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

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Speaker 1: Doug Prissner. President Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

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Speaker 1: Netniahu the US support for his war in Gaza depends

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Speaker 1: on new steps to protect civilians. We have more from

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Ed Baxter.

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Speaker 2: Israel saying it will reopen border crossings to increase the

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Speaker 2: flow of aid. NSC spokesman John Kirby says, the US

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Speaker 2: has demanded concrete changes. It's not just about the announcement

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Speaker 2: of concrete steps and changes in their policies, but it's

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Speaker 2: the execution of those announcements and those decisions and implementing them.

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Speaker 2: And Secretary of Sate Anthony Blinkoln says as well stopping

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Speaker 2: civilian casualty.

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Speaker 3: So President emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and

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Speaker 3: the overall humanitarian situation are unaccepted.

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Speaker 2: And the US is demanding a hostage deal as well,

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Speaker 2: Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Federal officials are set to release preliminary findings on their

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Speaker 1: investigation into last week's collapse of the Baltimore bridge that

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Speaker 1: killed six and shut down the Port of Baltimore. We're

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Speaker 1: hearing the findings could be made public with it days now.

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Speaker 1: Officials have been investigating the possible role of tainted shipping

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Speaker 1: fuel in this collision. Tainted fuel has previously resulted in

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Speaker 1: serious Tainted fuel has previously resulted in serious and sometime

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Speaker 1: complete engine failure. The Transportation Safety Board did not immediately

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Speaker 1: respond to a request for comment. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

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Speaker 1: is now in China for more talks on trade. She's

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Speaker 1: expected to press officials in Beijing on a build up

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Speaker 1: in Chinese industrial overcapacity. Earlier, we spoke with Ian Bremer,

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Speaker 1: president and founder of Eurasia Group. He told us what

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Speaker 1: changes to expect.

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Speaker 4: You're probably going to see more moves from the United

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Speaker 4: States on pushing to restrict some of that. Some of

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Speaker 4: that can be you know, moderate tariffs, some of that

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Speaker 4: can be export controls. But I mean, this is telegraphing

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Speaker 4: to the Chinese that the Americans don't want surprises. The

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Speaker 4: reality is, yeah, this is not going to be the

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Speaker 4: easiest of trips. But once ago they weren't taking trips

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Speaker 4: at all.

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Speaker 1: That is Ian Bremmer from Eurasia Group. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Yellen's trip comes after Presidents Biden and She held their

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Speaker 1: first call in five months. On Tuesday, the leaders discussed

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Speaker 1: Taiwan artificial intelligence and security issues. We go to South

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Speaker 1: Korea next, where Samsung's profit rebounded sharply. For the first

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Speaker 1: quarter of twenty twenty four, the company reported preliminary operating

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Speaker 1: profit of about six point six trillion one. The estimate

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Speaker 1: was only for five point three seven trillion. The results

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Speaker 1: reflect a turnaround in the company's semiconductor division, as well

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Speaker 1: as robust sales of the Galaxy S twenty four smartphones.

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Speaker 1: Here's Bloomberg's Yo qm Lee.

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Speaker 5: The next leg the market is looking at is like

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Speaker 5: Samsung's development on the HPM front. The company has been

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Speaker 5: seen as falling behind as rivals, but there is growing

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Speaker 5: expectations that Samsung maybe finally be catching up later half

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Speaker 5: of this year, providing possibly its own HBM chips to

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Speaker 5: hopefully some of the key clients such as Nvidia.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Joe qun Lee. Now, Samsung will announce

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Speaker 1: full earnings with divisional breakdowns that will happen on April thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: In the States. The head of the Minneapolis FED, Neil Kashkari,

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Speaker 1: was saying today rate cuts may not be needed this

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Speaker 1: year if progress on inflation stalls, and Kashkari went on

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Speaker 1: to say this is especially true if the American economy

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Speaker 1: remains robust. Back in March, Cascari said he jotted down

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Speaker 1: two rate cuts for twenty twenty four if inflation continued

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Speaker 1: to fall back toward the fed's two percent target. Drug

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Speaker 1: plans from CVS Health will now cover the over the

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Speaker 1: counter oral birth control pill in the US. That story

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 3: It is a step that further removes barriers to obtaining

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Speaker 3: oral contraception as reproductive rights increasingly come under fire. CVS

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Speaker 3: Care Mark says oh pill, that is, the non prescription

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Speaker 3: drug from Parago, will be added to the Preventive Service's

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Speaker 3: oral contraceptives list and will be covered at no cost

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Speaker 3: from many planned sponsors. The US Food and Drug Administration

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Speaker 3: cleared OPEL for non prescription use last summer, making it

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Speaker 3: the country's first over the counter oral birth control product

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Speaker 3: in New York. Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Advisors to President Biden have called major Baltimore employers to

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Speaker 1: encourage them to retain jobs despite that bridge collapse that

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Speaker 1: has shut the city's Port. We are told the advisers

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Speaker 1: sought voluntary commitments to refrain from dismissals, and they have

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Speaker 1: asked companies to announce those intentions as a way of

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Speaker 1: providing certainty to the job market. Now, the terminal operator

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Speaker 1: Ports America was the target of this outreach, as were

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Speaker 1: auto companies at his News when you want it with

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