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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you.

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Speaker 1: of the global economy for and look into the stars

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Speaker 1: and figure out what the world will bring. Joining us now,

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Speaker 1: Bart van Arc, executive vice president and chief economist for

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Speaker 1: the Conference Board, Bart, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: I just but you did put together a outlook for

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Speaker 1: the world economy, and you have some perhaps better than

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Speaker 1: expected news. Mainly we'll avoid a recession. Is that right?

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Speaker 1: That's right? I think I'm perhaps we picked a right

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Speaker 1: day for this, given you know, pretty positive news on

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Speaker 1: the trade disputes as well as on Brexit. Right, so

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Speaker 1: so this might be the days maybe we can actually

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Speaker 1: avoid the global recession. But you know, again, things may

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Speaker 1: change next week. Let's hope it won't. But more seriously,

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Speaker 1: we we do think that there is reason to believe

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Speaker 1: that there is a very plausible scenario that we're really

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Speaker 1: hitting the low point in the global economy right now,

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Speaker 1: and that really has to do with the very rapid

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Speaker 1: decline that we've been seeing in adust production around the world,

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Speaker 1: and that's probably going to continue even into quarter four,

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Speaker 1: but we think it will eventually bottom out, particularly because

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Speaker 1: China is taking out a lot of excessive overcapacity, but

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Speaker 1: also begins to stimulate the economy a little bit, not

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Speaker 1: to drop off further. But then, you know, perhaps even

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Speaker 1: more important, the consumers and the labor markets pretty much

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Speaker 1: around the world are still so strong that we believe

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Speaker 1: that I will really pull the economy along in two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty. So part, you're exactly right. The consumer has

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Speaker 1: been the strong part of this economy relative to manufacturing

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Speaker 1: and business investment. But we have seen some signs that

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Speaker 1: employment growth is slowing. Um is that a concern of

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Speaker 1: I mean the gap between consumer confidence and business confidence

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Speaker 1: market has been so strong that have been seeing their

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Speaker 1: wages increasing and the incomes improving, and frankly that's true

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Speaker 1: consumer confidence. We we just released earlier this week our

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Speaker 1: Global Consumer Confidence Index at the Conference Board, and you

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Speaker 1: of consumer confidence. Now, employment is a very important leading

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Speaker 1: demand for labor is still very strong. So so we

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Speaker 1: So now we're not we don't have a major concern

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Speaker 1: lot of this decline industrial production started already early in

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Speaker 1: a great point, Paul, because you know, we should be

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Speaker 1: that has to do with gradually lowing, gradually slowing supply

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Speaker 1: Some of that may just have been cyclical related to

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Speaker 1: the strong growth in two thousands, seventeen and eighteen, but

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Speaker 1: growth going forward. Part Van Ark, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: economists for the conference board. Oil is up today once again,

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Speaker 1: latest on this tanker attack in the Red Sea. So,

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Speaker 1: an Irvanian tanker with about one million bottels of crude

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Speaker 1: points to the escalating tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 1: Are you at all surprised that oil prices aren't up more?

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Speaker 1: it rose in one day. But what's been really interesting

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Speaker 1: tankers would repeatedly attacked as they sailed through the Persian Gulf.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you know we've seen tankers attacked more recently

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Speaker 1: end of the year on OPEX politic to reaction. Will

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Speaker 1: the oil market may struggle to really get a lot higher. Well, Kennedy,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Will Kennedy,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News Managing editor for Energy and Commodities. Talking about

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Speaker 1: that attack on the Iranian oil tanker, it just is

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Speaker 1: are beginning to see some signs of improvement there, Lisa.

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Speaker 1: We've seen in the month of September the UH manufacturing

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Speaker 1: p m I s for emerging market stabilize plus very

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Speaker 1: central bank easing, as you pointed out, Um, that would

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Speaker 1: be a driver for us. Continuous movement in that direction

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Speaker 1: would be a driver for us to change our view

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Speaker 1: on emerging markets. How about Western Europe? We you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking at Germany with his negative rates and

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Speaker 1: slowing economy in Western Europe uncertainly continues with Brexit. Is

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Speaker 1: it just too risky for you to or for anyone

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Speaker 1: to really maybe increase an allocation to Europe. Well, we

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Speaker 1: are actually over it Europe and have been for a while. Um.

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Speaker 1: Europe has that central bank support that Lisa spoke about,

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Speaker 1: and there is UM. Europe is the one market where

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Speaker 1: for the past few years a lot of pessimism have

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Speaker 1: been priced in, so our valuation component had come in

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Speaker 1: handy to look at your connectuity markets, and we are

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Speaker 1: over it Europe. Just going forward, do you have a

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Speaker 1: sense of how far away from the bottom we are

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Speaker 1: in this manufacturing downturn. Um, it's early days. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: am um, you know, mildly optimistic, Lisa. It looks like

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Speaker 1: things are stabilizing, you know, very watch a function of

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Speaker 1: the sentiment driven down draft that we saw the last

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Speaker 1: two months. I would say so last two months has

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Speaker 1: been particularly volatile as uh. There have been movement driven

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Speaker 1: very much more by sentiments other than data. So data

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Speaker 1: had been weakening all year around, but last two months

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Speaker 1: have been constant bombardment of markets whipping around in one

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Speaker 1: direction or the other by the trade news worsening, the

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Speaker 1: brekfit news worsening than maybe going back and getting better

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Speaker 1: a little bit. We would love to see some stabilization

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Speaker 1: on that front. And wet by Hugana. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for being with a senior portfolio manager and head

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Speaker 1: of multi asset strategy at Columbia Threat Needle Investments, joining

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