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U.S. equity index futures rebounded from last week's chip route ahead of key earnings that may set the market's direction amid mounting pressure on the artificial intelligence trade.

For more on the markets, Bloomberg's David Ingles and Yvonne Mann spoke to Ma Brooke Shatwan, head of global market strategy at Natixis Investment Managers.

I just want to start off with equity markets have not had a good start to the fourth quarter.

What's your prognosis on why it's been extremely challenging, especially when it comes to momentum?

So the exports is the second engine of this global growth.

AI, exports, and looking for growth from a general perspective makes completely sense in our portfolios.

That was Ma Brooke Shatwan, head of global market strategy at Natixis Investment Managers, speaking to Bloomberg's David Ingles and Yvonne Mann.

And we're bringing you their conversation here on the Daybreak Asia podcast.

So they are building a hotline while locking the shelves.

Natixis economist Gary Ng says trade, investment and access to technology are all fragmenting.

Nice of them to agree on something.

And now the story's further down the page, where the stakes are lower.

Um, but what happened the second year is, you know, you have all those companies that come on campus and I thought, "Well, maybe I should stay.

Maybe I should see what's going on." And so I ended up, uh, working for a French bank in New York called Natixis.

Um, that was really, you know, I had a F1 visa as a student.

You can keep that for an extra year, so it was easiest for a foreign company, a French bank, who understood my background, the visa situation, to hire me.

So I followed my husband.

I get it now.

Um, but the bank, Natixis, had an office in Shanghai, so I was able to work there.

How did you like it?

Analysts at Trivium China countered that such a move would be ineffective because the Federal Reserve could buy the Treasuries China sold.

Alicia Garcia Herrero, Chief Asia-Pacific Economist at Natixis, said China's intent is mainly to show the United States that it can sell large amounts of Treasuries.

During an earlier period of bond market volatility, SMBC Nikko strategist Ataru Okumura wrote that if China were selling Treasuries in retaliation, it would have an incentive to show it would cause financial turmoil to improve its negotiating power against the United States.

Chinese state media has used this lever before.

And they all, they all operate completely independently to each other.

And there is one in Paris which is working with, uh, I think Natixis.

It is on our Natixis deal, so you know our team trade finance system.

So, um, please do come to us.

Thank you.

He's currently head of securitized products at Truist, where he's been for seven years.

Previous to that, he was at Natixis, UBS, and Lehman.

Welcome to the pod, Brock.

Nice to be here, Patrick.

It's time now for your call sheet where we look at the topics driving the trading day ahead.

Crew members today, Peter Boockvar of OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners, also a CNBC contributor, Barbara Duran of BD8 Capital Partners, and Chris Hodge of Natixis CIB Americas.

Uh, it's great to have you all here.

Chris, I'm gonna kick this off with you.