Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Surveillance. I would expect the interest rate
Speaker 1: in the Eurozone and it's peripheral will be zero or
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Speaker 1: does matter. A whole lot of you avoided energy last year,
Speaker 1: you probably did relatively well. It's half the global economy
Speaker 1: and it's all slowing. My sense is that this ship
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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Michael McCain, tom Kin, Bloomberg Surveillance Worldwide.
Speaker 1: Thrilled to have you with us. End of the quarter.
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Speaker 1: synthesize where we are in the reset from his blinding
Speaker 1: certitude of twelve three one fifteen. Robert since joins us
Speaker 1: from Ammer's pierpond. What'd you get most wrong this quarter? Um?
Speaker 1: You know we expected a little bit of a setback
Speaker 1: for the dollar. I don't think we expected it to
Speaker 1: settle back quite this much UM. And also we uh,
Speaker 1: we didn't think yelling would be quite as dubblish as
Speaker 1: she really is. We probably should learn that lesson. But uh,
Speaker 1: as opposed to thinking whether the glass was half full
Speaker 1: or half empty, she took the glass and emptied all
Speaker 1: the water out of it. John Norman a few days
Speaker 1: ago JPM were and recalibrates. He takes dollar optimism down
Speaker 1: to stability, maybe not dollar weakness. Others actually talk about
Speaker 1: dollar weakness. Where where does the dollar go in the
Speaker 1: next three months? You know, we think it's it's headed
Speaker 1: a little bit higher. We look at some of our
Speaker 1: short term valuation work, and it would suggest your dollar
Speaker 1: belongs more in a one oh seven one o nine
Speaker 1: range rather than the one range we're at now. But
Speaker 1: nothing dramatic, you know. But I think the dollar creeps
Speaker 1: gradually higher UM as as we go through the quarter
Speaker 1: UM because we do think the U S date is
Speaker 1: gonna look okay. And and and frankly, I think there
Speaker 1: may be a bit of a attention developing on the
Speaker 1: f O m C. I mean, I think that people
Speaker 1: like UH, like Stan Fisher and a number of the
Speaker 1: folks want to get on with it in terms of
Speaker 1: normalizing interest rates. And I think they may have been
Speaker 1: surprised as the rest of us about this yellow and
Speaker 1: testimony this week. You say, nothing dramatic. You're talking one
Speaker 1: oh seven, one or nine. We're spitting distance from parity
Speaker 1: between the dollar and the euro. If I would have
Speaker 1: mentioned that three or four years ago, people would have
Speaker 1: thought I was out of my mind. Well, I think
Speaker 1: there's there. There are a couple of things that have
Speaker 1: gone on. One. Um, you know, we have seen the
Speaker 1: continued sluggish sluggishness in Europe and a much more aggressive ECB.
Speaker 1: Early on, the e c B was not very aggressive,
Speaker 1: the FED was aggressive, and so the global divergence was
Speaker 1: actually in favor of the euro as opposed to the dollar,
Speaker 1: and it was horribly overvalued. Um and now we've seen
Speaker 1: that adjustment process UH taking place. I think people still
Speaker 1: think fair valuation is somewhere around one fifteen on euro dollar.
Speaker 1: But I think we're gonna undershoot that because the e
Speaker 1: c B, um, you know, will be easy for an
Speaker 1: extended period of time. And and and we think and
Speaker 1: hope the FED does begin to or move further along
Speaker 1: the policy of normalization of interest rates here in the US.
Speaker 1: So we look around the world and we see the
Speaker 1: US dollar versus the Canadian loon versus the Mexican pay
Speaker 1: So we go to Asia, Uh, we're back to an
Speaker 1: era of king dollar, or at least that Howard, That's
Speaker 1: how it feels. Are there any other currencies out there
Speaker 1: that can go head to head with the dollar and
Speaker 1: actually um allow our exporters to to sell into their
Speaker 1: markets at a competitive rate. You know, I think we've
Speaker 1: we've we've had the bulk of the adjustment of the dollar. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we're now talking about fine tuning. If we've
Speaker 1: gone from one forty down to roughly one ten on
Speaker 1: euro dollar, enormous, enormous move, big move if we if
Speaker 1: we're one oh five or if one fifteen, that might
Speaker 1: make a big difference from a short term trading perspective,
Speaker 1: But in terms of the big picture, you know, I
Speaker 1: think we've had a big, big part of the dollar
Speaker 1: adjustment already. We've seen US companies have to adjust that,
Speaker 1: We've seen the U S economy have to adjust to that.
Speaker 1: Bob since Jonah switch gears here in Berries are really
Speaker 1: attuned to this as well. You've seen. I mean we're
Speaker 1: talking earlier about bear Stearns A. S. Greenberg with you know,
Speaker 1: his vest On and his paper tickets and Alan Schwartz
Speaker 1: in those days and Bank of America. Has the industry
Speaker 1: been taken over by the whole E T F hedge
Speaker 1: fun very smart guys, not evil people, but people just
Speaker 1: making huge swing trades, if you will, in and out
Speaker 1: of see whatever the theme is of the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that we have built up such
Speaker 1: huge pools of capital that have great demands for short
Speaker 1: term performance that we do tend to see markets that
Speaker 1: are more volatile, particularly commodity markets. You know, commodity markets
Speaker 1: used to be things that that that companies dabbled in,
Speaker 1: you know, that people actually bought and sold this stuff
Speaker 1: to produce something. It's become much more financial. We saw
Speaker 1: this with foreign exchange fifteen or twenty years ago. It
Speaker 1: used to be something that companies used to dabble into
Speaker 1: to satisfy their trade needs. Now it's become much more financial,
Speaker 1: become much more volatile um and I don't think that's
Speaker 1: particularly helpful, helpful and healthy for for the economy in general.
Speaker 1: Per pot we get started on three hours of Bloomberg Radio,
Speaker 1: Charles Evans of Chicago and Kithley News, really a high
Speaker 1: point in the nine o'clock hour as well. Barry So,
Speaker 1: I keep coming back to the strength of the dollar
Speaker 1: and what it means for our overall economy. I was
Speaker 1: in London about a decade ago when I was astonished
Speaker 1: at a forty dollar hamburger at a local pub once
Speaker 1: you figured out the exchange rate. Now it seems the
Speaker 1: US tourists can travel abroad and things are are really
Speaker 1: reasonably priced. What does this mean for global capital flows?
Speaker 1: What does this mean for uh, the overall state of
Speaker 1: the economy with with the US seemingly the only strength
Speaker 1: that's out there. Yeah, you know, I think we're we're
Speaker 1: seeing a shift in in global patterns, some some big
Speaker 1: shifts in global patterns. I think one thing we're seeing
Speaker 1: is that services are becoming a much bigger share of
Speaker 1: the economy globally, which is something you'd expect with an
Speaker 1: aging population, both here in Europe, even in China and
Speaker 1: and and parts of Asia. Um. And that just means
Speaker 1: that we're going to see areas of demand in different
Speaker 1: in different markets. We're seeing the labor markets actually perform
Speaker 1: reasonably well. Um service consumption is very labor oriented. What
Speaker 1: we're not seeing uh doing very well or commodities and
Speaker 1: demand for commodities and and that's because global trade and
Speaker 1: and and frankly, global industrial production growth has slowed down
Speaker 1: very dramatically. So we're consuming fewer things, we're consuming more services.
Speaker 1: That adds the g d P, but it's a different
Speaker 1: kind of g d P. But but within that, and
Speaker 1: I know you come into some a Ford exchange perspective,
Speaker 1: what is your calling commodities? Are they hit bottom? Are
Speaker 1: they in a range? Do we need to further clear markets,
Speaker 1: particularly within you know, obviously oil, but within industrial medals
Speaker 1: as well, like conquer. You know, we've gotten a bit
Speaker 1: of a boost here in in commodities across the boards
Speaker 1: with a week or dollar. I don't think it's real. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think if you look at industrial production data,
Speaker 1: I think I looked at twenty five or so major countries.
Speaker 1: I think there were five that had increases on a
Speaker 1: year of a year basis and twenty that had decreases
Speaker 1: on a year of a year basis. That's pretty unprecedented.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not in a recession, but the industrial
Speaker 1: sector probably feels like we are in every sssion. I
Speaker 1: think there's probably some further clearing to take place in
Speaker 1: commodity markets. And what I particularly note is that with
Speaker 1: this weakness in the dollar in the last week or so,
Speaker 1: oil prices haven't gone up. They've actually started to trickle
Speaker 1: back down again. So lower oil prices at a time
Speaker 1: when the dollar is weaker tells me that there's some
Speaker 1: fundamental weakness starting to show up again in UM in
Speaker 1: in the In the one of the last ten days,
Speaker 1: we've moved from a blah range found at oil to
Speaker 1: all of a sudden right up on support. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean we've go from low forties were now into the
Speaker 1: mid thirties at a time when the dollar is weakened
Speaker 1: up UM and that that tells me that it's an
Speaker 1: oil move, it's not a dollar general pricing. For the
Speaker 1: update here on three sixteen, very where the quarter go
Speaker 1: uh with the week ago, with the quarter goo, things
Speaker 1: continue to move along. When the news flow is as
Speaker 1: active as it's been this quarter, time just flies by.
Speaker 1: You see that with the South African news and some
Speaker 1: real challenges to their political leadership and the SMP negative outlook,
Speaker 1: the outlook rather turned negative on China in Hong Kong,
Speaker 1: and they're they're like news, their headline news. But it's
Speaker 1: still just part of the swirl. Plus the reality show
Speaker 1: that is US politics. It has been a news cycle
Speaker 1: every hour. It's been NonStop, utter fascination. It's a carrect
Speaker 1: you can't avert your gates. Well, we're gonna continue with
Speaker 1: that again. Charles Evans with Catherine and Angel here that
Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Radio. Uh in about two hours, I'll say
Speaker 1: two and a half hours. Uh. Maybe that's an important interview.
Speaker 1: Is Evans has really been out front on caution on
Speaker 1: a lifting GDP. It hasn't happened, and he looks prescient
Speaker 1: to say the least futures uh flat negative one down,
Speaker 1: futures negative two, yields are in. Yields are lower points
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