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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Bramowitz. Each day we

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Speaker 1: bring you the most important, noteworthy, and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Bloomberg dot com. As

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Speaker 1: stock traders freaked out and the Dow, SMP and NASDAC

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Speaker 1: all plummeted earlier this week, credit markets remained a picture

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Speaker 1: of tranquility, or almost so. The big question here is

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Speaker 1: is that truly a reflection of not a lot of

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Speaker 1: else and perhaps the calm before a storm? And here

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Speaker 1: to help us understand that is Mike buck And And

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Speaker 1: he's Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Western Asset Management Co,

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Speaker 1: an independent affiliate of Like Mason, which overseas four hundred

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Speaker 1: in Pasadena, California, where he comes to us from. Mike,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. What's your

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Speaker 1: take here? Because we have seen a bit of spread widening,

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Speaker 1: particularly in high yield credit UH and yields are rising.

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Speaker 1: You are seeing some high yield bond deals getting pulled.

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Speaker 1: Are we Is this sort of the precipice before a

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Speaker 1: bigger weakness AILSA and thanks for having me on UM. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think our view is that, no, it's not the

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Speaker 1: precipice before some more meaningful fall. In fact, you know,

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Speaker 1: as we were watching all this volatility unfolding the equity

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Speaker 1: evidence that, you know, fundamentals were the catalyst for what

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Speaker 1: was happening. It appeared to be technical. I think when

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Speaker 1: how they were playing out in the market, it became

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Speaker 1: a little more clear what was driving that volatility. And

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Speaker 1: we came in yesterday morning really hoping to put some

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Speaker 1: money to work at UH meaningfully cheaper levels, and as

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Speaker 1: you pointed out in your introduction, didn't quite see that.

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Speaker 1: But we have seen some some weekending in price and

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Speaker 1: I think that's just creating a better opportunity in a

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Speaker 1: high yield still at you know, three d and sixty

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Speaker 1: that's that's almost forty basis points wider UH than where

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Speaker 1: as you pointed out with with overall rates moving higher,

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Speaker 1: And you know, as much as we wanted it to

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Speaker 1: UM also emerging markets. We think the real meaningful opportunity

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Speaker 1: And again didn't really see you know, a meaningful sell off,

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Speaker 1: I think that just made it more attractive. Mike. If

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Speaker 1: not a significant risk of meaningfully higher rates. Mike. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about liquidity because you said that you

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Speaker 1: I know liquidity worries were all in vogue a couple

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Speaker 1: let's say five or or ten years ago. UM. That

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Speaker 1: the bids were actually very deep in the credit markets

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Speaker 1: albeit at maybe at lower prices, and we would have

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Speaker 1: opposed to wanting to sell it at higher levels. Where's

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Speaker 1: the biggest opportunity left in credit? I mean specific sectors

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Speaker 1: still a few within developed market credit. We do like

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Speaker 1: little bit of a contrarian view, but our assessment really

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Speaker 1: is that ultimately fundamentals drive valuations, and fundamentals we see improving,

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Speaker 1: you're getting in most developed markets. Thanks very much for

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Speaker 1: being with us. Mike Buchanan is Deputy Chief Investment Officer

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Speaker 1: for Western Asset Management. They are an independent affiliate of

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Speaker 1: thirty billion dollars. Joining us from Pasadena, California. Tesla a

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Speaker 1: company to surely draw some passionate responses, whether people are

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Speaker 1: and Associates. Alan, thank you so much for being with us.

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Speaker 1: How much are we really going to learn about? The

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Speaker 1: the earnings called this afternoon because this is obviously a

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how anyone tries to actually value these shares.

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Speaker 1: clearly you can't do it on the fundamental This is

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Speaker 1: potential to be a problem. I just don't see the

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Speaker 1: bolts or the leaf uh as as a competitor. Really,

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Speaker 1: why not, because it's because of the way the product

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Speaker 1: is viewed. What Tesla has done is not only did

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Speaker 1: not it's comfortable with suitability. We think the likely is

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Speaker 1: did not disclose. Any idea of what the role of

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Speaker 1: his ex wife, Elaine Win will play. At the time

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Speaker 1: resorts owned by Elaine Win. Steve Win, as you pointed out,

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Speaker 1: is he has gone and Matt Maddox, former president, takes

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Speaker 1: the Becau operation, whether where there had also been concerns

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Speaker 1: Is there some kind of way to handicap the monetary

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Speaker 1: readily quantifiable. What we have endeavored to quantify is both

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Speaker 1: Uh And certainly, again, if you're ask me why is

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Speaker 1: probably because the risk of a forfeiture of that license

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Speaker 1: Brian Egger, thank you so much for being here with

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Speaker 1: from a bigger picture point of view. Brian Egger, senior

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Speaker 1: Gaming and Lodging analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, joining us here

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