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

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Speaker 1: mid Coleggy. Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother,

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Speaker 1: Nancy on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay

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Speaker 1: for her safe return, as the frantic search for the

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Speaker 1: eighty four year old Arizona resident has entered a seventh day.

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Speaker 2: We beg you now to return our mother to us

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Speaker 2: so that we can celebrate with her. This is the

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Speaker 2: only way we will have peace. This is very valuable

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Speaker 2: to us, and we will pay.

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Speaker 1: Guthrie was referencing a message that was sent to the

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Speaker 1: Tucson based television station KOLD on Friday afternoon. KOLD said

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Speaker 1: it received an email related to the Guthrie case on

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Speaker 1: social media Friday, but declined to share specific details about

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Speaker 1: its contents as the FBI conducted its review. President Trump

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Speaker 1: is backing a big broadcast merger. Bloomberg's Monica Ricks reports.

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Speaker 3: President Trump says he supports Next Star three point five

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Speaker 3: billion dollar bid to buy Techna because it'd be good

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Speaker 3: for competition. He posted about the post merger on True

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Speaker 3: social The deal would still need approval by the FCC,

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Speaker 3: but it's set to be discussed at a Senate hearing

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Speaker 3: on Tuesday about easing the thirty nine percent US ownership

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Speaker 3: cap on TV stations. Trump's nod, though, means Republican senators

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Speaker 3: are more likely to vote for that cap to be removed,

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Speaker 3: and it would need to be Nexstar has said the

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Speaker 3: combined entity would reach eighty percent of US households. Monica Rix,

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg Radio is retly.

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Benjamin D'ataiyahu said he will discuss the US

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Speaker 1: Iran negotiations with President Trump in person next week. The

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Speaker 1: leader's February eleventh meeting in Washington will follow the launch

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Speaker 1: of indirect talks between Trump's envoys and the Iranian foreign

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Speaker 1: minister in Oman, which the US Administration said were focused

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Speaker 1: on capping Tehran's nuclear program. Israel, with US reinforcement, bombed

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Speaker 1: Irani and nuclear sites during a twelve day war in

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Speaker 1: June and favors further action to deny its arch foe

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Speaker 1: the means to threaten its existence. Trump spoke with reporters

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Speaker 1: on Air Force one Friday evening.

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Speaker 4: One thing right up front, nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 1: If we could have made that deal two years ago,

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Speaker 1: we would have made that deal, but they weren't willing

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Speaker 1: to do that now they are.

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Speaker 4: Willing to do it.

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Speaker 1: Israel sees the current diplomacy, launched after Trump threatened Iran's

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Speaker 1: leaders over their bloody crackdown on domestic protests, as a

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Speaker 1: chance for more sweeping countermeasures and even regime change. Ukraine's

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Speaker 1: President Vladimir Zelenski says the US is proposing to finish

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Speaker 1: all necessary negotiations to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In June,

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Speaker 1: Selenski said that the next round of peace talks aimed

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Speaker 1: at ending Russia's four year invasion may happen in about

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Speaker 1: a week, amid another proposed energy truce. Selenski says the

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian team has already accepted the invitation. The US plans

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Speaker 1: to convene the first formal meeting of President Trump's Board

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Speaker 1: of Peace in Washington on February nineteenth. The Board was

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Speaker 1: a core element of Trump's twenty point plan that helped

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Speaker 1: broker a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas

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Speaker 1: in October. Trump led the initial gathering of the group's

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Speaker 1: members about twenty nations, including Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Hungary, in Davos,

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Speaker 1: Switzerland in January, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. Initially,

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Speaker 1: the White House described it as a narrow oversight body

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Speaker 1: to help guide Gaza through disarmament and a technocratic transition,

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Speaker 1: and it won UN support along with a broader peace process.

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Speaker 1: In November, however, US allies in Europe, leaders of international

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Speaker 1: organizations and experts expressed confusion about the Board's true intent

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Speaker 1: as it outlines have taken shape. HIMS and Hers Health

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Speaker 1: says it will stop selling its knockoff weight loss pill

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Speaker 1: just days after initially offering it, following an announcement by

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Speaker 1: federal regulators that they were launching an investigation into the

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Speaker 1: telehealth company. On February sixth, the Food and Drug Administration

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Speaker 1: said it would crack down on copycat weight loss drugs

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Speaker 1: like those marketed by Hymns. The company, heads at Thursday

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Speaker 1: would sell a cheaper version of Novo Nordisk's new Agobe

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Speaker 1: weight loss pill. More than nine hundred employees at Alphabet's

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Speaker 1: Google have signed a petition demanding that the company severed

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Speaker 1: ties with the US Department of Homelands Accurity in the

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Speaker 1: wake of the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts. The petition

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Speaker 1: sites Google contracts with Immigration and Customs enforcement and Customs

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Speaker 1: and Border Protection, the two DHS agencies that have led

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Speaker 1: the deportation effort. Fatal shootings of two US citizens in

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis in recent weeks have accelerated opposition to the administration's

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Speaker 1: push to deport undocumented immigrants. Wall Street wrapped up a

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Speaker 1: down week with a powerful Friday surge. We get more

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 4: First close ever for the Dow Jones Industrial Average above

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Speaker 4: fifty thousand. It was the biggest advance for the S

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Speaker 4: and P five hundred index since May, But on the week,

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Speaker 4: the SMP dropped one tenth of one percent. A renewed

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Speaker 4: wave of dip buying lifted stocks in the wake of

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Speaker 4: a tech route Thursday, fueled by worries over the billions

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Speaker 4: of dollars those firms are throwing at artificial intelligence development.

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Speaker 4: Bitcoin rebounded, gold and silver jumped after Thursday's decline. On

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Speaker 4: the week, down industrials up to and an half percent.

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Speaker 4: Net stack down for a fourth week, down one point

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Speaker 4: eight percent in New York. Charlie Pellock Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Wells Fargo's break up with Built took another chaotic turn

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Speaker 1: this week when the startups customers who opted to close

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Speaker 1: their bank accounts were surprised to receive credit cards anyway.

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Speaker 1: Wells Fargo officially rids itself of its money, losing partnership

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Speaker 1: with Built on Saturday after nearly four years. Built, which

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Speaker 1: launched a set of revamped offerings with new partners last month,

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Speaker 1: had told nearly one million card holders to pick one

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Speaker 1: by February first or automatically get a Wells Fargo card.

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Speaker 1: Then scores of customers who opted to close their Wells

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Speaker 1: Fargo accounts started getting the bank's autograph card of the mail.

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Speaker 1: Social media forums buzzed this week with surprised users. As

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Speaker 1: one wrote, asked Built to cancel my autograph card, don't

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Speaker 1: really need it. Fast forward today both cards got delivered.

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Speaker 1: Japanese voters head to the polls Sunday to deliver a

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Speaker 1: verdict on Prime Minister Sine Takaichi's government as she seeks

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Speaker 1: to sure up her grip on power and gain a

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Speaker 1: clear mandate for spending and investment plans that have unsettled

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Speaker 1: some investors. Takeichi has staked her job on the outcome

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Speaker 1: of the election, saying she will step down if her

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Speaker 1: ruling coalition fails to win a majority in the more

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Speaker 1: powerful lower house she currently holds, or raise her with

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Speaker 1: thin majority of two thirty three out of the four

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Speaker 1: sixty five seats in the Chamber. And checking the medal

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Speaker 1: count for the Winter Olympics right now, Italy, Japan, Norway

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Speaker 1: each have three medals and each nation has a gold,

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Speaker 1: a silver, and a bronze. That's news when you want

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