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Speaker 1: stories we're following today. Well, Karen, the rise in stocks
Speaker 1: this morning follows solid earnings. Let's begin in Europe, where
Speaker 1: shares of Standard Chartered are up more than one percent.
Speaker 1: The London based lender announced a billion dollar buy back
Speaker 1: and is forecasting higher returns. We spoke with the chief
Speaker 1: financial officer, Andy Halford. The more we can drive the
Speaker 1: profitability of the business, the more we'll get the business
Speaker 1: back in the fairly valued and as I said, that
Speaker 1: is what we are completely focused upon. What is fair value?
Speaker 1: Time will tell, but we are driving the business performance.
Speaker 1: Standard Chartered CFO Andy Halford says the bank is optimistic
Speaker 1: on income growth for this year thanks to rising interest
Speaker 1: rates and a brighter economic outlook. Well, Nathan Shares a
Speaker 1: Commerce Bank Or up almost eight percent. In Frankfurt. The
Speaker 1: German bank says it expects profits for this year to
Speaker 1: be even higher than in two. And here's Commerce Bank
Speaker 1: chief financial officer Bettina or lob and twenty two was
Speaker 1: really really a strong year. I mean the last time
Speaker 1: that we have showed a similar net income was out
Speaker 1: within It is because of very strong revenues, clearly also
Speaker 1: driven by the net interested in great environment, but also
Speaker 1: because of a very disciplined cost management. And CFO Betina
Speaker 1: or a Lab tells us Commerce Bank is planning a
Speaker 1: dividend for the first time in four years. Like here
Speaker 1: in the US, care and shares of Cisco are up
Speaker 1: more than four percent. The computer networking companies giving an
Speaker 1: upbeat forecast. Woodgin Hoe is a senior technology analyst at
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence. Fantastic numbers all across the board and look
Speaker 1: ciscoes part for the course for what I've seen in
Speaker 1: the rest of networking. We saw ast of Networks beat
Speaker 1: and raised last last week, as well as Juniper Networks
Speaker 1: raised three guidance because demand for networking gear has been
Speaker 1: resilient and Cisco is proving that to be the case.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst woodgin hosts Cisco's forecasting sales this
Speaker 1: quarter will rise at least eleven percent. Well as good
Speaker 1: as a Cisco gains are this morning, Nathan, they don't
Speaker 1: compare to the performance of Airbnb. Yesterday, the stocks stored
Speaker 1: more than cent after a record year in an outlook
Speaker 1: that beat estimates. We spoke with CEO Brian Chesky. We're
Speaker 1: seeing more recovery short term stays. We're seeing more people
Speaker 1: go to cities, and we're seeing more people cross borders
Speaker 1: between urban a cross border. That was around eight percent
Speaker 1: of our ninth book before the pandemic. So it's really
Speaker 1: more a matter of a recovery of the old ways
Speaker 1: of traveling and a real sustainability of the new ways,
Speaker 1: like including people staying longer and traveling more to places.
Speaker 1: Brian Chesky says Airbnb had its highest number of active
Speaker 1: bookers ever last quarter. Here more of our interview with
Speaker 1: the Airbnb CEO coming up shortly on Bloomberg Daybreak. Well, Karen,
Speaker 1: we have some headlines on US China relations this morning.
Speaker 1: There's word Beijing is sanctioning both Lockheed Martin and a
Speaker 1: subsidiary of raytheon technologies. China says it's over those US
Speaker 1: companies participation in arms sales to Taiwan. The Chinese government
Speaker 1: will band trade with Lockheed and raytheon missiles and defense. Well. Meantime,
Speaker 1: in Washington, the fight over spending in the dead ceilings
Speaker 1: starting to intensify. The Congressional Budget Office says the government
Speaker 1: could default as soon as July if Congress fails to
Speaker 1: raise the debt ceiling. Democratic Senator Ben Carden says he's
Speaker 1: all for cutting the deficit, but not by cutting entitlements. Well,
Speaker 1: we need to do is have an agreement between Democrats
Speaker 1: and Republicans. What the appropriation bills are going to contain,
Speaker 1: the capsule that spending, as to how we're going to
Speaker 1: pay for it, Does it include so security and Medicare cuts? Now?
Speaker 1: Maryland Senator Ben Carden spoke with Our Washington corresponded Joe
Speaker 1: Matthew on Bloomberg Sound on Catch the show weekdays at
Speaker 1: five pm Eastern on Bloomberg Radio or listen on demand
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Meantime, Karen, President Biden is
Speaker 1: heaping praise on an unlikely figure. He's sending kind words
Speaker 1: to Elon Musk for an offer to open open up
Speaker 1: Tesla's supercharger network to e V rivals. Bloomberg said, Baxter
Speaker 1: has the story. The President says it is a big deal,
Speaker 1: Biden saying, and building the U S e V charging network,
Speaker 1: we have to ensured that as many charges work for
Speaker 1: as many drivers as possible. So as part of the agreement,
Speaker 1: at least hundred of Tesla's charging stations across the US
Speaker 1: will be available to all e V users by the
Speaker 1: end of it will include at least thirty five hundred
Speaker 1: of Tesla supercharger stations, which will tend to be near
Speaker 1: highways in San Francisco. I'm at Baxter Bloomberg Daybreak. All right,
Speaker 1: and thanks. Well, there's more news out of Tesla this morning.
Speaker 1: We're learning the company has fired dozens of workers at
Speaker 1: its factory in Buffalo, New York. The move comes a
Speaker 1: day after employees there announced a union campaign, as according
Speaker 1: to a complaint file, but the National Labor Relations Board
Speaker 1: it accuses Tesla of retaliating for union activity. We've been
Speaker 1: telling you about a slew of companies slashing jobs this year,
Speaker 1: from big banks to big tech. But today it looks
Speaker 1: like fidelities bucking the trend. It's hiring. We get the
Speaker 1: story from Bloomberg's Doug Krisner. The asset manager is looking
Speaker 1: to fill about four thousand new roles by mid year
Speaker 1: as rivals reduce their ranks. The additional positions will focus
Speaker 1: on customer service and technology. Two was a year of
Speaker 1: record hiring for Boston based Fidelity, bringing its head count
Speaker 1: to sixty eight thousand. Other big investment firms have been
Speaker 1: trimming staff given economic uncertainty and softer financial markets. Last month,
Speaker 1: Blackrock announced plans to cut five hundred jobs, or two
Speaker 1: and a half percent of its global workforce, and earlier
Speaker 1: this month we reported Alliance Bernstein eliminated more than a
Speaker 1: hundred jobs in New York. I'm Doug Prisoner, Bloomberg Daybreak.
Speaker 1: Thanks Doug. Futures are flat this morning, SMP futures are
Speaker 1: down a point down, futures down eight, NASTAC futures down
Speaker 1: two points. Straight ahead, your latest local headlines and a
Speaker 1: check of sports. This is Bloomberg. It is fifty eight
Speaker 1: degrees in New York. We're gonna have some showers this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Another mile day on tap with highs in the low sixties.
Speaker 1: This evening will get down to the mid fifties, but
Speaker 1: temperatures will rise overnight. Time now to take a look
Speaker 1: at some of the other stories making news in New
Speaker 1: York and around the world with Bloomberg's Michael bar Good morning, Michael,
Speaker 1: Good morning. Nathan, a white supremacist who killed ten black
Speaker 1: people at a Buffalo supermarket, has been sentenced to life
Speaker 1: in prison. Before Peyton Gender's sentencing, relatives of his victims
Speaker 1: expressed the pain and rage over his racist attack, and
Speaker 1: Genderan was sentenced by Judge Susan Egan there is no
Speaker 1: place for you, or you're ignorant, hateful and evil ideologies
Speaker 1: in a civilized society. New York Governor Kathy Hokel. Justice
Speaker 1: has been done, and I hope that the families will
Speaker 1: find peace and comfort in the knowledge that this person
Speaker 1: never again walked the streets of this earth to do
Speaker 1: harm to others as he did to their loved ones.
Speaker 1: Yesterday's sentencing was disrupted briefly when a man in the
Speaker 1: court rushed at general and was quickly restrained. The man
Speaker 1: will not be charged. Meanwhile, Governor Okele suffered a set
Speaker 1: back after the State Senate turned thumbs down on her
Speaker 1: pick to leave the State Court of Appeals. After weeks
Speaker 1: of intra party fighting, Senate Democrats held a floor vote
Speaker 1: on the nomination of Judge Hector Lassalle, sal would have
Speaker 1: been the first hispanding individual to head the top court.
Speaker 1: A judge ordered that the sixty two year old driver
Speaker 1: of a U haul truck that barreled through a New
Speaker 1: York City neighborhood, killing one person and injuring eight others,
Speaker 1: will have to undergo a psychiatric evaluation while in custody.
Speaker 1: Wang Sore, who was charged with the murder and attempted
Speaker 1: murder in the connection with Monday's deadly rampage. Made his
Speaker 1: first court appearance in Brooklyn. The judge ordered him to
Speaker 1: remain in custody without bail. El Paso, Texas police say
Speaker 1: one person was killed and three others were wounded in
Speaker 1: a shooting at a shopping mall. Police saying that two
Speaker 1: suspects are in custody. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leezer says
Speaker 1: an off duty officer was working at an establishment within
Speaker 1: the mall. They off d the police officer there was there,
Speaker 1: you know, did the job and the job that he's
Speaker 1: trained to do day in and day out. It is
Speaker 1: the same shopping complex where twenty three people were killed
Speaker 1: in twenty nine at a walmart by a gunman. A
Speaker 1: black Hawk helica here from the Tennessee National Guard crash
Speaker 1: yesterday in Alabama, killing two crew members. The chopper on
Speaker 1: a training exercise crash in the community of Harvest along
Speaker 1: a state highway. Global News twenty four hours a day,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael time for the Bloomberg Sports Update Frontier
Speaker 1: by Tri State AUTI. Good morning John Stonshower, Good morning
Speaker 1: Nathan and next at the All Star Break thirty three
Speaker 1: and twenty seven and impressive seventeen and twelve on the
Speaker 1: road in Atlanta. They won one oh one, went up
Speaker 1: by twenty in the first quarter, never looked back. Julius
Speaker 1: Randall now headed to Sunday's All Star Game in Utah.
Speaker 1: He scored twenty five points. Jalen Brunson could still be
Speaker 1: an injury replacement, should find out today. He scored twenty
Speaker 1: four other knicks and double figures. Nixon in sixth place
Speaker 1: in the East. They're a half game ahead of seventh
Speaker 1: place Miami, who lost in Brooklyn and the Nets one
Speaker 1: sixteen one o five mckel Bridges, where the Nets just
Speaker 1: got of the have a durrant trade, obliterated his previous
Speaker 1: career high. Had never before scored more than thirty four points.
Speaker 1: Bridges went for forty five. He scored fifteen neck points
Speaker 1: in a row in the fourth quarter, sixth straight wind
Speaker 1: with the Ranger and six four at Vancouver. Para goals
Speaker 1: were both any piner and and Meeking's advantage at the
Speaker 1: Yankees acquired Frankie Mantas from Open last a lot, he
Speaker 1: did not pitch well for the Yanks, and now it
Speaker 1: appears he will not pitch at all for them. In
Speaker 1: is Mantas the shoulders surgery. At Texas Rangers spring training,
Speaker 1: Jacob deGrom already has an injury tightness in his left side.
Speaker 1: Mets fan likely chuckling about that when de Gram left
Speaker 1: the Mets, Justin Verlander joined them. This is actually my
Speaker 1: first spring training with the brand new team since uh
Speaker 1: two five. Um, you know, I got train to Houston
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, so uh, this is
Speaker 1: like the first day of new school for me, um,
Speaker 1: which comes with a lot of opportunity and just getting
Speaker 1: to meet a lot of guys and them get to
Speaker 1: know MEMI gets him Verlander a co Mets ace with
Speaker 1: fellow veteran that Jersey John Sparsh. I want Bloomberg Sports
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Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hagar as the Fed continues to
Speaker 1: tighten and COVID stimulus withers, consumers keep spending on travel.
Speaker 1: That's the message coming from AIRB and B, which posted
Speaker 1: some of its best earnings ever this week. The CEO
Speaker 1: Brian Chesky sat down with Bloomberg's Emily Chang to talk
Speaker 1: about the growth and how Airbnb is preparing for a
Speaker 1: possible economic downturn. Let's listen in to part of that conversation. Now,
Speaker 1: travels robust, but let's talk about the color. Are you
Speaker 1: seeing signs of people making trade offs? Ten days turns
Speaker 1: into seven days, A hundred dollars a night turns into
Speaker 1: sevent You know, it's funny, Emily. We are not seeing
Speaker 1: um any like any like measurable slowdown. What we said
Speaker 1: in our Q one outlook is we're expecting pretty steady growth.
Speaker 1: Now we are expecting a little bit more accelerated growth
Speaker 1: in short term stays, but that's that's more of a recovery.
Speaker 1: We're seeing more recovery short term stags. We're seeing more
Speaker 1: people go to cities, and we're seeing more people cross borders,
Speaker 1: between urban and cross border. That was around eight percent
Speaker 1: of our night's book before the pandemic. So it's really
Speaker 1: more a matter of a recovery of the old ways
Speaker 1: of traveling and a real sustainability of the new ways,
Speaker 1: like including people staying longer and traveling to more to places.
Speaker 1: Dave steveson your CFO said yesterday on the call, this
Speaker 1: is growth mode now, not necessarily profit maximization mode. When
Speaker 1: it is growth mode actually look like And there's something
Speaker 1: kind of interesting that I've learned in Silken Valley. I
Speaker 1: think there's this really like simple way of thinking. You're
Speaker 1: either in growth mode or profitability mode. And what I've
Speaker 1: learned since the pandemic is as we've gotten more profitable,
Speaker 1: we also got more efficient. And as we've got more
Speaker 1: EFFICI shint, we got more focused, we were able to
Speaker 1: grow faster. So we're gonna continue to do both. But
Speaker 1: we are focused on three priorities this year. Number one,
Speaker 1: we want to perfect the core service, and we are
Speaker 1: listening out all the different things that people want to
Speaker 1: be better at BnB and we're trying to systematically fix
Speaker 1: them one at a time. Then we need when to
Speaker 1: make sure we have enough host If people are watching
Speaker 1: on TV, they probably have travel their banb or know
Speaker 1: someone who has. I want people to say the same
Speaker 1: thing about hosting. They know somebody who is a host
Speaker 1: because it's so mainstream and so popular. And along the way,
Speaker 1: we're actually laying the foundation for us to extend beyond
Speaker 1: our core business, and we're thinking about pretty expansive the
Speaker 1: big ideas. So that's what we mean by growth mode,
Speaker 1: that we are perfecting the core, making hosted mainstream, and
Speaker 1: we're thinking about big ideas. But the cool thing is
Speaker 1: that we can stay really lean, really disciplined, because I
Speaker 1: don't think growth and profitabily have to be a major
Speaker 1: trade off, and I hope that's what the lesson of
Speaker 1: Airbnb is so long term stays. You mentioned grows Night's
Speaker 1: book has that plateau. Do you think that's max at
Speaker 1: this point, Let's think about up from a first principal standpoint,
Speaker 1: why does that business even exist In the first place.
Speaker 1: That business exists because there's a gap between people traveling
Speaker 1: in a short term basis and people signing one year leases.
Speaker 1: And that gap has increased as more people have gotten flexible.
Speaker 1: You know, not everyone works remotely as flexible work of policies,
Speaker 1: but a lot more people than before the pandemic. We're
Speaker 1: seeing a lot more people want to travel for summer.
Speaker 1: We're seeing a lot more people relocating. We're seeing a
Speaker 1: lot more people that are kind of living different places
Speaker 1: month to month. I think this is a very long
Speaker 1: term trend. I think there was an initial like adoption
Speaker 1: that was unique in its vertical nature during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I think it is normalizing, but over the course of
Speaker 1: ten years, that's going to keep going up because people
Speaker 1: are gonna continue to get more flexible. Still, you've got
Speaker 1: inflation layoffs happening almost everywhere but Airbnb, and I wonder
Speaker 1: if this catches up, Like, what are you worried about
Speaker 1: when you see a tough few years ahead for the
Speaker 1: global economy. I certainly were about, um, you know our
Speaker 1: host I mean a lot of them live at or
Speaker 1: below meeting income and everybody is an incredibly important way
Speaker 1: for them to make money. And I think therapy be
Speaker 1: can be a way for more people to become a host.
Speaker 1: As far as our employees, though, you know, we did
Speaker 1: make some hard choices, but here's a stat We have
Speaker 1: five percent fewer employees than before the pandemic and we
Speaker 1: have more revenue. So we're extremely disciplined, very focused, for
Speaker 1: very lean and you know, we basically made a lot
Speaker 1: of hard decisions and then we never left that discipline.
Speaker 1: And it was partly because we didn't we knew we
Speaker 1: were living in a time and certainty, but it's also
Speaker 1: because we knew that as we got more disciplined in Lean,
Speaker 1: it actually became a better experience to work here. So
Speaker 1: I think that you know we're ready for whatever storms ahead.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the storm. We've got fourteen billion dollars
Speaker 1: in cash a mass. How are you thinking about what
Speaker 1: to do with that? Is that just a massive rainy
Speaker 1: day recession fund. I hope it's more than that. We
Speaker 1: are absolutely going to be looking at growth opportunities to
Speaker 1: invest in. But one of the lessons I learned from
Speaker 1: for the pandemic is I remember I had a teacher said, Brian,
Speaker 1: you can do everything you want in your life, just
Speaker 1: not at the same time. And so I want us
Speaker 1: to be incredibly rigorous, thinking one step in front of
Speaker 1: the other. But we are absolutely looking at expanding our market,
Speaker 1: going to some new opportunities. But we're going to continue
Speaker 1: to be extremely disciplined, and you know, expect us to
Speaker 1: generate a lot more free cash flew this year as well.
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