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

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Speaker 1: Doug Prisner. Vice President Kamala Harris is now in a

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Speaker 1: statistical tie with Donald Trump among swing state voters. Those

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Speaker 1: are the findings from a new Bloomberg Morning Console poll,

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Speaker 1: and given these results, the race for the White House

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Speaker 1: is now seen as a toss up. More from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Amy Morris.

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Speaker 2: In Washington, Harris was backed by forty eight percent of

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Speaker 2: voters to forty seven percent for Trump, a statistical dead

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Speaker 2: heat in the swing states that will likely decide November's election.

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Speaker 2: Harris overtook Trump in Arizona and Nevada, and more than

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Speaker 2: doubled President Biden's lead over Trump and Michigan. But when

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Speaker 2: asked who they trusted more to handle the economy, Trump

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Speaker 2: has an eight percentage point edge over Harris. That's down

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Speaker 2: from the fourteen point advantage he held over President Biden.

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Speaker 2: As for who could handle inflation, Trump holds a five

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Speaker 2: point advantage over Harris, but that's a drop from his

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Speaker 2: thirteen point lead over Biden in Washington. Amy Morris Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Speaking earlier today at a rally in a Atlanta, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: Harris issued a challenge to former President Trump.

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Speaker 3: The momentum in this race is shifting, and there are

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Speaker 3: signs that Donald Trump is feeling it well.

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Speaker 2: Donald, I do hope you'll.

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Speaker 4: Reconsider to meet me on the debate stage if you've

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Speaker 4: got something to say.

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Speaker 1: That's Kamala Harris addressing supporters in the battleground state of Georgia. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: she pledged to find bipartisan agreement on the US Mexico

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Speaker 1: border and pass federal protections for abortion. Samsung Electronics, the

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Speaker 1: company reported profit well above estimates at nine point six

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Speaker 1: y four trillion one in terms of a net profit.

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Speaker 1: Operating profit for the chip division was also ahead of forecast.

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Speaker 1: The company pointed out, though that PC demand was weak,

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Speaker 1: smartphone sales were solid. Here's Bloomberg's Vladsevov.

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Speaker 5: So twenty twenty four for Samsung has been a complete

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Speaker 5: rebranding effort, and it's worth saying their flagship series has

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Speaker 5: done really well. They had double digit growth both in

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Speaker 5: sales and shipments for the new Galaxy S twenty four series.

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Speaker 5: So as far as the market that's really plateaued is

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Speaker 5: really mature market, something has done really well with especially

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Speaker 5: it's flagship series and it says that it's seeing premium

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Speaker 5: demands rising in the last half of the year.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Flatsavov there talking about Samsung's smartphone sales overall, though

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Speaker 1: the company did attribute the profit strength to artificial intelligence

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Speaker 1: and those high bandwidth memory chips as key driving factors

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Speaker 1: in the US. After the bell, we heard from Microsoft.

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Speaker 1: The company reported that fourth quarter cloud revenue fell slightly

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Speaker 1: below last quarter. Slower growth of the Azure Cloud service

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Speaker 1: seemed to disappoint investors they were looking for a payoff

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Speaker 1: from those huge investments in AI. We got reaction from

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Speaker 1: Dan at Sonova's Trust.

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Speaker 4: There are some rollover going on right now from the

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Speaker 4: Alphabet report when it really raised concerns about, you know,

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Speaker 4: how much gain are you getting in regards to your

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Speaker 4: AI initiatives versus the amount of CAPEX that you're spending.

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Speaker 4: And I was kind of hoping that this Microsoft report

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Speaker 4: might kind of dampen those worries and just kind of

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Speaker 4: blow numbers out, but unfortunately it was a little bit shot.

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Speaker 1: That is, Dan Morgan of Sonova's Trust shares in microsoftware

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Speaker 1: down about three percent at the end of the late session.

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Speaker 1: We also heard from Advanced to Micro devices. Those shares

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Speaker 1: rallied by as much as six percent in late trading.

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Speaker 1: This is after the chip maker gave an upbeat revenue

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Speaker 1: forecast for the current quarter. We have more from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 6: It signals that its new artificial intelligence processors are helping

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Speaker 6: bolster growth. AMD said revenue will be roughly six point

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Speaker 6: seven billion dollars in the third quarter. Analys estimated six

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Speaker 6: point six two billion on average. According to data compiled

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Speaker 6: by Bloomberg. Second quarter results also top projections. The outlook

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Speaker 6: suggests that AMD is making headway in its pursuit of Nvidia,

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Speaker 6: which dominates the market for so called AI accelerators. Those

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Speaker 6: are chips used to develop artificial intelligence models. In New York.

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Speaker 6: Charlie Pellett Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio, Intel is planning to eliminate thousands of jobs. These

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Speaker 1: cuts are aimed at reducing cost and funding an ambitious

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Speaker 1: effort to recover from a slump in earnings and a

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Speaker 1: loss of market share. We are told the cuts may

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Speaker 1: be announced as soon as this week. Intel has about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten thousand employees, excluding workers at units

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Speaker 1: that are in the process of being spun off. The

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Speaker 1: Israeli Defense Force struck Bay Route, aiming at a Hesbalah commander.

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Speaker 1: This was in response to a rocket attack over the

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Speaker 1: weekend in the Golan Heights. It killed twelve people. We

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Speaker 1: got reaction from Natasha Hall, senior fellow with the Middle

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Speaker 1: East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Speaker 1: She told us this was expected.

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Speaker 3: I was speaking to diplomats just a bit earlier than this,

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Speaker 3: and there had been some evacuation of the Dahia, or

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Speaker 3: this suburban area of Beirut that is also Hesibalalah stronghold.

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Speaker 3: So many people in the area knew that this might

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Speaker 3: be the targeted area and had been evacuating for some time.

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Speaker 3: That said, we should still be aware of the civilian

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Speaker 3: casualties that might be at play, because this is a

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Speaker 3: neighborhood after all.

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Speaker 1: That's Natasha Hall from the CSIS. Now, the Israeli Defense

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Speaker 1: Force said it targeted the commander responsible for the murder

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Speaker 1: of the children in that weekend attack, and the Israeli

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Speaker 1: government is blaming the Lebanon based militant group Hesblah. The

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Speaker 1: acting head of the Secret Service, was on Capitol Hill

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Speaker 1: today answering questions about the assassination attempt of former President Trump.

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Speaker 1: Ronald Rowe said he visited the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: and he was left ashamed.

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Speaker 3: As a career law enforcement officer in a twenty five

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Speaker 3: year veteran with his Secret Service, I cannot defend why

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Speaker 3: that roof was not better secured.

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Speaker 1: That is Ronald Rowe, acting head of the Secret Service. Earlier,

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post reported the would be assassin Thomas Crooks

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Speaker 1: stopped shooting after a local SWAT officer returned fire and

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Speaker 1: didn't shoot again before a Secret Service sniper killed him.

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Speaker 1: And we're watching the medal count in Paris. The women's

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Speaker 1: gymnastics team with Simone Biles won the gold. The US

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Speaker 1: now has a total of twenty six medals, France has eighteen,

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Speaker 1: China has fourteen, and the most gold medals at this

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Speaker 1: point goes to Japan with seven. And that is news

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

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