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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. We begin with the latest on the fatal

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Speaker 1: shooting of United Health Group executive Brian Thompson. A twenty

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Speaker 1: six year old man is in custody as a person

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Speaker 1: of interest after being arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following a

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Speaker 1: five day man hunt. He is Luigi Mangione, and he

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Speaker 1: has been charged with five counts, including possessing an illegal

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Speaker 1: gun and using fake ID. Then late Monday, prosecutors in

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Speaker 1: Manhattan filed murder and other charges against Mangoni. He remains

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Speaker 1: jailed in Pennsylvania and will at some point need to

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Speaker 1: be extradited to New York. Here is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

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Speaker 2: I have no talance, nor should anyone, for one man

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Speaker 2: using an illegal ghost gun to murder someone because he

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Speaker 2: thinks his opinion matters most.

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Speaker 1: That is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Meantime, in New York City,

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Speaker 1: marine veteran Daniel Penny was acquitted in the death of

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Speaker 1: Jordan Neely last year. Penny placed Neely in a choke

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Speaker 1: hold on a subway train. Today, he was found not

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Speaker 1: guilty of criminally negligent homicide. This verdict came after the

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Speaker 1: judge dismissed a manslaughter charge against Penny last week when

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Speaker 1: Juras said they could not reach a verdict. Penny's defense

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Speaker 1: argued Neely was threatening to hurt people, but prosecutors say

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Speaker 1: Penny went too far in using that choke called grip.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Neely's father, Andrea Zachary says, the justice system is rigged. Really,

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Speaker 1: Billy hurts, what are we going to do people?

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Speaker 3: What's going to happen to us?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: That is Andre Zachary, the father of Jordan Neely. President

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Speaker 1: elect Trump is reported to have recently spoken with Governor

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Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis about selecting Lara Trump to the Florida Senate

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Speaker 1: seat being vacated by Marco Rubio. The Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 1: is reporting on this conversation. Trump has selected Rubio as

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Speaker 1: his Secretary Area of State now. Rubio is expected to

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Speaker 1: be confirmed next year in the Republican controlled Senate. For

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Speaker 1: her part, Laura Trump announced she was stepping down as

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Speaker 1: co chair of the Republican National Committee. We go next

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Speaker 1: to Syria, where the head of the Islamist rebel group

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Speaker 1: that toppled President Basher al Assad has been tasked with

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Speaker 1: forming a transitional government. He is Mohammad al Bashir, the

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Speaker 1: leader of Hayatirir al Sham or HTS. Bloomberg's Rosalind Mathieson says,

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Speaker 1: there are still a lot of questions about what the

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Speaker 1: post assad Syria will look like.

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Speaker 3: You've got the main rebel group obviously that swept into

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Speaker 3: Damascus on the weekend, but there are a lot of

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Speaker 3: groups operating in Syria at the moment. It's unclear when

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Speaker 3: or how any of those will wit together to potentially

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Speaker 3: form a new administration. Then what does that look like

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Speaker 3: when you move from being sort of militant group to

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Speaker 3: being a political operator in Syria?

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Raz Mathieson. We go to China next,

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Speaker 1: where top leaders have signaled forceful economic support next year,

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Speaker 1: use using the most direct language on stimulus in years.

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Speaker 1: The official Shinwan News agency says the Politbureau has vowed

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Speaker 1: to embrace a moderately loose monetary policy in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Here is Bloomberg's end decurrent.

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Speaker 5: There's a promise of what they call extraordinary countercycular measures,

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Speaker 5: which basically means pulling whatever levers they can to get

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Speaker 5: activity up and running. And there's also promises there for

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Speaker 5: broader economic reforms that would spur domestic spending, domestic consumption

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Speaker 5: that would be music through the US Treasury's ears for example.

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Speaker 5: So at face value, on a headline basis, it's a

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Speaker 5: material statement from the Chinese authorities and it certainly signals

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Speaker 5: intent when it comes to where they want the economy

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Speaker 5: next year.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's and decurrent meantime, China has opened an

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Speaker 1: investigation into Nvidia over suspected anti monopoly law violations related

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Speaker 1: to the company's twenty twenty acquisition of Melanox Technology. The

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Speaker 1: probe is seen as a response to escalating US technology curbs.

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Speaker 1: Here is bloom It's Mike Shepherd.

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Speaker 4: When you think about what China is trying to do

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Speaker 4: in terms of this brushback pitch against Nvidia, China doesn't

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Speaker 4: want to let go of access to Nvidia's technology completely

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Speaker 4: if it were to borrow it from the market or

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Speaker 4: impose heavy penalties. For in Nvidia, it's about fifteen percent

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Speaker 4: of its sales, but for China there is the importance

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Speaker 4: of having access to Nvidia's latest and most groundbreaking chips.

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Speaker 1: That is Bloomberg's Mike Shepherd. After the bell, we heard

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Speaker 1: from Oracle. The company reported quarterly revenue merely in line

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Speaker 1: with estimates, and that was a disappointment to investors who

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Speaker 1: have boosted this stock by eighty one percent since the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the year on enthusiasm for Oracle's ascendant cloud business.

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Speaker 1: We got reaction from anarag Rana, senior tech analyst at

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 6: The growth that I'm talking about right now nine percent,

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Speaker 6: I mean almost all of it is organic in nature,

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Speaker 6: which is pretty good for a company this size, that's

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Speaker 6: pretty old in nature as well with their old database products,

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Speaker 6: old application. But if you look at it clouded for

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Speaker 6: struct a business group fifty two percent, I mean, that's

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Speaker 6: like any of the startup would be very proud of

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Speaker 6: those numbers.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, that is Bloomberg's honorag Rana shares an Oracle. We're

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Speaker 1: down as much as five percent in late US trading,

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Speaker 1: and Eli Lilly has approved a fifteen billion dollar stock buyback.

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Speaker 1: The company has also declared a fifteen percent increase in

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Speaker 1: its quarterly dividend, and that is news when you want

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Speaker 1: it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug Prisoner, and this

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Speaker 1: is wonder,