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Speaker 1: Ye, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course on the Bloomberg Den

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Speaker 1: Edwards and I know we are as good as our team,

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Speaker 1: and our teams sometimes will they do things because they're brilliant,

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Speaker 1: and also the surveillance teams sometimes you get lucky. We

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Speaker 1: did that before December thirty one when we said, Tony Cosenzi,

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Speaker 1: you need to start our year, and then we enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the summer thirty one where things fell out about concenz

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Speaker 1: the PIMCO. He's definitive on short term paper. And bring

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Speaker 1: up the chart of here McKinnon, if you would. This

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Speaker 1: is the I've never shown this chart before. I'm only

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Speaker 1: doing this because Conscendi showed up in an early hour

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Speaker 1: one year two year difference in yield and you've got

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Speaker 1: the oudities before the crisis and then the normality of

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Speaker 1: a difference in yield between a two year in a

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Speaker 1: one year, and we fell off a cliff. Tony Cocenzi,

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Speaker 1: let's start with the why of the short term paper market.

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Speaker 1: Why is the one year two year yield inverted? Where

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Speaker 1: one year yields are higher than two year yields. This

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Speaker 1: is a crystal ball is telling you about the future

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Speaker 1: and what the market thinks of the Fed and what

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Speaker 1: it will do with this policy rate. We know the

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Speaker 1: Fed in December racist policy rate to two and a

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Speaker 1: quarter two and a half. Here the market saying it

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Speaker 1: will go back below two at some point. Are they

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Speaker 1: predicting a rate cut at market point? Predicting a rate

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Speaker 1: cut at the beginning part of next year, so we

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Speaker 1: won't be roaring into the twenties like we did a

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Speaker 1: hundred years ago. Well, you could be stumbling into the twenties,

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Speaker 1: is what the market is saying. What everybody wants to

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Speaker 1: know in global Wall Street from you is when we

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Speaker 1: talk commercial paper or library ois and the other arcane

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Speaker 1: stuff that you and and Jerome Schneider and others at

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Speaker 1: PIMCO look at every day. Okay, great? Is that a

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Speaker 1: liquidity crisis is an attention within the corporate space. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: not a liquidity crisis. There's still over one trillion dollars

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Speaker 1: of extra money that banks could utilize to keep themselves. Liquid.

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Speaker 1: Banks are in exceptionally good shape today. Still many worry

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Speaker 1: about it, but there's no there aren't the excessis there

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Speaker 1: that many people cite. What is concerning is that we

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Speaker 1: this all began in markets, the stress with political factors,

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Speaker 1: not macroeconomic ones. It was related to briggsit was related

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Speaker 1: markets have to worry about is the feedback loop where

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Speaker 1: what happened in markets because of politics sus to feedback

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Speaker 1: So there's one of the major questions for this year

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Speaker 1: the mid eighteen hundreds or not when we stumble into

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Speaker 1: the twenties or roar like a hundred years ago. It

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Speaker 1: looks like we may stumble, but there's a lot that

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Speaker 1: could happen that changes things. When this sense of pessimism,

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Speaker 1: of course, it's an accumulation period. Weren't you be thinking

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Speaker 1: about building assets? But be careful, very careful about that. Okay, Tony,

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Speaker 1: good morning to you. So if this inversion at the

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Speaker 1: And what kind of lag does this normally deliver them?

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Speaker 1: When you look at the shorter end of the curve,

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Speaker 1: what kind of lag does this kind of signal usually require. Well,

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Speaker 1: it depends. Markets will tend to be correct on this,

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Speaker 1: a period where it has Christine accuracy. One looking out

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Speaker 1: year ago markets said the Fed would put his policy

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Speaker 1: that looking past one year out becomes a bit precarious.

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Speaker 1: And so this four cast that markets have today for

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Speaker 1: an interest rate cut may not be correct. But is

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Speaker 1: it that important anyway? The global story and interest rates

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Speaker 1: think one final final point of breaks it. The Bank

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Speaker 1: there are numerous other things markets are concerned about that

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Speaker 1: To send all these combined today suggests the US economy

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Speaker 1: Tony Consenzi with us without questioning our conversation with the dam.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look to the terminal and tell you, Tony

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Speaker 1: Consenzi has lifted the market here in the last ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: What's great about free of amish with Pantheon in England?

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Speaker 1: She has lived China, She's not only been there, but

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Speaker 1: attempts at Mandarin? Can you order a pizza in Mandarin? Free?

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Speaker 1: good you can order a pizza to go? I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: we got tom Honestly, you go to Shanghaio, Beijing and

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Speaker 1: for you for a good morning? Are we what is

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Speaker 1: guess the PMS that we had out this morning we're

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Speaker 1: pretty unpleasant. I think the consensus was always a little

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Speaker 1: on future production um. The good news, I think we're

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Speaker 1: Although the headlines might not actually show that. So we've

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Speaker 1: got we've got some good news out that we've certainly

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Speaker 1: the UM the the overall level, we've put our kind

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Speaker 1: We had an important revelation there that there will be

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Speaker 1: that sense as well. Let's start with the policy tools

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Speaker 1: about the trade negotiations. You mentioned the slowdown in fourteen

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Speaker 1: fifteen that bled into sixteen as well, that slowdown was

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Speaker 1: this time? I think um, I think there's enough time

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Speaker 1: looking it's not looking likely anymore that they'll they'll hike

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Speaker 1: think there's there's definitely the potential for the PBOC to

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about it. It's clear to me that

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Speaker 1: there's an incentive for President Chesing Ping to come to

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Speaker 1: President of United States Donald Trump through what's not clear

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Speaker 1: to me as the concessions the president she is willing

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Speaker 1: to make. What are those concessions? Well, the the UM

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Speaker 1: of detail in that kind of a of a redoubt,

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Speaker 1: but there was one sentence which said that they were

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Speaker 1: going to prioritize the the agreement, reaching the agreement UM

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Speaker 1: G twenty meeting in November. So that's a good sign

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Speaker 1: to start with, at least rhetorically, UM. But they they've

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Speaker 1: also made moves in the direction of cutting pariffs. They've

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Speaker 1: of rumblings in the right direction with regard to the

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Speaker 1: forced technology transfer. I like in your research note you're

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Speaker 1: are your adjacency effects of this supposed slowdown in China. Yeah,

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