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Speaker 3: Joining us for a look at markets now is John Lynch,

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Speaker 3: CIO at Comerica Wealth Management. John, it's kind of a

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Speaker 3: conflicted bull market that we have here at the moment.

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Speaker 3: I'm curious whether you see the CPI report this week

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Speaker 3: or the Fed decision and its dot plots likely to

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Speaker 3: change much this week.

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Speaker 4: Hey Brian, good morning. Yes, I think first off, on

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Speaker 4: the CPI report, I noticed earlier the Bloomberg consensus is

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Speaker 4: only calling for one tenth of one percent increase month

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Speaker 4: over months, and I think that's a bit of a stretch.

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Speaker 4: I think that's a little optimistic. We've seen really good

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Speaker 4: job growth, we saw a rebound in services. Auto sales

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Speaker 4: are approaching sixteen million at a seasonally adjusted at annual rate,

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Speaker 4: So I think that the street might be in for

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Speaker 4: a disappointment on the month over month data on headline

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Speaker 4: CPI to the degree core CPI comes in about three tenths,

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Speaker 4: hopefully that'll be the saving grace, but I do think

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Speaker 4: investors should be mindful of that month over month print.

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Speaker 4: And to your point on the FOMC, I guess at

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Speaker 4: the end of the March meeting, the dot plot was

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Speaker 4: for three cuts this year. As you know, FED fun

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Speaker 4: futures are looking at exactly half that amount, and it'll

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Speaker 4: be very interesting to see whether or not they come

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Speaker 2: So do you think there's a real risk then the

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Speaker 2: bond market maybe sees a little bit of weakness and

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Speaker 2: we have a popping yield right now. The last couple

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Speaker 2: of days have seen a dramatic decline in yield, and

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Speaker 2: I saw the way in which bank stocks were squeezed,

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Speaker 2: particularly today. Do you think there's a risk that yields

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Speaker 2: pop from here?

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Speaker 4: I do. I think. You know, we've been looking even globally,

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Speaker 4: we've been in a downward trend, but we saw surprisingly

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Speaker 4: strong demand for the thirty year I guess we had.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry for the tenure auction today there were thirty

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Speaker 4: nine billion, I think, and we met with really strong demand.

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Speaker 4: So we're right in that, you know, lower bound of

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Speaker 4: four forty, but yeah, we could we could see a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like that there was quite a lot

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Speaker 3: of relief today with the Treasury auction that you know

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Speaker 3: that there was demand, strong demand. Why do you think

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Speaker 3: there was given you know, the previous somewhat failed auctions

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Speaker 3: bond vigilantes will be you know back in forth.

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Speaker 4: You use the perfect word. It was relief. It didn't

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Speaker 4: seem like confidence to me at all. I think it

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Speaker 4: was very very much relief given the uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: frankly break either way. You know, if you if you

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Speaker 4: think about all the money that's been spent post pandemic

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's not a full employment type reed, So

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Speaker 4: break lower. So I think, you know, again very instructive

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Speaker 4: that you use the word relief because I think bond

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Speaker 2: I'd like to get your view on what you're seeing

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Speaker 2: with respect to this artificial intelligence trade. Yesterday we had

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Speaker 2: Apple unveiling this new platform called Apple Intelligence. May be

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Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting. Apple was faced a great deal

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Speaker 4: think you know, I'm still I'm still behind it. You know,

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Speaker 4: The growth companies driving this not only have earnings, but

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Speaker 4: they have significant cash flows and they're trading at significantly

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Speaker 4: like the fact that businesses are confident enough to spend,

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Speaker 4: to the degree that you're seeing even within the tech space,

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Speaker 4: semiconductors outperform software, so that that's a pretty good cyclical

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Speaker 3: So I want to give you a quote, and I

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Speaker 3: reporter's notebook for why I'm quoting this. You know, I'll

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Speaker 3: I just get my book and read for a while

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Speaker 3: and hope to go back to sleep. So I read

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Speaker 3: this line in the book that I'm reading at the moment.

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Speaker 3: It's back at the beginning of the chip industry, and

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Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing. Texas Instruments had sales of five hundred thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars in nineteen fifty eight. Two years later it was

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Speaker 3: twenty one million. That's sales jumping forty two times in

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Speaker 4: Vidia, absolutely good quote, and uh yeah, it's a labor

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Speaker 4: of love when we wake up at that hour, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the point, the point really of the

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Speaker 3: anecdote is that, you know, we're so surprised at you know,

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Speaker 3: how fast AI is growing, but you know, we forget

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Speaker 3: and quintumpling and you name it, forty two times in

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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely not only were they doubling, but the prices

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Speaker 4: I still think there's room to run and when it's

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Speaker 4: the margins that they're seeing. I do think it's important

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Speaker 4: for investors to really think about why utilities are running

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Speaker 4: these chips are going to populate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point that there are a lot

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Speaker 3: of companies that are not buying AI, you know, and

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Speaker 3: having to expense that they're selling into it. John, thank

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Speaker 3: you for joining us. John Lynch, cio at Camerica Wealth Management.

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Speaker 3: Let's bring in John Bianco now partner and investment strategists

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Speaker 3: that bond blocks to take a closer look. So there

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Speaker 3: was quite a lot of turbulence in France, in particular

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Speaker 3: a few people are angered that Emmanuel Macrone called that

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Speaker 3: win the elections. I'm just curious about your thinking about

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Speaker 3: whether that impacted the fairly strong bond auction we saw

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Speaker 5: It's very possible that it did affect our bond auction here,

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Speaker 5: but it's also possible that, you know, sometimes bond auctions

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Speaker 2: Hey, Joe, and I'm hoping you brought your crystal ball

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Speaker 2: with you or it's right there next to you at

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Speaker 2: the desk. Give me a sense of what we're going

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Speaker 2: to see tomorrow, first with the CPI and then what

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Speaker 2: we're going to hear from the Fed.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to be a big day tomorrow in

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Speaker 5: no matter what we see in terms of the CPI release,

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Speaker 5: it's not like inflation is handled. Maybe we could continue

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Speaker 5: to see some progress, but we're not at the point

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Speaker 5: Obviously announced tomorrow or even the July meeting. September would

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Speaker 3: It's a double header tomorrow that I'd buy a ticket

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Speaker 3: to see for sure. In fact, we'll have to be

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Speaker 3: talking a lot about it on the show. How would

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Speaker 3: you like to have Jerome Pal's job trying to explain

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Speaker 3: what's really going on in the jobs market looking at

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Speaker 3: the huge difference between what we saw in the establishment

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. It's not an easy job that he has.

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Speaker 5: But I would just say that in general, even though

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Speaker 5: employment and payroll numbers are holding in at strong enough

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Speaker 5: levels they're not really a real cause for concern, meaning

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Speaker 2: So do you believe that there are still opportunities in

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Speaker 2: the bond market. I mean, I'm imagining that if you

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Speaker 2: think the Fed could go twenty five maybe fifty basis

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Speaker 2: the basis of a capital gain that you may receive,

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Speaker 2: there are opportunities. Am I right on that? And if so,

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Speaker 2: I mean, what part of the curve are you're playing here?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, No, we think there are a lot of opportunities

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Speaker 5: in fixed income right now. We certainly see opportunities still

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Speaker 5: in the credit markets in investment grade corporates, particularly triple

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Speaker 5: B corporates, also high yield corporates, just because we do

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Speaker 5: have this continued strong, these continued strong fundamentals for US corporations,

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Speaker 5: and that is something that we have elevated yields. So

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Speaker 5: and if the majority of the return for fixed income

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Speaker 5: get elevated returns in credit because of the elevated coupons.

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Speaker 5: In terms of how we feel about treasuries, we're still

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Speaker 5: kind of sticking to our view to focus on short

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Speaker 5: to intermediate duration exposures. There it's you know, the short exposures,

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Speaker 5: there's definitely I mean, you still are experiencing income in

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Speaker 5: the in the low five percent range and they have

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Speaker 5: lower volatility versus longer duration. US treasuries, but we also

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Speaker 5: think that it's time to do some stepping out in

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Speaker 5: terms of duration in order to capture not only attractive yields,

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Speaker 5: but price returns that would result from potential fed actions.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little curious about your high yield choices and

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Speaker 3: wondering whether or not you're at the aggressive end or

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Speaker 3: at maybe the more risky end. Given you what you

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Speaker 5: The high yield market has held up very well in

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Speaker 5: There's been some softening, but in general we're not seeing

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Speaker 5: terms of the rating categories, I mean, it just depends

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Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thanks very much for joining us here live

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Speaker 3: Bond Blocks looking at China's consumer prices rising a little

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Speaker 3: in May, still holding above zero. Is the fourth consecutive

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Speaker 3: for zero point four percent, and in terms of PPI

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Speaker 3: where we were down two and a half percent. Joining

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Speaker 3: us now is Vanessa Chan, head of Asian Fixed Income

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Speaker 3: Investments Fidelity International. So I guess not too much of

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Speaker 3: a surprise, Venessa with these inflation numbers in China, but

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Speaker 3: it kind of suggests and shows that it's a long

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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, I think, as you mentioned, the numbers is

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Speaker 1: probably a little bit better than market expected, kind of

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Speaker 1: slightly fainted improvement. Quoting some of your colleagues earlier on

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Speaker 1: what we're looking at is our longer term beyond China

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Speaker 1: of hoover the relatively low level. What we've seen recently

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Speaker 1: Were also seeing policy related to property in terms of relaxation,

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Speaker 1: and all of these is really trying to regain some

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Speaker 3: As well.

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Speaker 2: Domestic consumption, I think there's a big question mark over that.

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Speaker 2: What seems clear is that the economy is still very

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Speaker 3: Is it not?

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Speaker 1: Yes, But I think we recognize the economy traditionally have

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Speaker 1: interesting is that China it's moving away from producing lower

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Speaker 1: probably means that it will help it to kind of

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Speaker 3: Vanessa, we reported a while ago that PPI in Japan

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Speaker 3: and perhaps it's making a little easier on the Bank

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Speaker 1: I think you're spot on if you look at the

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Speaker 1: market expectations, they do expect there's going to do two

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Speaker 1: quite in line with the expectations that BOJ have laid out.

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Speaker 1: If anything, it's probably for an opportunity for BOG to

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Speaker 1: continue to communicate to the market and manage the market

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I think the other question here is on the persistent

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Speaker 1: I think if you think about on the macro fond,

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Speaker 1: it's probably unlikely that BOJ is going to have much actions.

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Speaker 1: I think the weaknesses on yen could be a consideration.

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Speaker 1: But if you kind of hinges back in terms of

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Speaker 1: the role of BOJ is really kind of looking at

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Speaker 1: kind of win.

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Speaker 3: I would say we're also pointing towards the CPI report

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Speaker 1: To in line I think. I think the market expectation

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Speaker 1: in line with consensus. I think what is quite interesting

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Speaker 1: last week, we have a fairly interesting week where we

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Speaker 1: see some weakening of the labor data, but subsequently followed

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Speaker 1: by a very relatively upside surprises on the lone. Fampeiro

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Speaker 1: and I think inflation will continue to be a key

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Speaker 1: thing to watch when you come to the actions as well.

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Speaker 3: Vanessa, thank you for coming into our studios with us

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Speaker 3: live here on the radio. Vanessa Chan, head of Asian

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