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

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Speaker 1: Jay Leie. We bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: let's begin with our top story. China state media signals

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Speaker 1: a lack of interest in resuming talks with the United States.

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Speaker 1: Without new moves that show the US is sincere, it

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Speaker 1: is meaningless for its officials to come to China and

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Speaker 1: have trade talks. This according to a commentary carried by

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Speaker 1: state runs Shinhwa News Agency and The People's Daily otherwise

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Speaker 1: known as the Communist Party mouthpiece. In the FX market,

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Speaker 1: it means dollar strength and it means to Chinese currency

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Speaker 1: heading towards the seven mark. Really pleased to say. To

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Speaker 1: weigh in on the efex market, Shahab Jala knows joining

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Speaker 1: us now credit sweets head of FX and macro Trading Strategy.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to Shahab. It's the question we always ask,

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Speaker 1: is China tolerating you and weakness or is it engineering it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's at the moment accepting your weakness rather

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Speaker 1: than necessarily engineering it. UM, you're seeing a widening gap

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Speaker 1: between the offshore remembi um and the on shore level,

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Speaker 1: the fixing on shore, which generally points to the market

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Speaker 1: trying to push the currency weaker as opposed to the authorities. UM.

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Speaker 1: So we're getting too important levels now. The offshore remmby

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Speaker 1: at six against the dollar is a level the market

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Speaker 1: expects to be protected. UM. If that's not the case

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Speaker 1: and we rapidly go to seven, there could be a

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Speaker 1: backlash to that in emerging markets generally. Actually, I would say, so,

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Speaker 1: let's start with the Chinese currency and the tolerance of officials.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the line of the sand for officials

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Speaker 1: is six on the offshore rates up. That's what the

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Speaker 1: markets has felt. The market has felt that that level

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Speaker 1: is important because what they wouldn't want to see is

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Speaker 1: because once you go through that level, there's always the

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Speaker 1: possibility of a major spike. So this six level has

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Speaker 1: expectation that, given that talks are still continuing, UM, the

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Speaker 1: Chinese would not want to see a big push for

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Speaker 1: the dollar above the seven level and go against their currency. Uh,

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Speaker 1: simply in order to not antagonize the US. So if

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Speaker 1: we now see that happen, perhaps the market will interpret

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Speaker 1: that as a green light for authorities. UM. So this

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Speaker 1: is this is a potentially big problem because this wasn't

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Speaker 1: the case, for example, back in Q four when problem

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Speaker 1: when when we had a similar test of these levels

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Speaker 1: thrilled you with us this morning, I can't say, now, folks,

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Speaker 1: how wrong I was. I thought, you know, Friday, I

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you, folks, to start with John

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Speaker 1: News on a Friday works right now, we can talk

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Speaker 1: to him for an hour. Muhammad Hillarian rights for Bloomer Opinion,

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Speaker 1: Ambrose Evans Pritchard rights for the Telegraph, and the summary

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Speaker 1: of these two brilliant essays. And I remember John Llarion

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Speaker 1: talking to uh Ambrose at the thing in Lake Como. Um,

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Speaker 1: what they're talking about is a dollar shortage, and that

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Speaker 1: China is constrained because they and everybody else out there

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Speaker 1: has a dollar shortage. Explained to our global Wall Street audience,

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Speaker 1: what guys like you think or say or mean when

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Speaker 1: you talk about a global dollar shortage, well, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: it can mean many different things. But I think at

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Speaker 1: the most critical level for the market, what it means

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Speaker 1: is that there is a need to refinance dollar loans,

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Speaker 1: tends to put upward pressure on the dollar itself as well. Um.

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Speaker 1: So that's one form of dollar shortage. But frankly, when

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Speaker 1: of global financial diversification in China, there is a permanent

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Speaker 1: it will quickly look at the other Asian emerging markets

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Speaker 1: So I think either way, whether it's a slow grind

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Speaker 1: Why the Asian basket occurrencies extrapan is down almost three

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Speaker 1: We did not get any pick up in emerging market

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Speaker 1: equities whatsoever. Just didn't participate. This morning, China looks weak

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Speaker 1: shahab from a market perspective. The equity market down two

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Speaker 1: we digest the commentary coming out of China? The government

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Speaker 1: a reasonable range. This is according to the National Development

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Speaker 1: and Reform Commission studying the impact of US tariffs, and

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Speaker 1: will roll out responsive measures when necessary. Shahab The hope

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Speaker 1: is always that we get stimulus. Kitchukes of sock Gen,

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Speaker 1: writing this morning, evidence of a global economic slowdown continues

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Speaker 1: fact is we don't really know UM. No one can

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Speaker 1: really tell the extent to which China's paint thresholds can

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Speaker 1: sustain over the next few months. The U S appears

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Speaker 1: willing to to test that UM. But the problem for

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Speaker 1: the global economy and stock markets is that if both

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Speaker 1: sides dig in UM, then the problems can get much worse.

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Speaker 1: Right now, there is a sense of a kind of

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a meeting Trump, you know, in June,

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Speaker 1: which which some hope will lead to a resolution a

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Speaker 1: I think then that's when things get much worse. Shocks.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Terrific briefing as well. We got

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Speaker 1: eight minutes in this black which is way too short.

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Speaker 1: Cruel and unusual punishment with Miranda car she's with high

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Speaker 1: tongue international. This truly could be a one hour briefing

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Speaker 1: this morning. Let's try to get it going. Miranda. I'm

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Speaker 1: and see where the trade talks are Monday morning. What

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Speaker 1: will you focus on, Well, it depends what the US

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Speaker 1: this is really important. The Secretary Commerce disagrees with you,

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Speaker 1: Wilbert Ross said yesterday, I'm Bloomberg. He feels that Chinese

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Speaker 1: it's what the US does well. From China's point of view,

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Speaker 1: they regard the Huawei um accusations and as the action

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Speaker 1: was an interesting comment from Wang Yang, who's um Um

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Speaker 1: saying that the maximum hit that the China sees from

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what the Chinese can do to offset

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Speaker 1: to China. Miranda, translate that for us. How important is

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Speaker 1: You know, because the economy and q world wasn't quite

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Speaker 1: but yeah, they feel they feel, whether rightly or wrongly,

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Speaker 1: There was a piece carried by the Nikaation Review in

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Speaker 1: So it's compensating you for default rates that are still

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Speaker 1: under one percent. So you're okay, still holding some high

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Speaker 1: yield in here. But Michael, it's Friday. I'm waiting for

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Speaker 1: interest rates to move higher. It's been a long wait.

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Speaker 1: It's about a decade. There's a third edition of Inside

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Speaker 1: the Yield Book. Sydney Homer, Martin Leebowitz. I'm very proud

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Speaker 1: that I had something to do with the reissuance of

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Speaker 1: that a lifetime ago. Bob Michael. If I read Inside

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Speaker 1: the Yield Book today, would it help me in this

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Speaker 1: bond market? No, it would confuse you. You would miss

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Speaker 1: everything that's that's old. This is why we love Hivan,

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Speaker 1: Bob Michael, and folks correct, go this this is outdated thinking.

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Speaker 1: The central banks have an entire new arsenal of tools

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Speaker 1: that they're deploying their sucking life out of the bond market.

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Speaker 1: You can sit there and look at historic metrics and say,

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Speaker 1: I know the FED should be at four and the

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Speaker 1: dominure should be at five. Tom. You will get there

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Speaker 1: in and you can see that they always frazzled. Michael

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Speaker 1: is even fired up. He sounds almost like Jamie Diamond

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Speaker 1: right now. He's so fired up, Bob Michael. If that's

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Speaker 1: the case, the bond pro seriously are going to say

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Speaker 1: the vector from where we are now back to normal,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be some form of jump condition. Do

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Speaker 1: we have to set ourselves up for sharp price decline

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Speaker 1: in fixed income assets somewhere down the road. Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: The problem is everyone is already set up for that.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the flow in fixed income over

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Speaker 1: the last three years, it's gone into money market funds

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Speaker 1: and short duration funds. Everyone expected they would buy bonds.

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Speaker 1: At the end of this year or the start of

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Speaker 1: next year. When we look at the amount of money

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Speaker 1: and money market funds, it's up to three point two

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Speaker 1: trillion dollars. That's the highest it's been since the financial crisis.

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Speaker 1: So I mean only only money coming into the bond

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Speaker 1: market right now is coming in from overseas. Domestic investors

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Speaker 1: are still waiting, not going to get Okay, we've been

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Speaker 1: making jokes, folks. This is serious and this is the

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Speaker 1: theme of the day off Muhammad al Arian and Ambrose

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Speaker 1: Evans Pritchard that there's a dollar shortage out there abroad.

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Speaker 1: There's a certain sweat and desperation which you see every

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Speaker 1: day worldwide. At JP Morgan explain to our audience the

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Speaker 1: desperation of foreign big money institutions that they must own

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Speaker 1: full faith and credit America. We complain about short money

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Speaker 1: at around two and a half percent and having to

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Speaker 1: buy the ten or at two point four percent. If

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Speaker 1: you're in Switzerland, it's minus three quarters of a percent.

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Speaker 1: If you're in Japan or Europe, you still have negative rates.

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Speaker 1: That money is looking to find yields somewhere, and that

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Speaker 1: money has been coming into the US market and has

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Speaker 1: been hedged back to the base currency of whatever the

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Speaker 1: country is. That money is now starting to come in unhedged,

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Speaker 1: so so money coming out of Asia and out of

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Speaker 1: Europe is now coming into the bond market and bond

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Speaker 1: bonds and not hedging the dollar out because they want

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Speaker 1: the safe haven status of the US dollar. But we

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Speaker 1: gotta leave it there. But Michael, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: That's a real clinic from JP Morgan. This is a

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Speaker 1: joy because when the oil industry turns upside down, every

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Speaker 1: buddy dials one. Don't they dial Daniel Jurgen, you know,

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Speaker 1: all the usual victims. And Amy Myers Jeffee, who has

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Speaker 1: a shingle out at the Council on Foreign Relations. What

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Speaker 1: you need to know is she's interesting when oil blows up,

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Speaker 1: and Amy Myers Jeffee is really interesting when it's quiet

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Speaker 1: in oil, which has been the strangeness of the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks. She is the founder of the Baker Effort

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Speaker 1: at Rice University on energy. She owns Rice University Energy

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Speaker 1: Oil Economics and has worked with many other institutions. Now

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Speaker 1: writing at the CFR, Amy, wonderful to have you with

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Speaker 1: us today. Everybody would say with the news flow brand

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Speaker 1: in West Texas should be gyrating around. They're not. Why,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think the traders are wrong. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's this tug of war between the negative China news

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Speaker 1: and all these sort of quote unquote sabotage acts, and

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Speaker 1: I tell people we're using the word sabotage to make

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Speaker 1: it so and small um. But it's not small um.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a sign of escalating conflict. And the

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Speaker 1: targets have been very strategic. What's the elasticity of that

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Speaker 1: nexus of supply and demand right now? How tight is

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Speaker 1: the market? And you know, not to get Matthew on

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Speaker 1: a Friday, we don't do that. Particular weathers is gorgeous,

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Speaker 1: but but what's the responsiveness we will see given an

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Speaker 1: event in supply and demand? You know, the US has

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Speaker 1: this upside potential, but it's not instantaneous. So you know,

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Speaker 1: if we got to a seventy dollar w t I price,

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Speaker 1: you know, you have analysts like Cornerstone, Macro and City

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Speaker 1: saying that you know, you could have you know, up

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Speaker 1: to twice as much oil coming out of the United

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Speaker 1: States production over the next two years. But you know

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Speaker 1: that's over the next two years. We have to get

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Speaker 1: through the summer and OPEC capacity is really constrained. It's falling.

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Speaker 1: The reports out of Venezuela is that production is down

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Speaker 1: to five hundred thousand barrows a day. You know, before

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Speaker 1: a month or two ago, we were saying a million. Right,

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Speaker 1: you've got constraints now with Saudi Arabia because their pipeline

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Speaker 1: is down. You have the contaminated oil from Russia that's

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Speaker 1: clogging pipelines and inventory in Eastern Europe, so that's a constraint. Um.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you have these pockets and then and

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Speaker 1: then we have to worry about escalating conflict in the

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Speaker 1: Middle East. UM. Energy Intelligence Group is reporting that Saudi

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Speaker 1: Arabia is beefing up security and it's offshore oil fields

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Speaker 1: that border Iran's waters. So there's a lot of risk

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Speaker 1: in the market, and I think the market is just

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Speaker 1: to relax. What do you think the market? What do

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Speaker 1: you think the market is missing here? Is that the

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Speaker 1: supply issues that you just outlined, or does that have

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Speaker 1: a or does the market maybe have a more doubbish

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Speaker 1: view or bearish view of demand? Well, I think they

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Speaker 1: have a very devish view of demand. Um. No one

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Speaker 1: is talking about a recession starting right away this summer

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Speaker 1: in the United States. Gasoline demand is on track to

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Speaker 1: be higher this year. Um. You know, I've heard different

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Speaker 1: analysts talking about China. One has to figure that the

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Speaker 1: Chinese will at least put a temporary stimulus into the market.

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Speaker 1: I guess some people are judging because they haven't intervened

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Speaker 1: to stop the slide in the Chinese stock market. Um.

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Speaker 1: But you know, well, demand might be a slow responder

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Speaker 1: in China to the stock market decline. So I do

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Speaker 1: think that the market is anticipating the lower demand and

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Speaker 1: meat as being immediate and the supply outages as being

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Speaker 1: temporary and um. And maybe that's not right. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: supply outages might become worse or more lasting, um. And

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Speaker 1: maybe the demand fall off will definitely come, but maybe

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Speaker 1: the timeline for it is farther away. So Amy, let's

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Speaker 1: pick a scenario where you know, over the next several

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Speaker 1: weeks or a month or so, sometime over the summer,

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Speaker 1: the situations with Iran does go sideways. Where do you

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Speaker 1: think w T I could go in that scenario? Well,

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Speaker 1: let's what do you mean by sideways? Well, I just

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Speaker 1: meant that we could have a problem with Iran and

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Speaker 1: there would be a supply disruption. Okay, My feeling is,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, at a minimum, you know, we

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Speaker 1: could have another five to ten dollars in the price

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Speaker 1: just from a from the conflict worsening UM and and

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Speaker 1: having there be a problem with perceptions about how much

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Speaker 1: oil is available. To remember, right now, there's oil and

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Speaker 1: inventory out in the Middle East and other places, and

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Speaker 1: they're using that inventory, you know, to supply people. The

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Speaker 1: Europeans are drawing down inventory to replace the lost Russian barrels.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a big financial dispute over the contaminated oil.

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Speaker 1: But you know, once that inventory is used, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: Where's the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Is it? Like underneath CFR

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Speaker 1: up on Park Avenue? Where where is it? Actually? Where

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Speaker 1: is the thing? It's located in Louisiana and Texas. And indeed, um,

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Speaker 1: I think that the administration is looking carefully at whether

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Speaker 1: it needs to release the strategic prawing. Remember the Congress

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Speaker 1: wanted to sell it anyway. I mean, but Amy, to

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Speaker 1: be honest, you're too young to remember this, but I

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Speaker 1: remember the hysteria over the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Is that?

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Speaker 1: Is that? What's next? Here? I think the the strategic

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Speaker 1: pro poem reserve is on the table. Let's remember we're

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Speaker 1: also going into the US hurricane season. Let's hope there's

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Speaker 1: no hurricanes that disrupt US production this year. Um, But

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Speaker 1: you know it's just stuns me. Um. That the oil

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Speaker 1: trading community, they're either so dependent on their algorithms on

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Speaker 1: the economy, it's just hard to believe that that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: She's been waiting too too much time in the Did

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Speaker 1: you see how she just went after our audience so amy,

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things I've heard about is

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Speaker 1: I talked to energy people really over the last several years.

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Speaker 1: It's just this extraordinary amount of oil in the US

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Speaker 1: now with the shale oil. Just give us a sense

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Speaker 1: of why it's not we can't just simply turn on

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Speaker 1: the pickets and get that oil into the marketplace. You

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Speaker 1: know we can, but there's a time lag. Companies have

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Speaker 1: their drilling schedules, and we know what those are. Those

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Speaker 1: are going to produce a another eight hundred or a

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Speaker 1: million barrels a day over this year. For companies to

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Speaker 1: suddenly have the money and run out and put on

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Speaker 1: more rigs, you know that's not going to happen in

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Speaker 1: one day. I gotta get the stand there, I gotta

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Speaker 1: get the rigs there. We have to have a board

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Speaker 1: meeting and decide to increase our spending. When I've got

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Speaker 1: you know, my investors telling me I need to have

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Speaker 1: capital discipline right, so you know it can happen, and

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Speaker 1: it could be a big boost, and and that could

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Speaker 1: happen in three months, six months, eight months, UM, but

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Speaker 1: it's not something that's going to happen in the month

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Speaker 1: of June July one refinery runs go up to supply gasoline.

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Speaker 1: Amy Mayer's jeffe one final question. I don't need to

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Speaker 1: buy hold sell. I understand it's not your game. What

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Speaker 1: do you think of Ana Darko, Chevron, Occidental Total, that

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Speaker 1: whole dance that we saw two weeks ago. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I like Vicky Haloub. I think she made the boldest

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Speaker 1: move since the eighties when t Boon Pickens was bald

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Speaker 1: and honestly, uh, if she were a man, everybody would saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: she's a risk taker. How bold Because if we have

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Speaker 1: a conflict in the Middle East or justice sabotage makes

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Speaker 1: the market worse, She's gonna look like a genius, having

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Speaker 1: consolidated more property and being able to get those economies

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Speaker 1: of scale together for the Permian. Now, I don't like

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Speaker 1: Total's purchase of UM of Mozambique. I think that between

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Speaker 1: you know, these long term risk to the Chinese economy

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Speaker 1: and UM and the overall, we have so much natural

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Speaker 1: gas in the United States and other places. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not so optimistic about you know, African natural gas

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Speaker 1: leaving his LG is total. But you know, power to

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Speaker 1: them if they think they can make a business out

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Speaker 1: of that. UM and uh, you know, people. The thing

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Speaker 1: that I've heard that I think is a serious challenge

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Speaker 1: for Oxy is that companies always have difficulty emerging two

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Speaker 1: companies when there's cultural differences. UM and the you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of management style of the Anadarko and the management

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Speaker 1: style of Occidental are very different. So that's going to

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Speaker 1: be a challenge. Amy, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: She's a classic Amy Myers Jeffee with the constant foreign

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Speaker 1: relations of Rubenstein senior fellow there, and I really want

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Speaker 1: to point out her founding abilities for James Baker at

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Speaker 1: Race University where they really jump started Texas scholarship on energy.

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Speaker 1: She is just wonderful. Paul, what she just said there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have an opinion on this, but boy,

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Speaker 1: that zeitgeist is really out there on Oxy Forward. Thanks

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