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Speaker 1: One of the issues having to do with trade and

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Speaker 1: the United States and China is technology. For example, Micron

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Speaker 1: Technology said a ban on the sale of some of

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Speaker 1: Here to tell us more about how chip makers are

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Speaker 1: trapped in the US China crossfire is our own Shira Oviday,

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Speaker 1: technology columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and of course you can

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Speaker 1: follow Shira on Twitter at Shira over Day. All right,

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Speaker 1: Shara tell us about the chip companies and why this

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Speaker 1: has been a back and forth because it has to

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Speaker 1: do not just with tariffs, but then it has to

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Speaker 1: do with the imposition of bands about what kinds of

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Speaker 1: there's two issues at play here that involve computer chip makers.

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Speaker 1: US chip makers. So I think, much to the surprise

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Speaker 1: they trade group for the chip company said, we're in

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Speaker 1: force sort of testing or some minor assembly, and then

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Speaker 1: being subject to this tariff. Right, So you have US

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Speaker 1: then being forced to absorb tariffs in some of these cases. Um,

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Speaker 1: which I think again was surprising to US chip companies. Now,

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Speaker 1: that you know, not all chips are created equal, right, um, Micron,

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Speaker 1: So the the issue that Micron has is somewhat separate

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Speaker 1: supercomputers and everything in between. So they've been sued for

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Speaker 1: and Micron believes that this is politically motivated, that this

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Speaker 1: Micron says, is to kind of steal from American companies,

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Speaker 1: and they feel like Micron feels like they're caught in

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Speaker 1: so that's Microns case. Now let's go to another patient.

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Speaker 1: This has been to do with Qualcom. It wants to

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Speaker 1: Qualcom again, like Micron, feels like it's kind of caught

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Speaker 1: So it's inevitable that these US chipmakers are getting kind

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Speaker 1: a totally fair point. That Look, the supply chain for

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Speaker 1: Twitter at your over Day. The unemployment rate moved to

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Speaker 1: Chris leu. He is a senior fellow at the University

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Speaker 1: of Virginia Miller Centers, a former Deputy Secretary of Labor

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Speaker 1: at Chris lout four All Chris lou forty four. I

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Speaker 1: want to focus first on wages and the increase that

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Speaker 1: well to your point. In June, the share of American

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Speaker 1: But you're looking forward, you know, we think that's still

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Speaker 1: we've been underweight staples. Now have those sectors done well

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Speaker 1: Sure they have. But but I think when you look

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Speaker 1: continuation of this economy. You do not want to hide. Someday,

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Speaker 1: you know, somewhere out there on the horizon will be

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Speaker 1: time to hide. But I don't think it's now. When

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Speaker 1: saying that you're recommending them, just saying companies such as

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Speaker 1: Honeywell International shares down four and a half percent so

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Speaker 1: Uh this, you know my four percent this year. Those

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Speaker 1: managements of the companies that they cover, they are nervous

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Speaker 1: But the fact is um through this year and into

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Speaker 1: most industrial analysts, the guys who are in the in

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Speaker 1: tax code change was really helpful in terms of capex

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Speaker 1: until nineteen at least in the industrial sector. But you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly these capex numbers we saw in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: was pretty darn good. And I suspect, based on these

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Speaker 1: that that we're going to see some decent capex through

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Speaker 1: the balance of the year as well. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for joining me. Scott Wren senior

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Speaker 1: Global equity strategist for Wells Fargo Investment Institute. He's in

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Speaker 1: saying louis helping to manage one point nine trillion dollars

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