Speaker 1: From the Bloomberg Interacted Burker's Studios. This is Bloomberg day
Speaker 1: Break for Monday, April third. Coming up today, oil surges
Speaker 1: as Opec announces a surprise production cut. UBS reportedly may
Speaker 1: cut thirty percent of its workforce after the takeover of
Speaker 1: Credit Suite, we may be nearing a deal for the
Speaker 1: purchase of World Wrestling Entertainment. And Donald Trump's lawyer says
Speaker 1: he'll lead not guilty in Manhattan tomorrow. The National Weather
Speaker 1: Service confirms four tornado's touchdown in New Jersey. Plus the
Speaker 1: US has a pointed message to Russia about a detained
Speaker 1: American reporter. I'm Michael barn Or Ahead, I'm John Stashayward
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Speaker 1: I'm Karon Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. Karen.
Speaker 1: We begin this morning with a jump in oil prices.
Speaker 1: Right now, West Texas Intermediate CREWD is up five and
Speaker 1: a half percent to seventy nine dollars eighty four cents
Speaker 1: of barrel. That's after OPEC Plus announced a surprise production
Speaker 1: cut of more than one million barrels a day. The
Speaker 1: move flies in the face of previous assurances that it
Speaker 1: would hold supply steady. We get more from Bloomberg's Christine
Speaker 1: Burke in riod. So we're coming off of a pretty
Speaker 1: soft quarter for oil prices. Brent was down about seven
Speaker 1: percent in the first quarters. We have seen some weakness
Speaker 1: and that is I think very much why we're seeing
Speaker 1: OPEC Plus take this decision to cut production is they
Speaker 1: have seen that that prices have come down so much.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with a lot of macro and certainty. You've
Speaker 1: got a lot of uncertainty around the Fed, a lot
Speaker 1: of questions about what's going to happen with the banking crisis,
Speaker 1: and so OPEC really stepping in here to try and
Speaker 1: signal to the market that it wants those higher prices.
Speaker 1: Man Bloomberg's Christine Burke says the White House is responding,
Speaker 1: calling opex production cut quote ill advised and we're seeing
Speaker 1: oil stocks rally on the OPEC News Nathan shares of
Speaker 1: Chevron and Exxon Mobile or at more than three percent
Speaker 1: in early trading. Haliburton, Marathon Oil, and Schlumberge are all
Speaker 1: lot more than four percent. And another major story this morning,
Speaker 1: Karen centers on massive job cuts at UBS. A Swiss
Speaker 1: newspaper is reporting UBS will cut its workforce by up
Speaker 1: to thirty percent after completing the takeover of Credit Suis.
Speaker 1: We get more from Bloomberg's Russell Ward. These are pretty
Speaker 1: dramatic numbers, as many as eleven thousand staff domestically twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand abroad according to the report. That's much more
Speaker 1: than the nine thousand that Sweets was cutting before the takeover.
Speaker 1: But as you say, large scale job cuts do appear
Speaker 1: to be inevitable given the huge overlaps at these two banks. Domestically,
Speaker 1: both banks have branches and main street main streets all
Speaker 1: over the country. You know some of these which just
Speaker 1: simply have to close. And globally UBS has pledged to
Speaker 1: downsize Credit Swiss investment banking. This is to fit into
Speaker 1: its conservative cultures, so you can expect cuts abroad to
Speaker 1: center on that area and in another development, Bloomberg's Russell
Speaker 1: Award says Swiss prosecutors are opening an investigation into possible
Speaker 1: crimes linked to the takeover of Credit Suites. And Nathan,
Speaker 1: We've seen a recent rally in tech stocks, but one
Speaker 1: strategist says this surge is overdone. Mike Wilson is CHPUS
Speaker 1: equity strategist at Morgan Stanley and one of the most
Speaker 1: prominent bears on stocks. He warns the tech rally that
Speaker 1: succeeded twenty percent is not sustainable and that the sector
Speaker 1: will eventually hit new lows. Let's zoom out from the
Speaker 1: markets now. Karen and turned to politics for the latest
Speaker 1: developments on the indictment of former President Donald Trump. For that,
Speaker 1: we're joined live by Bloomberg's John Tucker in New York.
Speaker 1: Good morning, John, and Nathan. Trump is expanded to travel
Speaker 1: to New York today and stay overnight at his home
Speaker 1: on Fifth Avenue before his arrangement tomorrow in criminal court.
Speaker 1: He'll be fingerprinted and have a mug shot taken. Trump's attorney,
Speaker 1: Joe Tekapina, was on ABC's This Week, says Trump will
Speaker 1: plead not guilty and called the case a political persecution.
Speaker 1: Had Donald Trump not being Donald Trump and it was
Speaker 1: John Smith. This case now would have been brought if
Speaker 1: he was not running for reelection. There's no way this
Speaker 1: case would have brought. The exact charges haven't been revealed,
Speaker 1: but they are related to hushmoney payments to poor An
Speaker 1: actress Stormy Daniels. Trump isn't making any friends with a
Speaker 1: judge who will be presiding over the case is already
Speaker 1: bashed him on social media. Key streets and Lower Manhattan
Speaker 1: will be closed in anticipation of any demonstrations and ours
Speaker 1: anti the Raymond. Trump is expected to return to Florida
Speaker 1: and deliver an evening address from Mara Lago Live in
Speaker 1: New York. I'm John Tucker Bloomberg Daybreak. All right, John,
Speaker 1: thank you. When it comes to the race for the
Speaker 1: White House, former President Trump has another challenger. Former Arkansas
Speaker 1: Governor Aesa Hutchinson is entering the race for the Republican nomination.
Speaker 1: As I've traveled a country for six months, I hear
Speaker 1: people talk about the leadership of our country, and I'm
Speaker 1: convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best
Speaker 1: of America and not simply appeal to our worst instincts.
Speaker 1: And former Arkansas Governor Aesa Hutchinson says he'll make a
Speaker 1: formal announcement on his presidential run later this month. He
Speaker 1: made the comments on ABC's This Week or Sundays on
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. Let's turn to corporate news now, Karen. Word
Speaker 1: of a possible deal this morning involving World Wrestling Entertainment
Speaker 1: could have a new owner soon. Let's get the latest
Speaker 1: on that, Live with Bloomberg. Steve Rappaford, Good morning, Stave,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Nathan, and Karen. Sources tell us in Debora
Speaker 1: Group Holdings will announce a deal this week to buy
Speaker 1: WWE for about nine billion dollars, though it's possible talks
Speaker 1: could still fall through. Founder and majority shareholder Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: is expected to remain involved in the business after the deal.
Speaker 1: McMahon left WWE last year after revelations that he paid
Speaker 1: millions of dollars to settle claims of sexual misconduct. The
Speaker 1: seventy seven year old reinstated himself as chairman in January
Speaker 1: to oversee a strategic review of the company. Live in
Speaker 1: New York, I'm Steve Rappaport Bloomberg Daybreak. All right, Steve,
Speaker 1: thank you all. Tesla's shares are hitting the brakes this morning.
Speaker 1: They're down two point one percent in early trading. Sled
Speaker 1: did report record deliveries in the first quarter, but they
Speaker 1: fell short of the pace required to meet Elon muskol
Speaker 1: a fifty percent annual growth. Tesla delivered almost four hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three thousand cars worldwide last quarter. After it
Speaker 1: cut prices and Karen of bankruptcy filing maybe looming for bed,
Speaker 1: Bath and Beyond, the home goods retailer has three weeks
Speaker 1: to raise another three hundred million dollars from equity markets
Speaker 1: that have largely turned against the company. The shares plunged
Speaker 1: fifty percent after it raised three hundred and sixty million
Speaker 1: from a hedge fund. That deal diluted existing shareholders. Straight ahead,
Speaker 1: we'll get your latest local headlines into check of sports.
Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg. It's thirty nine degrees in New York.
Speaker 1: We have a frost advisor this morning in the suburbs,
Speaker 1: but will be mostly sunny, sixty degrees by this afternoon,
Speaker 1: mostly cloudy tonight, headed down to around fifty. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at some of the other stories making news
Speaker 1: in New York and around the world. With Bloomberg's Michael
Speaker 1: bar Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Nathan. The National Weather
Speaker 1: Service confirmed that ford tornado it's touched down over the weekend.
Speaker 1: In New Jerry. One twister hit Jackson Township. This woman
Speaker 1: and her fiance got an alert on their cell phones
Speaker 1: and took cover. Lights started flickering and then eventually went off,
Speaker 1: and we grabbed flashlights and went to the basement as
Speaker 1: fast as we could. Jackson Township residents woke up to
Speaker 1: find downed power lines and trees brought to the ground.
Speaker 1: Weekend tornadoes killed more than two dozen people in several states,
Speaker 1: including five fatalities in Arkansas. Tornadoes were reported spanning from
Speaker 1: Alabama to as far north as Delaware. Arkansas Governor Sarah
Speaker 1: Huckaby Sanders says they're preparing for more severe weather that
Speaker 1: is forecast for the region tomorrow. Huckaby Sanders spoke in
Speaker 1: wind which took a direct tornado hit. What I found
Speaker 1: to be so amazing are the people who are stepping up,
Speaker 1: not just from this community but across all of Arkansas,
Speaker 1: coming together and helping build their neighbors up. Almost four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people are without power across a dozen states,
Speaker 1: Senator John Feederman is talking about his inpatient treatment for
Speaker 1: clinical depression. He spends six weeks in Washington d ses
Speaker 1: Walter Read Medical Center. The Pennsylvania Democrat was released on
Speaker 1: Friday and returned to his home. His office said his
Speaker 1: depression is in remission. During an interview with CBS Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: he recalled feeling low the ninety one the election to
Speaker 1: the Senate. It's like you just won the biggest race
Speaker 1: in the country. And the whole thing about depression is
Speaker 1: is that objectively you may have won, but the depression
Speaker 1: can absolutely convince you that you actually lost. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened, and that was the start of a
Speaker 1: downward spiral. Feederman suffered a stroke last May when he
Speaker 1: was a candidate for the Senate. A deadly bomb attack
Speaker 1: in Russia has killed a pro Russian military blogger and
Speaker 1: art and supporter of the war in Ukraine. Dozens of
Speaker 1: people were injured in the blast and explosive device ripped
Speaker 1: through a cafe in the heart of Saint Petersburg. The attack,
Speaker 1: looking like an assassin nation killed Maxim Foeman, who used
Speaker 1: the pseudonym Vladmin Tatarski on his blogs. Global news twenty
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Speaker 1: I'm Michael bar This is Bloomberg, Nathan. Thank you Michael,
Speaker 1: now for the Bloomberg Sports Update. Good morning, John stash Hour,
Speaker 1: Good morning Nathan. It was a Sunday where seven New
Speaker 1: York area professional teams played. The Islanders and Devils both
Speaker 1: lost on the road, but the other five one including
Speaker 1: the Nixon Rangers, who both beat teams from Washington. Knicks
Speaker 1: at the Garden over the Wizards one eighteen one oh nine,
Speaker 1: first time in five years. Nicks had four players scored
Speaker 1: more than twenty points, Jalen Brunson, Quentin Grimes, Manual Quickly
Speaker 1: and Obie Top and Nick's clinch a playoff. Birth Rangers
Speaker 1: were in Washington, jumped in front three nothing went on
Speaker 1: to beat the Capitols five to two. The Nets led
Speaker 1: Utah by twenty in the fourth quarter of the league
Speaker 1: schrump to one. Nets held on one ten. They lead
Speaker 1: Miami by two games. Teams in the race to finish
Speaker 1: sixth in the East and avoid the play And so
Speaker 1: that was in Brooklyn. In the Bronx a tape measure shot.
Speaker 1: Stead in swings, girls flop the deep glove center feel
Speaker 1: up ball is high. That is fuck hoo us god
Speaker 1: shut Oh what a shot. That is a Stantonian home
Speaker 1: run A plus drilled the deep glove center n WFA
Speaker 1: and four hundred and eighty five feet longest for John
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton since a five hundred footer in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: when he was with Miami. Aaron Judge also Homer started
Speaker 1: Kyle de Gasha. Yoka Yankees blanked the Giant six nothing,
Speaker 1: already their second shutout victory the Mets, also with solid
Speaker 1: pitching from Kodai Singa and his Met's debut, they won
Speaker 1: five one at Miami. Tommy fam had three hits, three
Speaker 1: RBIs LSU won at first ever NCUBA Women's Championship one
Speaker 1: h two to eighty five over Iowa, highest scoring title
Speaker 1: game ever. Yukon and San Diego State meet tonight in
Speaker 1: Houston to decide the men's championship. John Stash Howard Bloomberg
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Speaker 1: The Bloomberg Business app and Bloomberg dot Com. This is
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. We are getting
Speaker 1: the second quarter of twenty twenty three started with a
Speaker 1: surgeon energy stocks this morning. The surprise announcement from OPEC
Speaker 1: Plus that it's taking more than a million barrels of
Speaker 1: oil off the market per day has shaken this market.
Speaker 1: So let's get more on what the potential impact could
Speaker 1: be as we head into this new quarter. For that,
Speaker 1: we are joined live by Laurie Calvacin ahead of US
Speaker 1: Equity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. Laurie, good morning. Do
Speaker 1: you change your equity strategy now that OPEC plus seems
Speaker 1: to have changed its strategy? Well, thanks for having me,
Speaker 1: Honor Vollways, Nathan, and look, there's no change in our
Speaker 1: strategy here in terms of sectors. We've been telling people
Speaker 1: here to keep a balance between defense, between values, sequicality
Speaker 1: and the growth trade. And it's because of you know,
Speaker 1: the kind of moves we saw on track in the
Speaker 1: first quarter and the kind of move were likely to
Speaker 1: see an energy today. We feel like this is a
Speaker 1: market that's bouncing along, you know, sort of a bottom
Speaker 1: sort of a similar messy normalization period of what we
Speaker 1: had in O two, O three, And we think that
Speaker 1: sector trades in terms of leadership can be vicious in
Speaker 1: terms of their ability to shift direction quickly. And we
Speaker 1: frankly have thought that energy was one of the babies
Speaker 1: that was getting thrown out with the bathwater. Over the
Speaker 1: last few weeks, valuations have been very, very cheap. I've
Speaker 1: got cheaper in recent weeks and now we've got this
Speaker 1: surprise cut. So I I think energy will have a
Speaker 1: good day, and I think it's it's a part of
Speaker 1: the market that deserves to have one. What's the potential
Speaker 1: macroeconomic impact of oil this much oil being taken off
Speaker 1: the market potentially, and does that have a bleed through
Speaker 1: into stocks more broadly besides sector moves. Well, look, I
Speaker 1: think we can always, you know, kind of trace everything
Speaker 1: back these days to the inflation argument and the FED.
Speaker 1: I think the FED does, you know, look at inflation
Speaker 1: in terms of what it can control, so we'll see how,
Speaker 1: you know, shake out they're going forward in terms of
Speaker 1: different speeches. I'm not overly worried there because of the
Speaker 1: banking crisis, because we are still seeing outside of energy,
Speaker 1: you know, a good trend in moderation and inflation. And
Speaker 1: in fact, we actually wrote this morning about the Duke's
Speaker 1: CFO survey that came out last week where some of
Speaker 1: the questions actually spoke to the seeds of inflation, specifically
Speaker 1: pricing and wage growth, where CFOs optimism or you know,
Speaker 1: sort of expectations have taken a hit both for this
Speaker 1: year and next year. So we think inflation is headed
Speaker 1: in the right direction, despite you know, what you might
Speaker 1: get from energy markets. Tell me a little bit more
Speaker 1: about why you think inflation is heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: We have seen some moderation in the Federal reserves preferred
Speaker 1: measure of inflation. Do you think that's the trajectory that
Speaker 1: we're going toward? That we could see either further moderation
Speaker 1: or a further slowdown in inflation. So our economists have
Speaker 1: been arguing that we're sort of headed back to the
Speaker 1: three percent type area at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: If you look at core CPI specifically, and if you
Speaker 1: look at consensus expectations within Bloomberg on the ECFC function,
Speaker 1: if you look at things like PC and core PC
Speaker 1: for quite some time, they've been headed back down in
Speaker 1: that direction. So I think that you know, despite all
Speaker 1: the noise that we've been seeing in the marketplace over
Speaker 1: this debate, that's really been sort of a core belief
Speaker 1: of the professional forecasting community, and that's really been guiding
Speaker 1: a lot of things. And in addition to know sort
Speaker 1: of what we heard from the CFO survey and what
Speaker 1: we saw on the PC data last week, you know,
Speaker 1: we are continuing to see good improvement in supply chains.
Speaker 1: Something else our economists wrote about recently was how he
Speaker 1: looked at all the regional federal reserves surveys that have
Speaker 1: come out recently. They've all been showing weakness in the
Speaker 1: services sector, and that's something that we don't often see
Speaker 1: when all five regions are an agreement on that. So
Speaker 1: I think, no matter where you look, you're seeing you Yes,
Speaker 1: inflation is still high. Yes, it is still a pain
Speaker 1: that that moderation does seem to be in place. So
Speaker 1: do you think then that the market is right to
Speaker 1: be pricing in rate cuts from the Fed this year?
Speaker 1: A lot of the commentary we're hearing from Fed speakers
Speaker 1: is that's really not on the table at this point. Well, look,
Speaker 1: I think the FED always ends up being data dependent,
Speaker 1: and if you talk to our economists, they are they
Speaker 1: are baking in a couple of cuts later this year.
Speaker 1: I think there is some degree of uncertainty in the forecast.
Speaker 1: But what we have seen if you look at market
Speaker 1: based expectations on the FED, no matter where people were
Speaker 1: before PRESCB on terminal, you know cuts, people are pricing
Speaker 1: in a less aggressive or more accommodative FED for both
Speaker 1: this year and next year than they were previously. So
Speaker 1: interest rate expectations bottom line. You know, we can all
Speaker 1: fight about, you know, the exact member cuts, the exact
Speaker 1: level of terminal, but expectations are getting rained in and
Speaker 1: that's ultimately supportive of pe multiples in the stock market.
Speaker 1: So in our last thirty seconds before we pick up
Speaker 1: this conversation after the commercial break, what does that mean
Speaker 1: for earnings expectations if we do see a little bit
Speaker 1: more moderation from this FED. So look, I think that
Speaker 1: one of the key things about, you know, sort of
Speaker 1: the FED debate is just its feed through into uncertainty
Speaker 1: in terms of outlooks from companies. I think it will
Speaker 1: end up keeping guidance conservative, even if companies still tell
Speaker 1: us they weren't affected by SVB or they have the
Speaker 1: ability you know, to kind of manage whatever gets thrown
Speaker 1: at them. But I think that's really just, you know,
Speaker 1: the idea that it weighs on uncertainty and adds to
Speaker 1: that uncertainty is the big read through. This is Bloomberg
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