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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you,

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Speaker 1: along with my co host Lisa Brahma wits. Each day

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Right now, let's take a look

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Speaker 1: at technology. We have earning a season about to begin

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Speaker 1: in earnest tomorrow with the banks releasing their numbers, and

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Speaker 1: then following that will be a whole host of industries

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Speaker 1: and companies including technology. Uh will technology lead us out

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Speaker 1: of this crisis? In terms of the market when the

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Speaker 1: market really starts to move up, we've seen a nice

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Speaker 1: rebound here. Where will technology be? There's nobody better to

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Speaker 1: chat about technology and tech stocks than Dan Ives, managing

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Speaker 1: director for equity research at What Bush Securities, that joins

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Speaker 1: us on the phone. Dan, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Give us a sense of just over to pass month

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Speaker 1: or so as the markets have gyrated? How is big

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Speaker 1: tech performed? Book? And it's great to be here. Big

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Speaker 1: Tech I think is performed as well and maybe even

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Speaker 1: better than anyone could have thought in light of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I think what you're starting to see is the stronger

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Speaker 1: getting stronger on the other side of the dark valley,

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Speaker 1: the Amazon's, the Microsoft's, some of the large tech players

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Speaker 1: that like Facebook included, and I think investors they're looking

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Speaker 1: onto the other side of dark valley. In other words,

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Speaker 1: where are these stocks? Where are the valuations in a

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Speaker 1: normalized or at least a new normal two thousand twenty

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Speaker 1: that's why you're seeing a flock to tech stocks, especially

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Speaker 1: even in some of these more defensive plays like a Microsoft.

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Speaker 1: So one thing that you wrote in a note was

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Speaker 1: that the pandemic will further catalyze the massive shift to

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Speaker 1: cloud computing. And I'm wondering to what degree that's already

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Speaker 1: priced in and where isn't it right now? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's starting to get priced in, maybe on

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Speaker 1: a Microsoft and some of the larger tech players like

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Speaker 1: an Amazon with the a WSPS, I do not think

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Speaker 1: it's priced in. Really across software, I think you're you're

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Speaker 1: gonna see some of these software names forget just the

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Speaker 1: like citrics, but underneath a lot of the stacked names,

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Speaker 1: the infrastructure, the tech stack, which is really application and

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Speaker 1: sass cross software. I think those are names that we

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Speaker 1: continue to see, uh. You know, I think from a

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Speaker 1: and I think software is going to be a bigger

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Speaker 1: outperformer over the next three to six months in our opinion.

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Speaker 1: So Dan, one of the things that's one of the

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Speaker 1: concerns that's been heightened not just with the pandemic here,

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Speaker 1: one thing I will say in why of this dark environment,

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Speaker 1: that's actually where I was going to go. People have

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Speaker 1: You know, bulls in Tesla are looking on the other

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Speaker 1: of wet Bush Securities, Managing director of Equity Research. There's

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Speaker 1: an incredible and growing dissonance between the economic data that

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Speaker 1: revise their estimate it's for year end SMP levels upwards,

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Speaker 1: this really raises a question, how much can you just

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Speaker 1: Adviser is based in Albany, and Hugh, how much do

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Speaker 1: And there are other programs from the federal government. Um,

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Speaker 1: that loans for example, to municipalities, counties and cities that

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Speaker 1: the second quarter, but probably the third quarter, receive some

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Speaker 1: So Liam, where is America in terms of oil production here?

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Speaker 1: I mean that is happening already, and you can see

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Speaker 1: of cash shales, natural decline rate means that it will

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Speaker 1: this quarter, almost certainly in the third quarter we will

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Speaker 1: start to see it and it will begin to accelerate. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, going into that meeting on Friday, obviously the

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Speaker 1: are cuts that were going to come anyway. It's not

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Speaker 1: being done as an act of will. It's just a

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Speaker 1: natural result of prices crashing. Yeah, which which raises the

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Speaker 1: lot of our Suddenly are people are looking to their

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Speaker 1: What do you expect? I'm skeptical that we're going to

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Speaker 1: is actually a Lane Duck commissioner. Um and we've seen

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Speaker 1: as to what would happen. You also really need to

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Speaker 1: need to get several state regulators to agree to to

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Speaker 1: in to take market share. And I think that's one

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Speaker 1: thing that people are missing about this whole thing in general.

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Speaker 1: The battle for market share hasn't gone away. You know.

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Speaker 1: We saw that most most prominently with the fact that

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Speaker 1: there was this long argument with Mexico over what was

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Speaker 1: in the end of rounding Era on the cut and

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Speaker 1: the fact that we saw Saudio Radio cut its official

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Speaker 1: selling prices the Asia last night. It just shows you

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Speaker 1: that even if it's temporarily trying to support prices, the

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Speaker 1: essential battle for market share in this or market isn't

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Speaker 1: going away. Liam Denning, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Liam Denning is an energy calmness with Bloomberg Opinion.

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