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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane. Along

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Ferrell and Lisa Abramowitz. Daily we bring you

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Speaker 1: insight from the best and economics, finance, investment, and international relations.

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Speaker 1: and of course on the Bloomberg terminal. Steve Shumaron is

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Speaker 1: taking notes. Had a Multi Assis Solutions Federated MS right now, Steve,

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Speaker 1: what have you changed here? I mean the dynamics now,

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Speaker 1: the new genus we have this panel today, but really

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Speaker 1: the economic data tomorrow, how is Federated tweaked the sixty

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Speaker 1: allocation significantly. Um. You know, we've been sellers really since

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Speaker 1: last September UM, and we took the opportunity with last

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Speaker 1: week's rally, you know, growth and popped about ten percent

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Speaker 1: and we reduced. We reduced so we're one percent overweight equities,

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Speaker 1: which is you know equities right now, which is the

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Speaker 1: lowest overweight time that we've had really since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eight, two thousand nine. As you know, along with

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Speaker 1: Steve Off in phil Orlando, we've been one of the

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Speaker 1: most bullish shops on the street really for the last

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Speaker 1: decade plus UM. But we're as as low in our

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Speaker 1: allocation equities as we've been, and we mirror that on

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Speaker 1: the fixed income side. We are underweight almost every major

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Speaker 1: category of credit, in fact, not almost every major category

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Speaker 1: of credit, and that's really only the third time in

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Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. Help our radio and TV audiences

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Speaker 1: that are saying, okay, underweight, translate that does that mean

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Speaker 1: go to cash? It does um to a certain extent.

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Speaker 1: So we've been you know, our neutral allocation to cash

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Speaker 1: and at sixty is roughly three. You know, we're sitting

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Speaker 1: at eight, which is you know, darnier. Three times are

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Speaker 1: a normal cash weight, so almost a triple levered cash

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Speaker 1: on the full. But I think, you know, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a time to buy longer dated treasuries as as

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Speaker 1: the recession, which we think is more and more likely,

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Speaker 1: comes into view. The problem is, I think the rally

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Speaker 1: of the last couple of weeks and treasuries is still premature.

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Speaker 1: I still think you're gonna have upside surprises to inflation

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Speaker 1: of FED that's hawkish in a ten year that ultimately

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Speaker 1: So we would look to add on treasuries as we move,

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Speaker 1: as we saw a more because I think you're gonna

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Speaker 1: want those longer dated treasuries when you get into kind

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Speaker 1: of worse growth periods. But right now we think cash

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Speaker 1: is king. Steve, let's take a step back and understand

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Speaker 1: the framing of your parishness and put on your federal

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Speaker 1: reserve suggish hat in terms of commentating, So if you

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Speaker 1: said before you came on that you think that they're

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Speaker 1: in the midst of the biggest policy air going back

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Speaker 1: to the nineteen thirties, what exactly is their policy are? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean, and to Tom's point, I think it's very

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Speaker 1: understandable how they got there, But I don't think this

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Speaker 1: is malfeasance. But when when you woke up in March

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Speaker 1: and interest rates for zero inflation was eight percent and

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Speaker 1: the you know hood was still buying bonds, I don't

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Speaker 1: care how you got there. That's policy here, um, and

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Speaker 1: that has now forced them into a position right now

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Speaker 1: into a slowing economy. And I think what they missed,

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Speaker 1: and Tom you might find this interesting, what they missed

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Speaker 1: is a longer term structural change in the economy. We

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Speaker 1: were in this kind of new normal, sub two percent growth,

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Speaker 1: inventories are no longer just good enough, so companies are

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Speaker 1: reorienting their uh their supply chains. Chinese working age population

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Speaker 1: And so and at the same time, you've you've undermined

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Speaker 1: The free movement of goods really kind of peaked with

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Speaker 1: this with this kind of economic war with Russian So

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Speaker 1: I think you're headed to a scenario at the other

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Speaker 1: but it's less efficient. You're gonna get more inflation per

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Speaker 1: unit of growth. That's a different world. Steve. This a

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Speaker 1: the question and there was a belief in the market

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Speaker 1: doesn't see that happening, and she still sees a FED

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Speaker 1: that will confirm your parishness and the reason why you're

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Speaker 1: that's not a victory lap. You really need to get

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Speaker 1: And so I think defense still has a lot of

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to go for some time. UM. And

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Speaker 1: if they do slow, Tom, I think they're slowing because

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Speaker 1: it's abundantly clear that we've got, you know, a significant

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Speaker 1: decline in growth, if not an outright procession. How fast

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Speaker 1: does the employment dynamic changed? Your own pulse said we

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Speaker 1: have a strong economy in this testimony two cups of

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Speaker 1: as part of our recession dashboard, and you can go

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Speaker 1: effective on average. It's a series of indicators that we

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Speaker 1: look at that I mean, there's no perfect formula to

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Speaker 1: understand when a recession is coming, but there's guide trades

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Speaker 1: on average, you can go from the cycle low and

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Speaker 1: so it's a fickle It's a fickle friend to rely

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Speaker 1: solely on a strong labor, of course, and we may

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Speaker 1: find that the excess inventory that we have this cycle

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Speaker 1: really optimistic. Steve. I just want to wake out something

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Speaker 1: with your work, to hear this from you from Steve

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Speaker 1: Orth from Phil Orlando, it's quite something. You know, forgive

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Speaker 1: the snark, but it's like Marko Klanovitch a JP Morgan

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Speaker 1: coming out this morning and going Max Bearish, you used

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Speaker 1: to make fun of me for my snark around that. Stay,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Stay Chevaron Federate. By way into the General

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Speaker 1: Mills piece there the nine year piece. Back then it

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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it this morning at one and studied you'll

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Speaker 1: got it right greatly. Jones here, so I can yell

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Speaker 1: She fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab, Cathy, that's the reality,

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Speaker 1: not a bunch of bonds strategists talking about spreads and

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Speaker 1: credit quality. People listening and watching bought a piece at

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Speaker 1: par and they're enjoying it a one or eighty two

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Speaker 1: What do you do if you own that bond, Well,

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Speaker 1: you have two choices. Tom One is you hold it

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Speaker 1: to maturity and it goes back to part because that's

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Speaker 1: what bonds do unless there's a default, or you sell it. Now,

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Speaker 1: take your tax loss and replace it with a higher

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Speaker 1: yielding box, Kathy, When does the concern start to creep

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Speaker 1: in that we're not seeing issueans really pick up? And

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Speaker 1: then a lot of companies can choose not to now,

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Speaker 1: think right now, corporate balance sheets are still among the

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Speaker 1: investment grade community is still pretty strong, and they don't

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Speaker 1: they did load up on debt at lower yields UM.

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Speaker 1: So they're in pretty good shape, but we'll probably see

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Speaker 1: issuance pick up. There's always going to be a window

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Speaker 1: be some refinancing that takes place. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: next to fault cycle? Well, I think when you're talking

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Speaker 1: basically junk companies UM, their cost of financing is going

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Speaker 1: but they're probably gonna move up some more. We think

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Speaker 1: there's a high risk of recession, particularly of the goes

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Speaker 1: into the market, and I think a fair amount of

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Speaker 1: tightening is built into the market. If the Loretto Master

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Speaker 1: we're seeing an inverted yield curve. All else being equal,

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Speaker 1: would be very difficult with the economic indicators rolling over

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Speaker 1: seen inverted curve, and that translates when we look at

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Speaker 1: a pretty stiff global tightening cycle and that's when things break. Kathy,

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Speaker 1: thank you, you wanted the best. I love hearing from you.

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Speaker 1: Kathy Jones there to us. Thank you joint to get

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Speaker 1: snabas founder and CEOM of ex Sante Data. You're let's

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Speaker 1: start here, President a Guard, Chairman Pal, Governor Baudi. What's

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Speaker 1: your number one question? Going into that a little bit

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Speaker 1: later this morning, I would say what matters more growth

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Speaker 1: or inflation? Right? We had a totally different cycle than

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Speaker 1: if we have recession fears, the central banks are a

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Speaker 1: very very tricky spot, right because inflation is way above

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Speaker 1: we've we've clearly had the recession focused over the last

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