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Speaker 1: What's an investor to do? Central banks around the world,
Speaker 1: they are unresolved in their efforts to help the global economy.
Speaker 1: Interest rates remain low, and if you invested in the
Speaker 1: SMP five at the beginning of the year, you've gained
Speaker 1: just less than two percent. Here to tell us what
Speaker 1: to do with our money? Matt Maylee, equity strategist at
Speaker 1: Miller tay Back, joining us of course here at the
Speaker 1: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center UH, prior to tonight's Greater
Speaker 1: Boston Chamber Commerce Annual Meeting. Matt mainly, great to have
Speaker 1: you with his thanks for coming in. Great to be here.
Speaker 1: So what would you tell if you were going to
Speaker 1: meet these UH? I think they're gonna be about sevent business,
Speaker 1: government and civic leaders here at the Convention and Exhibition Center.
Speaker 1: What would you tell them? Are the themes for investing today? Well,
Speaker 1: probably the number one theme, of course, is is confusion.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it's funny because a lot of
Speaker 1: people are talking about how the UH people are confused
Speaker 1: or worried about the election, UH and what what what
Speaker 1: will have impact on the economy and the markets and
Speaker 1: things like that. But I would say, actually that it's
Speaker 1: the economy UH and and you know, struggle with wages
Speaker 1: and things like that. Even though we've seen a mild
Speaker 1: uptick recently, I don't know, people are still having a
Speaker 1: tough time making ends meet. So I think that's what's
Speaker 1: affected the election, rather than the election infecting uh the
Speaker 1: economy and UH. Obviously the uncertainty and of course with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and things that does kick rate some UH
Speaker 1: some concerns there as well. But we just don't have
Speaker 1: the kind of growth that you would normally have in
Speaker 1: the you know, this far into into an expansion, and
Speaker 1: that's got people worried. And notwithstanding the rally today in stocks,
Speaker 1: and notwithstanding the jump in commandity prices like swathing and
Speaker 1: corn really shooting up right now, oil is steady over
Speaker 1: forty four dollars a barrel, there is some concern that
Speaker 1: if things haven't gotten a lot better now and we're
Speaker 1: this long into recovery, that if we if we run
Speaker 1: out of steam, what's left to push it up? Right?
Speaker 1: The FED can't cut rates. The FED could do more
Speaker 1: bar more bond buying, but at some point that seems
Speaker 1: to have lost its steam. And everyone's saying, in fact,
Speaker 1: every FED official love talked to him last month and
Speaker 1: a half has said, fiscal policy, fiscal policy. Everyone has
Speaker 1: to do something. And then if you're counting on Congress
Speaker 1: and a new president to do something, well that's that
Speaker 1: might be a tough bat exactly. And you know, as
Speaker 1: Pim said that the markets only have two percent this year,
Speaker 1: but you go back to Thanksgiving A two thousand, fifteen,
Speaker 1: eighteen months ago. The markets done nothing since then. And
Speaker 1: then it goes to the point that you've been saying
Speaker 1: about about how you know people are you know, these
Speaker 1: these programs that the central pranks have put in, especially
Speaker 1: the B O J in the E c B I
Speaker 1: haven't really helped helped as much as they used to.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh. And you talk about people are are
Speaker 1: are looking for something more and when you have the
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, when you have like you said with Trump
Speaker 1: and Congress, well, first of all, nothing's gonna happen until January,
Speaker 1: because the new president is not gonna be in there
Speaker 1: until January anyway. So you have a lot that adds
Speaker 1: to the uncertainty. Even if they feel comfortable about who
Speaker 1: was going to be the next president, that are they
Speaker 1: really gonna be able to work with comngress in which
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to do for quite a while.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of the uncertainty out there. And
Speaker 1: let's keep got people, you know, sitting on their hands
Speaker 1: a little bit more thany have in the past. All right,
Speaker 1: So so Matt, you know, this idea of living in
Speaker 1: a low yield environment wishing for high yields isn't gonna
Speaker 1: make it. So so what do you do with your
Speaker 1: money if you're planning to invest it for retirement, for
Speaker 1: purposes not tied to daily moves in a particular stock
Speaker 1: or stock market. What would you do with your money
Speaker 1: right now? Well, one of the problems the problems because
Speaker 1: six months ago, yeah, when I was asked the same question,
Speaker 1: it was like, well, you know, some of these dividend
Speaker 1: plays look really good. I mean, it's just it's a
Speaker 1: it's a good play anyway in uncertain times, but their
Speaker 1: yields were fine, and and of course we've seen what's
Speaker 1: happened in the utility stocks and the consumer staples have
Speaker 1: just had this unbelievable move. The problem is now they're
Speaker 1: starting to get very expensive, and so to put new
Speaker 1: money into that into that area. Of course, we heard
Speaker 1: with Jeff Gunlock said last week about about the utility
Speaker 1: sector being very, very overvalued, so that competes. What do
Speaker 1: you think some profits if you have them and then
Speaker 1: sit and wait for a better opportunity. I think so too,
Speaker 1: But I also think you know, we hear a lot
Speaker 1: more when you when you're these kind of sideways markets
Speaker 1: has to be a stock pickers market. The one group
Speaker 1: that has is defensive that hasn't done as well. It's
Speaker 1: starting to do better finally, but hasn't done as well
Speaker 1: as a defensive play in the last year or so.
Speaker 1: Is is the healthcare stocks. Of course, the problem is,
Speaker 1: as we've learned very much, you can't just go in
Speaker 1: annual healthcare stock anymore. In nineteen seventy five nine, if
Speaker 1: you could just kind of go to the group and
Speaker 1: and you were fine. Now you have to be a
Speaker 1: lot more careful, uh and go into you know, you
Speaker 1: can go to some of the traditional names of the
Speaker 1: big names of fires or market and things like that,
Speaker 1: but even some of the takeovers and stuff. Um but
Speaker 1: uh and then you know, well, you know, and then
Speaker 1: reads and stuff like that with the commercial real estate
Speaker 1: stuff going on here. But boy, I tell you, you know,
Speaker 1: him just the most directed, just directing your view to
Speaker 1: South Boston and to all of of really the seaport
Speaker 1: area of Boston, which looks nothing like it did ten
Speaker 1: years not not even I mean you see the credit
Speaker 1: that some of that. You can't even see some of
Speaker 1: the cranes because of the buildings in the way, but
Speaker 1: the cranze are everywhere. Sometimes you wear that Maybe the
Speaker 1: contraditions for people who feel like, oh, how co many
Speaker 1: people talk about how bad things are. There's there's so
Speaker 1: much construction in Boston, in Washington, d C. In Seattle, Washington,
Speaker 1: in so many places, even at at a time when
Speaker 1: people maybe are kind of having a tough time. But
Speaker 1: I guess people still want to see movies and they
Speaker 1: still want to go to theme park. So even if Disney,
Speaker 1: for example, reporting today after Bell is not going to
Speaker 1: be a high flyer, is that the kind of investment
Speaker 1: that people are is that the best we can do
Speaker 1: right now is that you kind of fall back on
Speaker 1: because they're gonna grow. They're gonna do fine. Maybe no
Speaker 1: big price appreciation, but that's one of the places. It's
Speaker 1: funny again reverting back to something I said several years
Speaker 1: ago and two thousand and nine when we're at the
Speaker 1: bottom and people saying, is this the bottom is really
Speaker 1: the bottom of the word even at the end of
Speaker 1: the year, And I said, one stock that's gonna go up,
Speaker 1: right because everybody understands it. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a retail broker and you're talking
Speaker 1: to mom and mom and dad out there, it's like
Speaker 1: Apple computer because everybody sees what that's going. Now we've
Speaker 1: seen a little bit of a change there. So I
Speaker 1: think we go back to something I mean, just because
Speaker 1: what we've seen in the stock is is that is
Speaker 1: not to say that stock and it's a great company
Speaker 1: and it may go lower, may go higher, but going
Speaker 1: but that was a good reliable name in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine, two thousand and ten. Now you kind of
Speaker 1: go back to some of those other names that you
Speaker 1: just mentioned. Even though McDonald's got to stocks at all
Speaker 1: time high, people said, I don't want to buy it
Speaker 1: a stock at all time high, but there's a stock
Speaker 1: stunder performed for a lot of years. So even though
Speaker 1: it's an all time high, it's not at the kind
Speaker 1: of it's not had the kind of run that some
Speaker 1: of the you know, the high flyers, the thank stocks
Speaker 1: that we saw last year. So I do see continue
Speaker 1: to play on the defensive side, but you have to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more careful than you was six
Speaker 1: months ago. I was just looking at the tenure going
Speaker 1: back to the beginning of the year. The yield there
Speaker 1: on the ten year, I believe two and a quarter.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a move that's gotta be painful for
Speaker 1: I mean for people that have been saying stock stock stocks,
Speaker 1: they have to come up against that, right. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's such a difficult thing now, especially now when people
Speaker 1: start one thing I think adds to the uncertainty. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen it here, but you hear about these negative
Speaker 1: interest rates. Nobody knows, you know, Warren Beffett was saying recently,
Speaker 1: there's no books. I mean these books that go back
Speaker 1: hundreds of years in some just several decades that have
Speaker 1: been the bibles on on interest rates in the bomb market,
Speaker 1: and now people are like, I don't know what in
Speaker 1: the world it's gonna happen next, So that actually uncertainty.
Speaker 1: And but people like you and then you also have
Speaker 1: you know, the and part of the problem that got
Speaker 1: up a tangent here, but part of the problem everybody
Speaker 1: wants to blame the FED. And I'm kind of saying, well,
Speaker 1: my blame to the FED is that they've actually enabled
Speaker 1: Congress that they kept bailing things out. People are saying
Speaker 1: we need fiscal policy. Well Congress keeps saying, well, if
Speaker 1: the FED keeps billing out, I don't have to do anything,
Speaker 1: all right, So, uh, now it's going to have to
Speaker 1: step to the plate for hearing that all of not
Speaker 1: just not just here in the United States, but all
Speaker 1: over the world. They have to have the other, the
Speaker 1: other leg to that. And even even Ben ver Naki
Speaker 1: was saying years the two thousand and ten, he was saying,
Speaker 1: we're just the stop gap to get us to you know,
Speaker 1: what really drives the economy, and uh, but they never
Speaker 1: really made them do that, and Congress has kind of
Speaker 1: scated along and at some point, you know, that's why
Speaker 1: we're having to throw the bums out. Kind of a
Speaker 1: movement this year, you know, well, it's been an interesting
Speaker 1: year so far, though you must admit absolutely absolutely well,
Speaker 1: Matt Maylie, thank you so much for joining us, Coming
Speaker 1: all the way over here to the Boston Convention an
Speaker 1: exhibition center at tonight's creator of Boston Cheamber of Commerce
Speaker 1: annual meeting. Of course not made these equity strategist at
Speaker 1: Millary type back you're in Boston. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Matt for joining us. I'm Kathleen Hayes, WELLOK, pim Fox
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