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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Surveillance, folks, it's about bringing in the experts. John

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Speaker 1: and I think we can say John is Jordan Rochester

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Speaker 1: and Nomura is nuanced and different than George Saravellis at

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Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank, is nuanced and different than the giants Stephen

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Speaker 1: Englander over at Standard Charter. And to talk to all

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Speaker 1: those people to read their research helps us call a

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Speaker 1: around this shock that we have. Should we bring in

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Speaker 1: Jordan Rochester? We bring him in right now? You bring

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Speaker 1: him name Jordan. Why don't you get the extra down

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Speaker 1: side from on your daughter? From where we are down to,

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Speaker 1: say ninety five in August, warning everyone, afternoon, everyone. Well,

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Speaker 1: in terms of why we think euro carries on, the

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Speaker 1: risk is, of course these gas flows, but there's also

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Speaker 1: a global recession story building up. So I think most

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Speaker 1: analysts have now only just realized euro can keep heading lower.

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Speaker 1: There was actually quite a bit of a fight in

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Speaker 1: the sort of cell side community around the one oh

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Speaker 1: six level when the ECB turn hawk ish. Well now

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Speaker 1: it's quite clear the gas flows dominating, and the reason

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Speaker 1: it goes to is probably three reasons. The first one

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Speaker 1: is the gas flows. We think that there's a high

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Speaker 1: chance that not Turing doesn't resume its operations, and what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing is a fundamental macro story. Euro dollar is

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Speaker 1: heading lower because European importers of gas are buying whatever

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Speaker 1: bai Jan. They're just throwing money at the wall to

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Speaker 1: make sure the EU achieves the gas storage aims the

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Speaker 1: roughly around sixty two or sixty six percent full, so

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Speaker 1: they've got a lot more to do and that's forced

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Speaker 1: euros selling all the way until that target is reached.

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Speaker 1: The second reason, it's China, Okay, continue, sorry, continue continue.

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Speaker 1: The second reason is China. China's COVID business cycle. Before

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Speaker 1: us that Shanghai might be going into lockdowns again. That's

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Speaker 1: the biggest trading partner for the euro Area. So demand

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Speaker 1: And the third one is recession risks, the US raising

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Speaker 1: moved to the supply chain, and inflation. The ECB is

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Speaker 1: going to raise rates in July, September, October, and so on.

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Speaker 1: But we're talking about rate cuts here at number of

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Speaker 1: next year. I think that's the next trade. And I

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Speaker 1: find it really interesting how there's so much fed cuts

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Speaker 1: price for next year. The curves inverted, but that hasn't

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Speaker 1: happened in euro yet. So that's the next story, and

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Speaker 1: that's gonna weigh on euro as well. So not just

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Speaker 1: all about gas flows. It's a bigger story. Two stents

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Speaker 1: spread moving from negative ten to a negative eleven basis points.

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Speaker 1: Get your attention, Jordan. You and I were wained on

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Speaker 1: reading Duly fokars landau Garber David fokars landau Over at

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Speaker 1: the big German Bank. Makes real clear at some point

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Speaker 1: we have to step in using euro as a praxie.

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Speaker 1: Are we anywhere near and a Jordan Rochester zero point

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Speaker 1: dollar strength it's definitely possible, but I think it's unlikely.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely not my base case. I can say that.

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Speaker 1: So when the euro was invented, there was FX intervention,

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Speaker 1: Federal Reserve of the Bank of eng and so on

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Speaker 1: spur a Eurozone crisis in its early infancy. So there

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Speaker 1: was a joint effort there, and at the same time,

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Speaker 1: from from import costs. So that's why we're seeing even

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Speaker 1: the likes of the SMB, who have for years fought

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Speaker 1: they're pretty much asking for one. Well, the Eurozone, they

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Speaker 1: We've had a huge terms of trade shot Tom and

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Speaker 1: German exports have now become very uncompetitive. The cost of

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Speaker 1: to help you out. Jordan, I want to tease out

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Speaker 1: the potential cases that you lay out in euros. Recent

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Speaker 1: according cheer latest note. But you said that a ninety

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Speaker 1: If we do get a nord Stream one cut down

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Speaker 1: contagion that perhaps is not linear? Well, I think nine

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Speaker 1: have credit spreads wide and that leads to a dovish

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Speaker 1: So I still think the exchange rate is the release valve,

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Speaker 1: a crisis you need that we can currently to help

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Speaker 1: you out, John, and just quickly, we've got to squeeze

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Speaker 1: could lead to higher wages more broadly speaking, and that

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Speaker 1: makes life trickier for the central banks. They're looking at

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Speaker 1: at negative growth, so that's somewhere of discontent, just keeps

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Speaker 1: central bank in that weird place. What a tough spot, Jordan,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Jordan Rochester the of the more Cathy Jones

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Speaker 1: with his chief fixed income strategist at CHERYLS. Schwab. Is

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Speaker 1: a great mystery here, Cathy, that we're gonna be want

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Speaker 1: to be in fixed income with price up, yield lower. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: lot of stress, I think that that safe haven move

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Speaker 1: Cathy Anahn was on with a wonderful discussion of the

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Speaker 1: tail risk out there off Curtosis. We rarely talk about

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Speaker 1: tail risk in the bond market. I want to go

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Speaker 1: the bond market, are we talking about? So we still

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Speaker 1: see a lot of tail risk and credit, particularly lower

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Speaker 1: certainly could happen if things deteriorate quickly. Kathy, thank you,

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Speaker 1: always wonderful to catch out with you. One of my favorites,

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Speaker 1: Kathy Jones, that have challenged swamp and joining us now

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Speaker 1: I could he stranagis at Wells Fargo Securities and this volatility,

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