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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia Podcast. I'm Charlie pellat

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Speaker 2: Doug Prisoners Off. This week coming up, we'll get the

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Speaker 2: latest on the trade front when we hear from Inu

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Speaker 2: Manak Fellow at the Council on Farm Relations. But we

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Speaker 2: begin this morning with markets. The dollar slip for a

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Speaker 2: six consecutive session Friday, poised for its longest losing streak

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Speaker 2: since March of twenty twenty four. That's after President Trump

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Speaker 2: tapped Council of Economic Advisor's chair Stephen Myron to serve

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Speaker 2: as a Federal Reserve governor. Earlier in the date, Myron

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Speaker 2: threw his support behind Governor Christopher Waller to succeed FED

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Speaker 2: Chair Jerome Powell. Both have echoed Trump's call for lower

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Speaker 2: interest rates. For more, we heard from Ivyng, chief investment

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Speaker 2: officer for the APACK at DWS. She spoke with Bloomberg's

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Speaker 2: Heidi Stroud Watts and Paul Allen.

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Speaker 3: I'd be great to have you here. I just want

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Speaker 3: to get your thoughts there on this movement at the

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Speaker 3: FED and you governor potentially for a few months at least.

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Speaker 3: In Stephen Myyron, he'll of course just be one voice

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Speaker 3: in the room. But Chris Waller is chair. How does

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Speaker 3: that sound?

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Speaker 4: I see instead of commenting on like a people movement,

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Speaker 4: we're more focused on the data itself because on last Friday,

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Speaker 4: labor market data is clearly showing the weakness of the

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Speaker 4: labor market, and we really look at the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 4: there that two key mandate they look at is one

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Speaker 4: is invasion. Of course, invasion data is going to move

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Speaker 4: higher with the tariff that we're seeing on the market,

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Speaker 4: but the labor market witness anyway, the federal re civical

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Speaker 4: for more than dovis stent. So if we look at

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Speaker 4: next showmans, we still believe that there will before weights

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Speaker 4: cut on the table.

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Speaker 3: The people in the room, though, do make a difference.

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Speaker 3: I mean both Stephen Myron and Chris Waller, you probably

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Speaker 3: describe them as duves. More likely the ease in twenty

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Speaker 4: Make it easy and easier for sure.

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Speaker 3: So where do you see the cash right hitting in

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Speaker 3: the US next year?

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Speaker 4: We're saying about like there would be like a four

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Speaker 4: weight each of them about twenty five business point like,

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Speaker 4: so that having more doel federal reserve governor on the

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Speaker 4: table is definitely better, But idea like the federalism is

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Speaker 4: still more data. Jifferins. So we focus a lot of

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Speaker 4: on the economic datas does.

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Speaker 1: That return the idea of sort of American exceptionalism in

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Speaker 1: US assets or is that still a quandary as long

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Speaker 1: as the trade uncertainty continues.

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Speaker 4: I think like that still depends on like what is

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Speaker 4: the data looking at, like when you talk about US exceptionalism. Like,

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Speaker 4: so we look at the economic side, look at the

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Speaker 4: corporate earning size, but if you compare about in terms

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Speaker 4: of the economic growth that we are seeing in US

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Speaker 4: in this year, yes, is still higher than eurosoon, but

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Speaker 4: if you look at the next year, based on our

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Speaker 4: in house reield erosome, we'll be able to deliver higher

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Speaker 4: GDB growth than US pretty much Giffern by the physical

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Speaker 4: stimulus that Germany is going to put on the and

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Speaker 4: US in the second quarter is still deliver excellence results

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Speaker 4: that we are seeing in the market, particularly driven by

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Speaker 4: the or the tech company. But if you look at

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Speaker 4: the US company. At least the gap we are seeing

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Speaker 4: is US still leading the market itself? There were still

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Speaker 4: majority of the part of the market, but in terms

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Speaker 4: incremental money. Thinking about on top of US, where would

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Speaker 1: And you do you think Europe still has further to run,

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Speaker 1: but maybe more selective? What about in Asia as well?

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Speaker 4: We actually we like Japan, like I guess it's like

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Speaker 4: The key part is that when you look at close

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Speaker 4: the demand suppie story is actually quite attractive. And not

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Speaker 3: And how about some of those really trade exposed sectors

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Speaker 3: of Japan's equity market. So what's you view on that?

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Speaker 3: And do you see that trade uncertainty now receding or

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Speaker 3: is it just evolving?

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Speaker 4: I think it's like it's depends on where is the

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Speaker 4: it's like basically receding a little bit, but like in

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Speaker 4: terms of before the liberation date, it's like definitely all

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Speaker 4: the export focused company like a trade related company that

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Speaker 4: we're still getting affected. But like it's also set up

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Speaker 4: by set because since I was touching on the property

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Speaker 4: does it affected by the trade because there's more related

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Speaker 4: CETA itself is actually relatively immal.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about China because there's relative calm

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Speaker 1: and it's fully expected that probably that trade truth will continue.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I think China isself like in terms of

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Speaker 4: the tariff impact, like it's actually not really a key

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Speaker 4: look at between Trump one and Trump two, given like

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Speaker 4: still a news headline people focusing on, but a lot

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Speaker 4: Like of course a lot of driver is regarding the

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Speaker 4: trading policy, consumer stimulus, but we did see that recently

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Speaker 4: we're in between of the result season in like Hong

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Speaker 4: China retail market, they actually say that it's more a

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Speaker 4: bot based recovery they're seeing, not on that particular semon,

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Speaker 4: not the particular on high end or like a Circle

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Speaker 1: I mean in a PAC chief in investment officer at DWS.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Charlie Palatine.

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Speaker 2: This week for Doug Chrisner. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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Speaker 2: spoke with Brazil's President Lola Thursday about strengthening trade ties

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Speaker 2: amid rising US tariffs. Earlier this week, President Trump hit

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Speaker 2: India with fifty percent tariffs to penalize it for its

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Speaker 2: trade barriers and purchases of Russian oil. Modi is also

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Speaker 2: expected to visit China later this month for a summit

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Speaker 2: with President Ji Jinping, his first trip there in seven years.

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Speaker 2: For more on the tariff story, we heard from Inu Manak,

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Speaker 2: fellow for Trade Policy at the Council on Forim Relations.

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Speaker 2: She spoke with Bloomberg's Heidi Stroud Watts and Paul.

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Speaker 1: Allen and a great to agree with us. And this

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Speaker 1: is another example of President Trump sort of trying to

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Speaker 1: achieve his foreign policy goals through trade policy. Right, do

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Speaker 1: you think it will be successful? Given that we know

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Speaker 1: for India the issue of purchasing Russian crud is really

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Speaker 1: a deeply structural one for its economy.

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Speaker 5: This is going to be a very difficult negotiation with

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Speaker 5: India and the use of tariffs as a tool for

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Speaker 5: all sorts of foreign policy objectives has been sort of

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Speaker 5: the method for President Trump. Now with India, what we're

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Speaker 5: bringing it to about a fifty percent rate. That's an

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Speaker 5: enormous amount of taxes that we would apply to Indian

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Speaker 5: Some of the products that we're most concerned about, like pharmaceuticals,

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Speaker 5: in due course, making this a very challenging negotiation that

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Speaker 5: will likely have to be extended.

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Speaker 1: What does it mean for India that has sort of

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Speaker 1: in recent years become the rising counter an ally to

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: One of the odd things that we've seen during this

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Speaker 5: treated more like adversaries, and our adversaries have seeningly had

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Speaker 5: a shift in policy that is noticeable. We saw during

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Speaker 5: sort of transactional deal making that President Trump hopes to

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Speaker 5: achieve through these tactics, but it's not really clear that

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Speaker 5: this will pay off. And in the meantime, we see

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Speaker 5: India reaching out to others at Brazil like China, and

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Speaker 5: that could actually threaten long term US objectives.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, again, to your point on timing, that timing is interesting.

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Speaker 3: Nurentromodi's going to be meeting Lula to Silva first visit

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Speaker 3: to China in seven years. The timing is coincidental, but

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Speaker 3: India of course has a long long history of non alignment.

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Speaker 3: To these meetings to some degree help India position for

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Speaker 5: In many ways, that's the trajectory that India was taking

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Speaker 5: I think President Trump has has made pretty clear that

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Speaker 5: he is opposed to the bricks countries, including India, from

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Speaker 3: And we heard from Narentromodia moment ago. I mean he

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Speaker 5: You know, India is one of the toughest negotiators you'll

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Speaker 5: fairly high levels of protection on many markets, and their

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Speaker 5: So I think for the Trump administration, this is an

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Speaker 5: attempt to sort of force India to make those systemic

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Speaker 5: And I'm not quite sure that India is going to

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Speaker 5: to lower these terraf rates, and other countries have been

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Speaker 5: So I can imagine that India could strike some sort

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Speaker 1: Do you see sort of fundamental changes when it comes

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Speaker 5: It's entirely possible that we could see global realignment of

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Speaker 5: a lot of different economic and diplomatic relationships as a

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Speaker 5: this goes on. Now, of course, there could be a

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Speaker 5: in terms of other statutes and laws that the president

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Speaker 5: for the remainder of President Trump's time in office, this

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Speaker 5: allies are going to have to weigh whether or not

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Speaker 5: they're going to wait out any substantive change in US

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Speaker 3: Their own all right in my nec fellow for Trade

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Speaker 3: Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to today's episode of the Bloomberg Daybreak

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