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Surveillance: U.S. Jobless Claims Fall With Gapen

Bloomberg Surveillance

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Rob Waldner, Invesco Advisers Chief Strategist of Fixed Income & Head of Multi-Sector, says investors should do their homework before investing in assets that are dependent on economic recovery. Jill Carey Hall, Bank of America U.S. Equity Strategist & Head of U.S. SMID Cap Strategy, says small cap companies were a lot worse positioned before Covid-19 than before previous recessions. Michael Gapen, Barclays Chief U.S. Economist, says the service sector has only recovered about one-third of its lost jobs. Jason Farley, Johns Hopkins Nursing Professor, describes how antibody testing can help us determine a more accurate Covid-19 infection rate.

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And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg.com to get context. Welcome to the Bloomberg surveillance podcast. I'm Tom Keene.

0:28.0

Daily, we bring you insight from the best in economics finance investment and international relations

0:34.4

find Bloomberg surveillance on Apple Podcasts soundcloud bloomer.com and of course on the

0:41.4

Bloomberg we begin the program by talking about this market And of

0:43.4

course,

0:44.4

this course on the Bloomberg. We begin the program though by talking about this market.

0:44.9

We can bring in Rob Waldner of Invesco.

0:47.5

Rob, you've made it pretty clear. You think it's time to move to a more cautious

0:51.5

risk stance on risky assets. I'll start with a short one. Why? Well, John,

0:58.0

thanks for having you this morning. What's driving markets here is really policy, right?

1:05.0

And I'll give you a few statistics.

1:06.6

We have, you know, we talked about Treasury's just a moment ago.

1:10.0

You know, real yields in the Treasury market are very low so if you look at real

1:14.3

yields have continued to decline we have five year real yields about minus a

1:18.0

hundred basis points real ten year yields minus eighty basis points we We have a Fed that continues to be active in the market which is the reason why we've gotten this big bounce off of the bottom.

1:29.0

And if you look at what happened in June, it becomes very, very clear what that is what's driving things.

1:34.3

So in June, we saw investment grade, which we know that the Fed is buying, continue to rally,

1:38.8

investment grade spreads tightened by about 24 basis points or so in June.

1:44.8

High-yield did not rally as much.

1:48.2

Spreads tighten much less.

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