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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Abramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money, whether you're at the grocery store

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot com. Bitcoin

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Speaker 1: has declined seventy five percent since its peak. Danny Masters

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Speaker 1: joining us down chair of coin Shares Group, which oversees

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Speaker 1: more than a billion dollars in crypto assets from London. Danny,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Are we

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Speaker 1: watching the bitcoin bubble burst right now? And is this

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Speaker 1: just a fad that has ended? Hi? Lisa, great to

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Speaker 1: be with you again. UM. It's certainly been a challenging

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Speaker 1: week in the bitcoin space and market that's had an

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Speaker 1: enormous excursion over the last few years from very low

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Speaker 1: numb as to very high numbers. UM certainly has been

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Speaker 1: taking um some heat in the in the last a

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Speaker 1: few sessions, and ironically, when sort of global markets started

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Speaker 1: to become more volatile a month or so ago, Bitcoin

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Speaker 1: remained stable for a period of time and then seems

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Speaker 1: to have succumbed to UM, not just it's unique internal

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Speaker 1: but also you know, a more global macro sense of pressure. UM.

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Speaker 1: The bears in bitcoins have definitely scored a win in

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Speaker 1: this phase. UM. There is a lot of seems to

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Speaker 1: be a lot of celebration amongst the sort of new

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Speaker 1: real Roubini's and dan Crumbs of the world that finally

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Speaker 1: their price predictions seemed to be coming right after a

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Speaker 1: number of years. UM. But when you really put it

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Speaker 1: in perspective, I mean this this last couple of weeks alone,

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Speaker 1: and we've seen oil go from seventy five to fifty

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Speaker 1: sixty eight to forty forty dollars. You know, there are

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Speaker 1: some big moves out there in other commodities to UM.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, the moods seems to be a little

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Speaker 1: bit more negative in bitcoin as you sort of correctly

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Speaker 1: stay say, you know, with some sort of bubble bursting

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Speaker 1: phenomena rather than the sort of inherent volatility we have

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Speaker 1: in the market. As a bitcoin practitioner, and like many

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Speaker 1: others who've been around for a while, one tries not

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Speaker 1: disappointed when it goes down. So you know, I'm calling

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Speaker 1: this just a very bolatle period, not a bursting Danny,

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Speaker 1: can you just give people a little background on coin

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Speaker 1: shares because there are a couple of different pieces to

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Speaker 1: the coin shares story and on. For example, you own

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Speaker 1: x BT. This is the exchange traded product in Europe

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Speaker 1: that tracks the value of bitcoin. That's correct. Yeah, We're

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Speaker 1: an asset management company in the cryptocurrency space. Um. So

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Speaker 1: we provide active products like XPT, provider private strategies like

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Speaker 1: coin sches from one and even third parties, ruages like

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Speaker 1: a fund of funds that we that we market for

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Speaker 1: other people. We provide research, we provide execution custody, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we hold ourselves out to be an emerging

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Speaker 1: portfolio structuring, performance measurement, execution, custody and so on. All right, So, Danny,

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Speaker 1: given that sort of bird's eye view on the market

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Speaker 1: are you seeing a material decline in interest as the

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Speaker 1: amount of attention. UM. Last time, you know, we all

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Speaker 1: So you know, the the infrastructure development that's going on

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Speaker 1: So the new coins that have come in a much

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Speaker 1: higher caliber. They're fully in light of New York Department

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Speaker 1: The trouble with the new dollar coins is they're open

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Speaker 1: Very illuminating. Danny Masters, chairman of coin Shares Group. It's

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Speaker 1: got over a billion dollars worth of crypto assets under management,

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Speaker 1: joining us from London. Bitcoin up about four percent today.

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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg. We have been talking a lot this

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Speaker 1: week about the weakness that we've seen in the credit markets.

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Speaker 1: High old bonds just suffered their worst months since late

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Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen, yield climbing to the highest similar

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Speaker 1: And joining us down to discuss. Ken Monahan, a Moody

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Speaker 1: pioneer co director of High Yield, joining us here in

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Speaker 1: our eleven three old studios can wonderful to see you.

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Speaker 1: So are you out there buying or do you think

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Speaker 1: I'd say at this stage, Lisa, we're nibbling at the

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Speaker 1: clear that the high yeld marketplace has widened out significantly

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Speaker 1: what's happening to the new iPhone supply chain? Morning, Pim. Well,

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Speaker 1: So what's your view? I mean, do you think that

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Speaker 1: it's a decent place to get into. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily have an asset allocation. Uh. It's certainly

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Speaker 1: it is a larger percentage than it was over the

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Speaker 1: last few years when things were you know, much easier

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Speaker 1: to see from a from a risk taking perspective, Marvin,

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Speaker 1: the sense that there is a dollar shortage outside of

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Speaker 1: the United States, Yeah, I do, UM, and you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of as we get into the year end, I

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Speaker 1: in terms of how they want to position it. Um.

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Speaker 1: The dollar remains UM, you know, in demand. UM. We

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Speaker 1: kind of see it coming from the emerging markets as

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Speaker 1: well as other areas where you know, for the most parts,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, our markets are are the most stable.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that that that that continues, you know, ironically, UM,

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Speaker 1: whether or not we get um much appreciation in the

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Speaker 1: dollar given everything else that's going on is a pretty

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Speaker 1: active debate the market right now. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for spending time with us today. Marvin Lowe is global

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Speaker 1: macro strategist for State Street, joining us from our Boston

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Speaker 1: studios talking about interest rates, the European Union, Italy contagion,

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Speaker 1: as well as HI yield debt. What do you think

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Speaker 1: the main topic of discussion is going to be this

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Speaker 1: year at Thanksgiving tables across the country. Uh, don't eat

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Speaker 1: the romane lettuce. Indeed, last year was bitcoin, right, so

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Speaker 1: this year, you know, bitcoin is ten years old. This year, well,

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Speaker 1: how's it doing? Not so hot? No, but I'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to see whether there are discussions about markets. You know,

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Speaker 1: I know certainly my own family has been asking me

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Speaker 1: what does this mean? What does this mean? Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: hopefully you won't open your statements for the month. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we leave it to leave it to left the pumpkin pie. Yes,

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Speaker 1: leave it to lead and November. Thanks for listening to

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