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Speaker 3: So it was really that one year inflation expectation following
Speaker 3: at two point seven percent, the lowest in December twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Johanna Sho's University of Michigan Surveys of Consumer director and
Speaker 3: she joins us now walk us through the increase in
Speaker 3: sentiment and the decline in those one year inflation expectations.
Speaker 4: Consumers actually now have had several months of general improvements
Speaker 4: and how they feel about the economy, and clearly the
Speaker 4: drop in one year inflation expectations is a huge part
Speaker 4: of it. Consumers are one hundred percent aware and have
Speaker 4: noticed that inflation has slowed down quite a bit, not
Speaker 4: just this year, but over the course of the last
Speaker 4: two Yearsnsumers are starting to feel a bit more optimistic
Speaker 4: about the future. You know, with one year business conditions,
Speaker 4: we've had four or five consecutive months of increases at
Speaker 4: this point, I think they are recovering a bit from
Speaker 4: the malays that we were saying earlier in the summer.
Speaker 5: So the headline, Joanne cam in it you've missed sentiment
Speaker 5: sixty nine versus consensus sixty eight point five and sixty
Speaker 5: seven point nine last period. Can you frame that give
Speaker 5: us a sense of context there? Like, for example, for im,
Speaker 5: above fifties means economies are expanding. Below fifty means it's contracting.
Speaker 5: What does a number of sixty nine mean to you?
Speaker 5: Put that in context for us?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 4: So overall it's still below the historical average that we've
Speaker 4: seen since nineteen seventy eight. But I think what's more
Speaker 4: important than just the number itself is the overall trend.
Speaker 4: And now we've had two consecutive months of increases in
Speaker 4: in sentiment. We're at the highest level since in several
Speaker 4: months now, and so you know, I think the thing
Speaker 4: to notice that consumers are starting to feel a bit
Speaker 4: more upbeat, and that's the or trend that we've been seeing.
Speaker 3: How does it go on party lines, Republican versus Democrat?
Speaker 3: Because is this the first survey that really encapsulates Biden
Speaker 3: out Harrison.
Speaker 4: Yeah, We saw a bit of that at the with
Speaker 4: the August reading, and we saw kind of a continuation
Speaker 4: of that. So it's very clear that democrats are seeing
Speaker 4: both Democrats and Republicans are now increasingly expecting a Harris
Speaker 4: win relative to last month and certainly relative to when
Speaker 4: it was Biden versus Trump. Now, Democrats think that's a
Speaker 4: good thing, and we see that in their economic expectations
Speaker 4: that really surged in August, and we were continuing to see,
Speaker 4: you know, this higher level in September as well. Republicans,
Speaker 4: on the other hand, think that the potential of a
Speaker 4: Harris presidency is bad news, and their their sentiment, their
Speaker 4: expectations have declined. And so we saw a widening of
Speaker 4: the normal partisan gap in August, with Democrats improving, but
Speaker 4: that was offset by Republicans. I'm getting worse, And we
Speaker 4: saw a little bit more of that, not as dramatic
Speaker 4: as last month, but that partisan gap is continuing to widen.
Speaker 3: All right, Thanks so much to really appreciate Joanne Joan
Speaker 3: Chu University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers Director joining us
Speaker 3: there on. You mish solely grinding its way higher and
Speaker 3: at that one year and Blanche expectation falling as well.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's go to our friends at Boeing here,
Speaker 5: I mean, stockdown two point seven percent. They got to
Speaker 5: strike up there in that Pacific Northwest region of the world,
Speaker 5: which is where they are generally based. I think the
Speaker 5: heart and souls certainly there. George Ferguson joins us. He'son
Speaker 5: Bloomberg Intelligence, Senior aerospace analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. George, how
Speaker 5: is it so we've got we've got to strike affecting
Speaker 5: Boeing up there in the Seattle area. How impactful is
Speaker 5: this strike to them? What do they need to do?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So it's super impactful, right because it's on there seven
Speaker 8: thirty seven Max, I mean, it's going to be on
Speaker 8: the programs that are out of the Pacific Northwest, I
Speaker 8: should say first once you're going to be seven sixty seven,
Speaker 8: Triple seven and the seven thirty seven max.
Speaker 6: The seven thirty seven max is what matters most.
Speaker 8: Right, that's the revenue generator.
Speaker 6: That's the that's the cash flow generator. That's part of
Speaker 6: that's not even part of.
Speaker 8: That's the largest part of their recovery plan for the
Speaker 8: back half, so super important. Look, we'll see how long
Speaker 8: the strike lasts, but if they can't get seven thirty
Speaker 8: sevens delivered, this bat half recovery isn't bad shape.
Speaker 3: So let me get this straight. You were in the
Speaker 3: city yesterday then there was this huge Bloomberg Intelligence celebrating
Speaker 3: fifteen year party where you all are like struggling to focus,
Speaker 3: and it somehow you wind up back at home this morning.
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 6: It's been a.
Speaker 8: Busy twenty four hours. They wish they could have time
Speaker 8: a strike differently, but.
Speaker 3: I definitely thought it'd be showing up very tired. But
Speaker 3: in the studio, all right, what's the TikTok?
Speaker 2: Now? So what's the schedule of events?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think you know, Boeing and the
Speaker 8: machinists have to get back together at the table and
Speaker 8: figure out what the machinists want so they can get
Speaker 8: them back on the job and start delivering airplanes and
Speaker 8: generating cash right the meanest machinists sounded like they were
Speaker 8: a little bit coy about it too. I heard one
Speaker 8: of them saying, you know what, as soon as we
Speaker 8: have a chance, we'll get back together to talk about it,
Speaker 8: or something like that. So it sounds like they think
Speaker 8: they've got a bit of the upper hand, which I
Speaker 8: think they do. I think, you know, Boeing probably has
Speaker 8: to go back and look in their pockets and figure
Speaker 8: out how much more, how much more of a pay increase.
Speaker 6: They can give.
Speaker 8: Right the Spirit Aero Systems folks got a mid thirties
Speaker 8: pay increase, So I suspect the machinists are looking at
Speaker 8: that thinking, hey, we probably deserve something close to that.
Speaker 8: And I think that they want some better guarantees on
Speaker 8: an airplane.
Speaker 6: They want to be guaranteed.
Speaker 8: I think that the next generation seven thirty seven, it's
Speaker 8: the most important airplane for Boeing. So if the machinist
Speaker 8: union has sort of longevity in their sites, they want
Speaker 8: to be building that.
Speaker 6: Seven thirty seven successor. And they don't want just the
Speaker 6: commitment to be able to build it to last for
Speaker 6: the four years of this contract. But they wanted to
Speaker 6: last longer, if not forever.
Speaker 5: And George, just refresh our memory. Where does Boeing actually
Speaker 5: make their planes? I know they do it up in Seattle,
Speaker 5: but did they do it in the question maybe some
Speaker 5: areas of the country that are not unionized.
Speaker 8: Well, so they do make the seven eighty seven in
Speaker 8: South Carolina down by Charleston, and that's a non union plan,
Speaker 8: So I expect that seven eighty seven production will continue.
Speaker 8: Everything else is made up in the Pacific Northwest from
Speaker 8: a commercial airplane stand point, and so seven sixty sevens,
Speaker 8: triple sevens, they're made in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle,
Speaker 8: and the seven thirty seven has made is final assembled
Speaker 8: at a single plant in rent in Washington, which kind
Speaker 8: of southeast of Seattle.
Speaker 6: Those are all union shops. I expect them all to
Speaker 6: be doing little to know work today.
Speaker 8: And then of course the fuselage comes out of Wichita,
Speaker 8: which is owned by Spirit Air Systems, which Boeing.
Speaker 6: Is buying, Whichita, Kansas.
Speaker 8: But again, they had a strike earlier this year, got
Speaker 8: mid thirties pay increase and they should be continuing to work.
Speaker 2: So I guess then the question becomes how long?
Speaker 3: Now I know we talked about that yesterday and you're like, look,
Speaker 3: it can't go on more than like two weeks. One
Speaker 3: analyst I was mentioning fifty days was what they were
Speaker 3: kind of looking at, which is a significant cash burn
Speaker 3: for Boeing.
Speaker 2: What's your best guess?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of people
Speaker 8: out there saying fifty days because that's the average strike
Speaker 8: blah blah blah. I just don't, you know, I don't
Speaker 8: subscribe to that being the right logic here. I'm saying
Speaker 8: a couple of weeks because I think Boeing really needs
Speaker 8: these workers back on the job. There is no substitute
Speaker 8: for these workers, period, and so I think they've got
Speaker 8: to go engage the union intently and figure out what's
Speaker 8: going to take to put them back, you know, back
Speaker 8: on the job. I mean we think what we you know,
Speaker 8: our analysis was that it would cost an extra billion
Speaker 8: dollars a year or something like that for wages right
Speaker 8: around there at the twenty five percent increase, that would
Speaker 8: probably trim Boeing commercial margins one hundred and seventy two
Speaker 8: hundred basis points.
Speaker 6: Do you like that?
Speaker 8: No, But it's not the end of the world, right,
Speaker 8: They back in back pre pandemic, this was a company
Speaker 8: that was making thirteen percent ish margins in that business
Speaker 8: ten to thirteen.
Speaker 6: So can you bear that and be profitable? You can?
Speaker 6: Can you bear more?
Speaker 7: You can?
Speaker 8: So I think that means that Boeing has the leeway.
Speaker 8: They got to get the building airplanes in volume again.
Speaker 8: So they got to engage the union and get it done.
Speaker 8: That's why I'm saying, I think less than a couple
Speaker 8: of weeks, I think they got to get it done.
Speaker 5: Hey, George, I mean, I know in the past you
Speaker 5: talked to us about, you know, the labor shortages and
Speaker 5: aerospace industry. Where are we where's the industry in terms
Speaker 5: of getting past that is that's still a challenge getting
Speaker 5: good folks in the factory floors.
Speaker 8: I think it's totally still a challenge, right, And so
Speaker 8: we saw a pretty decent turnover in the aerospace workers,
Speaker 8: you know, coming out of the pandemic. I think some
Speaker 8: of them watched their industry. It looked like the collapse, right.
Speaker 8: Air travel went to zero for a couple of quarters,
Speaker 8: or almost zero, so you know, demand for airplanes. People
Speaker 8: looked at it and thought, hey, you know, the industry
Speaker 8: I'm in is horrible and if you are, I think
Speaker 8: near retirement age, you said let's cast it in and
Speaker 8: moved to Jacksonville, Florida or something like that, right, So
Speaker 8: it's hard to get those folks back to the line
Speaker 8: from Jacksonville and backfill.
Speaker 6: Part of the backfield challenges.
Speaker 8: The backfield came out of some of the suppliers, so
Speaker 8: they kind of hurt their own ecosystem as they pulled
Speaker 8: some of the backfill in. And they're in the middle
Speaker 8: of training that we even't heard CEO Calhoun say the
Speaker 8: old CEO Calhoun say. I think at one of his
Speaker 8: congressional testimonies he talked about people coming in the door
Speaker 8: having experience bending metal and you know, working with their hands,
Speaker 8: and I think, you know, he said something like in
Speaker 8: the old days, and this isn't exactly right, but it's close.
Speaker 8: You know, maybe seventy five percent of people that came
Speaker 8: to the door had experience working with their hands metalworking.
Speaker 6: Now twenty five percent.
Speaker 8: So they're in the middle of trying to train that
Speaker 8: next generation of aerospace workers and the supply chain is
Speaker 8: still trying to backfill. I think it's it's been getting better, Yeah,
Speaker 8: but that training and backfill is still going there.
Speaker 2: All right, Hey George, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3: George ferguson Bloomberg Intelligence and your aerospace, defense and Airlines analyst.
Speaker 2: Great stuff. Good to see you there.
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Speaker 5: Know, cut it loose a little bit.
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Speaker 3: but the other guys, I'm not sure. All right, But
Speaker 3: so we want to go outside of Bloomberg Intelligence now
Speaker 3: for a look on how to market is positioned into
Speaker 3: the FED. Mohagman is head of Solutions and Multi Asset
Speaker 3: Strategies over at Invesco and he joins us, Now, what
Speaker 3: is this setup like in terms of asset allocation headed
Speaker 3: into Wednesday?
Speaker 9: Well, Alex, thanks for having me, nice to be here
Speaker 9: with you and Paul. I think, you know, we are
Speaker 9: continuing to maintain a bit of a defensive posture, and
Speaker 9: we have been defensive for about a couple of months now,
Speaker 9: and really this is around what we're seeing in economic
Speaker 9: growth expectations, both from the market and from the data.
Speaker 9: We are very benchmark aware, so you know, I think
Speaker 9: that underweight isn't something that's significant at this point, just
Speaker 9: given how the economy has been incredibly resilient and the
Speaker 9: market has been incredibly resilient. But what we're seeing in
Speaker 9: the labor market and what we're seeing with economic growth
Speaker 9: over the several last several quarters is something that we're
Speaker 9: watching very closely.
Speaker 7: Mo.
Speaker 5: And how about being defensive, what does that mean fixed
Speaker 5: and come versus equities.
Speaker 9: Here, Yeah, so that means we have a little bit
Speaker 9: of a longer duration profile versus our benchmark, So we're
Speaker 9: you know, favoring fixed income over equity. So and within equities,
Speaker 9: you know, there's a bit of a tilt towards more
Speaker 9: defensive sector, so think healthcare, consumer staples, information technology. You know,
Speaker 9: these are the areas that are a bit more defensive.
Speaker 9: These are companies that are higher quality and lower volatility,
Speaker 9: generally cash flow rich and can weather an economic downturn
Speaker 9: or a slow down in growth.
Speaker 3: So does that mean that you think that the bond market,
Speaker 3: if we look at the equity in the bond market,
Speaker 3: is being on different pages in that we're making like
Speaker 3: another run in the smp here versus the bond bowl
Speaker 3: appears to be very sticky.
Speaker 2: Does that mean that the economic.
Speaker 3: Situation is geared more towards a recession than a soft
Speaker 3: landing in your view?
Speaker 9: I don't think so. I think we're still probably base
Speaker 9: case soft landing. But you know, what we're thinking about
Speaker 9: is just in the shorter term period, so from a
Speaker 9: tactical perspective, just given how far extended the equity markets are,
Speaker 9: and you know, in our opinion, yields are very attractive
Speaker 9: at these levels they have been, although they've you know,
Speaker 9: come back a little bit. You know, we're kind of
Speaker 9: extending that duration profile getting underweight equity slightly relative to
Speaker 9: our benchmarks. And again this is all around growth and
Speaker 9: growth expectations. Although we don't necessarily see a recession in
Speaker 9: the next couple of quarters.
Speaker 5: So, MO, how about on the pick income side, are
Speaker 5: we sitting here in to your treasures at three point
Speaker 5: six percent or are we going out there and taking
Speaker 5: some credit risk? What are we doing there in fixingcome So.
Speaker 9: In credit we favor again higher quality credit, so you know,
Speaker 9: credit spreads continue to be incredibly tight, you know, relative
Speaker 9: to equities. I think credit is a very attractive risk
Speaker 9: adjusted allocation. But we're probably not right now favoring kind
Speaker 9: of the lower quality high yield sectors and we're taking
Speaker 9: a bit more.
Speaker 10: It's posteros.
Speaker 5: So the best performance this year and fixing them has
Speaker 5: been and by far has been in US corporate high.
Speaker 9: Yield exactly, and I think that's part of the reason
Speaker 9: that we've gotten a bit defensive. So just to kind
Speaker 9: of backtrack a little bit, you know, we have been
Speaker 9: pretty risk gone in portfolios for the last several years.
Speaker 9: You know, post COVID, we took a little bit more
Speaker 9: of an aggressive stance versus our benchmarks. We kind of
Speaker 9: maintained that stance over the last several years, and now
Speaker 9: what we're seeing is just that softening of the economic data.
Speaker 9: We're seeing some softening in the labor markets, and that's
Speaker 9: that's kind of what's informing a bit of a defensive posture.
Speaker 9: But I don't really want to overdo that, right. You know,
Speaker 9: we're not kind of underweight equities to a significant magnitude.
Speaker 9: We're not suggesting that people move into cash. It's actually
Speaker 9: quite the opposite. We're telling investors and clients to get
Speaker 9: out of cash. We've seen elevated cash balances now for
Speaker 9: a long time, and the yields on offer if you
Speaker 9: extend that duration, seem to be very attractive to us,
Speaker 9: especially as we're moving into an easing cycle and those
Speaker 9: short term rates are going to be coming down.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: JP Morgan was saying that usually the rate cut cycle
Speaker 3: needs to get underway more significantly for than the money
Speaker 3: to move, But you're right, I mean over six tillion
Speaker 3: dollars ready to roll. Hey, I'm curious as to dollar yen.
Speaker 3: It has a pretty significant rerating at this point. I
Speaker 3: think we're at one forty right. There was some reports
Speaker 3: on Bloomberg that we're seeing some bullish bets on the
Speaker 3: yen right now. What's your take on where that currency
Speaker 3: goes and is the carry trade unwind situation.
Speaker 9: Over So from a currency perspective, just kind of consist
Speaker 9: with my comments earlier around equities and fixed income, we
Speaker 9: have a bit more of a defensive posture, So that
Speaker 9: means overweights and dollar, GBP, euro versus international currencies, you know,
Speaker 9: especially if you kind of think about the more emerging
Speaker 9: market currencies. You know, I think right now the defensive
Speaker 9: posture is probably warranted just given we're kind of going
Speaker 9: into election season. September and October tend to be more
Speaker 9: volatile months for the market overall, and that home country bias,
Speaker 9: at least for US is kind of an important factor
Speaker 9: as we get through the next few months.
Speaker 5: In terms of the equity market, where's evaluation for you guys?
Speaker 5: Do you feel like this market is fully valued at
Speaker 5: this point? How do you guys think about that?
Speaker 9: I would say fully valued to maybe a little extended,
Speaker 9: just given what we've seen here to date. So for us,
Speaker 9: there's no real concerns around earnings or earnings projections. There
Speaker 9: has been some revisions that we're taking a close look at,
Speaker 9: but for now, you know, I would I would say
Speaker 9: probably well priced or maybe a little bit extent did
Speaker 9: relative to what we see kind of on offer in
Speaker 9: other places outside of the US, and I think my
Speaker 9: comments are very much on the US side, and the
Speaker 9: equity market in the US is pretty concentrated. That's another
Speaker 9: topic that we're having a lot of conversations on with clients.
Speaker 9: You know, we expect to see that broadening if the
Speaker 9: economy continues to be resilient, but if we are going
Speaker 9: to go into a prolonged downturn or a growth kind
Speaker 9: of scare, you know, actually the defensive sectors should perform better.
Speaker 9: And I've talked about this a little bit on the
Speaker 9: show before. In the past the relationship between equity sectors
Speaker 9: and rates was was really when when wastes were going up,
Speaker 9: you know that that was not necessarily a good thing
Speaker 9: for sectors that had more duration exposure or more interest
Speaker 9: rates sensitivity, So technology, healthcare we've kind of seen the
Speaker 9: opposite of that. So you know, it's a little bit
Speaker 9: of a weird dynamic at the moment, but I do
Speaker 9: think that should renormalize. So what the catalyst needs to
Speaker 9: be for small cap value stocks to really get going again,
Speaker 9: I think is a little bit of a change in
Speaker 9: the regime and an economy that kind of reaccelerates because
Speaker 9: those companies small cap companies, value companies. They tend to
Speaker 9: have more operating leverage, they tend to be more geared
Speaker 9: to the business cycle, and I do think longer term
Speaker 9: that relationship will still hold.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, thanks a lot, We really appreciate thanks
Speaker 3: for stopping by mo Hagman joining us. There was his
Speaker 3: call on acid allocation. He had of solutions and multi
Speaker 3: asset strategies. Over at Invesco.
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Speaker 3: midtown Manhattan. I saw that though for the Weimo thing
Speaker 3: that like a driverless car like show up even if
Speaker 3: you didn't order one, that'd be kind of weird, right,
Speaker 3: and yeah, like like, I mean, what if you don't.
Speaker 5: Want to get into car? The perfect stranger about it,
Speaker 5: no one at all?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, well, it's an adjustment period for us.
Speaker 2: All all right? Joining us now is Dan.
Speaker 3: I was managing director and senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities.
Speaker 3: I bet you he's probably bullish on WEIMO and would
Speaker 3: totally get into a driverless car, no worries, Am I right?
Speaker 7: Dan? I mean I've done it. Look, I think I
Speaker 7: think end of the decade, I think twenty percent of
Speaker 7: ride share are going to be no drivers.
Speaker 2: But isn't it weird that they would show up? You
Speaker 2: wouldn't have a choice.
Speaker 3: It would just be like, here's your driverless car, even
Speaker 3: if you don't want it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Look, there's gonna be clearly kings to work out here.
Speaker 7: But I mean, and we'll see this at Tessa's Roado
Speaker 7: Taxi day. But the technology is starting to get to
Speaker 7: a point where this is no longer sci fi. I
Speaker 7: know the next few years, it's something where demisation is
Speaker 7: gonna be clear. That's why you see that Uber waymo
Speaker 7: mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Well, and I should point out that you're in Bangkok,
Speaker 3: so it's like, what time is it? It's like midnight
Speaker 3: now Friday and Friday. I know he's a good guy, Dan.
Speaker 3: We appreciate that by the way I'm looking at Adobe,
Speaker 3: Adobe is down nine percent.
Speaker 2: What was the problem with their earnings yesterday?
Speaker 7: I think it's really just the softer guidens. But I mean,
Speaker 7: in our opinion, this is just just a transition in
Speaker 7: that Adobe story. I mean, when you look at AI
Speaker 7: and use cases, I think they are probably within three
Speaker 7: to six months of significantly benefiting from AI stock obviously,
Speaker 7: you know, is one of the core plays in big tech.
Speaker 7: But you look at Adobe, obviously little softness. But then
Speaker 7: you look at a Oracle, which I think is probably
Speaker 7: even more important to the broader AI story for big tech.
Speaker 3: Then what about some of the other like so then
Speaker 3: how do we distinguish like what's the line item right?
Speaker 3: And as an investor, how do you know when to
Speaker 3: buy that? Like you might three see three to six
Speaker 3: months until we get a really big payoff for Adobe,
Speaker 3: how do you play it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, that's why we use so much work in
Speaker 7: the field, because they're trying to figure out second third
Speaker 7: derivatives of AI. Who's benefit in terms of real monization.
Speaker 7: That's where you look at, of course Pall and Teer
Speaker 7: Oracle Service. Now I think Salesforce next week some big
Speaker 7: announcements at Dreamforce. What they're going to talk about now,
Speaker 7: Adobe maybe a little softer. They haven't seen it yet, right,
Speaker 7: So this is really gonna be sort of pieces of
Speaker 7: a puzzle trying to figure out who in software are
Speaker 7: benefits from the second derivative. Clearly the hyperscale players, and
Speaker 7: we would argue even cybersecurity are going to benefits. Is
Speaker 7: more workless, move to the cloud.
Speaker 5: So Dan, as soon as I get off the air
Speaker 5: here and finish up my twenty seven straight hours of radio,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to my Apple Store app and I'm
Speaker 5: going to pre order that Apple.
Speaker 2: Oh this is today, You're doing today?
Speaker 5: Do it today? Yeah, okay, already gave me my instructions
Speaker 5: Apple sixteen pro. I'm gonna spend a an jillion dollars.
Speaker 5: How many people are out there are going to be
Speaker 5: doing the same thing? How big is this new phone?
Speaker 7: Well, first off, I mean I think it is huge new,
Speaker 7: the Sweeney upgrade.
Speaker 2: This is the this is the start of the super psycle.
Speaker 7: I mean for years, exactly for years, the Sweeney upgrade.
Speaker 7: I know. But Paul, I mean I think now it
Speaker 7: comes down to it's not just you. There's three hundred
Speaker 7: million iPhones that have an upgrade four plus years. And
Speaker 7: this is everything we're seeing here in Asia is showing
Speaker 7: that this is weeding to what we believe is gonna
Speaker 7: be an AI driven supercycle. And I think we'll see
Speaker 7: this pre orders and obviously going to the next week,
Speaker 7: but I think demand's gonna be pretty robust here street.
Speaker 7: I think still underestimate what this is gonna be about.
Speaker 3: Okay, but are people in China really buying into that supercycle? Like,
Speaker 3: I know Asia is bigger than just China, but can
Speaker 3: we have a supercycle without a super strong China demand
Speaker 3: for the iPhone?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So it's a great point. You cannot have a
Speaker 7: super cycle without growth in China. To that point, you
Speaker 7: have one hundred million iPhones in China that are in
Speaker 7: that window of an upgrade opportunity, and everything we're seeing
Speaker 7: that actually China, you will now start to see modern
Speaker 7: to significant growth in the region from iPhone sixteen over
Speaker 7: you know, call it the next year. And that's huge Apple.
Speaker 7: I mean that goes from a headwind too, a taland
Speaker 7: which is really key this whole sum of the part
Speaker 7: story as it plays out, and they monetize China front
Speaker 7: and center.
Speaker 5: So folks when technology channels like Dan i'ves go to Asia,
Speaker 5: it's not just to see their clients. The big reason
Speaker 5: is to do what they call channel checks. Since much
Speaker 5: of global tech hardware software comes out of that part
Speaker 5: of the world. You get a good sense of kind
Speaker 5: of who's making this stuff, who's buying the stuff, who's
Speaker 5: selling the stuff. So Dan IIMs, what's kind of the
Speaker 5: vibe you're getting from your your channel checks there in
Speaker 5: Asia these days?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean look across Taiwan, and I think just
Speaker 7: across Asia, demand is not slowing. I mean it's accelerating
Speaker 7: in terms of broader when we look at from a
Speaker 7: chip perspective in ai which I think is very very
Speaker 7: important and Jensen talked about this week, demands outstream and
Speaker 7: supply we think twelve to fifteen X and that is
Speaker 7: the most important thing is the use cases where the
Speaker 7: it'torical pound tier that will ultimately be the drivers, but enterprises.
Speaker 7: We're talking about a trillion dours of tap acts that
Speaker 7: ultimately is coming to techo of the next three to
Speaker 7: four years.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 3: What you make of the in media rally the last
Speaker 3: five days, like how do you understand that structural shift
Speaker 3: and that thesis versus the daily swings of some of
Speaker 3: the biggest players where seemingly they become more important on
Speaker 3: the central banks some days and drag up the broader
Speaker 3: equity market, and I can't find a headline on that.
Speaker 7: Look, I think part of I mean that was a
Speaker 7: confluence of things from the watch parties to technicals to
Speaker 7: just come into September, and obviously the Macro sell off
Speaker 7: tech front and center. But I think, look, anyone that's
Speaker 7: doing checks in tech, you're not coming back in any
Speaker 7: way negative. Uninvidia. I mean, it is actually getting more
Speaker 7: and more incremental, not just for Nvidia chips, and I
Speaker 7: think brought the AI revolution, so we're gonna have these
Speaker 7: ebbs and flus. But I continue to believe this will
Speaker 7: be a tech market that ultimately rallies into your end
Speaker 7: because I think it all comes down to fundamentals and
Speaker 7: Macro's gonna do what Macro's going to do. But we
Speaker 7: are not seeing any So it is an acceleration clearly
Speaker 7: that we're seeing over the last few weeks.
Speaker 5: All Right, Dan, thanks so much for joining us there
Speaker 5: as always appreciated. Managing director, Senior equity analyst for Webbush
Speaker 5: to curious securities. He's Bangkok Tiland, go out and get
Speaker 5: into some trouble. Uh that's an order, so Dan, I'm
Speaker 5: doing it? Or use again there bullish seeing some channel
Speaker 5: checks there in Asia, suggesting that the demand continues to
Speaker 5: be there, not just for I guess Ai chips, but
Speaker 5: just for you know, tech in general.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's been in Asia for like a
Speaker 3: month the last three times I've talked to him.
Speaker 2: He's been there every.
Speaker 5: Time, five times a year. I think, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: But what I think is interesting, Like we can always
Speaker 3: joke about Dan ives being the bullish guy on tech
Speaker 3: for sure, but is so interesting to get that take
Speaker 3: on the structural shift versus a cyclical market and from
Speaker 3: understanding how the cyclicality makes sense when we're all transitioning
Speaker 3: to a different kind of world. And you can see
Speaker 3: that in lots of other sectors as well. Obviously energy
Speaker 3: is one that I'm gonna be paying attention to cars
Speaker 3: with EVS and the structure issues with that, So it's
Speaker 3: kind of fun.
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Speaker 5: All right, what are we doing here with these markets?
Speaker 5: That's a lot of folks are trying to figure out
Speaker 5: as a think about next week when we get the
Speaker 5: Federal Reserve giving us their thoughts on earnings. Cissel joins
Speaker 5: US Chief Presidency of Banryon Capital Management, joining us from
Speaker 5: Chicago via zoom. Shane, thanks so much for joining us here.
Speaker 5: We've had a whole slew of economic data really over
Speaker 5: the past a couple of weeks. You put it all
Speaker 5: together and it seems like the market is getting ready
Speaker 5: for the Fed to begin cutting rates. How are you
Speaker 5: guys positioning kind of your portfolio and what are you
Speaker 5: telling your clients?
Speaker 11: Well, as much as I love to be a confrarion,
Speaker 11: I am in complete alignment with market sentiment and that
Speaker 11: the Fed will cut at this meeting. You know, Chairman
Speaker 11: Powell has been very transparent and in his remarks at
Speaker 11: Jackson Hole, he was very clear that it was time
Speaker 11: to make a pivot from their previous roadmap to make changes,
Speaker 11: and cuts were part of that change. So I agree
Speaker 11: with the market. I think where the debate comes in
Speaker 11: is how big that rate cut will be. And as
Speaker 11: you noted earlier, the market probability for a fifty basis
Speaker 11: point cut is actually rising. And I'm not sure I
Speaker 11: understand what is driving this belief that the FED will
Speaker 11: cut fifty basis points. They've been super cautious, and I
Speaker 11: just can't imagine cutting fifty basis points without seeing something
Speaker 11: in the economic growth activity or in the US economy
Speaker 11: that warrants that kind of what I think would be
Speaker 11: kind of a knee jerk reaction. So we're telling clients,
Speaker 11: you know, to prepare for a loosening cycle. The FED
Speaker 11: is obviously loosening policy, and we want to take advantage
Speaker 11: of that, which in an economy where it's which is
Speaker 11: fairly stable, means that it's a risk on environment.
Speaker 3: So let's go back to what happened in Vidia in
Speaker 3: the last five days. Right, I mentioned this yesterday, Charlie
Speaker 3: Micgela got over at no Mora said that Nvidia was
Speaker 3: basically the central banker of power. That yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 3: can look at the FED, but it was Nvidia and
Speaker 3: the FOMO that kind of gripped the market that has
Speaker 3: really propelled the s and be higher this week. What
Speaker 3: matters more for you and your acid allocation, is it
Speaker 3: what's happening with Nvidia stock or what Jay Powell says
Speaker 3: on Wednesday?
Speaker 11: What Jay Powell says on Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Oh me and entirely Vida killing me. Sorry, I know
Speaker 2: I love Nvidia, I do.
Speaker 11: But as much as we want to pretend it's a
Speaker 11: proxy for the economy, and it is to some extent,
Speaker 11: we should not be basing our portfolio management decisions on, uh,
Speaker 11: the the technical trends of a single stock, especially one
Speaker 11: which is kind of you know, shrinking in terms of
Speaker 11: its growth potential. It's an amazing company. It's growing, you know,
Speaker 11: triple digits, but it's growing at a slower rate than
Speaker 11: it was a year ago, and that is reflective of
Speaker 11: what I think the economy is doing. But the Fed
Speaker 11: policies at the end of the day, what drives the
Speaker 11: underlying market liquidity and the under my alying opportunity for
Speaker 11: investors in banks or whatever they take access capital. So,
Speaker 11: you know, nvidious great and control access to capital.
Speaker 5: So I guess just looking at the equity markets in general,
Speaker 5: give us your thoughts on valuation here these days, a
Speaker 5: lot of folks feel like it's stretched. A lot of
Speaker 5: folks will say, yeah, but if you pull out some
Speaker 5: of those big tech names, not so much. So how
Speaker 5: do you guys look at it?
Speaker 11: So I learn at Fidelity, and this is super basic,
Speaker 11: but I think it's actually a really great tool for
Speaker 11: people out there who just want to do like quick
Speaker 11: math in their head. But I learned the role of
Speaker 11: twenty during my days at Fidelity. So that is taking
Speaker 11: the pe of the market and adding in the inflation
Speaker 11: number and then looking at it in a historical basis,
Speaker 11: and the general consensus zip it was valuations were above twenty,
Speaker 11: it was stretched, and if it was below twenty, it
Speaker 11: was attractive. And so we're well above twenty. Yes, some
Speaker 11: of that has to do with tech stocks and how
Speaker 11: how much they are are kind of weighing on the market.
Speaker 11: But I think even in the equal weight indexes we
Speaker 11: are above that twenty number, and so there's definitely opportunities
Speaker 11: in the market. But it feels like we're a little
Speaker 11: frothy here. I don't think we're super expensive by any
Speaker 11: stretch of the imagination, but I do think that I
Speaker 11: wouldn't call the market.
Speaker 2: Cheap favorite pick right now.
Speaker 10: You know, I really like Apple.
Speaker 11: I really like Apple.
Speaker 2: Okay, why so the stock up beating.
Speaker 11: Up, and then they had their iPhone event last week,
Speaker 11: which was sort of like anti climactic, So the stock.
Speaker 10: Has been kind of, you know, not doing much for
Speaker 10: a while.
Speaker 11: Valuation wise, it's attract when you compare to the rest
Speaker 11: of the Mag seven, and I think that overall, they're
Speaker 11: doing the right things to maintain market share, and I
Speaker 11: think that there's a potential for them to take market
Speaker 11: share in the future. So you know, from that standpoint,
Speaker 11: I think Apple has the ability to grow their global
Speaker 11: footprint and people like the ecosystem. I'm definitely one of
Speaker 11: those people. The stock is relatively attractive on a valuation basis,
Speaker 11: whereas you look at something like an n Video or
Speaker 11: one of the other names in the Mag seven and
Speaker 11: they don't look quite as attractive on a valuation basis.
Speaker 2: Paul scrolling on his old iPhone, ready.
Speaker 3: To buy the new iPhone very soon, as in like
Speaker 3: in forty five minutes time, exactly.
Speaker 2: All right, Shanna, thanks a lot, really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: A shanea ccil President CEO, benmon On Capital Management joining
Speaker 3: us there.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Very much.
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Speaker 3: lucky to Peter Robinson here. He's an investigations reporter here
Speaker 3: at Bloomberg News. Part of this story. I thought college
Speaker 3: football players got their own money now and that was awesome,
Speaker 3: and that was it.
Speaker 2: What's going on.
Speaker 12: That's exactly what the popular belief is. And that's why
Speaker 12: my colleague Noah Bluhire and I wanted to look into this.
Speaker 12: Because if you are a casual fan and you hear
Speaker 12: about these deals apparently worth millions for college football players.
Speaker 12: You think, well, that problem of the players being exploited
Speaker 12: while the coaches and the administrators make millions has been fixed.
Speaker 12: But we took a really deep dive into these contracts,
Speaker 12: and they're at most of the big time football schools.
Speaker 12: They're controlled by booster groups, which are essentially wealthy individuals,
Speaker 12: think the richest car dealer in town, and they're in
Speaker 12: charge of the deal. They write the contracts, and we
Speaker 12: actually got our hands on at least three of these contracts,
Speaker 12: and in many cases, according to other people we've talked
Speaker 12: to as well, these come with broad termination rights which
Speaker 12: wouldn't be seen in virtually any other industry. But there's
Speaker 12: one contract we looked at that said it can be
Speaker 12: terminated at any time for any reason. So players are
Speaker 12: essentially still being exploited. It's a version of the black
Speaker 12: market that's existed in college football for a long time.
Speaker 5: Peter, By and large, do these student athletes have representation,
Speaker 5: whether it's legal or an agent to kind of protect them.
Speaker 10: Here, it really catches catch can and it depends on
Speaker 10: the player.
Speaker 12: And you can imagine for someone who's a teenager, these
Speaker 12: are seventeen, eighteen, nineteen year old kids. They're entering this
Speaker 12: world for the first time. And a majority of the
Speaker 12: players to Division one schools are black, many from disadvantaged backgrounds,
Speaker 12: and so you have these situations where players are not
Speaker 12: aware of their options, they're not apprized of their options.
Speaker 12: And because it's a third party relationship between the university
Speaker 12: and these donor groups, there's really no one looking out
Speaker 12: for their interests. There's no one accountable when one of
Speaker 12: these deals goes wrong.
Speaker 2: So how do we fix this?
Speaker 12: Many people I've talked to look at the pro leagues
Speaker 12: and they say, what's happening in college football is a
Speaker 12: professionalization of college football, and in the pro leagues the
Speaker 12: players collectively bargain. In the pro leagues, the NFL Players Association,
Speaker 12: for instance, requires that the contracts be disclosed to them
Speaker 12: so that all the players know what all the terms are.
Speaker 12: It's a very transparent, very fair market, and so many
Speaker 12: people I talked to said that that's exactly what should
Speaker 12: happen in college support and at least in big time
Speaker 12: college football, where there are billions being made.
Speaker 5: These booster groups are now have a new moniker. They're
Speaker 5: called collectives. Which I think is kind of spooky in
Speaker 5: and of themselves. And we actually know some people that
Speaker 5: are parts of collectives of their university, and those are
Speaker 5: the ones that are who's monitoring or regulating these collectives?
Speaker 10: If anyone, Well, that's exactly the question. And yeah, you're right.
Speaker 12: The word collective hasn't been in popular use since the
Speaker 12: nineteen thirty Soviet Union. But because of the way that
Speaker 12: NCAA has lost repeated anti trust suits and has lost
Speaker 12: the ability to enforce really any rules over college football,
Speaker 12: there is no one monitoring this. Congress has looked at this,
Speaker 12: has held a dozen hearings since twenty twenty, but there
Speaker 12: just hasn't been the momentum for bipartisan legislation that might
Speaker 12: put some guardrails in this market.
Speaker 3: What about the whole and forgive my complete lack of knowledge.
Speaker 3: The likeness thing like image of likeness, what's that called?
Speaker 3: What's the nil?
Speaker 5: That's what we're talking.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, if you follow college.
Speaker 2: Sports, you clearly I don't look ahead.
Speaker 12: You know that name image likeness has become. It's amazing
Speaker 12: how rapidly it's become part of the daily coverage in sports,
Speaker 12: and it gives people the impression that athletes are signing
Speaker 12: endorsement deals with Nike, with Adidas, that they're out there
Speaker 12: on social media.
Speaker 10: But the interesting thing.
Speaker 12: About college football is that although there isn't really good
Speaker 12: statistics about this, the best statistics we have show that
Speaker 12: about eighty percent of these NIL deals are actually from
Speaker 12: these collectives. So people have the impression that Adidas and
Speaker 12: Nike are pouring money into into the sport, into especially
Speaker 12: specific players, but at least as far as what the
Speaker 12: players are making individually, that's not the case.
Speaker 10: It's still these collectives that are in charge.
Speaker 5: And Peter, is this a case so far with the
Speaker 5: big stars get most of the money and if you're
Speaker 5: in a non if you're in like an Olympic sport,
Speaker 5: you're not getting much if anything.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it really depends on the individual athlete. And like
Speaker 12: the rest of the economy, it's it's a star system.
Speaker 12: We looked closely at these contracts and talk to agents,
Speaker 12: and what's happening is that if you are a star
Speaker 12: with leverage, you can make you know, a starter at
Speaker 12: a at a power conference school in football can make
Speaker 12: in the six figures every year. But if you're not
Speaker 12: a starter, you you're on a month to month contract.
Speaker 12: If you don't perform well or if you're injured, that
Speaker 12: that money goes away. So it's just not a guarantee,
Speaker 12: especially in the same way that coaches have. Coaches, even
Speaker 12: assistant coaches in college football can make four hundred thousand,
Speaker 12: even up to two million and up.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: All right, Peter, thanks a lot, We really appreciate it
Speaker 3: was a really great piece everybody. Peter Robson Investigations reporter
Speaker 3: joining us from Seattle, Washington Again. You can find that
Speaker 3: story on the Bloomberg and at Bloomberg dot com Slash
Speaker 3: Big Take talking about college football players facing on ugly
Speaker 3: truth about how they actually get paid for step.
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