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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene Jay Leie.

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Speaker 1: our top story, shall we and a key question is

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Speaker 1: a global manufacturing slump? Putting a reality check on this

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Speaker 1: weekend's trade thrus across Asia and Europe manufacturing p m

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Speaker 1: ice sticking in contraction territory for an original take, uous

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Speaker 1: sound pleased to say that joining us in the studio

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Speaker 1: is Carl Winburg, High Frequency Economics chief economist and found

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Speaker 1: a good morning to Carl, Good morning. I know you've

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Speaker 1: got a different take on this. Do you think the

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Speaker 1: p m I s through the year have been somewhat misleading?

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Speaker 1: Just walk us through the thinking over the high frequency

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Speaker 1: at the moment, Car, let's just take a deep breath,

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Speaker 1: all right, Mark, It's p m s are new and

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Speaker 1: they're not statistically tested. They can't be there only twelve

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Speaker 1: years old. So to put full credit, to put put

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Speaker 1: full belief confidence in what they're saying is a mistake.

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Speaker 1: You really want to look at the trusted indicators, the

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Speaker 1: ones that have been around for a long time, like

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Speaker 1: Germany's IFO Index, like the ECS European Commissions Economic Confidence INDSEASE,

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Speaker 1: and they've been signaling an economic downturn and an industrial

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Speaker 1: downturn for over a year now. It's been right there

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Speaker 1: for everyone to see. And market meanwhile has been above

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Speaker 1: fifty and they've been saying, well, the economy has been growing,

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Speaker 1: when the hard data are showing us that it's not

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Speaker 1: so industrial. To me, at least to our readers at

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Speaker 1: High Frequency Economics, industrial recession in Europe is not news,

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Speaker 1: all right. It's an ongoing story. It's not a problem,

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Speaker 1: it's a fact. And the question we're talking about is

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Speaker 1: when is it going to end? And there's no sign

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Speaker 1: of it from indices that we trust, like the IFO Index,

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Speaker 1: the European Economic Confidence Index, Japan's ton Kan out this

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Speaker 1: morning down or it's been down for over a year now. Alright.

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Speaker 1: Just have to look at the hard data and the

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Speaker 1: surveys that are tested to see that that's been the case.

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Speaker 1: There has been somewhat of a divergence through various economies

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Speaker 1: between what is happening with manufacturing and what is happening

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Speaker 1: with services. Europe is a fantastic example of that. We

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Speaker 1: haven't seen much side of a bleed through from a

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Speaker 1: really soft manufacturing sector into a somewhat resilient services sector.

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Speaker 1: What do you see at the moment, CALP Well, the risk,

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Speaker 1: of course is that services are to some extent dependent

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Speaker 1: upon industry, all right, Industry subcontracts out services, right, the

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Speaker 1: big factory has a services company run its cafeteria and

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Speaker 1: clean the factory floors, so that a downturn and industry

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Speaker 1: is important, even though industry is only a relatively small

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Speaker 1: part of the picture. So the question we're seeing right

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Speaker 1: now is that growth overall is coming down, employment growth

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Speaker 1: is slowing. We'll be looking for that and releases this

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Speaker 1: week from Europe. We saw a little bit of it

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Speaker 1: to slow down in parallel with industry, bringing GDP down

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Speaker 1: to a halt or possibly even a contraction. Monetary policy

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Speaker 1: in its a loneness fix this in Europe absolutely not,

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Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. Reason number one is that

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Speaker 1: the monetary stimulus that has been given to Europe by

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Speaker 1: transmitted into the economy because banks aren't lending. Number two,

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Speaker 1: monetary policy has stopped out the ECB despite Mr Drags,

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Speaker 1: I'll call it bluster, all right, has very few of

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Speaker 1: any tools left available to you. But critically, and Carl,

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Speaker 1: this is where your expert. Is monetary policy stopped out

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Speaker 1: across all of the Pacific rim? I mean, forget about

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Speaker 1: major players like Japan. Is it stopped out in Singapore?

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Speaker 1: Look at the Australian shock over the weekend of the

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Speaker 1: policy stopped out in Australia or Singapore? Now there are exceptions.

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Speaker 1: Australia is certainly one of them. But even they're down

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Speaker 1: and their bond yields are at historic lows. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you get bond yields down lower than they've ever

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Speaker 1: been before, all right, you get them lower than inflation,

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Speaker 1: you get borrowing rates below inflation. Money is now free.

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Speaker 1: And when money is free and the economy doesn't grow,

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Speaker 1: with all the central bank over you're saying it's time

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Speaker 1: for fiscal policy to add something to this. Fiscal policy

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Speaker 1: is the missing way. Karl Weinberg, high frequency economics. Where

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Speaker 1: this this is with futures up thirty two down, futures

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Speaker 1: that you see? Well? What are the alternatives? Tom? Right?

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Speaker 1: You look at bond yo olds all right, and they're

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Speaker 1: you have negative of interest rates, so that the alternatives

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Speaker 1: are not particularly attractive to equities right now. So a

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Speaker 1: for us Tom through the week is are you willing

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Speaker 1: do you have the tolerance the stomach to sit through

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Speaker 1: the coming months. Do you have the stomach to sit

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Speaker 1: through and look through the weaker revisions to earn It's

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Speaker 1: going you make it in the coming months as one,

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Speaker 1: starting with Jobs Day on Friday, the celebration of the

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Speaker 1: colonies in the War of the Rebellion that happened in

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Speaker 1: seventeen seventies six is on Thursday. I'll be working Friday.

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Speaker 1: Are you in working Friday? We're both stays. Job stay,

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Speaker 1: John Tucker, will you be Here's biscuit demand. Absolutely, we're

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Speaker 1: all going to be Friday. So Carl, let's talk about that.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people are worried that in the coming

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Speaker 1: months we will get worst data, we will get negative

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Speaker 1: earnings revisions for some of these companies, some of the

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Speaker 1: something you anticipate, something you sent to see happen in

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Speaker 1: the nice coming months. Well, the the the profit picture

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Speaker 1: is complex, but certainly the macroeconomics don't seem to be

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Speaker 1: supporting growth of profits. That's about as far as we

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Speaker 1: particularly big significance because we've got those bad numbers behind us,

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Speaker 1: our chief US economists at High Frequency Economics GUMO Sullivan

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Speaker 1: from We've been told again and again and again that

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Speaker 1: of jobs growth in America. Is not something you can

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Speaker 1: I mean the President Trump got what he wanted, you know,

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Speaker 1: what were you looking at? All? Right? The Chinese agreed

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Speaker 1: Global Wall Street. And we can dovetail it right into

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Speaker 1: the Brookfield, Genesee, Wyoming. That's real estate behind a train company.

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Speaker 1: Robert Perfusak does a quarterly visit with us. He is

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Speaker 1: of business confidence stunning. I saw that. I saw that.

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Speaker 1: I saw the chart. I don't know what the inputs

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Speaker 1: on various survey indicators roll over. Bob. I know many

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Speaker 1: trade story. How difficult is it right now for the

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Speaker 1: it is. It is difficult because on a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Companies and their directors certainly know that there's a potential

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Speaker 1: for criticism. Look at and a dark oh right now

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Speaker 1: with um? What what's going going went on with occidental um?

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Speaker 1: And you're making long term decisions in a in a

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Speaker 1: shouldn't overlook that lots and lots of deals are still

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Speaker 1: So that's right right now, we believe this is a

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Speaker 1: This is incredibly important because I think to a lot

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Speaker 1: of our listeners, they don't understand I don't understand the

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Speaker 1: more difficult. So Dan. One of the issues that I

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Speaker 1: Tireff issue is that the what what you know, the

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Speaker 1: wadwei risk for Apple? I e. That China puts Apple

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Speaker 1: the table? Yeah, we we continue to do it. That

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Speaker 1: Tim Cook last night, you're popping the ship. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: the uh, you know, do you think Apple is still

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Speaker 1: going to move ahead with you know, maybe greater urgency

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Speaker 1: with in the near term it it's seems like this

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Speaker 1: tech players. Look, I think they have essentially bet the

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Speaker 1: When you look at Vietnam or India, Brazil, that is

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Speaker 1: I would equally how Apple uses no different orderer GM

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Speaker 1: Give us your price target, Dan ives again on Apple.

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Speaker 1: I just want to get there too, thirty five price targain.

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Speaker 1: We continue to think this this is a name has

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Speaker 1: significant upside here. Thanks so much, Danna. I eaven with

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