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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 Los Angeles. At least twenty people have

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Speaker 1: been killed after a magnitude seven point six earthquake struck Japan.

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Speaker 1: The quake hit off the Noto Peninsula on Japan's northwest coast.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Isabelle Reynolds has more.

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Speaker 2: The town of Wajima, which is very popular with tourists

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Speaker 2: as a sort of fish market that tourists love to

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Speaker 2: go and visit. It seems completely decimated by an enormous

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Speaker 2: fire that broke out, so I think more than one

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Speaker 2: hundred buildings according to NHK have been involved in this blaze,

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Speaker 2: which is still ongoing. A lot of old wooden buildings

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Speaker 2: which are very prone to damage.

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Speaker 1: That's Bloomberg's Isabelle Reynolds. Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority said in

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Speaker 1: an emailed statement there have been no abnormalities found at

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Speaker 1: nuclear power plants in the region. The Biden administration has

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Speaker 1: won another round in its efforts to try and slow

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Speaker 1: China from building its own semiconductor into street. Bloomberg's Ed

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Speaker 1: Baxter has the.

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Speaker 3: Story ASML holding is canceled. Shipments of some of its

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Speaker 3: machines to China at the Biden request. This week's before

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Speaker 3: the export bands on the high end ship making came

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Speaker 3: into effect, the Dutch manufacturer had licenses to ship three

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Speaker 3: top of the line deep ultraviolet lithography machines, but before

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Speaker 3: the deadline it decided to cancel the orders. The US

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Speaker 3: and allies have been trying to block access to the technology.

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Speaker 3: Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: South Korean opposition party leader Lee J Mung has been

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Speaker 1: stabbed with a knife while talking to reporters in Busan.

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Speaker 1: Yon happ News says the assailant has been arrested. Lee

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Speaker 1: was seen collapsing to the ground as people rushed to

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Speaker 1: aid him. One man was seen pressing a handkerchief to

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Speaker 1: Lee's neck. Chinese ev maker BYD may have just overtaken

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Speaker 1: Tesla as the world leader in sales. Bloomberg's John Leu

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Speaker 1: has more.

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Speaker 4: When byds Tesla, it'll do two things. I think that's

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Speaker 4: going to put this company into the consciousness of people

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Speaker 4: around the world in a way that it has that

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Speaker 4: company has not had ever before. The number two thing

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Speaker 4: it does is it really underscores how a dominant a

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Speaker 4: position China not only as a market, but as a

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Speaker 4: as a country with lots of companies producing electric vehicles,

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Speaker 4: how dominant a position China has in that industry now.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, Tesla's numbers are due tomorrow. The company is also

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Speaker 1: looking at record numbers. More on that from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 5: The Austin based ev maker is estimated to have handed

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Speaker 5: over almost four hundred eighty three thy two hundred vehicles

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Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg,

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Speaker 5: and that would mean Tesla probably exceeded its goal to

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Speaker 5: deliver a record one point eight million cars last year.

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Speaker 5: This would be thanks in large part due to die

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Speaker 5: hard Elon Musk fans and tech savvy early adopters. The record, though,

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Speaker 5: is just a fraction of what Toyota or General Motors

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Speaker 5: normally sell, meaning for its next phase of growth, Tesla

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Speaker 5: has to win over everyday buyers who merely so like

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Speaker 5: vehicles based on more mundane parties things like price, are

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Speaker 5: ease of use. Denise Pellergreedy Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: President Shei Jinping has pledged to strengthen China's economic recovery

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Speaker 1: after a tough year. Bloomberg's Jenny Marsh has more.

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Speaker 6: This is she Jinping's New Year's Eve speech, and he

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Speaker 6: normally uses it to sort of trumpet the achievements his

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Speaker 6: nation's major in the year, and I think this speech

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Speaker 6: really stood out for how candid he was being about

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Speaker 6: these problems. It's the first time he's acknowledged that the

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Speaker 6: struggles that twenty twenty three have brought. But as you say,

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Speaker 6: you know, it also sort of underplayed in some ways

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Speaker 6: the problems that are still lying ahead in twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: four for the economy, and he didn't really have any

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Speaker 6: sort of quick fixes for that.

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Speaker 1: China is trying to stabilize a crisis in the property market,

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Speaker 1: boost growth, and prevent deflation. And that's news when you

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Speaker 1: want it. With Bloomberg News now, I'm Brian Curtis. This

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