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

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Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman. The Israeli army has been focusing airstrikes on

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Speaker 1: southern Gaza as further ceasefire talks have been ruled out

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Speaker 1: by both sides, with Israel having recalled its negotiating team

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Speaker 1: from Cutter. The temporary truce, where Israeli hostages were traded

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Speaker 1: for Palestinian prisoners and humanitarian aid, came to an end

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Speaker 1: after seven days. Israel has blamed Hamas for the truce ending,

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Speaker 1: saying that they did not uphold their part of the agreement,

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Speaker 1: which included releasing all women and children who were on

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Speaker 1: a list that was given to an approved by Hamas.

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Speaker 1: A senior Hamas official says there will be no more

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Speaker 1: hostage exchanges till after the war ends. Meanwhile, Vice President

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris says too many Palaestaindian civilians have died, while

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Speaker 1: also calling images of the suffering in Gaza quote devastating.

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Speaker 1: Government data being released on Friday is projected to show

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Speaker 1: that payrolls increased by one hundred and eighty thousand after

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Speaker 1: gaining one hundred and fifty thousand in October. The pickup

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Speaker 1: and payrolls is attributed to the return of striking United

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Speaker 1: Auto Workers back to assembly lines. The uaw led walkouts

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Speaker 1: effect to the Big three Detroit Automakers, Ford General Motors

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Speaker 1: in stillantes another data, the unemployment rate is expected to

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Speaker 1: hold at three point nine percent, while the average hourly

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Speaker 1: earnings increase by four percent from a year ago, the

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Speaker 1: smallest annual advanced since mid twenty twenty one. Amtrak wants

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Speaker 1: to bring its ridership back to twenty nineteen, pre pandemic levels,

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Speaker 1: the story from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 2: After a sluggish rebound from the pandemic, the rail company's

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Speaker 2: top executives are setting a goal this year of drawing

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Speaker 2: in about thirty two point eight million riders to the

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Speaker 2: rail network. That is roughly three hundred thousand more trips

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Speaker 2: than the record set back in twenty nineteen and almost

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Speaker 2: triple the twelve point two million riders that use the

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Speaker 2: network during twenty twenty one. The rail system's leaders hope

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Speaker 2: to keep on track for the goal of doubling ridership

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Speaker 2: by twenty forty. Charlie Pellett, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Charlie, the world's most indebted developer faces a Hong

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Speaker 1: Kong court hearing on Monday over a creditor's request to

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Speaker 1: liquidate the company China. Evergrand must convince the judge that

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Speaker 1: it has a concrete restructuring plan, and if it doesn't,

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Speaker 1: it's likely facing a winding up order. Evergrand, which has

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Speaker 1: liabilities of about three hundred and twenty seven billion dollars,

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Speaker 1: defaulted back in December of twenty twenty one. A remaining

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Speaker 1: question is whether a liquidation decision by Hong Kong judge

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Speaker 1: would be acknowledging carried out in mainland China. While speaking

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Speaker 1: at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Semi Valley, California,

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Speaker 1: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says that her department's Bureau of

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Speaker 1: Industry and Security needs more money to stop China from

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Speaker 1: catching up to the US on cutting edge semiconductor technology.

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Speaker 1: The secretary says that currently her budget is two hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars, which is not enough to deny China the tech.

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Speaker 1: The Commerce Department has been placing new export controls on

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Speaker 1: semiconductors since October of twenty twenty two. Meanwhile, the NBA's

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Speaker 1: moved to copy European tournaments is bringing in viewers. More

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 3: This year's new in season tournament is modeled after cup

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Speaker 3: competitions in European Football AKA soccer, and early indications are

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Speaker 3: the NBA is scoring with the move. The tournament's Tuesday

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Speaker 3: night games on TNT well, they averaged one and a

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Speaker 3: half million viewers during the group stage. That is up

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Speaker 3: sixteen percent from a year ago, and ESPN says it's

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Speaker 3: new Friday night games also averaged one and a half

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Speaker 3: million views, and William Moule, media consultant at Octagon, says

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Speaker 3: the question now is whether the excitement takes some of

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Speaker 3: the shine off the remainder of the regular season or

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Speaker 3: adds to it. The tournament is part of an effort

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Speaker 3: by the NBA to shore up its appeal ahead of

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Speaker 3: the next round of national TV deals, and the new

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Speaker 3: in season tournament will culminate in a Las Vegas championship

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Speaker 3: on December ninth. Denise pellgreny Bloomberg Radio Thanks Denise.

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Speaker 1: Uber has been added to the S and P five

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Speaker 1: hundred index after reporting two straight quarters of operating profits

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Speaker 1: that fueled a big rally in the ride sharing company

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Speaker 1: this year. Shares of Uber were up seven point three

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Speaker 1: percent in after hours trading and has gained one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty two percent just this year. The company will

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Speaker 1: officially join the index prior to the market opening on

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Speaker 1: December eighteenth. That's news when you want it with Bloomberg

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