Surveillance: Negative Rates Are Crushing, Eisman Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Steve Eisman, Eisman Group Neuberger Berman Senior Portfolio Manager, thinks negative rates are "crushing" and a massive policy mistake. Steven Englander, Standard Chartered Global Head of G10 FX Strategy, looks ahead to the ECB meeting on Thursday. Carl Weinberg, High Frequency Economics Chief Economist, says the U.S. economy is going to be okay despite the headwinds coming from trade. And Therese Raphael, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, says there is a movement towards reviving labor unions in the U.K.
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| 0:46.0 | What we're doing here folks is the kickoff for the New Year, I'm sorry, |
| 0:50.0 | it's now the Monday after Labor Day when Steve Iceman and I were kids. This is before young Pharaoh's time |
| 0:56.2 | It was sort of that Wednesday Thursday after Labor Day and now Steve it's like now's the kickoff for the year. |
| 1:03.1 | Tell us just your basic position, not trade by trade, |
| 1:06.7 | but are you net long, net short, net cash? |
| 1:09.5 | What's the tone you have going into this fall? |
| 1:12.2 | I'm slightly net long, but only slightly right now. |
| 1:16.0 | And your conviction is, and we talked about this earlier wrapped around, |
| 1:20.0 | not a forecast of global recession, but all the clouds that are out there from a summer of discontent |
| 1:26.2 | you suggest that folds into the autumn and into next year. |
| 1:30.8 | I mean look it's a very weird market in the sense that everybody talks about that they're worried |
| 1:35.6 | and yet the markets with a two to three percent all-time high it's in a nice thing isn't it so I don't know how |
| 1:39.6 | worried they really are I'm in the triple leverage on cash on it's worked like a |
| 1:43.2 | chart. But you know like I said earlier on the television show we are with in my |
| 1:49.6 | mind without question in a global industrial slowdown slash recession. |
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