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Speaker 1: Right here, we are seven and a half minutes past

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Speaker 1: the hour. Let's get to our guest. It's Grady Wolf,

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Speaker 1: market analyst at Bell Direct, to take a look at

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Speaker 1: the markets. You know, I've been saying this morning that

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Speaker 1: central bank pivot here. Uh, And I'm not sure that

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Speaker 1: that's a fact. It seems like that's what's happening. We've

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Speaker 1: seen a lot of losses here of late, but of

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Speaker 1: course investors would also be trying to figure out with

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Speaker 1: tenter so losses in these big benchmarks, whether or not

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Speaker 1: enough has been discounted. Your thoughts on that. Absolutely. At

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Speaker 1: the moment, we're seeing investors shifting their strategic positions and

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Speaker 1: what their outlook is for investing moving forward. We're seeing

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Speaker 1: a lot of investors throw, as you say, throwing in

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Speaker 1: the towel on growth stocks at the moment. The pandemic

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Speaker 1: absolutely slammed this year and for good reason. At the moment,

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Speaker 1: these kind of stocks are they're relying on increased fundings

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Speaker 1: the moment, the cost of borrowing so high, and very

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Speaker 1: minimal outlook for these companies in low value at the

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Speaker 1: moment until they're in that mature stage of foundation. We

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Speaker 1: can't see any outlook or value at the moment either,

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Speaker 1: So investors are definitely piling out of those docks in

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Speaker 1: favor of the safe havens like the banks, which we're

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan City, Morgan Stanley all out this week. What

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Speaker 1: sort of quarter are you anticipating? There were expect as

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Speaker 1: we said, we're expecting higher profits and higher revenues for

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Speaker 1: these for the banks, but we're also expecting to see

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Speaker 1: increased provisions for doubtful debts around the world because a

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Speaker 1: lot of consumers around the world and Australians investors overseas

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Speaker 1: UM did take out big loans and we know the

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Speaker 1: banks make their margins from a high short term lending

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Speaker 1: and long term borrow sorry, short term borrowing, long term lending,

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Speaker 1: so that's how to make their margins. But we're expecting

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Speaker 1: the rates were record lows and now weren't expecting such

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Speaker 1: going to raise rates until four but that happened in two.

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Speaker 1: So at the moment, we are expecting higher provision for

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Speaker 1: who probably struggle a little bit though, right because of

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Speaker 1: the trading losses and everything. Yeah, the investment banks are

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Speaker 1: completely different story. They will struggle, and we've seen a

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Speaker 1: lot of investors actually pull their full funds with the

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Speaker 1: push into into their pushing into cash instead of keeping investing.

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Speaker 1: So the investment banks we will see hit hard this term. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you did mention the risk of defaulse bankruptcy is going forward.

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Speaker 1: Were we have a number of zombie companies that have

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Speaker 1: I definitely think it will be um. I will see

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Speaker 1: recession going to be we could see a lot more defaults. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: borrowings that are just increasingly unaffordable. What's a great contrarian

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Speaker 1: call now? The contrarian call for US is it looking

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Speaker 1: the energy sector that have diversified portfolios. But for me

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Speaker 1: and for us at Beldirect, we're looking specifically at concentrated

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Speaker 1: to that? Lithium is absolutely one of our favorite plays

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Speaker 1: and have much more in cost that will come down? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: a little area we're not quite seeing any value in

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Speaker 1: the case, but very briefly golden Nozzy dollars. As you

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Speaker 1: the currency disparity is. The Grady Wolf Market Analysts that

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