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Speaker 1: News when you want it With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. Its election day. In the

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Speaker 1: United States, voters in Ohio have passed an amendment enshrining

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Speaker 1: abortion rights in their state's constitution. The amendment, known as

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Speaker 1: Issue one, was adopted by a margin of fifty nine

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Speaker 1: percent to forty one percent, according to the Associated Press.

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Speaker 1: The amendment prevents the state from interfering with reproductive decisions

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Speaker 1: up to twenty three weeks of pregnancy. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: Democratic Governor Andy Busheer has been re elected in the

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Speaker 1: state of Kentucky. The third GOP presidential debate will be

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Speaker 1: held on Wednesday night, with fewer candidates taking the stage. Bloomberg'

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Speaker 1: Nancy Lyons reports.

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Speaker 2: Five presidential candidates have qualified for this latest face off.

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Speaker 2: They include Florida Governor Ronda Santis, former New Jersey Governor

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Speaker 2: Chris Christi, former UN Ambassador Nikki Hailey, Ohio entrepreneur Vivit Ramaswami,

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Speaker 2: and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. Order to qualify, candidates

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Speaker 2: needed at least seventy thousand unique voters and four percent

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Speaker 2: support in two polls. Former President Trump the overwhelming favorite

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Speaker 2: to win the nomination, according to multiple polls, is boycotting

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Speaker 2: the event and will instead hold a rally in Florida.

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Speaker 2: In Washington, Nancy Lyons Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Ivanka Trump is scheduled to take the witness stand in

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Speaker 1: her father's New York fraud trial. Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has

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Speaker 1: the story.

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Speaker 3: The trial issue is whether Donald Trump inflated the worth

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Speaker 3: of his properties to lenders and other business dealings. Ivanka

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Speaker 3: Trump has pretty much disappeared from the public spotlight, opting

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Speaker 3: to leave both New York and Washington, d C. For Miami.

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Speaker 3: How much she will say under oath or what she

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Speaker 3: says she remembers is a question, but part of what

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Speaker 3: prosecutors want to look at as her role in several

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Speaker 3: real estate transactions, as well as the valuation of her

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Speaker 3: New York apartment, which they say was priced at about

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Speaker 3: two and a half times the value. Ed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: In other news, Chinese Vice President Han Jung says recent

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Speaker 1: high level meetings between his country and the United States

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Speaker 1: send a positive signal for the world, but he's warning

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Speaker 1: against protectionism and de risking. Hans spoke at the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: New Economy Forum in Singapore.

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Speaker 4: Unilatronism and protectionism lead nowhere. The issue of security cannot

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Speaker 4: be overstretched. Decompany several industry and supply chains, and the

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Speaker 4: so called de risking will all only divide the global

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Speaker 4: economy into many isolated islands.

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Speaker 1: China's Vice President Han Jung. Meantime, Chinese President Xi Jinping

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Speaker 1: will be meeting with top US business executives next week.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg and Kate says that story.

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Speaker 5: Ji is set to attend to dinner with corporate leaders

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Speaker 5: when he visited San Francisco for the Asia Pacific Economic

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Speaker 5: Cooperation Summit, as the US and China continue to work

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Speaker 5: on stabilizing relations this year. On J's list of priorities

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Speaker 5: for his US trip as calming foreign investors who are

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Speaker 5: increasingly nervous about doing business in China due to issues

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Speaker 5: including geopolitical tensions, a slowing economy, and detention of employees.

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Speaker 5: Chief executive officers of major US companies are on the

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Speaker 5: guest list for the dinner in Washington and Kates Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're hearing that Apple, in a rare move, is delaying

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Speaker 1: software overhauls to fix some glitches. More from Bloomberg's tom busby.

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Speaker 6: The tech giant, pausing development of next year's iOS system

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Speaker 6: software updates for the iPhone, iPad and other devices after

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Speaker 6: a proliferation of bugs in earlier versions and to give

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Speaker 6: itself enough time to work out those glitches now rather

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Speaker 6: than adding new features. Engineers at Apple, known for its

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Speaker 6: clean interfaces, easy to use controls, and commitment to privacy,

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Speaker 6: have now been tasked with fixing those flaws and improving

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Speaker 6: the performance of the software. Tom busby Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Apple stock traded up one and a half percent in

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Speaker 1: the latest session. The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its

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Speaker 1: projections for China's growth rate this year. We get that

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Speaker 1: story for from Bloomberg'sdaviding Glace in Hong Kong.

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Speaker 7: The upgrade comes after China recorded stronger than expected growth

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Speaker 7: in the third quarter that followed Beijing's release of numerous

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Speaker 7: policies to support the recovery. The IMF now expects China's

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Speaker 7: GDP to expand five point four percent in twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: three and four point six percent in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: That's upo point four percentage points from its earlier projections. Now,

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Speaker 7: the IMF says Beijing's recent plan to issue more sovereign

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Speaker 7: debts was a factor for the upgrade. The fund says

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Speaker 7: lower growth next year can be attributed to China's property

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Speaker 7: slump and weaker external demand. UBS and JP Morgan Chase

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Speaker 7: have also upgraded China's growth in Hong Kong. I'm David

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Speaker 7: ing Glass Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio, and that's news when you want it with Bloomberg

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