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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 Pell

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Speaker 2: Doug Prisoners off. This week it is shaping up to

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Speaker 2: be a risk on day in the Asia Pacific week.

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Speaker 2: Jobs date out of the US on Wednesday is helping

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Speaker 2: to lock in expectations of a FED racout this month.

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Speaker 2: Coming up. We get some market perspective from Timothy Moe,

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Speaker 2: chief APEC Regional equity strategist at Goldman Sachs. But we

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Speaker 2: begin in the States, where treasuries bounce back after a

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Speaker 2: slide that put the thirty year yield close to five percent.

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Speaker 2: All eyes now turned to Friday's US jobs report, one

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Speaker 2: of the last key data points before the Fed's quiet

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Speaker 2: period next week. For more, we heard from Audrey Go,

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Speaker 2: head of asset Allocation at Standard Chartered Wealth Management Group.

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Speaker 2: She spoke with Bloomberg TV's Paul Allen and April Hon

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Speaker 2: on the Asia trade.

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Speaker 3: Audrey, good to see you. Let's start off.

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Speaker 4: By what we're seeing in the long end on bonds

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Speaker 4: and this debate that is underway. Is this ball or

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Speaker 4: bears deepening and how much further are we going to

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Speaker 4: see on.

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Speaker 5: This well thanks for having me. I think we expect

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Speaker 5: the long end to remain reasonably well anchored. So if

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Speaker 5: we look at the range that we're looking at for

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Speaker 5: the US thirty year treasury bond use, we are looking

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Speaker 5: at the range of between the say four point eight

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Speaker 5: we're our five point one percent, And if we look

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Speaker 5: at the latest jobs opening data that will release overnight

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Speaker 5: as well, we have basically continued to see moderation continued

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Speaker 5: moderation in jobs market, where the number of vacancies which

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Speaker 5: we've also seen the vacancy to unemployment ratio, for example,

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Speaker 5: a drop below one for the first time since Train

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Speaker 5: twenty one. So what this means is now there are

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Speaker 5: more unemployed workers than there are vacants, and to us,

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Speaker 5: that's likely to continue to weigh on bond use over

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Speaker 5: a longer term basis. Notwithstanding that we are seeing some

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Speaker 5: short term spike at the moment in terms of the

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Speaker 5: long end where the Treasury is concerned.

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Speaker 3: What is all this going to mean for the dollar argery,

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Speaker 3: So for.

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Speaker 5: The dollar wise, I think we wouldn't be surprised if

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Speaker 5: there were to be you know, some mild strengthening in

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Speaker 5: the dollar in the very short term because of concern

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Speaker 5: over physical risks fysical pressure among major central banks, not

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Speaker 5: just in the US but globally in the Euro area

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Speaker 5: as well. But I think again over a six to

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Speaker 5: twelve months horizon, given that the fat we're expecting them

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Speaker 5: to deliver the rate cuts starting in September again and

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Speaker 5: maybe another to the tree rate cuts for the next

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Speaker 5: twelve months or so, we don't expect that to likely

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Speaker 5: to add pressure in terms of the dollar for a

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Speaker 5: dollar to be biased, or we could trajectory over twelve

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Speaker 5: months horizon, But again then they're not looking for massive

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Speaker 5: weweakening because economic data is still holding up recently well,

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Speaker 5: and if we were to look at US economic surprises,

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Speaker 5: those are largely neutral right but still reasonably in a

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Speaker 5: recently positive territory. So no measure shift from a dollar perspective,

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Speaker 5: and really our advised investors is to treat the range

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Speaker 5: and then from a dollar as well, largely range bound

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Speaker 4: In spite of the relative dollar weakness we are seeing.

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Speaker 3: The yen can't seem to catch a break. What is

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Speaker 3: your sense of where we go from here?

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Speaker 5: I think EOG needs to strike a very delicate balance

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Speaker 5: because on one end, if you look economic data Japan,

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Speaker 5: Japanese inflation is clearly above two percent target roses three

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Speaker 5: just also improving. So they are clearly pressed in terms

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Speaker 5: of the need to normalize the monetary policy. But at

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Speaker 5: the same time, with all the uncertainty for your regards

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Speaker 5: to one use as well as long end as well

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Speaker 5: as you know, trade tensions with the US as well,

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Speaker 5: I think they need to strike a relatively balancing act

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Speaker 5: in terms of not unrestling the market. So for now

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Speaker 5: we are expecting them to really to largely stay pad

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Speaker 6: Audrey, A lot of asset prices are looking fairly elevated

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Speaker 2: Where are you adding to positions?

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Speaker 5: So for us it remains a powerfolding for US, but

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Speaker 5: given that the US equity markets have also scaled new

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Speaker 5: pullback in equity market, we are more We prefer to

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Speaker 5: add within the Asian ex Shapen region know to be

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Speaker 5: China as well, and China equities has also been doing

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Speaker 5: well as Asian relatives to global equities, these do treat

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Speaker 5: a relative discount and also buffeted or supported by tailwinds

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Speaker 5: from our buyers from a weaker years dollar and potentially

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Speaker 5: moderate moderate, slightly lower in terms of one use or

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Speaker 5: continue to support and pushing their economy as well.

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Speaker 6: We always talk a little bit more about Chinese equities

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Speaker 6: because we're seeing very strong buying. We're also seeing rec

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Speaker 6: what borrowing to fuel purchases, and opinion seems to be

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Speaker 6: somewhat divided on how sustainable the raally is how do

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Speaker 5: So we are change equities and policy tail wings aside.

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Speaker 5: We're also seeing some improvement and properate earnings. I think importantly,

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Speaker 5: I think we have seen some shift and sentimental where

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Speaker 5: tells us that some of these liquidity momentum related trade

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Speaker 5: for investors to really look to enter them on pullback,

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Speaker 4: Audrey, what are some of the risks that you think

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Speaker 4: at this point markets are underappreciating.

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Speaker 5: I think, for one will be I think key will

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Speaker 5: that's one key risk that I think people maybe underappreciating.

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Speaker 5: And second or host of first inflation. Then we've also

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Speaker 5: for our advisor investors is given these risks which are

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Speaker 6: Before we let you go, Audrey, I just want to

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Speaker 6: we've seen on fed independence with her from a number

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Speaker 5: I think it we were to see even more traum

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Speaker 5: decidedly turn more worrism on fat independence. I think for

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Speaker 5: reasonably i would say independent, but of course subject to

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Speaker 5: who the new nominees may be, and also whether Trump

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Speaker 6: All right, Audrey, go ahead of asset allocation at standard

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

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Speaker 2: This week for Doug Chrisner, we go next to Hong Kong,

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Speaker 2: where Goldman Sachs in augural Asia Leaders Conference is underway.

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Speaker 2: It was there that we heard from Timothy Moe, Goldman's

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Speaker 2: chief APAC regional equity strategist. He shared his market outlook

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's start with what seems to be on a

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Speaker 3: How is that likely to affect Asia stocks using.

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Speaker 1: Well, generally a steeper Yeel curve is better for stocks,

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Speaker 1: Yeel curve steepens, and what we're expecting is this so

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Speaker 3: What about Japan, though, we saw how those.

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Speaker 4: Banks really got hammered yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Much higher in global DM yields on the long end

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Speaker 4: potentially going to be for their bond books typically?

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Speaker 1: Well, I want to break that down into two bits.

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Speaker 1: So higher rates in Japan should be good for the banks.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, this is part of the more fraud

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Speaker 1: And the punchline is that after the market, as you

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Speaker 2: Well, we have some suggestions.

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Speaker 1: Not all investors can do this, but if you look

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Speaker 4: Tim, always a pleasure, always amazing, great to have your insights.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Tim no Is, Chief afat Regional equity strategist at Goldman sach.

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