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Speaker 1: Today we hit a threshold that has gotten a lot

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Speaker 1: of people excited. Tenure treasury yields touched kissed that three

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Speaker 1: percent mark. There were bells ringing across Wall Street, and

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Speaker 1: then it dipped right back down. Joining us now for

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Speaker 1: some of the implications on a broad level of what

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Speaker 1: higher treasury yields UH could mean. As Damien Sassaur, fixed

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Speaker 1: income strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, he joins us here in

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Speaker 1: our eleven three oh studios. Damon, I want to look

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Speaker 1: there has been so much money that has flow flooded

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Speaker 1: in the US, what's the implication. Well, I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: what's gone on here. We've seen emerging market US dollar

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Speaker 1: I think they're off of you know, two point or something,

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Speaker 1: but yields have risen sharply, um. And so what that's

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Speaker 1: done is it's created a bit of an anomaly. So

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Speaker 1: you have em dollar debt issued by you know, all

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Speaker 1: these you know, emerging market nations like Turkey, Argenta and

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Speaker 1: Brazili you name it, looking rather attractive relative to their

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Speaker 1: local government debt, which is denominated in local currency. I mean, basically,

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Speaker 1: back up, this is important, Okay. So basically people went

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Speaker 1: into emerging markets debt in local currencies betting that the

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Speaker 1: dollar would continue to weaken. As US yields continue to rise,

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Speaker 1: you are starting to get a bid on the dollar.

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Speaker 1: And this leads to your issue, right, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: mean we We've long been an advocate that investors are

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Speaker 1: um perhaps you know, getting ahead of themselves in sacrificing

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Speaker 1: they probably don't realize that that's inherently more risky. Is

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Speaker 1: local currencies have historically exhibited much greater volatility than spreads. Right,

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Speaker 1: So what you're seeing is a lot of anomalies. You're

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Speaker 1: basically seeing e M dollar debt now the yields looking

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Speaker 1: relatively attractive to EM locally yields probably at the you know,

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Speaker 1: the gap between the two is at the tightest level

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Speaker 1: then if you look at EM dollar debt relative to

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Speaker 1: US high yield, which is actually up on the year,

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Speaker 1: And if you recall, you know, we have talked about

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Speaker 1: this previously, the yields are now at the widest levels

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Speaker 1: I've seen since TwixT so on a relative basis to

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Speaker 1: US credit, it's actually looking rather attractive as well, Damien,

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Speaker 1: How big is this market so EM dollar debt, sovereign

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Speaker 1: quasi in corporate, I mean three to four trillion today?

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Speaker 1: A lot of investments are done through exchange traded funds,

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Speaker 1: or they've done to actually buying the debt. A lot

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Speaker 1: if you're buying it through an e t F or

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Speaker 1: an exchange traded note or some other kind of derivative product,

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Speaker 1: are you the insurance company, the pension fund, or you

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Speaker 1: the trader? So if I mean if you're a e

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Speaker 1: t F investor. Historically, we've been led to believe that

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Speaker 1: there's a retail investors mom and pops. But increasingly, what

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Speaker 1: we're realizing that a lot of institutions, a lot of

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Speaker 1: fund managers use those instruments as a way of off

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Speaker 1: setting risk in other areas, or perhaps you know, quickly

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Speaker 1: adding to risk in certain areas and dialing it in. Okay.

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Speaker 1: And they're doing this because what they want to hold

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Speaker 1: trying to get exposure to an asset class that may

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Speaker 1: Just last point. The amount of money that is going

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Speaker 1: debt that's being issued. That's not true. Now Here. Now

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Speaker 1: here's the interesting thing, because I see where you're headed there,

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Speaker 1: So you know the real risk here is that you know,

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Speaker 1: if yields continue to go up in the US leads

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Speaker 1: emerging markets. Is there a threshold at which, you know,

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Speaker 1: the US dollar, right, the US dollar has come off

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Speaker 1: there's been talk that they may start easing rates in China,

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Speaker 1: That might mean that growth is slowing in China, and

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Speaker 1: get hit pretty hard, and we've seen that happen quite

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Speaker 1: often in UH in recent memories. So yeah, thanks for

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Speaker 1: being with us. Always a pleasure, always learned something. Damien

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Speaker 1: Sassaur is fixed income strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence. Giving us

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Speaker 1: the wherewithal when it comes to emerging market that always

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure. A lot of people are going to

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Speaker 1: dissect the key moment when you as ten year treasury

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Speaker 1: this sort of thresholds, this magical numbers. Ason trent Ert,

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Speaker 1: Managing partner, chairman and chief executive officer of Strategious Research

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Speaker 1: Partners in New York. Chason, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: lower than that for variety of reasons. A lot of

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Speaker 1: But I think to the extent to which we're normalizing

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Speaker 1: move higher. Jason, I want to push back a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Some people are arguing that the reason why US treasure

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Speaker 1: But you also I think, UM, there's also the physical stimulus, which,

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Speaker 1: plus you have somewhat stronger wages um because there was

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Speaker 1: economy is likely to outperform the financial assets of financial markets.

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Speaker 1: There's another way of saying, you're not gonna get big

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Speaker 1: multiple expansion. Earnings will grow but um, but the market

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Speaker 1: but earnings will be up much more meaningfully than that.

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Speaker 1: Earnings could be up. Earnings the first quarter will be

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Speaker 1: long as interest rates are rising. What metric are you

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Speaker 1: this thesis, Well, I think earnings are one of the

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Speaker 1: earnings are probably one of the better better things to

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Speaker 1: So far that absolutely has not materialized. And the Christmas numbers,

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Speaker 1: To what extent does appetite for the iPhone turn hold up.

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Speaker 1: That clearly hasn't proven to be the case, it seems,

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Speaker 1: And each chance that the new screen technology is going

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Speaker 1: So they seem to be behind the curve on this front. Um,

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Speaker 1: You if you, I think if you've got to those

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Speaker 1: it's something that the fan boys really like, but those

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be a massive differentiated to me. Alex Web,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. Alex Web,

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