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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. All right, the Federal

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Speaker 1: Reserve is raising interest rates. I think we all get that.

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Speaker 1: The question now that I hear from a lot of

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Speaker 1: investors is how aggressively will they be doing? Are we

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Speaker 1: talking twenty five basis points at a time, fifty basis points?

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Speaker 1: How much an aggregate? Let's check in with somebody who

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Speaker 1: kind of does this stuff for living. David Riley, chief

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Speaker 1: investment strategist for Blue Bay Asset Management. David, the US

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Speaker 1: Federal Reserve is in a hiking mode. How do you

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Speaker 1: envision it playing out? Hi, Paul, Well, I actually think

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Speaker 1: the Fed is more likely to have a hiking cycle

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Speaker 1: where the Fed, you know, it was actually very aggressive.

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Speaker 1: It hiked rates by three hundred basis points in the

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Speaker 1: course of um twelve months. It kind of got ahead

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Speaker 1: of inflation issues. The economy did slow down, but it

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Speaker 1: didn't go into recession, and so you know, the FED

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Speaker 1: engineered a soft landing for the economy, retained its kind

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Speaker 1: of UM anti inflation or reinforced is anti inflation credentially.

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Speaker 1: So I actually think that's a more likely past now

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Speaker 1: for the FED because it is behind the inflation curve

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Speaker 1: than this kind of you know model that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people look at, which is two thousand and four

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Speaker 1: to six, where it was a very gradual, very predictable,

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Speaker 1: twenty five basis point hike at each meeting. What does

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Speaker 1: this mean then for positioning? Paul and I have talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about duration. Are one hundred year bond is

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Speaker 1: down about fifty has duration does not do well in

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Speaker 1: higher rates. How are you thinking then about what this

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Speaker 1: means for positioning an important folio out. Yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: do think that, um, you know, we've we've got a

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Speaker 1: underpricing where the FED is actually going to go up.

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Speaker 1: So in terms of positioning in our fixed income port boliers,

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Speaker 1: we would still have over the medium term a UM

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Speaker 1: still rather express that at the shorter end than at

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Speaker 1: the longer end, because as you've been reporting, we're you know,

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Speaker 1: seeing a pretty dramatic flattening of the treasury curve and

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Speaker 1: it's and it's quite I mean we've we've also had

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Speaker 1: makes sense to be thinking about kind of moving up

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Speaker 1: securitized mortgage securities as well. All right, David, I'm going

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Speaker 1: for yield. I'm ready to take some risk. I'm going

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Speaker 1: looking at the high yield market, maybe even the leverage

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Speaker 1: I still think it makes sense, as you've suggested, to

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Speaker 1: painful for businesses as well. Ye. Good stuff. Hey, David,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. David Riley, chief investment

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Speaker 1: strategist for Bloombley Asset Management. We got Michael McKee, Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: After chatting with Richmond FED President Thomas Barkin, again he

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Speaker 1: seems like a reasonable business base. FED president came across

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Speaker 1: He's not a voter this year, but in terms of

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Speaker 1: question about sort of the wage spiral and maybe that

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Speaker 1: legitimate concern. Well, it's been the fence concerned all along.

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Speaker 1: did not experience any wage spiraling anywhere. I mean, maybe

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Speaker 1: So this federal reserve um is there still an argument

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Speaker 1: But it makes a nice conversation piece and a question

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Speaker 1: to ask people. All Right, Michael McKee, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us here in our interactive broker studio,

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Speaker 1: giving us a summary of your discussion just moments ago

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Speaker 1: with Richmond FED President Thomas Barkin. Uh, he's uh Richmond

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Speaker 1: the home of the University of Richmond Spiders, my alma mater.

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's check in with Michael Hans Hans ce

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Speaker 1: IO of Clarfelt Citizens Private Wealth. Michael, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us here. You know, we look at these

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Speaker 1: but we've certainly had volatility so far in the year.

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Speaker 1: your clients? Good morning? Thanks for having me. Volatility is

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