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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now I

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Speaker 1: made Kalgi. President Trump wants airlines to steer clear of Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Monica Ricks reports.

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Speaker 2: President Trump says airlines should consider airspace above and surrounding

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Speaker 2: Venezuela to be closed. He made the statement on True

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Speaker 2: Social addressing airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers. It's

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Speaker 2: a stark warning as American forces build their presence in

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Speaker 2: the region and Trump weighs potential action. Just last week,

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Speaker 2: The New York Times reports Trump and President Nicolas Maduro

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Speaker 2: spoke by phone to discuss a possible meeting, but never

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Speaker 2: made plans. The US has been intensifying pressure on the

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Speaker 2: country for months, though, as part of an anti drug

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Speaker 2: trafficking operation the Trump administration says is being led by Maludo.

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Speaker 2: Monica Ricks Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio sales on Black Friday rose from a year earlier,

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Speaker 1: according to a key data provider, assigned that US consumers

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Speaker 1: are continuing to spend despite persistent economic concerns. Retail sales

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Speaker 1: excluding autos and east four point one percent on the

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Speaker 1: day after Thanksgiving, according to data from MasterCards Spending Pulse

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Speaker 1: that surpasses last year's three point four percent growth. The figures,

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Speaker 1: which are not adjusted for inflation, draw from both online

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Speaker 1: and in person purchases to give a broad view of

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Speaker 1: economic activity. The data shows you as shoppers resilience amid

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Speaker 1: higher costs and job market concerns. To appeal to price

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Speaker 1: sensitive consumers, retailers are offering discounts on a wide range

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Speaker 1: of goods, although the promotions may not be quite as

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Speaker 1: deep as in past years. Expectations that the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 1: will cut interest rates faster than initially anticipated has fueled

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Speaker 1: a late month rebound on Wall Street. Julia Carnado was

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Speaker 1: founder and president of Macro Policy Perspectives. It says, the

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Speaker 1: possibilities are twofold with the market price for several rate

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Speaker 1: cuts next year.

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Speaker 3: I think either we're going to get one and done

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Speaker 3: because things are stabilizing and growth is going to be

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Speaker 3: okay and the AI story has enough legs to power

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Speaker 3: the economy really starting. You know, we're in the early

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Speaker 3: game turning of the labor market, and the Fed's going

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Speaker 3: to have to cut not just to neutral, but through

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Speaker 3: to neutral to an accommodate.

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Speaker 4: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Julia Cornado with Macro Policy perspectives. Friday on Bloomberg Surveillance,

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Speaker 1: Northwestern University joined institutions including Columbia and Brown and reaching

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Speaker 1: a deal with the Trump administration to close all pending

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Speaker 1: federal investigations and restore hundreds of millions of dollars in

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Speaker 1: research funding. The administration will also lift all stop work

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Speaker 1: orders on terminated federal money and make Northwestern eligible for

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Speaker 1: future grants and contracts. This, according to a statement on Friday.

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Speaker 1: As part of the deal, the Suburban and Chicago school

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Speaker 1: will pay the government seventy five million dollars over three years.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are looking to give their mid term election chances

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Speaker 1: are shot in the arm by getting more doctors and

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Speaker 1: nurses to run for office. Bloomberg's Nathan Hager has more

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Speaker 1: from Washington.

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Speaker 5: The group three fourteen action is recruiting more Democrats to

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Speaker 5: run from the medical field. It says more than fifty

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Speaker 5: men medical pros are running this cycle. At least a

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Speaker 5: half dozen of them are Democrats in competitive districts, The

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Speaker 5: group's executive director tells Bloomberg Government. The candidates are all

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Speaker 5: highlighting their opposition to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior's

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Speaker 5: Make America Healthy again agenda with its cuts to Medicaid

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Speaker 5: and changes to vaccine testing policy in Washington, I'm Nathan

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Speaker 5: Hager Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Travel also seems to be a major driver of discounts

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Speaker 1: this week. The points guy Clint Henderson talked to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 4: Pretty Much every single airline has a Black Friday sale

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Speaker 4: on right now or is planning one for travel Tuesday

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Speaker 4: Cyber Monday next week. It's a great time to shop

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Speaker 4: for travel, especially if you have some spring break trips

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Speaker 4: that can be really expensive. Singapore Airlines, aer LINGUS American

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Speaker 4: Airlines launched a huge sale today and then all the hotels.

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Speaker 1: He says. Some popular destinations include New York, Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: and Japan. If kids toys are on your holiday shopping list,

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Speaker 1: you might want to buy now before they potentially run out.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini explains why one of.

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Speaker 6: The nation's leading supply chain experts is warning of a

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Speaker 6: far thinner toys selection this holiday shopping season. Jason Miller,

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Speaker 6: professor at the University of Michigan, says shipments of things

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Speaker 6: like bikes, dolls, and puzzles from China are down sharply

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Speaker 6: compared to last year. He blames the Trump administration having

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Speaker 6: slept twenty two percent tariffs on the goods on top

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Speaker 6: of the apparent drop in selection. Prices may be higher

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Speaker 6: this year, and while some NLSA prices on gifts may

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Speaker 6: drop as we get closer to the actual holidays, it's

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Speaker 6: not clear which toys would still be available.

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Speaker 2: Then.

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Speaker 6: Denise Pellgreedy Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Sergey Brinn gave away more than one point one billion

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Speaker 1: dollars worth of Alphabet stock this week, with most of

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Speaker 1: the money going to a nonprofit the Google co founder created.

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Speaker 1: The donation was disclosed Friday in a regulatory filing, which

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Speaker 1: did not specify who had received the more than three

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Speaker 1: and a half million shares. According to a spokesperson for

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Speaker 1: Brynn's family office, roughly one billion in stock is going

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Speaker 1: to Catalyst four. Brent is also giving about ninety million

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Speaker 1: to two his family foundation, as well as forty five

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Speaker 1: million to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. That's news when

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