Speaker 1: News when you wanted with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Doug Chrisner.
Speaker 1: We begin with return of NASA astronaut Sunny Williams and
Speaker 1: Barry Wilmore. Both returned today after being stuck in orbit
Speaker 1: at the International Space Station for nine months. Wilmore and
Speaker 1: Williams were seated inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule with two
Speaker 1: other crew members. They splashed down off the Florida coast
Speaker 1: around six pm Eastern time. Joel Montabano is the Deputy
Speaker 1: Associate Administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you we want to thank the
Speaker 2: crew nineteen and the ground teams for their dedication, the excellence,
Speaker 2: their resilience, their flexibility during this expedition, everything they did
Speaker 2: to have a successful expedition. As you have all witnessed,
Speaker 2: SpaceX has been an incredible partner for us and it
Speaker 2: shows the benefits of the commercial public private partnership that
Speaker 2: we have. So they've just been a huge, great partner
Speaker 2: throughout all this.
Speaker 1: That is Joel Montabano from NASA speaking there now. Williams
Speaker 1: and Wilmore arrived at the ISS last June on a
Speaker 1: Boeing spacecraft with plans to spend roughly a week in space,
Speaker 1: but that brief trip turned into a nine month stay
Speaker 1: when NASA decided in August that the pair would come
Speaker 1: home on a SpaceX capsule instead due to technical issues
Speaker 1: with the Boeing vehicle. The Japanese yen is weaker against
Speaker 1: the dollar after the Bank of Japan held its target
Speaker 1: interest rate at fifty bases points. So now the focus
Speaker 1: will be on Governor Kazu Ouweita when he makes comments
Speaker 1: later today and whether he prepares markets for a raid
Speaker 1: hike as soon as May first. Earlier today, President Trump
Speaker 1: and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on a phone call
Speaker 1: about a ceasefire in Ukraine. Now, Putin did commit to
Speaker 1: limit Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy and infrastructure assets. However,
Speaker 1: he declined to accept a broader cease fire. President Trump
Speaker 1: says the call with Putin went well. Here is Trump
Speaker 1: speaking earlier on Fox News channels. The ingram angle.
Speaker 3: Russia has the advantage. As you know, they have encircled
Speaker 3: about two five hundred soldiers. They're nicely encircled, and that's
Speaker 3: not good, and we want to get it over with. Look,
Speaker 3: we're doing this. There are no Americans involved. There could
Speaker 3: be if you end up in World War three over this,
Speaker 3: which is so ridiculous, but you know, strange things happen.
Speaker 3: And I think we had a great quote lasted almost
Speaker 3: two hours, talked about a lot of things and toward
Speaker 3: getting it to peace, and we talked about other things also.
Speaker 1: That was President Trump speaking on Fox News channels. The
Speaker 1: ingram angle now the Kremlin's account of the phone call
Speaker 1: included conditions for a lasting ceasefire, such as the suspension
Speaker 1: of arms and intelligence support for Ukraine. The Trump administration
Speaker 1: has released previously classified documents related to the assassination of
Speaker 1: former President John F. Kennedy. The release consisted of approximately
Speaker 1: eighty thousand pages of previously classified records being published without redactions.
Speaker 1: More documents are to be unsealed and released in the future.
Speaker 1: Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement earlier today
Speaker 1: that was after President Trump called for the impeachment of
Speaker 1: a federal judge who tried to pause the deportation of
Speaker 1: hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members. Roberts said the impeachment
Speaker 1: of federal judges is not an appropriate response to the
Speaker 1: Trump administration's disagreement with their rulings. Bloomberg Law host June
Speaker 1: Grosso believes John Roberts wanted to put an end to
Speaker 1: the impeachment conversation.
Speaker 4: Not even final orders. It's preliminary orders that they're saying
Speaker 4: are so bad that the judges should be impeached. It's
Speaker 4: just not the way the legal system is supposed to work.
Speaker 4: And I think the Chief Justice just said, let me
Speaker 4: stop this right now if I can.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law host June Grosso, there now. The comments from
Speaker 1: Roberts follow weeks of scathing criticism from the administration of
Speaker 1: judges who have halted parts of the president's far reaching agenda.
Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley has planning to cut about two thousand employees
Speaker 1: later this month, right across the firm except for Morgan
Speaker 1: Stanley's financial advisors. We are told this move is aimed
Speaker 1: at keeping a lid on cost as Morgan Stanley executives
Speaker 1: grapple with minimum attrition. The latest survey from Bank of
Speaker 1: America today shows that investors have slashed their holdings in
Speaker 1: US equities by the most on record. Cash levels at
Speaker 1: the same time jumped. I think it's fair to say
Speaker 1: there are a lot of concerns over tariffs and a
Speaker 1: possible economic slowdown as a part of that story. Now,
Speaker 1: today's losses for the equity market came in front of
Speaker 1: tomorrow's decision from the Fed on interest rate policy. Here's
Speaker 1: a preview from Stuart Paul of Bloomberg Economics.
Speaker 5: Beyond what we actually get from the media, FOMC member
Speaker 5: is expectations for the path of interest rates, we're also
Speaker 5: going to get a few clues about what they expect
Speaker 5: for the economy and what's going to be guiding their
Speaker 5: interest rate decision. So we're also probably going to see
Speaker 5: a downward revision of their expectations for twenty twenty five growth,
Speaker 5: and we're also probably going to see an upward revision
Speaker 5: of their estimates for core PCEE inflation for the year ahead.
Speaker 1: That is Stuart Paul from Bloomberg Economics. And needless to say,
Speaker 1: tomorrow's statement will be looked at very closely for any
Speaker 1: signs of how the Fed is assessing President Trump's trade
Speaker 1: policies and the degree to which they may affect the outlook.
Speaker 1: And that is news when you wanted with Bloomberg News. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm Doug Prisner, and this is Bloomberg