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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 1: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 3: Karen, the lift in futures is getting a lot of

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Speaker 3: help this morning from Apple. That stock is rallying six

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Speaker 3: percent in early training. The company announced the biggest stock

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Speaker 3: buyback in US history, and although Apple's revenue fell more

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Speaker 3: than four percent in the quarter, it was better than

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Speaker 3: analysts predicted. Mark German covers Apple for Bloomberg News.

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Speaker 4: Big picture here is that Apple's doing a little bit

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Speaker 4: better than feared.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 4: You still see declines across all of their segments other

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Speaker 4: than the mac and services, but a little bit better

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Speaker 4: than what we had anticipated, or not what we had anticipated,

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Speaker 4: but what had some anticipated in China, certainly a lot

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Speaker 4: of optimism around artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 3: In Bloomberg's Mark German says Apple predicted a return to

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Speaker 3: revenue growth in the current period. As for that stock buyback,

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Speaker 3: Apple's board approved an additional one hundred and ten billion

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Speaker 3: dollars in share repurchases and also raised its quarterly dividend

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Speaker 3: for the twelfth year in a row.

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Speaker 6: Well, Nathan.

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Speaker 1: In addition to earnings, the economy remains in focus, and

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Speaker 1: later this morning we will get that jobs are poored

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Speaker 1: for the month of April. Economists are forecasting a gain

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Speaker 1: of two hundred and forty one thousand jobs and the

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Speaker 1: unemployment rate to hold steady at three point eight percent.

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Speaker 1: We get a preview from Bloomberg's Michael McKee.

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Speaker 6: One reason the Fed feels that can stay on hold

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Speaker 6: is that the labor market remains strong. The question today's

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Speaker 6: data may help answer is whether it is too strong.

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Speaker 6: Unemployment has remained below four percent for more than two years,

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Speaker 6: job growth has averaged over two hundred thousand a month

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Speaker 6: for more than three years. Forecasters see no change coming

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Speaker 6: in the April figures, so the key question maybe what

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Speaker 6: happens with wages. Data earlier this week showed compensation still

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Speaker 6: rising at a pace that could trigger higher inflation. Michael McKee,

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Speaker 6: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, Mike, Thanks, and ahead of that job's report,

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Speaker 3: bond traders have pulled forward expectations for the Fed's first

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Speaker 3: full interest rate cut by a month to November. The

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Speaker 3: recalibration comes with the best two day rally for short

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Speaker 3: end treasury since January, following the Fed's latest policy meeting

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Speaker 3: on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Well, now, Nathan an update on a possible bidding war

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Speaker 1: in the mining industry. Shares of Anglo American are up

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Speaker 1: more than three percent, and this follows a Reuter's report

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Speaker 1: that Glencore is studying an approach for the miner. Anglo

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Speaker 1: last week rejected at thirty nine billion dollar all stock

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Speaker 1: proposal from BHP Okay Keren.

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Speaker 3: Now, let's get to the latest on the college protests

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Speaker 3: across the country. Police have now arrested close to twenty

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Speaker 3: two hundred people over the last few weeks. We get

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Speaker 3: the latest from Bloomberg Zed Baxter.

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Speaker 7: Arrests in every corner of the nation, and President Joe

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Speaker 7: Biden directly addressing it, saying two principles at play.

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Speaker 8: First is the right to free speech and for people

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Speaker 8: to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. The second

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Speaker 8: is the rule of law.

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Speaker 2: Both must be upheld.

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Speaker 7: He says. The two have to balance, so protest, but

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Speaker 7: not be violent or hateful at Baxter Bloomberg Radio all right.

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Speaker 1: Ed, thanks, But Columbia University says thirteen the forty four

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Speaker 1: people who occupied and barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall had

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Speaker 1: no affiliation with the Institution. New York City Mayor Eric

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Speaker 1: Adams says outsiders are counted for almost a third of

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Speaker 1: the one hundred and twelve people arrested in a crackdown

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Speaker 1: that occurred at Columbia on Tuesday evening.

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Speaker 3: Than Karen with Some universities that are holding graduation ceremonies

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Speaker 3: this weekend are trying to keep a lid on potential disruptions.

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Speaker 3: The University of Michigan says staff and security officers are

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Speaker 3: ready to respond to any incidents. The university says interfering

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Speaker 3: with commencement will not be considered a free speech Indiana

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Speaker 3: University is designating protest zones outside graduation venues, and Northeastern

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Speaker 3: Universities holding its commencement at Fenway Park well Nathan.

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Speaker 1: A second week of testimony wraps up today and former

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Speaker 1: President Trump's Manhattan hush money trial. The prosecution's star war witness,

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Speaker 1: Michael Cohen, still hasn't taken this stand, but the jury

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Speaker 1: did hear a secret tape of Trump's former lawyer discussing

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Speaker 1: a payment with the former president. It didn't go into details,

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars was paid to former Playboy playmate Karen

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Speaker 1: McDougal and Karen.

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Speaker 3: Jurors also heard from Keith Davidson. He's the lawyer who

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Speaker 3: represented Stormy Daniels when she received one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 3: Dave Arenberg says there was one bombshell moment in Davidson's testimony.

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Speaker 9: There's this very powerful text message that came out in

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Speaker 9: trial where Keith Davidson texted, what have we done after

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Speaker 9: Trump wins the election, acknowledging that everything they did was

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Speaker 9: to help his election, and now it came to fruition

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Speaker 9: and now there's buyer's remorse.

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Speaker 3: And Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Arenberg says Trump's

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Speaker 3: defense has worked to poke holes in the credibility of

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Speaker 3: prosecution witnesses and show the former president was trying to

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Speaker 3: protect his reputation and family, not his campaign, by keeping

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Speaker 3: the women quiet well.

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Speaker 1: Nathan Donald Trump may be spending most days in a

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Speaker 1: courtroom in Manhattan, but he's also focusing on winning the

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Speaker 1: White House this fall. In Bloomberg's Amy Morris has.

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Speaker 10: More, Trump is sharpening his focus on a possible running

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Speaker 10: mate by bringing top contenders for the job to an

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Speaker 10: exclusive donor retreat in Palm Beach this weekend, along with

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Speaker 10: hundreds of deep pocketed GOP backers. Sources tell Bloomberg the

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Speaker 10: shortlist includes Ohio Senator jd Vance, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgham,

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Speaker 10: Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.

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Speaker 10: Trump's campaign says nobody knows when or who Trump might choose,

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Speaker 10: and Trump has said he'll make his decision closer to

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Speaker 10: the Republican National Convention in July in Washington. Amy Morris,

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Speaker 2: All right, Amy, thanks.

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Speaker 3: As for President Biden, he's making a move to court

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Speaker 3: Latino communities. The Biden administration is extending the Affordable Care

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Speaker 3: Arrivals program, known as DACA. That's the program that provides

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Speaker 3: work permits and protection from deportation to people who came

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Speaker 3: to the US as undocumented children. About one third of

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Speaker 3: doctor recipients, known as dreamers, don't have health insurance. The

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Speaker 3: administration now expects one hundred thousand people to sign up.

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Speaker 1: Well Nathan, another whistleblower who raised safety concerns at Boeing

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Speaker 1: has died. Forty five year old Josh Dean was a

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Speaker 1: former quality auditor and Boeing supplier Spirit Aerosystems. The Seattle

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Speaker 1: Time says Dean was hospitalized at developing breathing problems just

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Speaker 1: another Boeing whistleblower, John Barnett, who reportedly died from a

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Speaker 1: at some of the other stories making news in New

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Speaker 1: by Bloomberg's Michael Barr.

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Speaker 2: Michael, good morning, Good morning Karen.

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Speaker 11: A tanger fire on the Connecticut Highway turn traffic into

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Speaker 6: I'm coming from New Haven and you've got stuck out

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Speaker 11: Fortunately no one was heard, but Governor Ned Lamont says

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Speaker 11: York will be closed for days. More from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 2: The tanker truck was filled with gasoline. It burst into

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Speaker 11: Radio, a home in South River, New Jersey exploded last night,

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Speaker 11: leaving at least one person dead. The home was completely destroyed.

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Speaker 11: The Middlesex County Prosecutors says the person killed a sixty

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Speaker 11: Hobbs has signed the repeal of Arizona's Civil War era

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Speaker 11: near total ban abortion. Hobbs hailed it as a proud

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Speaker 4: Today, we are doing what twenty three governors and fifty.

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Speaker 1: Five legislatures refused to do, and I am so proud

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Speaker 11: Arizona still has a law of banning abortions. After fifteen

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Speaker 11: weeks on the books, Ukraine's President Vladimir Selensky appealed for

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Speaker 11: a weapons package to be delivered by the UK as

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Speaker 11: soon as possible. In a meeting with Foreign Secretary David Cameron,

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Speaker 11: Zelensky updated Cameron on the war with Russia during a

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Speaker 11: meeting in Kiev. President Joe Biden will award the nation's

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Speaker 11: highest honor to several people today, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Speaker 11: Nineteen individuals will received the award, including Nancy Pelosi, the

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Speaker 11: first woman to become House speaker. Global News twenty four

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Speaker 11: News Now. I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Karen Burray.

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Speaker 1: Michael Burr, thank you time now for the Bloomberg Sports

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Speaker 1: Update with John Stashaur.

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Speaker 2: John, Good morning, Good morning, Karen.

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Speaker 12: It was only a first round series, but there was

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Speaker 12: so much drama between the Knicks and Sixers. It will

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Speaker 12: three pointers down the stretch of Game six in Philly.

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Speaker 13: Ball, rebound Heart looks to push a head to te

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Speaker 13: Vincenzo one to one with Maxie steps through, kicks it out,

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Speaker 12: Joss Hart puts the Nicks up by three waf and

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Speaker 12: that Heart three snapped a tie with twenty five seconds left.

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Speaker 12: the Sixers one eighteen one fifteen, won the series four two.

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Speaker 12: Jalen Brunson forty one points. He's the first player since

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Speaker 12: All five Knick starters were in double figures. Dante DiVincenzo

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Speaker 12: Joel Embi led the Sixers with thirty nine. After Tyrese

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Speaker 12: Maxi's heroics in Game five, when he scored forty six,

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Speaker 12: The Facers won their game six at home by twenty

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Speaker 12: the entire series. Game one at the Garden Monday night,

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Speaker 12: the NHL finally announced the Rangers Carolina series will start

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Speaker 12: at MSG on Sunday. They haven't yet said the time.

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Speaker 12: They'll be at game seven Tomorrow night in Boston. Toronto,

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Speaker 12: who won Game five two to one, took Game six

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Speaker 12: to two to one. The Bruins goal came with one

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Speaker 12: second left, wild comeback win for the match. They won

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Speaker 12: seven to six. In our Francisco, Lindor two run hit

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Speaker 12: with Starling Marte throwing out a Cubs runner at the plate.

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Speaker 12: runs in the series. Nationals lost six to nothing to Texas.

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Speaker 12: Giants beat the Red Sox. John Starshawer Bloomberg Sports, Karen Nathan.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nathan Hager as we wrap up big tech earnings

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Speaker 3: with results from Apple. The iphonemaker did come out with

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Speaker 3: senior tech analyst Matthew Bloxham. Matt, good morning. So it

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Speaker 3: was slight beats for the most part all around, but

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it was, And I think the story of the

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Speaker 14: But actually what we saw from China was better than

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Speaker 14: essentially China, which is about eighteen percent of their revenue,

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Speaker 3: Do you buy the optimism that we're hearing from the

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Speaker 3: many headwinds for the Chinese economy.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, I think it's an issue that's going

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Speaker 3: And obviously the one hundred and ten billion dollars stock

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's about four percent of

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Speaker 14: you need to be kind of offering something and obviously

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Speaker 14: You'll maybe that you know that actually the buy back

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Speaker 3: And to your point in our last minute here, Matt,

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean I think it's pretty high that this

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Speaker 14: give a convincing view that you know that the GENII

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