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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. Marisk and hapag Lloyd have

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Speaker 1: denied a reported packed with Yemen's Uthy rebels on safe

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Speaker 1: movement through the Red Seat. The Danish publication's Shipping Watch

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Speaker 1: had said that meetings between Huthi rebels and shipowners had

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Speaker 1: taken place. The publication did not name the companies. Reaction

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg's Lee Classcow.

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Speaker 2: And it's pretty unlikely that a large publicly traded company

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Speaker 2: like Marisk or Hbagloid are going to negotiate with the Huthi's,

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Speaker 2: which are terrorists. You know, there's a lot of bad

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Speaker 2: things that could happen them as a company if they

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Speaker 2: welready engage in such behaviors. So we think the report

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Speaker 2: is pretty much speculative, and it might be you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe it might have been one really small shipowner that

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Speaker 2: was negotiating Lee Classcow.

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Speaker 1: In other news, China's largest shipper, Costco, said that it

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Speaker 1: would stop delivering goods to Israel because of the attacks

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Speaker 1: by Houthy militants. As Belah said, as a senior commander

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Speaker 1: was killed in South Lebanon, the Iran backed militant group

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Speaker 1: said Wissam Tauiel was killed in the fight against Israel,

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Speaker 1: without giving any further information. Tauel is the second Hesba

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Speaker 1: Lah commander targeted by Israel in Lebanon within a week.

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Speaker 1: The latest now on Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine

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Speaker 1: United Airlines says it has found loose bolts in multiple

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Speaker 1: aircraft during inspections. This comes after a mishap on an

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Speaker 1: Alaska air jet where a door plug was blown out

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Speaker 1: shortly after takeoff. The incident had prompted the FAA to

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Speaker 1: ground one hundred seventy one Max nine jets and order inspections.

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Speaker 1: In other news, an explosion has occurred in downtown Fort Worth,

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Speaker 1: Texas at the Sandman Signature Hotel. Investigators believe the blast

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Speaker 1: was the result of a natural gas leak. Reports say

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Speaker 1: eleven people have been injured, although their conditions have yet

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Speaker 1: to be released, while one person is said to be missing.

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Speaker 1: The hotel was built in nineteen twenty. It has two

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty five rooms and was listed on the

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Speaker 1: National Register of Historic Places back in nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: Bipartisan anger has been directed at Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

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Speaker 1: More from Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman.

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Speaker 3: Politicians on both sides of the Isle are demanding answers

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Speaker 3: as to why Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin failed to let

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Speaker 3: anyone know he was hospitalized on New Year's Day. The

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Speaker 3: retired general didn't even let the White House know he

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Speaker 3: was at Walter Reed Medical Center for four days, depending

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Speaker 3: on says they knew a day after that Austin was hospitalized,

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Speaker 3: but did not tell the White House, Congress, or even

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Speaker 3: the deputy Defense Secretary for several days. Republican Senator Susan

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Speaker 3: Collins Remain says its quote inexplicable that the Secretary's condition

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Speaker 3: remains shrouded in secrecy, while Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulden says

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Speaker 3: this astounding that the president in Austin's own deputy didn't

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Speaker 3: know he was in the hospital. According to White House

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Speaker 3: spokesman John Kirby, President Biden has no plans to replace Austin.

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Speaker 3: Dan Schwartzman Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio China is hinting at further monetary easing with a

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Speaker 1: possible cut in banks reserve ratios. Bloomberg's Yvon Mann has

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Speaker 1: more from Hong Kong.

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Speaker 4: The PBOC may use assorted monetary policy tools to provide

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Speaker 4: more support. The central Bank's head of Monetary Policy, Joe Lahn,

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Speaker 4: said these tools include money market operations, medium term lending facilities,

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Speaker 4: and reserve requirements. The comments come after the Central Bank

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Speaker 4: already provided a massive amount of liquidity in recent weeks.

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Speaker 4: Back in July, Zoe made similar comments in public before

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Speaker 4: the central Bank made a triple r cut in September.

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Speaker 4: Much of this may already be priced into markets. Last month,

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Speaker 4: economists pulled by Bloomberg forecast a twenty five basis point

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Speaker 4: cut in the first quarter of this year in Hong Kong.

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Speaker 4: I'm Yvon Mann Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: In sports news, Michigan has defeated Washington thirty four to

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Speaker 1: thirteen to win the College football National Championship. The Wolverines

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Speaker 1: Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards both ran for more than

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Speaker 1: one hundred yards and both scored two touchdowns. And that's

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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. This is Bloomberg