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

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Speaker 1: prices and Saudi aramco It's initial public offering. Here to

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Speaker 1: tell us more is John Kilda, founding partner of Again Capital.

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Speaker 1: John always a pleasure. Where do you want to begin

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Speaker 1: the direction of oil prices or the direction of Saudi

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Speaker 1: Aramco's initial public offering. Good morning, Tim, It's always great

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Speaker 1: to be on with you as well. Thank you. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think you know, just so you know folks at home,

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Speaker 1: I know we're seeing the price of gasoline rise pretty

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Speaker 1: swiftly now over the past several weeks, and I guess

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Speaker 1: just to talk about how we're seeing the oil market

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Speaker 1: and gasoline prices react to the imposition or reimposition of

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Speaker 1: sanctions on Iran, and that's going to occur on November four.

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Speaker 1: International oil companies are already starting to stop buying Iranian

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Speaker 1: oil so that puts the scramble on for other supplies

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Speaker 1: from other countries, which is tightening up the global market.

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Speaker 1: So that's part of what we're seeing. W t I

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Speaker 1: price has got as high as seventy seven dollars a

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Speaker 1: seventy four, just below seventy four here on on developing

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Speaker 1: things in this market. It's going to be a very

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Speaker 1: volatile winter PIM as we get into the end of

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Speaker 1: the year in terms of the supply demand balance, based

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Speaker 1: upon several things, including whether or not China and India

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Speaker 1: continue to buy Iran oil and whether or not the

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Speaker 1: to continue to buy Iran oil. John, is the price

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Speaker 1: of oil moving higher visa v your comments to do

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Speaker 1: with the Iranian oil sanction driven by speculators bidding up

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Speaker 1: the price or is there a real lack of supply

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Speaker 1: it now while it's relatively cheap, given what you're sort

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Speaker 1: get into the peak part of the Northern Hemisphere winter,

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Speaker 1: which is the peak global demand period. PIM I know

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Speaker 1: we talked about the summer driving season here in the US,

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Speaker 1: but that's really the peak. And when you do the numbers,

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Speaker 1: considering where the saddie production is at a record level,

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Speaker 1: out at this point, uh, it's looking like a crunch,

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Speaker 1: a supply crunch, and so that's what got this market

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Speaker 1: There's several hundred dollar barrel calls. I'm not in that camp.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it will get that bad, but that

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Speaker 1: that's what's sort of on the table. There's a real

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Speaker 1: buying fervor that came into this market. What number are

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Speaker 1: over to eighty five at most. Why is that? Why?

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Speaker 1: Just maybe explain your your reasoning well, because I think

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Speaker 1: to what's not being focused on as much is the

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Speaker 1: demand picture, which is being called at the question now

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Speaker 1: Natural gas prices have gone parabolic to the upside, tim Um.

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Speaker 1: And that is because we are staring down a supply

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Speaker 1: It's going to make for an incredibly volatile price picture

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Speaker 1: we certainly are going to watch that with you and John.

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Speaker 1: Now to turn your attention to Saudi A Ramco and

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Speaker 1: a potential initial public offering. What do you make of

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Speaker 1: the timetable? Is it really going to happen? Uh? No,

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Speaker 1: p o tim Um this is uh, you know, more

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Speaker 1: not going to happen. I mean, there's there's there's really

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Speaker 1: them by the Sabbok, which is the large petro chemical

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Speaker 1: the petro chemical company. That's right, and you know that

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Speaker 1: that will give Mohamed and Psalman the thirty billion or

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Speaker 1: the the Kingdom's conduct, you know, in the region, and

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Speaker 1: not going to get the two trillion dollar valuation that

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Speaker 1: thanks very much for being with us. John Kilduff is

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Speaker 1: founding partner of Again Capital. Talking about the crude markets

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Speaker 1: guest is Joel Stern. He is the chairman and the

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Speaker 1: chief executive officer of Stern Value Management. And Joel has

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Speaker 1: someone of a unique perspective because not only is he

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Speaker 1: Stern Value Management, which has, over the course of many years,

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Speaker 1: created a variety of methodologies for companies to follow in

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Speaker 1: order to increase their economic value. And we're here to

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Speaker 1: talk about the economic value of the United States. Joel Stern,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming in to our Bloomberg Interactive Brokers. Let's

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Speaker 1: begin with a look at interest rates. I want you

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Speaker 1: to talk about is there a link between the level

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Speaker 1: of interest rates and the performance of the stock market. Well,

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Speaker 1: you and I have been frands for about five years,

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Speaker 1: and over that time I've pulled your ear so many

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Speaker 1: times about interest rates. Maybe you should answer the question

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Speaker 1: instead of me. It here goes, I'll give you my

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Speaker 1: best shot. Interest rates are a function of two things.

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Speaker 1: the other is the expected rate of inflation. So if

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Speaker 1: There's something else that can help us with all of this,

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Speaker 1: and that is the gold price. And here's the reason why.

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Speaker 1: The gold price is a function of the real US

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Speaker 1: to what's really taking place in the economy. If the

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Speaker 1: gold price will be heading north south. But guess what

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Speaker 1: the gold price is falling. How can that be happening.

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Speaker 1: How come? All I have to do is take a

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Speaker 1: But guess what's been happening. The gold price has been falling,

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Speaker 1: happening alright, non inflationary growth. Yeah. Does this have a

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Speaker 1: We've been having this problem now for twenty years already.

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Speaker 1: Would would a Democrat controlled House have a deleterious effect

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Speaker 1: But in in some people it UM, the cancer is

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Speaker 1: Others like Magenta recognized that UM having sort of bone

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Speaker 1: marrow transplants can really reboot sort of faulty immune systems,

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Speaker 1: uh in the in the case you've described in cancer UM.

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Speaker 1: And so while those are very effective UM, the treatments

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Speaker 1: the conditioning to to make room for these new bone

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Speaker 1: easier for patients to receive curative bone marrow transplant. Tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more about gene editing technology and

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Speaker 1: how that is attracting either your attention or how people

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Speaker 1: can follow it in a in a specific way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I think one way to think about this

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Speaker 1: whole field is that you know, um uh, it's all

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Speaker 1: an engineering challenge the human body is the the most

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Speaker 1: understanding it, and there are now tools UM to tinker

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Speaker 1: with the gene editing being one where this error that

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Speaker 1: we identify in the molecular code it causes in the

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Speaker 1: case of cancer cells to grout control. We now have

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Speaker 1: the ideal. It's still very very complex to do, and

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Speaker 1: some companies have developed new technologies that have the potential

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Speaker 1: to allow you do that. UM. And still early and

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Speaker 1: still very hard, but it's we're getting much better. Give

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Speaker 1: you about thirty seconds. What is the biggest mistake you

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Speaker 1: find when you meet non expert investors in biotechnology? It's

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Speaker 1: very simple. At the end of the day, it's management, management, management,

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Speaker 1: and so people invest in technologies. But forget that very

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Speaker 1: few molecules jumped off the medical bench and ended up

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Speaker 1: in your medicine cabinet all on their own. There's a

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Speaker 1: thousands of decisions made by hundreds of people, and you

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Speaker 1: should always be in resting in the people. Well done.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much for being with us. Eli Hasden, Managing

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Speaker 1: Partner at Kasden Capital, speaking about investing in biotechnology stocks,

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Speaker 1: private as well as public entities. Thanks for listening to

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