Surveillance: Market Volatility Not A Macro Story, Greene Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Megan Greene, Manulife Asset Management Chief Economist, says the government shutdown isn't a huge story for the U.S. economy. John Sfakianakis, Gulf Research Center Foundation Director of Economics Research, doesn't think Saudi Arabia sees oil as a strategic weapon. Martin Indyk, CFR Distinguished Fellow & Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, talks the impact of the U.S. pullout from Syria on the "cold war" between Iran and Israel. David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy CEO & Founder, talks the risk of Amazon achieving the status of "commerce king."
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| 0:00.0 | To me, context is about pattern recognition. |
| 0:02.8 | It's connecting the dots. |
| 0:04.4 | It's giving readers an ability to synthesize |
| 0:07.6 | a number of different perspectives |
| 0:09.2 | so they can understand how the greater whole works, |
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| 0:57.0 | Let's find out if indeed the back and forth between Bulls and Bears |
| 1:07.0 | whether this volatility is expressed in the economy. I want to bring in Megan |
| 1:11.4 | Green, Manul Life Asset Management, Global Chief Economist. |
| 1:16.2 | Megan, thanks very much for being with us. |
| 1:18.9 | Is the economy as volatile as the stock market would have people believe? |
| 1:25.0 | No, I don't think that it is. |
| 1:27.0 | I think that the market volatility that we've seen isn't really a macro story. |
| 1:32.0 | If you look at the fundamentals for the US, they actually look pretty decent. |
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