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Half the debt on S&P 500 balance sheets was floating rate in 2007. Today 80% of it is fixed, which is why Bank of America's equity strategy chief does not read a 5% 10-year Treasury yield as the level where stocks break.
That was one strategist on the morning after the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time since 2023. Another 37 appearances worked the same day from every other side: a commodity research director who counts 8.5 million barrels a day of lost production, a former New York Fed president who says diesel is about to reach core inflation, and a former Neuberger Berman manager who reads the AI labs' safety warnings as a bid for regulation.
"If you look at the summary of economic projections, growth doesn't slow, unemployment rate doesn't rise, yet inflation magically sinks back to 2%. I think it's going to be a little bit harder than that." — Bill Dudley, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on Bloomberg Talks
We scanned 656 shows and 12 hours of audio, wrote 38 summaries, and pulled 44 quotes into this 13-minute read.
Here is what mattered.
Macro
Diesel costs reach core inflation
"So any good or service that has to be trucked around the United States has to embody that cost. So it's not just going to be in the headline inflation rate. It's going to start to filter into the core inflation rate as well." — Bill Dudley, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on Bloomberg Talks
Core PCE is heading to 3%
"But, based on inputs from the PPI, the CPI reports, it looks as if year-over-year core PCE is still going to be coming in at least 3%. ... A full percentage point above the Fed target, and Warsh reiterated that was a firm fixed target." — Kevin Flanagan, Head of Investment and Fixed Income Strategy at WisdomTree, on WisdomTree Investments
The hike bought back credibility
"Because if you go back a couple of FOMC meetings ago, he didn't give the market the message that they wanted. The Treasury market didn't like it. The dollar didn't like it. ... But, you know, after all, this is still a supply shock. And, you know, central banks cannot do anything about that." — Jane Foley, Head of FX Strategy at Rabobank, on Bloomberg Television
Nominal growth of 8%, real growth of 1.5%
"But you got 8% last quarter. You got 8% nominal. You got 1.5% real. All that stuff in there is inflation. ... So I'm leaning a little bit more towards inflationary boom, however you want to express that in your life." — Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, on Bloomberg Surveillance
6% and 7% yields are off the table
"And by doing that and establishing that, you've taken the other side of the equation off, where we were getting clients talking about 6% and 7% in the 10-year yield — not happening. ... Well, again, in our mind, it's this transmission mechanism from $100 oil to yields, to hyperscaler debt issuance." — Julian Emanuel, equity strategist at Evercore ISI, on Bloomberg Surveillance
Long bonds rank last of 134 groups
"Currently, out of all of those 134 groups, that ranks dead last of all of those groups. And easily it's last by a good margin there." — Trevor Plesco, strategist at Nasdaq Dorsey Wright, on The Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Podcast
80% of S&P 500 debt is fixed
"I think that we've never been that worried about 5% as some kind of red line, even though it feels like that's the point of pain in the market. ... Today, it's 80% fixed. So I think that's the good news. Small caps might have a harder time. They've got more refinancing risk." — Savita Subramanian, who leads equity strategy at Bank of America, on Bloomberg Surveillance
A 50bps BOJ move is the shock
"If they only do a quarter, then I think maybe that'll keep the carry trade from unwinding faster. But if they go and surprise and do 50, that might be more of a shock." — Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research, on Bloomberg Talks
Six months without a 5% drop
"I don't put a lot of stock in the seasonal trends, but I do think it's interesting that we're entering September, October, and haven't had a pullback for about over six months now." — Savita Subramanian, who leads equity strategy at Bank of America, on Bloomberg Television
Other appearances:
Meridian Equity Partners senior managing partner on the $100 line on crude and the quarterly index rebalance on BNN Bloomberg
International
Blinkit is the only profitable one
"So quick commerce is not the same everywhere. Okay, so every single company has a different strategy, although on the face of it it might look like they're doing the same thing. ... The quick commerce models under the hood are actually different. So Blinkit is the only company which is actually profitable." — Deepinder Goyal, founder of Eternal, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, on Bloomberg Television
Canada holds 34 critical minerals
"I'll observe that Canada has deposits of over 34 critical minerals, and we are among the top producers of the ten most essential for the energy transition." — Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, on Bloomberg Television
China sells good enough for less
"You see the US top AI models they are still the best but they are expensive too. For China's models they are not as good but they are also good enough and then they're much significantly cheaper" — Liqian Ren, Director of Modern Alpha at WisdomTree, on WisdomTree Investments
Canada heads to 15-20 gigawatts
"Well, it's a little unknown at this time, but we're kind of looking at 15 to 20 gigawatt. ... our estimate of the total addressable market, or of demand, is about 200 gigawatts across North America, you know, call it, over the next 10 years." — John Gibson, industrials and Canadian energy services analyst at BMO Capital Markets, on BNN Bloomberg
Financials
Greed made the mess and fixed it
"Because one of the things I've said before is it's greed that got us into the mess and it's greed that got us out of it." — Chris Stansbury, President and CFO at Lumen Technologies, on The Credit Edge by Bloomberg Intelligence
An ETF holding two private firms
"Mango stands for Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google slash Alphabet, OpenAI, and SpaceX. And I think the noteworthy thing there is that there are two companies there that are private." — Isabel Lee, cross-asset reporter at Bloomberg News, on Trillions
Alternatives and PE
Power, not chips, is the limit
"And the biggest impediment to the data centers being built, to the AI factories being built, is power." — Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield, on CNBC Television
Chips become financeable collateral
"And Nvidia is leading an industry where we're going to take chips — and today they're a consumable, and we're going to make them into an investment asset class, and therefore you can finance against them." — Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield, on CNBC Television
Consumer
Sports competes inside $20B
"And maybe if I had $1 for every time I'm asked that, that money would just pay for Sunday Night Football, and I wouldn't even have to take it out of the $20 billion content budget." — Bela Bajaria, Chief Content Officer at Netflix, on CNBC Television
Sports
The WNBA cap went to $7M
"The WNBA salary cap went from $1.4 million to $7 million in one year, with a path to $10 million by the end of the term of the agreement. ... And what that means is the WNBA players can now make a career out of playing in the WNBA and they won't have to go overseas to make a living." — Clara Wu Tsai, co-owner of the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Liberty, on The David Rubenstein Show
Technology & AI
Aspirations are high, readiness low
"And if I look at our client base, which is largely Global 2000, I would say aspirations are high, because whatever happened in Silicon Valley, but readiness is low." — BK Kalra, President and CEO of Genpact, on CNBC Television
Agents act without fear of consequences
"They're supremely intelligent. They have no fear of consequences, and they tend to take poor judgment calls and poor decisions more often than you and I would like." — Jeetu Patel, President of Cisco, on Bloomberg Television
The CIO is the wrong owner for AI
"So they delegate and defer to the CIO who is an important asset to the company but whose job is to install software. It's not to drive AI transformation." — Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of 01.AI, on Semafor
Export controls have not worked
"It's becoming clearer that the export controls do not work and it's interesting to see people acknowledge it hasn't worked therefore we need more of it. ... if you look at a horizon of two or three years China will be completely self sufficient self-reliant on its own model and chip ecosystems." — Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of 01.AI, on Semafor
Weaponizing a flaw takes hours now
"2018, 2019, the time it would take for an attacker, from revealing a vulnerability and some attacker weaponizing it, it means actually breaking into a site, would be two years. ... This has now shrunk down to hours. So the moment a vulnerability is out, in less than hours, someone will be attacked with that." — Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, on Bloomberg Tech
The extinction alarm is damaging
"But this recent spate of fear about AI leading to human extinction and so on is much more science fiction than science. It's very damaging." — Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI and Managing General Partner at AI Fund, on Bloomberg Tech
The labs have no moats
"They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation" — Steve Eisman, former Senior Portfolio Manager at Neuberger Berman, on CNBC Television
The chain rests on two companies
"But I think the issue is that at the end of the day, the entire AI chain, from Nvidia to the hyperscalers to Anthropic and OpenAI all depends on the future health of Anthropic and OpenAI, because there's such a huge percentage of the entire chain." — Steve Eisman, former Senior Portfolio Manager at Neuberger Berman, on CNBC Television
Scarcity, not a fiber-style glut
"A lot of people like to talk about the great overbuild of fiber that happened in the past and what followed, but the reality is, back then, there wasn't scarcity — there was too much of that stuff. ... We have the exact opposite: all of the major players just clamoring for more capacity, whether it's compute, whether it's power, whether it's cooling — all of that stuff, demand continues to be high." — Mark Malek, CIO at Siebert Financial, on Fox Business Clips
Memory is the new bottleneck
"So now that they can push those out, now you're seeing memory as the primary bottleneck, and that's where, you know, a lot of the money has shifted over the last, say, six or eight months, because you have to stand up new foundries, or new fabs rather, to make that memory" — Nick Frasse, product manager at VanEck, on Phil Rosen
Enough GPUs, not enough power
"We might have enough GPUs, we might have enough demand, we just do not have enough power. ... I think the market prices Iron at what is already contracted on the book, but I think the market is missing that they have secured access to 5 gigawatt of energy" — Martin, an analyst at Milk Road, on Milk Road AI
OpenAI's own teams found the faults
"That's correct, but again, there are these incidents where internally during the model development process, OpenAI's own teams identified where the AIs were essentially acting in ways that it shouldn't." — Shireen Ghaffari, AI reporter at Bloomberg News, on Bloomberg Businessweek
VC & Startups
Private until $1.5T to $2T
"I truly believe at some point in time it will become a societal issue where these are creating unprecedented amounts of wealth in such a concentrated amount of hands. ... That is just not available when these companies are staying private until they get into a $1.5, $2 trillion market cap." — Joe Magazzini, partner at Fortuna Investments, on Bloomberg Businessweek
Industrials and Transport
Lucid's $1.4B cash target stands
"The work with AlixPartners has been concluded. Their work was focused on reducing cost. ... Our clear target of reducing our cash consumption by $1.4 billion was developed together with them." — Silvio Napoli, CEO of Lucid, on Bloomberg Television
Amazon will not cut capex
"The story is different, though, for non-residential housing, and the reason why goes back to AI — the building of data centers, semiconductor manufacturing, reshoring in general, even pharma manufacturing. ... Amazon is not going to pare back its capex intentions because interest rates are 50 basis points higher." — Jed Ellerbroek, portfolio manager at Argent Capital Management, on BNN Bloomberg
Wings set the pace at Boeing
"And so for investors who were expecting them to sort of go from 47 to 52 to 63, that's been something that's been a bit of a jolt for them. ... And so Kelly Ortberg talked about how wings were a pacing item and how they were struggling to produce enough wings for the aircraft." — Sid Philip, Chief Correspondent for Global Aviation at Bloomberg News, on Bloomberg Intelligence
Materials & Energy
A new law opened Venezuela
"We know that there's been a lot of progress made in the past several months with the Hydrocarbon Law that have created some more favorable terms, more competitive terms for external outside investment that has attracted Continental and attracted many other companies to look at the country for potential new development." — Doug Lawler, CEO of Continental Resources, on CNBC Television
8.5M barrels a day of lost output
"And so in terms of production, we've probably lost about 8.5 million barrels a day over that whole period. ... It's already doing so, right, because $6.40 for a gallon — like, over 90% of our groceries, we move around the U.S. on 18-wheelers." — Matt Smith, Director of Commodity Research at Kpler, on CNBC Television
Policy
The federal review was not rigorous
"With respect to the United States Department of Justice, I don't think did an appropriate review, and it was not rigorous. ... We clearly found unlawful levels of market concentration that are permissibly unlawful under the law in three separate markets." — Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, on Bloomberg Talks
10 of 12 priorities are economic
"For example, 10 out of 12 of the top working class priorities are economic, and that's not true for college grads. A lot of their highest priorities are cultural." — Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco, on Big Take
Geopolitics
AI needs nuclear-style controls
"We did it when it came to human cloning. We did it when it came to nuclear technology and non-proliferation. This is non-proliferation on steroids." — Khalilur Rahman, President of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, on Bloomberg Talks
Freedom has fallen for 20 years
"Freedom House says that the aggregate level of freedom in the world has declined now for the last 20 years, since about 2008 or so. ... My Chinese students 20 years ago all said they wanted China to be like the United States. They don't say that anymore." — Francis Fukuyama, professor at Stanford and author of "The End of History and the Last Man", on Odd Lots
Nuggets of Wisdom
AI does two weeks in 15 minutes
"I mean, I think it takes it like less than 15 minutes and it does something that I think a junior analyst would take a couple of weeks to put together." — Chris Mayer, portfolio manager and co-founder of Woodlock House Family Capital, on The World According to Boyar
Returns fall as the file thickens
"But he has this idea that the return you get on investment varies inversely with the thickness of the research file." — Chris Mayer, portfolio manager and co-founder of Woodlock House Family Capital, describing a rule of Martin Sosnoff's, on The World According to Boyar
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