. The new framework said, oh,
Speaker 16: we're not going to raise rates until we're well above
Speaker 16: two percent, until we've got maximum employment. Is that another
Speaker 16: factor that helped set the stage for where we are now?
Speaker 9: It might have, As you know.
Speaker 7: I dissented on the guidance in the September of twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: It was only descent I ever made at the FED.
Speaker 7: But I dissented because I thought locking into that guidance
Speaker 7: did not make sense, and I wish that that hadn't
Speaker 7: been done. But yes, that may have led the FED
Speaker 7: to be more inclined to keep buying bonds to be
Speaker 7: later to raise rates. And I've said many many times
Speaker 7: taking the foot off the accelerator earlier would have made
Speaker 7: it so they didn't have to slam on the brakes
Speaker 7: like they're doing right now.
Speaker 16: What do you think is the big challenge for the
Speaker 16: FED and the federal government?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 9: Here's the issue.
Speaker 7: There's the monetary policy element of this cyclical part, but
Speaker 7: we've got a few other issues. We need more fiscal discipline.
Speaker 7: We still have a lot of fiscal spending in the pipeline.
Speaker 7: And right now the federal government, in my view, is
Speaker 7: working in some ways at cross purposes with the FED
Speaker 7: energy policy, and the integration to the transition is being
Speaker 7: done on the backs of low modern income families. There's
Speaker 7: many actions outside the FED that are making it harder
Speaker 7: for people making fifty grand a year or less to
Speaker 7: make ends meet. And yes, I think you want a
Speaker 7: whole of government approach to inflation, not just a FED
Speaker 7: does this alone.
Speaker 17: Approach, and I mean we come back to always a
Speaker 17: US debt sealing issues, default possibilities, you enforced. We know
Speaker 17: sort of where this is going. But if we continue
Speaker 17: to see that stand of what will be the implications.
Speaker 7: So there's the back and forth of the standoff, which
Speaker 7: is going to stress people out. But there's a real
Speaker 7: issue in here. As we sit here right now, we
Speaker 7: haven't even gone into a downturn. The deficit is right
Speaker 7: now already ten percent of GDP. We actually have a
Speaker 7: legitimate issue about the need for more fiscal restraint.
Speaker 9: And if this.
Speaker 7: Game of chicken, I don't like the tactics, and I
Speaker 7: don't think it's healthy to be threatening or making people
Speaker 7: worried about default.
Speaker 9: But the discussion about controlling.
Speaker 7: Spending is necessary, and I think fifty million families that
Speaker 7: can't make ends meet out there, I think might welcome
Speaker 7: that debate.
Speaker 16: Final quick quick question, quick answer in June, in July,
Speaker 16: in August, are we still going to be where we are?
Speaker 16: Is the FED going to in effect have been done
Speaker 16: hiking rates?
Speaker 9: Do you think there's more to come?
Speaker 16: How is this going to play out?
Speaker 7: I think getting from where we are down to say
Speaker 7: four percent headline inflation will be doable. I think what
Speaker 7: we're going to find is it's going to be very
Speaker 7: sticky to get headline inflation. That the wage price spiral
Speaker 7: of people making fifty thousand or less is alive and
Speaker 7: well and intense, and that's going to affect services inflation.
Speaker 7: So I think this is going to be a two
Speaker 7: or three year battle, not a six month battle.
Speaker 2: And that was former Dallas FED President Robert Kaplan speaking
Speaker 2: there with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hayes, sherry On and Heidi Stroud
Speaker 2: watts Well. Robert Kaplan calls for a hawkish pause. Former
Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says the Fed should remain just
Speaker 2: plain hawkish. In a discussion with Bloomberg's David West, and
Speaker 2: Summers talked about a potential rate hike today as well
Speaker 2: as the dead ceiling. Let's listen into that.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 18: We heard from Jamie Diamond after the First Republic that
Speaker 18: you thought pretty much we were over maybe there'd be
Speaker 18: a small under left. Looks like we're not over this.
Speaker 18: Whatever it is right at this point, how did we
Speaker 18: get here? Why does this keep going on?
Speaker 10: I think that we actually are probably over the vast
Speaker 10: majority of the banking of the banking traumas. But look,
Speaker 10: we still have institutions that have looked vulnerable for some time,
Speaker 10: and those are the ones that are most affected today.
Speaker 10: We still have concerns about commercial real estate and what
Speaker 10: that's going to mean for the credit worthiness of a
Speaker 10: number of institutions. There are still questions that are going
Speaker 10: to be around. I'm concerned today, but I have to
Speaker 10: say I'm not highly alarmed by what's happening in the
Speaker 10: banking sector. I'm frankly more alarmed about what's happening in
Speaker 10: the political sector, where it's clear that we've only got
Speaker 10: a certain amount of time and something's got to come together,
Speaker 10: where something very serious is going to happen before that.
Speaker 18: Is there a more systemic effect here because we have
Speaker 18: a lot of banks and appears actually have liabilities greater
Speaker 18: than their assets at this point because of the reduced
Speaker 18: value of the assets because of the rapid increase in
Speaker 18: the interest rates. Is there a larger issue of solvency
Speaker 18: that respect to a lot of US banks at this point.
Speaker 10: I think there is some alarmism in the calculations you're
Speaker 10: describing because it insufficiently recognizes that yes, if you hold
Speaker 10: a bond or you hold a mortgage and the interest
Speaker 10: rate goes up, the value of that mortgage goes down.
Speaker 10: But equally, if you're having a deposit and that deposit
Speaker 10: is at a low interest rate and so you're going
Speaker 10: to be able to earn a spread, there's an asset there,
Speaker 10: and when interest rates go up, the value of that
Speaker 10: asset goes up. And so I think it's kind of
Speaker 10: alarmist and wrong to focus on the first adjustment and
Speaker 10: not pay attention to the second adjustment. So, yes, absolutely
Speaker 10: we have not been as careful in thinking about interest
Speaker 10: rate increases as we should have been. I think it
Speaker 10: was kind of amazing and very unfortunate that FED stress
Speaker 10: testing didn't put weight on interst rate increased scenarios in
Speaker 10: the way that it should have, And that's an important
Speaker 10: intellectual failure by the Federal Reserve system. But I also
Speaker 10: think that the kind of analysis that your sighting are
Speaker 10: probably overly alarmist.
Speaker 18: Learn let's come back to the issue raised by the
Speaker 18: debt ceiling. You've been in these jobs, so when there's
Speaker 18: a crisis, and sometimes they come in pairs. Right now,
Speaker 18: we have the banking on the one hand, and the
Speaker 18: debt selling on the other how do you handle those
Speaker 18: simultaneous potential crises.
Speaker 10: I think on the debt limit issue, you have parties
Speaker 10: that may not always be rooting for success, and you
Speaker 10: also have entities like the Republican Caucus, where you're negotiating
Speaker 10: with somebody, but you're not really sure of what the
Speaker 10: person you're negotiating with can or cannot deliver, and that
Speaker 10: makes this say, more difficult kind of situation.
Speaker 18: Let's talk about the Federal reserves. How does this affect
Speaker 18: potential of their decision the past. You said you think
Speaker 18: twenty five basis points is in the cards for May.
Speaker 18: Can they hike into a banking crisis?
Speaker 10: Anyone in the federal reserve system who was inclined to
Speaker 10: use language that was committing to further hikes in June
Speaker 10: should surely hesitate because we don't know how this is
Speaker 10: going to metastasize. At the same time, I think for
Speaker 10: the Fed to signal in a definitive way that they
Speaker 10: were finished would be to take a substantial risk of
Speaker 10: locking into what turns out to be a mistaken path,
Speaker 10: and would also perhaps be taken by the market as
Speaker 10: a seek sign of significant alarm. So what I'm going
Speaker 10: to be looking for and hoping for from the FED
Speaker 10: is a move upwards and a clear recognition of uncertainty
Speaker 10: and agnosticism with respect to what's coming.
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