Thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg. Joe sure. Francine can you tell us a little bit about that first day you started at siemens . Joe its been a while, obviously, but i remember i was coming into siemens and i thought, oh, my god, they have abbreviations for everything. And i was thinking to myself, i dont know nothing anymore about what i studied. So it was quite an experience. Francine did you remember going into it, what did you think . Did you think this is a company i really want to work for for a long time . Joe i had multiple opportunities. I was interviewing a different places, but then i thought siemens at that time was still in the semiconductor business, the electronic business. I thought this is really cool. They were just about to develop this one megabit chip. One magabit, now we are at gigachips. So it felt pretty cool. So i said, yeah, siemens. That is where i want to be. Francine how has the Company Changed . Joe its like day and night, really is. I was coming
That is the elephant in the room for us, what are they going to be tomorrow . It is concerning, but from a credit perspective you have an opaque business model. You dont have a lot of disclosure to the markets and that makes it tough for us. This is a dynamic you see across the market, still after we are well into a fed hiking cycle, the borrowing costs are still near the lowest they have ever been. It remains a good time for corporations to borrow money. There is an ongoing demand for yield. You think about it, the fed has gone through a process of slowing downward shoot adjustment. Its happening at a glacial pace. There is an extraordinary demand. All of the companies have taken advantage of huge demand so they are issuing long bond at tight spreads. So, the Corporate Market has extended quite a bit. Central banks around the world have brought 60 trillion worth of assets. Private investors have to buy something and go somewhere. Jonathan joining us, lets talk about the 40 year securi
That is the elephant in the room for us, what are they going to be tomorrow . It is concerning, but from a credit perspective you have an opaque business model. You dont have a lot of disclosure to the markets and that makes it tough for us. This is a dynamic you see across the market, still after we are well into a fed hiking cycle, the borrowing costs are still near the lowest they have ever been. It remains a good time for corporations to borrow money. There is an ongoing demand for yield. You think about it, the fed has gone through a process of slowing downward shoot adjustment. Its happening at a glacial pace. There is an extraordinary demand. All of the companies have taken advantage of huge demand so they are issuing long bond at tight spreads. So, the Corporate Market has extended quite a bit. Central banks around the world have brought 60 trillion worth of assets. Private investors have to buy something and go somewhere. Jonathan joining us, lets talk about the 40 year securi
That is the elephant in the room for us, what are they going to be tomorrow . It is concerning, but from a credit perspective you have an opaque business model. You dont have a lot of disclosure to the markets and that makes it tough for us. This is a dynamic you see across the market, still after we are well into a fed hiking cycle, the borrowing costs are still near the lowest they have ever been. It remains a good time for corporations to borrow money. There is an ongoing demand for yield. You think about it, the fed has gone through a process of slowing downward shoot adjustment. Its happening at a glacial pace. There is an extraordinary demand. All of the companies have taken advantage of huge demand so they are issuing long bond at tight spreads. So, the Corporate Market has extended quite a bit. Central banks around the world have brought 60 trillion worth of assets. Private investors have to buy something and go somewhere. Jonathan joining us, lets talk about the 40 year securi
Investors should be paying more attention to draghi, not yellen. He was walking on eggshells. Everything, again, is so data dependent. Obviously if the euro zone was , to show any signs of rolling over, core inflation drifts back down it may be very difficult , for them to announce anything at all but certainly the market is looking for some clarity. The central bankers want to be very gradual, very careful in both signaling and implementing the withdrawal of this extraordinary accommodation they put in place the last few years. How do you exit in a careful way where you dont signal too much youre exiting and still give time for the economies to do well and still give time for the inflation to come up and i think he will at jackson hole go carefully forward. The economy there is more fragile than the u. S. From a structural perspective. So, i think the draghi comments will have much more information content at this stage. The ecb wants to always say, were always going to say nothing an