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[Music] Welcome back to Market on Close. I'm Sam Bardis alongside Alex Coffeeoffe. So just some final thoughts on today's session, Alex.I mean really the conversation right now has been centered around the 2026 outlook as most of our guests have been talking about over the last 90 minutes or so. The guests I've been speaking to really believe that the beginning of 2026 is likely going to be really an extension of the end of 2025. And what they mean by that is the drivers which are really propelling this mar ...

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19 December 2025 | 12:31PM EST Economics Research GLOBAL MARKETS ANALYST An Investor's Guide to Japanese Portfolio Flows Goldman Sachs Global Markets Analyst An Investor's Guide to Japanese Portfolio Flows Japanese portfolio flows can have an outsized impact on market dynamics due to Japan's exceptionally large, positive net international investment position (NIIP) and the historically high domestic participation in the JGB market. For that reason, investors have long had an eye on the official statistics, ...

Right. Uh now it's time to get uh a look at the big picture. Let's welcome in our next guest.That's going to be Colin Martin, head of fixed income research and strategy at the Schwab Center for Financial Research. Colin, I wanted to get your take here on just the data in general here today. We got a little pop there in yields uh post that GDP.What was your takeaway. >> Yeah, it was a really strong report, you know, across the board. We we got the the highest quarterly gain annualized in two years.And and I ...

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Two of the most anticipated questions of 2026 are who will be the next Fed chairman and how many times will they cut rates. For some clues, let's welcome in Richard Fischer. He's the former Dallas Fed president, now a senior adviser at Jeffre.It's good to see you. Welcome back. >> Thank you and happy holidays to you and everybody at CNBC.>> Uh we appreciate you. Thank you. All right.Would you cut rates in 26 if you had the vote. >> Depends on what the numbers show. Uh we got some rather dodgy inflation numb ...

exactly what Rick Reer lives and breathes. He's Black Rockck's global allocation team head. He also has a side job as the global fixed income chief, too.He You're busy, man. I got to tell you, every day. >> What was your first reaction when you saw the CPI number.>> It's pretty good. I mean, you know, listen, have we solved inflation. No, we haven't solved inflation.We're closer to target. You know, it's also that number was a little funky today because we didn't get October. So, it was it was a little mess ...

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Do you think that this really changes the needle in any way. Well, Lisa, you stole my opening line. I was going to do a little hat tip to our friend and colleague, Jonathan Ferro.He always says the first reaction is not always the right reaction. And you said that at the top of the hour there at the top of the segment. You know, the headline was what the markets were reacting to, the little bit higher than expected unemployment rate.I think you guys in the earlier segment decomposed that pretty well the lab ...