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

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Speaker 1: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. The SEC says it has

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Speaker 1: not granted approval of bitcoin ETFs as, despite a post

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Speaker 1: on X that appeared to be from the regulator's official account.

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Speaker 1: The post included a comment purporting to be from SEC

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Speaker 1: chair Gary Gensler. Gensler himself then said on X that

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Speaker 1: the SEC's account had been compromised. Bloomberg's Eric balchunis, there's

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Speaker 1: been a huge.

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Speaker 2: Run up in the price of bitcoin, and doesn't take

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Speaker 2: a genius to realize because people are anticipating the ETS

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Speaker 2: getting approved. The ETS is sort of the ultimate bridge

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Speaker 2: to the sort of traditional finance, regular world and a

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Speaker 2: big pool of capital of rich boomers and the crypto world.

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Speaker 2: And so that's why the run up and prices coming.

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Speaker 2: That's why it didn't move that much to the upside.

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Speaker 2: We were thinking, you know, talking to another lawyer, that

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Speaker 2: if you really wanted to cause mass chaos and compromise

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Speaker 2: the SEC site, you would have said they were rejecting it.

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Speaker 2: The price of bitcoin probably would have plummeted a good amount.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, the social media side X confirms the account sec

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Speaker 1: GOV was compromised, but it said the compromise was not

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Speaker 1: due to any breach of ex's systems. Huti rebels in

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Speaker 1: Yemen have carried out one of their largest missile and

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Speaker 1: drone attacks to date. The attacks were directed at commercial

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Speaker 1: shipping lanes in the Red Sea. The attacks were countered

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Speaker 1: by a response from five US and UK warships patrolling

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Speaker 1: the region. The Central Command says eighteen drones, two anti

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Speaker 1: ship cruise missiles, and one anti ship ballistic missile were

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Speaker 1: shot down by Allied forces. Storms, high winds, and tornado

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Speaker 1: warnings have hit parts of the South, with roofs blown off,

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Speaker 1: homes and campers flipped over in Florida. In the Midwest,

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Speaker 1: some cities were hit with more than a foot of snow,

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Speaker 1: stranding some drivers on highways. Areas across the Great Plains

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Speaker 1: saw snow accumulations as high as fifteen inches well. The

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Speaker 1: two hundred thousand customers were without power in Alabama, in

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Speaker 1: Georgia and Florida, according to the website power Outage dot US.

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Speaker 1: The National Transportation Safety Board says it will consider broadening

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Speaker 1: the probe into Boeing seven thirty seven Max models other

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Speaker 1: than the one from an incident this past week. Air

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Speaker 1: safety officials are probing that blowout of a door plug

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Speaker 1: on a Max nine. The attention is now focused on

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Speaker 1: four bolts. The bolts meant to secure the door plug

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Speaker 1: that suddenly broke loose on the ASCA Airlines flight. Well,

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Speaker 1: despite the crisis, Boeing finished up last year with its

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Speaker 1: largest evermonthly sales gain for the seven thirty seven Max.

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Speaker 1: That story from Bloomberg's and Kates.

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Speaker 3: Boeing ended twenty twenty three with its largest ever monthly

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Speaker 3: sales hall for the seven thirty seven Max, a model

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Speaker 3: under intense scrutiny after a near calamity on an Alaska

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Speaker 3: Airlines flight. There are more than three hundred orders for

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Speaker 3: the seven thirty seven Max in December, and Boeing also

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Speaker 3: met US delivery goals for the jet after the target

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Speaker 3: was lowered during the fourth quarter because of a supply glitch.

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Speaker 3: In Washington and Kate's Bloomberg Radio massed.

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Speaker 1: Gunman briefly took control of a television station in Ecuador

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Speaker 1: during a live brought podcast as violence escalates throughout the country.

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Speaker 1: Ecuador's President Daniel Moboa then mobilized the military. Videos on

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Speaker 1: social networks showed them holding staffers hostage at gunpoint, and

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Speaker 1: at least one person was injured. Attax, kidnappings and prison

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Speaker 1: riots multiplied over the past twenty four hours. That was

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Speaker 1: after Noboa imposed a nationwide curfew and declared a state

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Speaker 1: of emergency amid a man hunt for a notorious drug lord.

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Speaker 1: All of the gunmen who broke into the TV station

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Speaker 1: were later arrested by police. According to a local newspaper,

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Speaker 1: a secret meeting took place last month between Ukraine, its

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Speaker 1: G seven allies, and a small group of Global South countries.

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Speaker 1: Sources say the meeting was intended to try to rally

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Speaker 1: support for Kiev's conditions for holding peace talks with Russia.

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Speaker 1: The meeting was held in Saudi Arabia in mid December.

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Speaker 1: We hear the secrecy was aimed in part at making

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Speaker 1: participant countries feel more comfortable. I'm out joining. However, sources

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Speaker 1: say there was no major progress at the meeting. That's

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Speaker 1: as Ukraine and its G seven allies resist calls from

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Speaker 1: the Global South nations to engage directly with Russia. And

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Speaker 1: that's news when you want it. With Bloomberg News now

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Speaker 1: in Hong Kong, I'm Brian Curtis, This is Bloomberg,