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Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Krisner.

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Speaker 1: European leaders are hoping to speak with Donald Trump before

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Speaker 1: his planned meeting this week with Russian leader Vladimir Putin,

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Speaker 1: and at the same time, EU foreign ministers are set

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Speaker 1: to convene an emergency meeting on Monday. Here is US

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Speaker 1: Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whittaker, speaking to CNN's State of

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Speaker 1: the Union.

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously the decision is going to be made by

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Speaker 2: President Trump. You know, he agreed to meet with President

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Speaker 2: Putin in Alaska on Friday, and if he thinks that

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Speaker 2: that is the best scenario to invite Zelensky, then he'll

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Speaker 2: do that. And again we have you know, today's Sunday.

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Speaker 2: The meeting is happening on Friday. There's time to make

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Speaker 2: that decision. No decision has been made to this point.

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Speaker 1: That is US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whittaker, speaking earlier

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Speaker 1: to CNN's State of the Union. Meantime, Bloomberg has learned

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Speaker 1: Russian President Putin is demanding that Ukraine seed its entire

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Speaker 1: eastern Donbas area to Russia as well as Crimea as

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Speaker 1: conditions to unlocking a ceasefire and entering negotiations over a

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Speaker 1: lasting settlement. In Nvidia and Advanced micro Devices have agreed

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Speaker 1: to pay fifteen percent of their revenue from chip sales

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Speaker 1: in China to the US government. We're told it's part

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Speaker 1: of a deal with the Trump administration to secure export licenses.

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Speaker 1: Here is Bloomberg's mindmen Low.

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Speaker 3: This is something that is quite unprecedented. No US companies

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Speaker 3: had done such a thing before. But it does sort

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Speaker 3: of reflect the pattern that we have seen so far

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Speaker 3: in the Trump administration, with the President asking for certain

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Speaker 3: things from companies, such as domestic investments in exchange for

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Speaker 3: things like lowering or exempting some of these companies from

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Speaker 3: US teriffs.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's medmen low Now. Earlier, the FT reported

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Speaker 1: the Commerce Department had started issuing licenses for in Nvidia's

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Speaker 1: H twenty chips on Friday. That was two days after

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Speaker 1: in Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong met with President Trump. The

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Speaker 1: Trump administration is interviewing candidates to lead the Bureau of

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Speaker 1: Labors to Ticks, and this list reportedly includes one longtime

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Speaker 1: critic of the BLS. The Wall Street Journal reports one

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Speaker 1: of the people being interviewed is E. J Antony, the chief

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Speaker 1: economist at the Heritage Foundation. He has long criticized the

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Speaker 1: BLS's approach to collecting jobs data. Earlier this month, President

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Speaker 1: Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS following the release

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Speaker 1: of a week jobs report. The Trump administration is looking

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Speaker 1: to sell shares in mortgage giants Fannie May and Freddie

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Speaker 1: Mack in an IPO that could kick off later this year.

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Speaker 1: We have more from Bloomberg's Nathan Hager in Washington.

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Speaker 4: A senior administration official says the plan could value the

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Speaker 4: government controlled mortgage giants at about a half trillion dollars

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Speaker 4: or more, and would involve selling five to fifteen percent

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Speaker 4: of their stock that could raise up to thirty billion dollars.

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Speaker 4: The official says no final decisions been made in President

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Speaker 4: Trump's still weighing his options, but the government's been considering

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Speaker 4: options for Fanny and Freddie ever since they were bailed

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Speaker 4: out after the global financial crisis Congression. All efforts to

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Speaker 4: free them from conservatorship have repeatedly failed on concerns about

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Speaker 4: how they'd affect mortgage costs and whether Fanny and Freddie

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Speaker 4: are committed to affordable housing. In Washington, I'm Nathan Hager

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Speaker 4: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, Pershing Square founder Bill Ackman is suggesting a merger

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Speaker 1: of Fanny May and Freddie Mack. Posting on next Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Ackman said such a move could help lower mortgage rates

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Speaker 1: and improve efficiency. In the coming week, markets will focus

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Speaker 1: on readings of both US consumer inflation and retail sales.

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Speaker 1: Nannette Abohoff Jacobson is global investment strategist at Hartford Funds.

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Speaker 1: Here she is on Bloomberg Business Week Daily.

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Speaker 5: You know, the inflation data so far has been two

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Speaker 5: point eight percent on core PCE. Core prices have gone

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Speaker 5: up and it's broadening. It's not just a few things,

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Speaker 5: it's a lot of things that we import. And so

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Speaker 5: next week is going to be a very important week.

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Speaker 1: That is Nnette Abohoff Jacobson of Hartford Funds, speaking earlier

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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Business Week Daily. Baseball umpire Jen Powell made

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Speaker 1: history this weekend, becoming the first woman to work a

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Speaker 1: regular season MLB game after starting her pro career in

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Speaker 1: the minor leagues back in twenty sixteen. Powell debuted Saturday

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Speaker 1: at first base for the Braves Marlins game.

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Speaker 6: It was pretty amazing when we took the field and

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Speaker 6: it seemed like quite a few people started clapping and

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Speaker 6: saying my name is stuff. So that was pretty intense

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Speaker 6: and very very emotional.

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Speaker 1: The forty eight year old Powell also served as home

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Speaker 1: Plate Empire on Sunday. She was a three time All

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Speaker 1: Conference Softball selection pick at Hofstra University and worked as

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Speaker 1: an NCAA Softball Empire from twenty ten to twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: And that is news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Prisner, and this is Bloomberg