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Speaker 1: News when you wanted With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Larry Kofski.

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Speaker 1: Israel has revised down the death toll from the Hamas

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Speaker 1: attack on October seventh, putting the figure at about twelve

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Speaker 1: hundred instead of fourteen hundred. It says some of those

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Speaker 1: initially counted as casualties were actually Hamas fighters. Israeli forces

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Speaker 1: reportedly or closing in on Gaza City's main hospital, which

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Speaker 1: Israel says hi, it's a Hamas command center in tunnels

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Speaker 1: below the Hamas run. Gaza Health Ministry says the death

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Speaker 1: toll in Gaza since the war began now exceeds eleven

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Speaker 1: thousand people, including more than forty five hundred children. America's

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Speaker 1: credit rating is on shaky ground. Moody's Investor Service has

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Speaker 1: affirmed its TRIPAA rating on the US government, but it

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Speaker 1: revised its outlook from stable to negative. Bloomberg's Michael McKee

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Speaker 1: says the two other credit rating agencies have already cut

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Speaker 1: the US credit rating S and P and twenty eleven

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Speaker 1: and Fitch earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: We don't have a direct warning from pitching S and

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Speaker 2: P that they would go further than their downgrade that

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Speaker 2: they've already done, but Moody's certainly with a negative outlook,

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Speaker 2: could take additional action if the US were to have

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Speaker 2: a government shutdown next week. Maybe this could be Moody's

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Speaker 2: is looking at as a sort of a warning shot

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Speaker 2: over the bow of the USS Congress or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Another potential government shutdown is just a week away. House

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Speaker 1: GOP members are expected to unveil a continuing resolution on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Johanet Yellen will visit China again next year

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Speaker 1: for more talks with Chinese Premier he Lee Fang. In

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Speaker 1: a statement following two days of meetings in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: Yellen said.

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Speaker 3: We spoke to Vice Premier about our goal of achieving

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Speaker 3: a healthy economic relationship that benefits both our countries over time.

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Speaker 3: We do not seek to decouple our economy from China's.

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Speaker 3: This would be damn mining to both the US and

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Speaker 3: China and destabilizing for the world.

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Speaker 1: Yellen says better communications will enable the US and China

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Speaker 1: to work toward common solutions, address disagreements where possible, and

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Speaker 1: avoid misperceptions contributing to unintended escalations. President Biden spoke with

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Speaker 1: the ruler of Oman amid us concerns about China's efforts

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Speaker 1: to deepen its defense presence in the Middle East, and

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Speaker 1: a readout of the call, the White House said they

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Speaker 1: committed to strengthening the longstanding US Oman by lateral relationship.

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Speaker 1: Sources say the President has been briefed on what his

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Speaker 1: advisors see as a Chinese plan to build a military

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Speaker 1: facility in Oman. FBI agents have seized phones and an

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Speaker 1: iPad from New York City Mayor Eric Adams as part

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Speaker 1: of an investigation into his campaign fundraising. His attorney, Boyd Johnson,

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Speaker 1: confirms that the seizures occurred after the mayor attended a

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Speaker 1: public event Monday night. In a statement, Johnson says the

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Speaker 1: mayor has not been accused of any rolengdoing and continues

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Speaker 1: to cooperate with the investigation. Hawaii's Trump International Hotel Wakikey

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Speaker 1: is changing its name. It will become the Waikia Wakiki Beach.

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Speaker 1: It is just the latest in a long list of

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Speaker 1: properties that have ditched the Trump brand since Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: got into politics. Separately, the mortgage on former President Trump's

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Speaker 1: Manhattan tower at forty Wall Street has been transferred to

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Speaker 1: a special servicer. The building has been on watch list

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Speaker 1: status since February has costs and vacancies increased. Wall Street

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Speaker 1: heads into the weekend with the wind at its back

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Speaker 1: and stocks at a seven week high. All of the

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Speaker 1: major averages finished with solid gains, led by the NASDAK

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Speaker 1: up more than two percent. The Dow Industrials gained three

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Speaker 1: hundred ninety one points. The latest installment in the Call

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Speaker 1: of Duty video game series is out. Development was rushed,

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Speaker 1: and critics say it shows. As we hear from Bloomberg's Charlie.

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Speaker 4: Pellett, the latest entry in Activision, Blizzard's popular video game

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Speaker 4: series was made in half the time of previous iterations,

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Speaker 4: a fact that may be contributing to a spate of

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Speaker 4: bad reviews, according to sources with the development process. Critics

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Speaker 4: have panned the game, the first big release since Microsoft

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Speaker 4: closed its sixty nine billion dollar acquisition of Activision last month,

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Speaker 4: saying the game's storyline feels rushed. In New York, Charlie

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Speaker 4: Pellett Bloomberg Radio, and that's.

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