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Speaker 2: The University of Michigan sentiment data came out today weaker

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Speaker 2: than expected. Sixty four point seven was a headline number.

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Speaker 2: The consensus was sixty seven point eight last month sixty

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Speaker 2: seven point It's a little bit weaker there. Let's break

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Speaker 2: it down. Johanne Schue joins US Surveys of Consumers Director

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Speaker 3: Essentially, consumers are feeling less optimistic about the future inflation. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: consumer sentiment declined over the course of the month of February,

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Speaker 3: and consumers do see that things the outlook is looking

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Speaker 3: a bit weaker than it was about a month ago.

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Speaker 3: The main reason for this is that they're becoming much

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Speaker 3: more concerned that inflation is going to come surging back

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Speaker 3: in the future. Inflation expectations really got quite a bit worse,

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Speaker 4: So all five components of the index deteriorated, including a

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Speaker 4: decline in buying conditions for big ticket items. How do

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Speaker 4: you interpret, You know, what kind of macro signal you

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Speaker 4: get out of something like that.

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Speaker 3: Consumers are seeing signs of weakening throughout the economy. We

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Speaker 3: So that's mainly because people are really worried that it

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Speaker 3: they're seeing weaknesses, potential weaknesses and business conditions in their

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Speaker 2: Our moves of this magnitude again sixty four point seven

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Speaker 2: Our misses of this magnitude are they common in your

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Speaker 3: What's a little bit unusual is that we're seeing declines

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Speaker 3: but this time we're seeing all five index components all

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Speaker 3: moving down at the same time, both inflation expectations figures

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Speaker 2: Interesting and again, the Universe emission five to ten year

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Speaker 2: So Joan was mentioning a little bit higher there.

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Speaker 2: Concerning joeyan Shoe Surveys of Consumers, Director at the University

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Speaker 2: of Michigan. They don't just make good football players and

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Speaker 2: make some pretty good economists out there in Michigan.

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Speaker 2: Looking for some trends in the marketplace today, you know,

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Speaker 2: just kind of a risk off kind of day. The

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Speaker 2: United Healthcare News weighing on the DAL certainly, but people

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Speaker 2: of this year. Katiekiminski joins us. She's a chief research

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Speaker 2: strategist Alpha Simplex Group up there in Boston, Mass Area.

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Speaker 2: don't know what's going on there. It's a lot of math,

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Speaker 2: I think, Katie, thanks so much for joining us here.

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Speaker 2: How are you guys thinking about these markets today? Where

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Speaker 6: Well, to be honest, it's been a little bit of

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Speaker 6: So we'll have to see what that means, I guess

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Speaker 4: How are you thinking about correlations between stocks and bonds

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Speaker 6: That's that's a really good point because we actually have

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Speaker 6: And what that means is that the market is trying

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Speaker 7: So I think people are just a little nervous about

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Speaker 5: Means, Katie.

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Speaker 2: One of the trades that's been pretty solid for a

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Speaker 6: Well, the long dollar trade, you know, just had everything

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Speaker 7: We've started to see some reversion in that theme.

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Speaker 2: Another trend that's been pretty pervasive has been gold here

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Speaker 2: I guess the fundamentals for gold look really solid.

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Speaker 4: Katie wrote a book about managed futures And without getting

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Speaker 6: I would say absolutely yes, it's a very exciting and

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. Who needs I mean ETFs for everything. Katie

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Speaker 2: Stock story of today, United Healthcare off about nine percent.

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Speaker 2: We've got some oversight potentially some people probing, some regulators

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Speaker 2: Ecroyannel's covering some of these healthcare names here. Uh, Glenn

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Speaker 5: So the news good morning. First of all, good afternoon.

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Speaker 5: The news basically that the Wolsetet Journal broke the story

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Speaker 5: advantage up quoting from United Health group. Upcoting means that

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Speaker 5: doctors usually upcode the diagnosis, make diagnosis more acute, so

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Speaker 5: companies likedic like United for example, or any other Medicare

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Speaker 4: How do you anticipate United is going to respond to this?

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Speaker 5: So United issued a very short statement saying that Wolf

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Speaker 5: in that gative spin on what United Health Group is

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Speaker 5: doing and completely unite the accusations. That being said, Department

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Speaker 5: of Justice is investigating and you'll see what common is

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Speaker 2: I mean, this goes to the heart of what an

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Speaker 2: insurance company does. Diagnosis, you know, submit, get payment. I

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Speaker 2: mean that's what they do. How common or uncommon is

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Speaker 2: it for the government to look into.

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Speaker 5: These type of investigations are very common? Common or relatively okay,

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Speaker 5: this is nothing new usually, so investigations key. The other

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Speaker 5: thing is investigations can take up to a few years.

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Speaker 5: Usually they have resolved in the settlement. Government is looking

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Speaker 2: And they said, what is the reputation of United Health

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Speaker 2: Right, Glenn, thanks so much for journey. US really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of tariffs, let's get the latest here, because it

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Speaker 2: to kind of where are we here on the tariffs?

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Speaker 8: Evolving well and moving fast. If you consider the action

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Speaker 4: That you have a wonderful piece of reporting out on

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Speaker 7: Tell us about what you're reporting.

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Speaker 8: Showed, sure, well, So the thinking when it comes to

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Speaker 8: I think that's the reaction function for training partners. We've

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Speaker 8: Well, we're still early, right, the inflation story is still

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Speaker 8: We'll have to go up near term. That's where it

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Speaker 8: or does it set and chain longer term higher inflation expectations?

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Speaker 8: Maybe that's the hint coming out of the Michigan survey today,

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Speaker 8: But right here, right now, of course, companies and consumers warning.

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