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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Krisner.

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Speaker 2: The FED wrapped up its annual Jackson Holl Symposium on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: but it was on Friday. In that keynote address that

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Speaker 2: FED Shair J. Powell signaled a rate cut could happen

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Speaker 2: as soon as September.

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Speaker 3: With policy and restrictive territory. The baseline outlook and the

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Speaker 3: shifting balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance, Marjorie.

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Speaker 3: Policy is not on a preset course. FMC members will

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Speaker 3: make these decisions based solely on their assessment of the

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Speaker 3: data and its implications for the economic outlook and the

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Speaker 3: balance of risks.

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Speaker 2: Jay Powell. There now, at the end of this week,

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Speaker 2: we're going to get the Fed's preferred measure of inflation,

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Speaker 2: the personal consumption expenditures price indexes do on Friday. Also

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Speaker 2: do this week Chinese industrial profits for the month of July.

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Speaker 2: And in a moment we'll talk with Qing Wong, chief

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Speaker 2: apack economist at Vanguard Group. But we begin here in

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Speaker 2: the States. Joining me now is Matt Orton. He is

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Speaker 2: head of Advisory Solutions and market strategy at Raymond James'

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Speaker 2: Investment Management. Matt, thanks for making time to chat with me.

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Speaker 2: I want to begin with the Powell speech. What did

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Speaker 2: you think? What did you make of what Powell had

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Speaker 2: to say?

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Speaker 4: So, you know, Doug, I think the Powell speech was

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Speaker 4: more Dubvish than a lot of folks were expecting, myself included,

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Speaker 4: and it certainly I think changes the narrative in the

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Speaker 4: market a little bit. I think rather than being focused

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Speaker 4: on inflation as much, we're really going to be keenly

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Speaker 4: focused on the employment data that comes. So PCE matters

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Speaker 4: this week, but nowhere near as much as payrolls are

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Speaker 4: going to matter on September fifth, and so given the

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Speaker 4: massive rally that happened after the duvish tilt that Powell took,

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Speaker 4: I think the earnings we get from some of the

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Speaker 4: tech companies in Nvidia first and foremost on Wednesday of

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Speaker 4: this week are going to be really important for sustaining

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Speaker 4: the rally, especially and I'll call it, you know, higher

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Speaker 4: beta parts of the market. And then we'll see whether

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Speaker 4: or not the data we get continues this very very

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Speaker 4: optimistic outlook on the case for not only just a

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Speaker 4: September cut, but increasing the chances of cuts going into

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Speaker 4: the end of the year.

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Speaker 2: We can talk about Nvidia in a moment, but I

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Speaker 2: want to get your sense on the degree to which

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Speaker 2: there may have been a bit of short covering that

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Speaker 2: was a part of that rally on Friday.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there absolutely was. When you look at some of

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Speaker 4: the biggest outperformers on Friday, a lot of names with

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Speaker 4: higher short interest were squeezed higher. I think this whole

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Speaker 4: small cap complex in particular, you know, had one of

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Speaker 4: its best days in quite a long time, and a

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Speaker 4: part of that was just very extended leveraged short futures

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Speaker 4: positioning and a number of the small cap indices. And

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Speaker 4: then you look at the home billers that also had

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Speaker 4: a massive rally. Banks, smaller cap banks. You really saw

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Speaker 4: I think not only just a squeeze, but anything that

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Speaker 4: really caught quite a bid on on Friday.

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Speaker 2: So after the bell on Wednesday, we'll get the numbers

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Speaker 2: from in Vidia. Clearly this company is at the center

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Speaker 2: of artificial intelligence development, and the whole story around AI

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Speaker 2: and in Nvidia now really is I think a bell

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Speaker 2: When you look at the weight of Nvidia within the

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't think Nvidia is going to miss

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Speaker 4: numbers that would be quite a shock. It's how much

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Speaker 4: does Nvidia beat by? And then really critically is what

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Speaker 4: are the expectations going forward? Because just to break down

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Speaker 4: the importance of Nvidia earnings, Nvidia alone has contributed just

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Speaker 4: about twenty percent of the earnings growth of the S

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Speaker 4: AI complex I call that information technology broadly speaking, some

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Speaker 4: trade continues absolutely matters. We got good data and really

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Speaker 4: the hope is is that Innvidia's guidance is going to

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Speaker 4: And I think it's even more critical because we've seen

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Speaker 4: see the bellweathers and hopefully broader market forces really lead

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Speaker 4: the market higher. So there is a lot of importance

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Speaker 4: put on Wednesday and then by extension Thursday where you

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Speaker 4: get Dell and Marvel, which will be almost a continuation

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Speaker 2: So to your point about the hyperscalers, if you look

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Speaker 2: at companies like Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, those companies equate

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Speaker 2: to about forty percent of the revenue for in Vidia.

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Speaker 2: Is this stock kind of the situation where we like

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Speaker 2: to use the term price to perfection.

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Speaker 4: Anyone who's set in vidious price to perfection in the

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Speaker 4: past has been wrong just because the stock continues to

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Speaker 4: go higher. But I think Doug your point is taken

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Speaker 4: because I don't often love to see stocks run up

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Speaker 4: and guide in particular, So the bar is just set

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Speaker 4: incredibly high for Nvidia, So I think valuation wise, the

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Speaker 4: multiple contraction on a stock like Nvidia supported by strong earnings.

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Speaker 4: But it's really all about the guide going forward and

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Speaker 4: how much strength and read through you're going to get

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Speaker 4: from those hyperscalers that you just mentioned going into their

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Speaker 2: So at the end of the week, it's the Fed's

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Speaker 2: Do you think that that would dissuade the FED from

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Speaker 2: right now, with Powell articulating that concern about a weaker

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it's going to change the outlook

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Speaker 2: So we're talking a lot about the US market. I'm

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Speaker 2: curious if you look offshore right now, are you finding value?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely? You know. One of my key themes Doug heading

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Speaker 4: of this year was building balance, and to me, balances

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Speaker 4: across asset classes. It's across geographies, across sectors, industries, market capitalizations.

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Speaker 4: So in addition to looking more at small caps and

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Speaker 4: to find opportunities across international markets and emerging markets, in

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Speaker 4: particular the two big You know, China has had a

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Speaker 4: within China, I think that provides a boost for the

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Speaker 4: continue the trend that you've had. So China looks very

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Speaker 4: that should help incentivize consumption to really get the economic

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Speaker 2: So if we had to identify themes, then the sense

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Speaker 2: that I'm getting let's talk China and then I'll let

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Speaker 2: you go. Is it more tech driven than being consumption driven?

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Speaker 4: Is that the thesis it is the consumer in China

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Speaker 4: but there's certainly a continuing i'll say war for Ai

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Speaker 4: so there's certainly room for that trade to also continue

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Speaker 2: Okay, Matt, We'll leave it there. Thanks so much. Matt

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Speaker 2: Orton there. He is head of Advisory Solutions and Market

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Speaker 2: Strategy at Raymond James Investment Management. Joining us here on

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Speaker 2: the Daybreak Asia Podcast. Welcome back to the Daybreak Asia Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm Doug Chrisner. Equity markets across the Asia Pacific are

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Speaker 2: following in the footsteps of last Friday's rally on Wall

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Speaker 2: Street and Chair J. Powell opening the door to a

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Speaker 2: resumption in rate cuts, maybe as soon as next month.

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Speaker 2: For more, we heard from Chen Wang chief Apaka Khan

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Speaker 2: missed at the Vanguard Group. She spoke with Bloomberg TV

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Speaker 2: host Sherry On and April Hong on the Asia trade.

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Speaker 5: So we are still unpacking some of these Powell comments.

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Speaker 4: The read through is that it.

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Speaker 5: Was very dubvish. How much cover does this provide Asian

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Speaker 5: central banks, including the Bank of Korea that has a

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Speaker 5: decision due this week.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for reminding me today. Good morning. You know, to

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Speaker 6: a certain extent, I would encourage rite the tone of

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Speaker 6: power to be very dolish. I think it's actually a

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Speaker 6: pretty balanced tone. It does recognize that the balance of

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Speaker 6: be the baseline. At this moment, we have been expecting

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Speaker 6: two cuts this year, September and December. That seems to

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Speaker 6: be still appropriate. After Power's comments on Friday, however, I

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Speaker 6: to that extent, even if we get a cut in September,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean totally. I think at this moment what

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Speaker 6: Well, I think when you look at China, China is

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Speaker 6: That is when they're going to step up with more policystems,

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Speaker 1: Right, Chiang Wang. Good to have you with LA's chief

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