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Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 3: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the
Speaker 3: stories we're following today, Karen.
Speaker 2: Trading begins this morning with stocks at or near record
Speaker 2: highs and chip companies are the ones doing some of
Speaker 2: the heavy lifting. Let's get more this morning from Bloomberg's
Speaker 2: John Tucker. John, good morning, Good morning, Nathan. You have
Speaker 2: the dal finished out of record. The S and P
Speaker 2: five hundred drove to within a few points of its
Speaker 2: record close. Two of the strongest forces pushing the S
Speaker 2: and P five hundred upward were in Vidia, up two
Speaker 2: point four percent. Broadcom serves three point three percent. Those
Speaker 2: are the beneficiaries of all that capex spending, But always
Speaker 2: lingering at the background, you have worries about whether all
Speaker 2: the huge spending out of AI is going to produce
Speaker 2: enough profit to make the investments worth it. Andrew slim
Speaker 2: at at Morgan Stanley Marvel's at how investors seem to
Speaker 2: climb a wall of worry.
Speaker 4: I think the biggest risk is we go into a
Speaker 4: kind of a real blow off stage, and every time
Speaker 4: I start to worry about it, you know, the market
Speaker 4: selves correct. So I think that's you know, that's a
Speaker 4: healthy thing. And that's why I don't think we're we're
Speaker 4: end of cycle.
Speaker 5: One of the interesting feature this market is the surge
Speaker 5: of memory chip prices. It's driven a vast divide between
Speaker 5: winners and losers. You have companies from Nintendo to big
Speaker 5: PC brands and even Apple suppliers seeing share slump on
Speaker 5: profitability concerns. But the memory producers, they're soaring to unprecedented heights,
Speaker 5: you know, New York. I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, John, thank you. Meanwhile, Alphabet is selling Sterling
Speaker 3: and Swiss frank denominated bonds for the first time, including
Speaker 3: an ultra rare issue of a one hundred year note
Speaker 3: following a twenty billion dollar deal in the US. Bloombergy
Speaker 3: Tech co anchor Caroline Hyde reports is just the latest
Speaker 3: salvo and the AI spending spree.
Speaker 6: He's just got. Also on the heels of Oracle, having
Speaker 6: sold twenty five billion dollars a debt at the beginning
Speaker 6: of last week. They got one hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 6: billion dollars of demand, a record set. You might be
Speaker 6: bracing for four hundred billion dollars of investment grade debt
Speaker 6: coming to Finance.
Speaker 3: AI and bloombergy Tech co host Caroline Hide. Yesterday, Alphabet
Speaker 3: raised twenty billion dollars and a seven part dollar debt sale,
Speaker 3: exceeding earlier expectations for a fifteen billion dollar deal. The
Speaker 3: offering attracted more than one hundred billion dollars of orders
Speaker 3: at its peak, among the strongest ever for a corporate
Speaker 3: bond offering.
Speaker 2: Turning to the economy Now Karen, President Trump says his
Speaker 2: pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Walsh, could get
Speaker 2: the US economy to grow at a rate of fifteen percent.
Speaker 2: President spoke to Fox Business.
Speaker 7: If our new head of the FED, who I think
Speaker 7: is going to be great, and he's he's a really
Speaker 7: high quality person. But if he does the job that
Speaker 7: he's capable, we can grow at fifteen percent.
Speaker 1: I think more than that.
Speaker 2: President Trump says Kevin Walsh was his runner up in
Speaker 2: his last search for a FED chair. He says it
Speaker 2: was a big mistake to pick Powell Nathan.
Speaker 3: The Justice Department is facing new pressure to release more
Speaker 3: information about its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The lawmakers who
Speaker 3: sponsored the bill to compel the agency to unseal its
Speaker 3: Documents were able to review the unredacted files. Republican Thomas
Speaker 3: Massey says what he saw could lead to more criminal prosecutions.
Speaker 8: The user interface is a little clunky at first, but
Speaker 8: what I saw that bothered me were the names of
Speaker 8: at least six men that have been redacted that are
Speaker 8: likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files.
Speaker 3: Republican Thomas Massey was joined by Democrat Rocanna. He described
Speaker 3: those six men as quote very powerful people who raped
Speaker 3: these underaged girls. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted
Speaker 3: former girlfriend, Glane Maxwell, appeared for a video deposition before
Speaker 3: the House Overside Committee, but it didn't last long.
Speaker 4: At any point during your personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,
Speaker 4: were you aware that mister Epstein was sexually abusing minor
Speaker 4: and adult women.
Speaker 1: I would like to answer your question, but on the
Speaker 1: advice of counsel, are respectfully declined to answer this question
Speaker 1: and any related questions.
Speaker 3: Glenn Maxwell repeatedly invoke the Fifth Amendment during the five
Speaker 3: minute hearing. It led the overside panels top Democrat Robert
Speaker 3: Garcia to ask who is she protecting?
Speaker 2: We turn out of Arizona, Karen, where The investigation into
Speaker 2: the disappearance of today's show co host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy,
Speaker 2: is now into a second week. Authorities are investigating the
Speaker 2: apparent kidnapping, with a ransom deadline set by her purported abductors,
Speaker 2: who sent ransom notes demanding money for her return. Savannah
Speaker 2: Guthrie released a video saying her family is at an
Speaker 2: hour of desperation.
Speaker 1: We believe our mom is still out there.
Speaker 5: We need your help.
Speaker 1: Law enforcement is working tirelessly around the clock trying to
Speaker 1: bring her home, trying to find her. She was taken
Speaker 1: and we don't know where, and we need your help.
Speaker 2: Investigators believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will from
Speaker 2: her home. There is growing concerned about her health doud
Speaker 2: or need for daily medication and pre existing medical conditions.
Speaker 3: Well Over in Europe, Nathan Keir Starmer shored up his
Speaker 3: position as UK Prime Minister at the end of a
Speaker 3: dramatic day in Westminster that at times seemed like he
Speaker 3: might be forced to step down. And we get the
Speaker 3: very latest, so Bloomberg. James Wilcock in London.
Speaker 9: James, good morning, Good morning, Karen and Nathan. We learned
Speaker 9: yesterday that the Labor Party is deeply unhappy, but it
Speaker 9: isn't yet open to the idea of getting rid of
Speaker 9: the man in the top job. Publicly, cabinet minister's back
Speaker 9: to the Prime Minister Labor MPs in Parliament were effusive,
Speaker 9: but privately they told Bloomberg that challengers weren't yet ready
Speaker 9: to run rival campaigns and said that certain ministers had
Speaker 9: quote bottled it now. Economic data is starting to improve
Speaker 9: in the UK, but political attention is left on the
Speaker 9: numbers and more on the dates a special election in
Speaker 9: two weeks and a local one in May, which is
Speaker 9: seen as the next time crisis points in London.
Speaker 2: James Wilcock Bloomberg, Radia James, thank you staying in the UK.
Speaker 2: Barclay says it'll return at least twenty billion dollars to
Speaker 2: shareholders through twenty twenty eight as the bank continues to
Speaker 2: work through long term plan to slash costs and improve
Speaker 2: profitability to hit its new targets. Barklay says it'll make
Speaker 2: efficiency savings, including through artificial intelligence, while allocating more capital
Speaker 2: to its UK business at the expense of the investment Bank.
Speaker 2: Barclay CEO cs Nkotta Krishnan tells Bloomberg the bank is
Speaker 2: firing on all cylinders.
Speaker 10: So I'm very happy they're all doing well. And you know,
Speaker 10: each of the businesses produced double digitality is in the
Speaker 10: last year, and we're expecting them to continue. The strongest
Speaker 10: performing parts have been the ones that have come from
Speaker 10: the furthest behind, which is our US consumer bank, which
Speaker 10: has gone from seven percent to eleven percent, and our
Speaker 10: investment bank, which has also gone up.
Speaker 2: That's barclay ceocs Nkotta Krishna on the lenders' earnings for
Speaker 2: last year beat expectations, helped by its best fourth quarter
Speaker 2: for tra since reporting change in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Well Shares of luxury goods Giant Carrying are up eleven
Speaker 3: and a half percent this morning. Nathan. The jump came
Speaker 3: after the French firm release results. I suggest it is
Speaker 3: now on a path back to growth. Carrying's key Gucci
Speaker 3: unit saw sales fall less than expected in the final
Speaker 3: months of twenty twenty five, dropping ten percent in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. Meanwhile, annual recurring operating income at the label
Speaker 3: exceeded estimates.
Speaker 2: Hey Karen, Billionaire Meta Platforms founder Mark Zuckerberg is planning
Speaker 2: to buy a property in the Miami area. Sources Tel Bloomberg.
Speaker 2: Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Channer looking at purchasing a
Speaker 2: property on Indian Creek. That's a man made island in
Speaker 2: Biscayne Bay known as Billionaire's Bunker. Residents of the Ultra
Speaker 2: Secure Enclave already include Jared Kushner, Ivonka Trump, Amazon founder
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos, billionaire Carl Icon, and former New England Patriots
Speaker 2: quarterback Tom Brady.
Speaker 3: Time now for look at some of the other stories
Speaker 3: making news in New York and around the world, and
Speaker 3: for that we're joined by A. Bloomberg's Michael Barr Michael
Speaker 3: good Morning.
Speaker 11: Good Morning. Karent Nurses and two major hospital systems in
Speaker 11: New York City have reached a deal to end a
Speaker 11: nearly month long strike over staffing levels, workplace safety, and
Speaker 11: other issues. The tenative agreement involves Matafior and Mount Sinai
Speaker 11: hospital systems. The three year deal still needs to be
Speaker 11: approved by union members. Nurses remain on strike at New
Speaker 11: York Presbyterian, where Jennifer Lynch is a nurse practitioner in
Speaker 11: Upper Manhattan.
Speaker 3: NYP was the only hospital here in New York City
Speaker 3: to have mass layoffs last year.
Speaker 11: Maria Soy is a registered nurse at New York Presbyterian.
Speaker 12: What we want people to take away is that this
Speaker 12: is more than abount money.
Speaker 11: The walkout began January twelfth. The FBI says there is
Speaker 11: no credible threat to the public in Springfield, Ohio, following
Speaker 11: bomb threats Monday targeting the Haitian community sent to school
Speaker 11: and county offices. Governor Mike DeWine says the email threats
Speaker 11: were also received in other parts of the state with
Speaker 11: similar rhetoric, but it is unclear if they were from
Speaker 11: the same people.
Speaker 13: County offices in Clark County began receiving bomb threats Tokyo
Speaker 13: about it pipe bombs. These are threats that also referenced Haitians.
Speaker 13: It was the whole essence of the threats where the
Speaker 13: Haitians should be out, get rid.
Speaker 7: Of the Haitians.
Speaker 11: Governor Dwine called it a despicable act. In September twenty
Speaker 11: twenty four, bomb threats rattled Springfield after then presidential candidate
Speaker 11: Donald Trump and his running mate JD. Vans doubled down
Speaker 11: on false claims that Haitian immigrants were abducting and eating
Speaker 11: pets measles was declared eliminated in the US over twenty
Speaker 11: five years ago. Now a resurgence is on the rise.
Speaker 11: Health officials blame the record breaking numbers on declining vaccination rates.
Speaker 11: The CDC says twenty six eight have reported cases from
Speaker 11: California to Florida, where at least two universities have reported cases.
Speaker 11: In South Carolina, at least nine hundred people have been infected.
Speaker 11: Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you
Speaker 11: want it with the Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Michael Barn.
Speaker 11: This is Bloomberg. Karen.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks Michael. Time now for our Bloomberg Sports Update,
Speaker 3: and for that we bring in John Stash Howard.
Speaker 11: Thanks Karen.
Speaker 12: Arizona was a unanimous number one in college basketball. The
Speaker 12: Wildcats took their twenty three to zero record to Kansas,
Speaker 12: and Arizona had an eleven point lead back came. The
Speaker 12: Jayhawks took their first lead midway through the second half.
Speaker 12: In Kansas won eighty two to seventy eight. Big fight
Speaker 12: in the NBA in Detroit's win at Charlotte had happened at
Speaker 12: the third quarter. It started between Jaleen Duran and the
Speaker 12: Pistons and Mussa Diavata of the Hornets, Isaiah Stewart of
Speaker 12: the Pistons left the bench. Four players were ejected. That's
Speaker 12: your Bloomberg Sports update.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. The market is trading close
Speaker 2: to all time highs once again for stocks this morning
Speaker 2: after a viadyal few day is particularly in the big
Speaker 2: tech sector. This week, the attention turns to a flood
Speaker 2: of economic data, starting with retail sales out this morning.
Speaker 2: For more, We're joined by Bloomberg News macro strategist Adam Linton. Adam,
Speaker 2: good morning. Have we shaken off the worst of the
Speaker 2: software sell off?
Speaker 14: Good morning, Good morning, and thank you for having me so. Yeah,
Speaker 14: in terms of the softare obviously that is incredibly thematic
Speaker 14: at the moment. But we did, of course see some
Speaker 14: signs of life in the tech sector yesterday. If they're
Speaker 14: looking at the pre market indications, it does appear some
Speaker 14: of that enthusiasm is waning. I think it's just playing
Speaker 14: to more of a broader point that was just so
Speaker 14: much more nuance around the tech trade at the moment,
Speaker 14: and people just have a preference to rotate out to
Speaker 14: that given the uncertainties surrounding the landscape.
Speaker 2: And of course we've seen you know, so much attention
Speaker 2: on the shortage and memory chips. It's leading to a
Speaker 2: lot of winners and losers. Big gap there.
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely, And again it's just playing to this point
Speaker 14: where the tech traders has become an increasingly more nuanced
Speaker 14: I mean, last few it was at a bit of
Speaker 14: a divide between the likes of Nvidia and Google as
Speaker 14: some of those large language models came online. Then, as
Speaker 14: you mentioned, we've seen suddeny software you know plays, and
Speaker 14: now we've seen some of the memory chip plays as well.
Speaker 14: So this is kind of playing to a broader point
Speaker 14: that the NASDAC could potentially continue to struggle relative to peers.
Speaker 14: If you look at the NASDAK, it's not hitting new
Speaker 14: high since October, and then you look at the equas
Speaker 14: and P five hundred that's hit thirteen records without NASDAQ
Speaker 14: one hundred hitting a single one. So it does suggest
Speaker 14: this rotation trade as well as the tech nuance very
Speaker 14: much remains in play.
Speaker 2: Of course, now with Alphabet tapping into the debt markets
Speaker 2: to try to finance its plans for one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty five billion dollars in AI capex this year, now
Speaker 2: going global with that, with this one hundred year Sterling note,
Speaker 2: what could that mean for the tech sector.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean it's definitely interesting given that we saw
Speaker 14: these setting in Alphabet shares off the back of some
Speaker 14: of the large capex plans. But I think this is
Speaker 14: kind of refocused minds a little bit. It shows that
Speaker 14: there is a real solid base of investors who are
Speaker 14: still willing to buy that debt. I mean, if you
Speaker 14: take that sterling notes, as you mentioned, you know there's
Speaker 14: solid pension demands in the UK looking for that. If
Speaker 14: UK debt markets, you know, on a sovereign level of faltering,
Speaker 14: you know, something that we have seen yesterday, then they
Speaker 14: could potentially be looking to diversify into some of these
Speaker 14: sectors in terms of some of the duration. I mean,
Speaker 14: if you take like the one hundred year note that's
Speaker 14: going to be on offer, I mean some people will
Speaker 14: bulk at that and just not turn to that, but
Speaker 14: it does appear to be a solid investor base willing
Speaker 14: to buy it up.
Speaker 2: And in our last thirty seconds here we're good. As
Speaker 2: I mentioned, we're going to get all this economic data
Speaker 2: starting with retail sales today, the delayed non farm payrolls
Speaker 2: report tomorrow. Are we looking for more volatility off the
Speaker 2: back of the economic data?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think the idy. I think retail sales could
Speaker 14: provide some reprieve. I think here we saw this message
Speaker 14: in from Hassett yesterday, like in the potential four software
Speaker 14: jobs data. If that is the case, you could see
Speaker 14: a potential pricing for March April, which are relatively low
Speaker 14: in terms of FED rate cut bets.
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