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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio, news.

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Speaker 2: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 2: Brian Curtis in Hong Kong, hopes arising for an Israel

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Speaker 2: Hamas ceasefire. Bloomberg Jed Baxter has the story.

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Speaker 3: President Joe Biden says he hopes that ceasefire between Israel

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Speaker 3: and Hamas can take effect by early next week, and

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Speaker 3: that security advisor tells me that we're close. We're close,

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Speaker 3: not done yet, and my hope is by next Monday

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Speaker 3: we'll have a ceasefire. And State Department spokes from Matthew

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Speaker 3: Miller says details are being worked out for the hostage release.

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Speaker 4: It depends on Hamas. We believe a deal as possible

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Speaker 4: and we hope Amas will greet you.

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Speaker 3: One and they hope to have the final plan by

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Speaker 3: the weekend. Ed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: A top aid to Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny says

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Speaker 2: that Navalney had been close to being freed before he died.

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Speaker 2: Last week, we hear Navalney's release was being negotiated as

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Speaker 2: part of a prisoner exchange for a Russian assassin held

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Speaker 2: in Germany. Bloomberg's Henry Mayer has more in Dubai.

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Speaker 4: We know that talks have been going on for some

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Speaker 4: time between the US and Russia on freeing Evan Gershkoch

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Speaker 4: and Paul Wheelan. The State Department actually in December said

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Speaker 4: that the US had made a new offer, a new

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Speaker 4: and significant offer, which Russia had rejected. So you know,

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Speaker 4: clearly this is not the first time we've heard of

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Speaker 4: Navani potentially willing included in such a swap, but obviously

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Speaker 4: this is the most concrete information to date.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Henry Meyer. There's been no comment from the Kremlin.

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Speaker 2: Officials in Germany and the United States have also not

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Speaker 2: responded to requests for comment. The US is expanding its

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Speaker 2: scrutiny of US solar supply chains. This relates to concerns

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Speaker 2: about alleged forced labor in China. Bloomberg Juan Wong has

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Speaker 2: more from Hong Kong.

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Speaker 1: Solar companies in the US are now required to fill

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Speaker 1: in an extensive questionnaire issued by the US Customs Department.

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Speaker 1: The nineteen page survey seeks disclosure about the providence of modules,

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Speaker 1: panels and other products. Previously, this information was only required

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Speaker 1: when company's shipments were detained for inspection. The request comes

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Speaker 1: amid questions about how the US is enforcing a ban

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Speaker 1: on goods made in China's Xinjiang region. Xinjong is the

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Speaker 1: world's top producer of polysilicon, a primary ingredient in most

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Speaker 1: solar panels. It's also a region that has been tied

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Speaker 1: to alleged forced labor of the Uiger minority in Hong Kong.

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Speaker 1: Join Wang Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: The fast fashion company Shean is said to be considering

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Speaker 2: switching its IPO from New York to London. Sources say

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Speaker 2: that Shehan thinks it unlikely that the US SEC would

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Speaker 2: approve the listing. IPOs by Chinese companies in the United

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Speaker 2: States have been rare of late. That's because of tighter

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Speaker 2: scrutiny of first time share sales by Chinese firms. The

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Speaker 2: US Federal Trade Commission, as well as eight states in Washington, DC,

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Speaker 2: are suing to block Kroger's twenty four point six billion

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Speaker 2: dollar acquisition of Albertson's. They're arguing the merger would lead

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Speaker 2: to lower wages for workers and higher prices for shoppers.

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Speaker 2: Douglas fer Our, director of the FTC's Office of Public Affairs,

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Speaker 2: said that move is simply not enough.

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Speaker 5: The remedy itself is several hundred stores, but again it's

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Speaker 5: designed by antitrust attorneys looking to get a merger through.

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Speaker 5: It's not designed to be a standalone business. And the

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Speaker 5: company they propose to give it to, CNS Wholesalers, currently

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Speaker 5: operates only twenty three grocery stores in one pharmacy, so

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Speaker 5: the learning curve there is really tremendous for them, and

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Speaker 5: they'd be facing the largest ever merged grocery store in America,

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Speaker 5: So the chances they can compete effectively with a business

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Speaker 5: that's almost set up to fail is very well.

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Speaker 2: Douglas Farrar, director of the FTC's Office of Public Affairs.

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Speaker 2: The supermarket chains say the deal is needed in order

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Speaker 2: to help them compete with Amazon and Walmart. That's news

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Speaker 2: when you want it with Bloomberg News now, I'm Brian Curtis.

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