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Speaker 1: with pim Fox. The focused remains on the UK in
Speaker 1: global markets is the pound falls to its weakest level
Speaker 1: in three decades against the dollars, even lower than the
Speaker 1: hit the lows it hit right after Britain's vote to
Speaker 1: leave the European Union was passed. Why is this unsettling
Speaker 1: markets because it could hit fragile economy at a time
Speaker 1: when the rest of the global economy is fragile as well.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look at some of the currency impacts right now,
Speaker 1: PIM Yes. So we've got Doug Barthwick, I'm managing director
Speaker 1: in the head of foreign Exchange at chap The Lane
Speaker 1: and Company. He'll be giving us more details right now.
Speaker 1: More details from Catherine Cowtery in the Blomberg newsroom. Thank you,
Speaker 1: pamla wall Street. Starting off this holiday shortened week with
Speaker 1: a retreat. Bank of England Governor Mark Kearney warned of
Speaker 1: prospects for a material slowing of the economy on the
Speaker 1: developing risks from Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. Now
Speaker 1: banks are taking the largest losses and energy companies are
Speaker 1: sinking along with the price of oil. The government said
Speaker 1: gasoline supplies on the East Coast reached a record. Jim Paulson,
Speaker 1: chief investment strategists at Wells Capital Markets, on one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why he thinks the market can reach new
Speaker 1: highs over the next few months. I like the fact
Speaker 1: that this rally since January has been very broad based.
Speaker 1: The equally weighted indices are outperforming overall, which tells you
Speaker 1: that a broad array of stocks are doing better than
Speaker 1: the market cap weighted I think that suggests that a
Speaker 1: number of companies are are experiencing earnings momentum. Again, we
Speaker 1: check the markets every fifteen minutes throughout the trading data.
Speaker 1: Industrial averages down one eight points three quarters of a
Speaker 1: percent rating at seventeen thousand, eight hundred ten, SMP five
Speaker 1: founded down nineteen points nine tens of a percent to
Speaker 1: two thousand eighty four. Then nastac is down fifty six
Speaker 1: points one point two percent to forty eight oh six.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Catherine from the Bloomberg Newsroom. I'm Jil Schneider.
Speaker 1: Home Secretary Theresa May has won the first round of
Speaker 1: voting in the contest to replace David Cameron as the
Speaker 1: next Conservative leader and Prime Minister. Mrs May, who began
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Speaker 1: a quick check of the equity benchmarks. Down, Industrial leverage
Speaker 1: down one thirty three points at seventeen thousand, eight hundred sixteen,
Speaker 1: smp F I foundered down eighteen points at two thousand,
Speaker 1: eighty four, nastack down fifty five points at forty eight
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Speaker 1: In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the pound plunge,
Speaker 1: global equity markets suffered on's rallying. Things seem to stabilized
Speaker 1: for a while, but today, as the head of the
Speaker 1: Bank of England, Mark Harney sought to reassure investors that
Speaker 1: the Bank of Lincoln is ready to take even more
Speaker 1: steps to shore up an economy that will be hit
Speaker 1: by the Brexit vote, heading for a recession and more. Uh,
Speaker 1: the pound slid again, stocks are under pressure. Where will
Speaker 1: this end? And what does it mean as these uh,
Speaker 1: these asset classes keep moving so sharply. Let's bring in
Speaker 1: Doug Borthwick now. He joins us from Chapter Lene and Co.
Speaker 1: Here in New York City where he is a managing
Speaker 1: director and head of Foreign exchange. Doug, welcome back, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, nice to be here. So how do
Speaker 1: you assess what is going on in the UK and
Speaker 1: how it's hitting the pound at this point? Well, going
Speaker 1: into this, we we always talked about how this is
Speaker 1: a bit of iceberg. I mean, you were the top
Speaker 1: side was we always thought that was one fifty In
Speaker 1: the downside, we weren't really sure and we've no hit
Speaker 1: this one thirty level. I think that it's it's very
Speaker 1: good that Theresa May today got the hundred sixty five
Speaker 1: votes in the first vote of who's going to be
Speaker 1: the next leader. There's further votes in July seventh and twelfth,
Speaker 1: and then all party members for the Conservative Party will
Speaker 1: vote again for September nine, and that sort of surety
Speaker 1: of who's going to be the next leader and who's
Speaker 1: going to leave the UK through Brexit. I think it's
Speaker 1: very important in the market should adapt to that and
Speaker 1: see through that. But as you can see, that's in
Speaker 1: two months time. In the meantime, the market today is
Speaker 1: really reacting on the back of what Carney said. And
Speaker 1: what Carney said is look, Row, it's going to be
Speaker 1: lower and we're gonna have to cut rates. So the
Speaker 1: expectation is now they'll cut twenty five bases points, so
Speaker 1: around a quarter of a percent in August. But on
Speaker 1: top of that they also may increase que to five
Speaker 1: from three seventy five billions sterling as well. In other words,
Speaker 1: the UK's deciety, we're gonna cut rates, we may end
Speaker 1: up having to print some more money and that's obviously
Speaker 1: negative for sterling. Doug fourth weckome, what if you can
Speaker 1: explain why these round numbers like one dollar and thirty
Speaker 1: one dollar and fifty how does anyone arrive at those
Speaker 1: specific levels? I mean, with a company, you can do valuation.
Speaker 1: You can say X number of shares current market value
Speaker 1: and then compare that to sales as well as net profit.
Speaker 1: But can you do that when you're looking at the
Speaker 1: currency market. No, No, it's very much more of a
Speaker 1: chart watching a charge as opposed to an actuality. I
Speaker 1: think though, when when you looked at the where the
Speaker 1: polls were going into the Brexit vote, when we're training
Speaker 1: around with that one forty eight and we actually went
Speaker 1: up to one fifty, that was when the market has
Speaker 1: decided with certainty that the UK was going to stay
Speaker 1: within the Union, and that's something that the market very
Speaker 1: much had a hold off, which is why we came
Speaker 1: out to our clients and said at one eight knows
Speaker 1: maybe the time you should be short sterling because it
Speaker 1: seems like all the good news is priced in. And
Speaker 1: we see that so many times because for example, in
Speaker 1: March tenth and the market thought that the ECB would
Speaker 1: end up doing further CHEWI and they didn't, and you
Speaker 1: saw a huge rally in the euro. You saw the
Speaker 1: same thing in sterling as well. So a lot of
Speaker 1: the time you find that the market gets very fraughty
Speaker 1: and excitative about position when the reality is that the
Speaker 1: actually anality hasn't yet happened. So in terms of what
Speaker 1: happens next. At some point after such a big, big
Speaker 1: drop in the pound, big move up in the dollar
Speaker 1: against the pound, you'd say, well, you know, this has
Speaker 1: got to be just about it. And of course, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, there are some there are some upsides to
Speaker 1: a weaker pound, which Mark Karney mentioned as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: to a certain extent it helps exporters, although the they
Speaker 1: hit to the to the current account and the cawlow
Speaker 1: flows seems to be of a much quicker impact. It
Speaker 1: has to be dealt with, and the boon to exporters
Speaker 1: seems like a play out over a much longer time.
Speaker 1: I think that if you look at sterling an added
Speaker 1: to value, you can really think of it as going
Speaker 1: from a global nation to isolationism. And when you know,
Speaker 1: I think one of the best charts to look at
Speaker 1: really is maybe sterling in where in the seventies sterling
Speaker 1: in was treating at a nine hundred and I was
Speaker 1: treating on two sterling against the ends drop year to date.
Speaker 1: This year we're sterling against the dollars when we dropped
Speaker 1: by twelve. So the UK as it begins to become
Speaker 1: less of a global nation and much more of a
Speaker 1: singular isolated nation is just losing the value in Sterling
Speaker 1: because fear people really want to be involved with certain
Speaker 1: because they don't have to be anymore because the UK
Speaker 1: becomes more and more irrelevant than on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: I think that that's what we're seeing in this movement
Speaker 1: in Sterling today is that Sterling has taken us out
Speaker 1: from sort of one of these global leaders with a
Speaker 1: huge sphere of influence to becoming one that really is
Speaker 1: only going to be managing itself. And if it's only
Speaker 1: managing the United Kingdom, it could be that could only
Speaker 1: manage that for a year or two before Scotland ends
Speaker 1: up leaving, And so you're dealing with the currency now
Speaker 1: that is being less used globally and has less sphere
Speaker 1: of influence and so is having less of an impact
Speaker 1: on the world. Doug Borthwick, Uh, not only is political
Speaker 1: news in the United Kingdom dominating headlines, but also in
Speaker 1: places such as Australia. I wonder if you give us
Speaker 1: your outlook for commodities for currencies that are tied to
Speaker 1: commodity producing industries. Certainly Australia is tied to commodity um
Speaker 1: in the streetes, but it's also very much tied to China,
Speaker 1: and what we're seeing is obviously you seen dollar China rally.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of discussion about how China's devaluing
Speaker 1: their currency in the background and no one seeing it.
Speaker 1: Certainly China's been devaluing their currency against the yen and
Speaker 1: versus the euro or at least uth until lately, but
Speaker 1: against the dollar, China's only moved by two percent on
Speaker 1: the year. I think that as long as there's weakness
Speaker 1: in China, or perceived weakness in China, that will be
Speaker 1: perceived weakness in the Australian dollar and in the Kiwi dollar. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Australian dollar is added to by the fact that
Speaker 1: there's no clear leader, let in the leader yet in
Speaker 1: the general elections, and that's causing heaviness there as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Douglas Borthwick is managing director in
Speaker 1: the head of f FX at Chapter Lane and Company,
Speaker 1: speaking about the British pound, which currently trades against the
Speaker 1: dollar at one thirty in the Japanese Yenna one on
Speaker 1: one point five too. This is taking Stockheim pim Fox,
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