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Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Brian

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Speaker 1: Curtis in Hong Kong. Russia has released Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 1: reporter Evan gerskovet Chen former US Marine Paul Wheeland. It's

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Speaker 1: part of a major prisoner swap with the United States.

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Speaker 1: The men had been jailed in Russia on espionage charges,

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Speaker 1: charges they and the US deny. Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove says

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Speaker 1: it's a big moment for President Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: Some of the reporting is that Biden had been working

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Speaker 2: on this, including on the very day that he announced

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Speaker 2: that he would not run again. So just to give

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Speaker 2: you a sense of the sort of priority that he

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Speaker 2: was putting on this, you know, on a day when

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Speaker 2: he was making arguably the most consequential decision of his

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Speaker 2: political life, he was also working with the phones to

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Speaker 2: put together this deal.

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Speaker 1: As part of the deal, the US and its allies

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Speaker 1: released eight prisoners to Russia. The swap took place in Anchora, Turkey.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen prisoners were returned to the West in exchange for

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Speaker 1: the Russian nationals. Among them were or other American citizens

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Speaker 1: as well as Russians imprisoned in the United States. In Germany, Poland,

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Speaker 1: Norway and Slovenia. Hesbela's chief says the group's battle against

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Speaker 1: Israel has entered what he called a new phase. He

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Speaker 1: vowed to respond following the killing of the top commander

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Speaker 1: of the militant group in Beiru. HESBELA Secretary General Hassan

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Speaker 1: Nasrala said the recent killings from Israel crossed red lines.

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Speaker 1: Israel has recently killed Hesbla's senior advisor Fuad Shuker and

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Speaker 1: hamasi's political chief Ishmael Haneap. Nosrala says the conflict now

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Speaker 1: is an open battle on all fronts. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: Israel also confirmed Hamas military chief Mohammadif was killed in

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Speaker 1: a strike in Gaza last month. The US has recognized

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Speaker 1: Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzales in the disputed election.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Ed Baxter with the story.

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Speaker 3: The statement from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says

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Speaker 3: it is clear to the United States and most importantly

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Speaker 3: to the Venezuelan people, that Gonzalez has won the most

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Speaker 3: votes in the July twenty eighth election. Blinken goes on

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Speaker 3: to say that the United States, congratulates Gonzalez on a

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Speaker 3: successful campaign and hopes that discussions on a respectful, peaceful

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Speaker 3: transition will occur. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado meanwhile, says

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Speaker 3: she is in hiding fearing for her life. Ed Baxter,

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Former President Donald Trump has added to his campaign war

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Speaker 1: chest Bloomberg Nancy Lyons reports from Washington.

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Speaker 4: The Trump campaign says it raised one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 4: eight points seven million dollars in July. That's even better

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Speaker 4: than the one hundred and twelve million the former president

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Speaker 4: raised in June. Trump now has a total of three

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Speaker 4: hundred and twenty seven million dollars cash on hand, up

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Speaker 4: forty two million from June. Campaign officials did release a

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Speaker 4: statement saying the numbers reflect continued momentum with donors at

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Speaker 4: every level. Presumptive Democratic NONLGY Vice president Kamala Harris has

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Speaker 4: not yet released her fundraising figures for July, but did

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Speaker 4: raise two hundred million dollars the week after President Biden

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Speaker 4: left the race in Washington. Nancy Lyons Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Apple returned to revenue growth last quarter, and TOPD analyst

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Speaker 1: estimates it's a sign that iPads and strong services helped

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Speaker 1: make up for headwinds in China. CEO Tim Cook gave

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Speaker 1: a positive outlook on that.

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Speaker 5: Market during the quarter. I should say also that iPad

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Speaker 5: returned to growth in Greater China as it did around

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Speaker 5: the world, and so we continue to be confident in

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Speaker 5: the long term opportunity in China. I don't know how

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Speaker 5: every chapter of the book reads, but we're very confident

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Speaker 5: in the long term.

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Speaker 1: Apple CEO Tim Cook. China revenue came in at fourteen

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Speaker 1: point seven billion dollars. That was short of the estimate

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Speaker 1: of fifteen point three billion. Total sales up five percent

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Speaker 1: to eighty five point eight billion in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Shares of Apple we're up about sixty of a percent

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Speaker 1: in late trading. Meantime, Amazon is projecting profit for the

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Speaker 1: current quarter below analyst estimates. It's a sign that the

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Speaker 1: company is spending more than anticipated in the AI race.

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Speaker 1: Reaction from Punam Goyle, senior e commerce analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 6: We tell margins now are mid single digits. I mean,

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Speaker 6: if you asked me five ten years ago, I would

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Speaker 6: say not possible. But it's possible thanks to advertising. You

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Speaker 6: know that business still grew twenty plus percent in the quarter,

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Speaker 6: and we expect those games to continue, so I think

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Speaker 6: that is where the profitability is going to come from.

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Speaker 6: In addition to the cloud business, which we saw had

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Speaker 6: higher margins in the second quarter, and we do see

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Speaker 6: that cloud business getting to forty percent operating profit margins

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Speaker 6: over time.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Punam Goyle shares were down more than seven percent

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Speaker 1: in late trading. In other news, in China, former Global

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Speaker 1: Times editor Hushi Jin has been banned from posting on

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Speaker 1: social media. The news came after he wrote controversial comments.

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Speaker 1: It's about China's economy, he wrote after China's third planum wrapped,

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Speaker 1: who said the meeting's resolution skipped an important slogan pledging

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Speaker 1: to keep public ownership as the mainstay of the economy.

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Speaker 1: Who has a huge following of nearly twenty five million

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Speaker 1: on Waiba, a Chinese social media website. Sources say his

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Speaker 1: account is now suspended. Well. The latest medal count at

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Speaker 1: the Paris Games the US leading with thirty seven medals overall,

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Speaker 1: followed by France at twenty seven and China at twenty four.

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Speaker 1: China has the most gold medals eleven in total, the

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Speaker 1: US with nine France, Australia and Japan. Eight. That's news

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Speaker 1: when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Brian Curtis.

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