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Speaker 1: Our guest is Puja Maleek, partner at Nippon Capital. Put

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Speaker 1: you by my account, depending on what you look at.

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Speaker 1: We've had six two percent rallies in a day this year,

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Speaker 1: and we're still in the midst of a bear market.

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Speaker 1: We're down about twenty three odd percent or so if

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Speaker 1: you look at major benchmarks. But the thing is that

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Speaker 1: one of these days, one of these will find some traction.

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Speaker 1: My guesses were not here yet, But what's your what's

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Speaker 1: your analysis? Hi, good morning, and thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think these are bear market rallies.

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Speaker 1: The first set of rallies were definitely driven by shot covering,

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Speaker 1: and you saw it a lot of that globally as

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Speaker 1: well as in Asia. This current rally that you're seeing

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Speaker 1: in China since late yesterday and possibly today is being

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Speaker 1: driven by the government announcing measures to support the market,

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Speaker 1: either directly auto mutual funds and changes in policies and

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Speaker 1: encouraging companies to do buy backs, et cetera. I think

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Speaker 1: that these rallies are more likely shot lived because eventually

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Speaker 1: the market will look through to earnings before they can

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Speaker 1: be a sustained Rather, I was gonna say, I mean

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Speaker 1: obviously we're going to look at earnings as well. But

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Speaker 1: with regards to some of the support that we are

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Speaker 1: expecting to see from authorities, because people were a little

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Speaker 1: disappointed from the Congress, what further supporter are you expecting it?

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Speaker 1: And I guess what kind of moves can we see

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Speaker 1: in China's economy given we're all a little bit on

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Speaker 1: tenter hooks that the third quarter GDP was delayed, right

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Speaker 1: and you know, the academic research shows that when companies

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Speaker 1: delayed reporting is generally a bad sign they have bad

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Speaker 1: news to report, and the same probably transfers over to

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Speaker 1: governments as well. But coming back to your question, what

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Speaker 1: signs can we expect to see from the government, I

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Speaker 1: think we could see more direct buying by the national

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Speaker 1: team itself, but more likely, I think we're likely to

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Speaker 1: see continued stimulus helping the property market, helping chip companies,

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Speaker 1: helping green economy, but also sectors like pharma that will

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Speaker 1: enable this common prosperity dream to come through. So I

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Speaker 1: think we's a sustained set of measures, but unfortunately for

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Speaker 1: the market, I don't think it's all going to come

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Speaker 1: as a big package on one day. Your analysis of

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Speaker 1: President she's speech. You know, there was obviously a lot

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Speaker 1: in there that could be deemed as somewhat negative for markets,

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Speaker 1: So there was some that could be seen as positive.

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Speaker 1: But net net, in terms of policy, is policy going

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Speaker 1: to be our friend going forward or our enemy. It's

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Speaker 1: going to depend on which sector you're investing in. So

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Speaker 1: I think the megacap text dooks. There's still a ton

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Speaker 1: of policy uncertainty. Even though she very clearly said that

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Speaker 1: innovation from technology is going to drive growth, it's not

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Speaker 1: necessarily clear that it's going to come from the megacap stocks.

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Speaker 1: It's more likely going to come from the very hardware

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Speaker 1: software intense midcaps that the government is going to support,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to ten cent Ali Baba bay Do, where

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Speaker 1: the government is still wide about consolidation of power. On

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Speaker 1: the other hand, there will be sectors that the government

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Speaker 1: will support. Um. You know, we talked about that right,

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Speaker 1: renewables being one, for my being another, and I think

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Speaker 1: eventually property as well. We'll get government support, maybe not

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Speaker 1: right now, but over the next six or twelve months.

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Speaker 1: So as we've seen with this Bloomberg economic projections, the

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Speaker 1: chance of a US recession next year, but as Brian

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Speaker 1: alluded to Bank of America as Brian moynihan says, consumer

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Speaker 1: showing little weakness. Is the consumer enough to kind of

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Speaker 1: buffer a very strong economic downturn? Juliet, I think the

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Speaker 1: fact that the U. S. Consumer is still strong is

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Speaker 1: I think this is more of a timing thing because

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Speaker 1: Consumer um and you see this in markets as well.

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Speaker 1: Right Emerging markets are down almost for from their peak

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Speaker 1: Can you make the case that inflation has already turned

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Speaker 1: both of those issues still persist. Brian oil is still

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Speaker 1: You've touched on emerging markets there, but where you're seeing

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Speaker 1: significant opportunities for out performance. I know in the notes

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Speaker 1: What are you saying? I think the real story in

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Speaker 1: emerging markets is the dispersion. So Korea is down forty five,

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Speaker 1: and Korea is really a high data play geared to

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Speaker 1: the global economy, and so today you're seeing, for example,

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Speaker 1: beta recovery play. I think it's still early to buy Korea.

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Speaker 1: I would wait to see more signs of a global

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Speaker 1: real point and dispersion. While Korea is down, for Indonesia

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Speaker 1: a lot of this performance differential is based on differences

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Speaker 1: in expected EPs growth. So the way we're seeing opportunity

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Speaker 1: is in stocks that are domestically oriented in resilience sectors,

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Speaker 1: quasi monopoly situations, and structural growth. So a good example is,

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Speaker 1: domestically oriented stock, resilience sector, healthcare, quasi monopoly and structural growth.

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Speaker 1: So that stock, for example, is up fifty year to

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Speaker 1: date Juliet And that dispersion is the opportunity in the air.

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Speaker 1: So what will we see move first? There will be

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Speaker 1: to be for a recovery. And the catalysts can be earnings,

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Speaker 1: so when you start seeing, you know, earnings bounce back,

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Speaker 1: market for a while. Bran Pud are great to have

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Speaker 1: your insights. Thanks for joining us on Daybreak Asia. Pujamaliks,

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Speaker 1: partner at Nippon Capital, joining us from Menlo Park, California,

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Speaker 1: here on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia