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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager.
Speaker 1: And I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today.
Speaker 3: Karen, we're watching oil drop as well as we begin
Speaker 3: a new trading week. Right now, West Texas Intermediate stand
Speaker 3: about four tenths of one percent at eighty three dollars
Speaker 3: fifty six cents per barrel. And that decline comes as
Speaker 3: the US pushes to broker a peace deal between Israel
Speaker 3: and Hamas we get the details from Bloomberg's Ed Baxter.
Speaker 4: This comes with Secretary of Sir Anthony Blincoln visiting Israel
Speaker 4: today and meeting with Israeli officials. The White House says
Speaker 4: Israel has now agreed to hear concerns. NSA spokesman John
Speaker 4: Kirby says six weeks.
Speaker 1: If we can get that.
Speaker 5: In place, then that gives you six weeks apiece. It
Speaker 5: gives you no fighting for six weeks, and that includes
Speaker 5: no fighting in Rafa. And what we're hoping is that
Speaker 5: after six weeks of a temporary ceasefire, we can maybe
Speaker 5: get something more enduring in place.
Speaker 4: Kirby says, Israel has a read that there will be
Speaker 4: no attack on RAFA until the US concerns are heard.
Speaker 4: He says, we'll see where that goes at Baxter Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, ed, thank you. Adding another wrinkle to the
Speaker 1: discussions or reports at Israeli officials think the International Criminal
Speaker 1: Court could be preparing a rest warrants over the war.
Speaker 1: The New York Times is reporting officials believe Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyahoo, other Israelis and some Hamas leaders could be charged.
Speaker 1: The paper says Israeli officials could be accused of preventing
Speaker 1: the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza strip and
Speaker 1: pursuing an excessively harsh response to the Hamas attacks on Israel.
Speaker 3: And here in the US, Karen campus protests over the
Speaker 3: war in Gaza are heading into a third week. Hundreds
Speaker 3: of pro Palestinian demonstrators have been arrested at schools across
Speaker 3: the country since these protests began at Columbia University on
Speaker 3: April eighteenth. House Speaker Mike Johnson's called for the National
Speaker 3: Guard to come in and break up tent encampments, but
Speaker 3: senators like fellow Republican JD. Vance are dismissing that idea.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you need to call in the
Speaker 6: National Guard.
Speaker 7: Maybe you just call in the police.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 6: This is often framed as a free speech debate.
Speaker 3: Senator Vance tells Fox News Sunday students have a right
Speaker 3: to speak their minds, but not to set up tent
Speaker 3: cities in public spaces. Democratic Senator Tim Kaine says campus
Speaker 3: security should play more of a role.
Speaker 2: Calling in the National Guard to college campuses.
Speaker 7: For so many people would recall what happened when that
Speaker 7: was done during the Vietnam War.
Speaker 2: And it didn't end well.
Speaker 3: Senator Kane was on NBC's Meet the Press, which can
Speaker 3: be heard Sundays on Bloomberg Radio along with Fox News Sunday.
Speaker 1: Well, Nathan, we now turn to the markets, where more
Speaker 1: corporate earnings and a FED decision highlight the week. Fetchair. J.
Speaker 1: Powell will address reporters after the Fed's rate decision on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: when the Central Bank is widely expected to hold borrowing
Speaker 1: costs at a more than two decade high. Here's what
Speaker 1: Goldman Sachs Chief Asia economist Andrew Tilton is expecting.
Speaker 9: He needs to keep the options open for the FED
Speaker 9: after a set of upside surprises to inflation in the
Speaker 9: first quarter we don't know for sure whether it we'll
Speaker 9: see inflation down to target in time for the FED
Speaker 9: to begin cutting by midyear. Our forecast, we think the
Speaker 9: FED starts cutting in July. We think we'll see a
Speaker 9: lower run rate of inflation in Q two and beyond,
Speaker 9: but that's still a forecast, not a fact.
Speaker 1: And then I'll look from Goldman's sax as Andrew Tilton
Speaker 1: comes as expectations for rate reductions have been pursed further
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty four, investors are now betting on two
Speaker 1: cuts at most by year end.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Karen an analysis of more than sixty thousand FED
Speaker 3: news headlines shows Jay Powell's words in December, when he
Speaker 3: hinted at a swifter pivot toward rate cuts, gave markets
Speaker 3: a boost and likely helped the US economy dodge a downturn.
Speaker 3: Bloomberg Economics FED Sentiment Index is powered by a natural
Speaker 3: language processing algorithm. It shows while Powell's words led to
Speaker 3: a significant cut in borrowing costs, they also probably added
Speaker 3: about a half percentage point two inflation over the year.
Speaker 3: Despite the FED share being forced into a reversal of
Speaker 3: his comments this month, Bloomberg's analysis shows Powell has only
Speaker 3: undone a fraction of the stimulus unleashed his December press conference.
Speaker 1: Well, Nathan, there have been major swings in the value
Speaker 1: of the yen in trading today. The Japanese currency wee
Speaker 1: can pass one sixty to the dollar for the first
Speaker 1: time since in nineteen ninety before rebounding strongly. Traders are
Speaker 1: on high alert for signs of intervention from Japanese authorities.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Markets Live Asia lead Garfield Reynolds says they don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of options considering the wide gulf and
Speaker 1: interest rates with the US.
Speaker 11: Yes, the BOJ is on a tightening path, but it's
Speaker 11: a slow path that makes it hard for the Ministry
Speaker 11: of Finance to come in strongly to drive the dollar
Speaker 11: yen down, especially when everything else is busy driving the
Speaker 11: dollar up against everything.
Speaker 1: And Bloomberg's Garfield Reynolds says last week the BOJ indicated
Speaker 1: financial conditions or remain easy, though policymakers have repeatedly warned
Speaker 1: that depreciation won't be tolerated if it goes too far,
Speaker 1: too fast.
Speaker 3: Well, checking Company News this morning, Karen shares of Tesla
Speaker 3: are higher by more than seven percent. In your li
Speaker 3: training the ev maker is set to clear a key
Speaker 3: hurdle to introduce its advanced assisted driving features in China.
Speaker 3: Bloomberg Daybreak Asia anchor Brian Curtis has more from Hong Kong.
Speaker 10: Sources say Tesla will partner with byd in mapping and
Speaker 10: navigation functions. The US automaker will then be able to
Speaker 10: deploy its autonomous driving services. This would be on the
Speaker 10: basis of lane level navigation and mapping provided by by
Speaker 10: do Bydwo is one of only about twenty qualified suppliers
Speaker 10: with the key module for self driving functions. The news
Speaker 10: comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a surprise visit
Speaker 10: to China. He was immediately granted a meeting with Premier
Speaker 10: Lee Chung in Hong Kong. Brian Curtis Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: Radio, All right, Brian, thank you. We have news this
Speaker 1: morning involving another one of Musk's companies. Thousands of former
Speaker 1: Twitter employees say they are still owned severance pay. Today,
Speaker 1: the first depositions get under way, starting with Musk and
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Amy Morris has a preview.
Speaker 6: This will be the first arbitration hearings involving those employedployees
Speaker 6: who say they were cheated out of severance when Elon
Speaker 6: Musk bought Twitter in October of twenty twenty two. An
Speaker 6: email from the law firm representing almost two thousand former
Speaker 6: Twitter employees plus more than a dozen class action lawsuits
Speaker 6: says the deposition will be in person and last for
Speaker 6: seven hours. The company, formerly known as Twitter, which Musk
Speaker 6: has since renamed X, has been accused in multiple suits
Speaker 6: of numerous labor and workplace violations. A spokesman for X
Speaker 6: has declined to comment. In Washington, Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, Amy, thank you. There are plenty of developments
Speaker 3: involving Paramount Global. Those shares are hired by about four
Speaker 3: and a half percent in early trading, Bloomberg News has
Speaker 3: learned that sky Dance has made its best and final
Speaker 3: offer for the company. Sources say the Redstone family and
Speaker 3: film producer David Ellison have both offered concessions to make
Speaker 3: a possible change in control at Paramount Global to make
Speaker 3: it more appealing to the company's other investors. Paramount CEO
Speaker 3: Bob Bakish is expected to be replaced on an interim
Speaker 3: basis by a management committee as soon as today, and it.
Speaker 1: Is time now for a look at some of the
Speaker 1: other stories making news in New York and around the world,
Speaker 1: and for that we're joined by A Bloomberg's Michael Barr. Michael,
Speaker 1: good Morning, Good morning, Karen.
Speaker 8: Small towns in Oklahoma are beginning a long cleanup after
Speaker 8: tornado's flattened homes and buildings and killed at least four people,
Speaker 8: including an infant. Damage was extensive in the community of Sulfur,
Speaker 8: where a weekend tornado crumpled many downtown buildings and sheared
Speaker 8: the roofs off houses across a fifteen block radius. Hospitals
Speaker 8: across the state reported about one hundred injuries. This man
Speaker 8: lives in Holdenville.
Speaker 12: My brother lives down there.
Speaker 13: Another mile of trying to get to him, I think
Speaker 13: he blowed his tractor fed away and the house is
Speaker 13: found from there.
Speaker 8: White House officials said President Joe Biden spoke to Oklahoma
Speaker 8: Governor Kevin Stitt on Sunday and offered the full support
Speaker 8: of the federal government. A tornado swept over at Trinity,
Speaker 8: Texas last night, destroying a home and damaging others, injuring
Speaker 8: two people who were transported by ambulance to the hospital.
Speaker 8: Trinity County Sheriff Woody Wallace says there are no fatalities.
Speaker 13: Got to worry about, Folie. High winds come through all
Speaker 13: these power lines. We got power lines down everywhere out here,
Speaker 13: so I'm rebb Mar. You go through them and there's
Speaker 13: water on the ground, it's fab not gonna end well
Speaker 13: for you.
Speaker 8: Sheriff Wallace says there is the possibility for more tornadoes.
Speaker 8: New York Governor Cathy Hulkell overnight started a state investigation
Speaker 8: into Sandra Dorley, the Monroe County District Attorney in Rochester,
Speaker 8: after bodycam footage showed the DA trying to avoid a
Speaker 8: speeding ticket. The officer followed her home after she refused
Speaker 8: to pull over for a traffic stop until she drove
Speaker 8: to the house.
Speaker 6: What is the reason you're so against what I'm doing.
Speaker 9: I'm doing my job.
Speaker 2: You say you're a DA I had the DA.
Speaker 8: Okay Governor Cathy Hokel referred Dorley's case to the Commission
Speaker 8: for Prosecutorial Conduct, saying Dorley has undermined her ability to
Speaker 8: hold others account violating the law. South Dakota Governor Christy Nome,
Speaker 8: considered to be in the running to become former President
Speaker 8: Trump's pick for Vice president is responding to the backlash
Speaker 8: over a story in a upcoming memoir. In the book,
Speaker 8: she writes about shooting her dog for its bad behavior,
Speaker 8: including killing the neighbors chickens in killing a nasty, mean goat.
Speaker 8: No one responded. I followed the law and was being
Speaker 8: a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor. Global News twenty
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Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 8: I'm Michael Barr. This is Bloomberg. Karen.
Speaker 1: All right, Michael Berry, thank you. Time now for the
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Sports Update with John Stanshauer.
Speaker 7: John Good morning, Good morning, Karen. Good Sunday for the
Speaker 7: teams from the Garden. Both went south on ninety five,
Speaker 7: got game four wins, so the Rangers advanced in the
Speaker 7: second round, and then NIXT took a big step in
Speaker 7: that direction in Philly beat the Sixers ninety seven ninety
Speaker 7: two and lead the series three to one. Jalen Brunson's
Speaker 7: forty seven points the most in KNIXT playoff history. Benard
Speaker 7: King scored forty six in nineteen eighty four. Brunson clearly
Speaker 7: outplayed Sixers star Joel Mbi, who took the same number
Speaker 7: of shots he took in Game three. In that game,
Speaker 7: Mbat scored fifty points. This one, he had just over
Speaker 7: half that twenty seven. Mb did not make a basket
Speaker 7: in the fourth quarter, shot out for five. Game five
Speaker 7: tomorrow at MSG. As for the Rangers, they never trailed
Speaker 7: in Washington. The game was tied in the third period.
Speaker 2: Paneren at right wing dranks it to the hash box.
Speaker 2: Paneren leaves it back for Fox. Fox passed to the
Speaker 2: far wings.
Speaker 8: Savana Jad out to Paneren with.
Speaker 12: A shott to hard Tammy Peneren.
Speaker 7: How the power play how the Rangers take a three
Speaker 7: to lead and WPN. Rangers had an empty NT of
Speaker 7: one four to two for their first series sweep since
Speaker 7: two thousand and seven. They're the first team to advance
Speaker 7: and the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Minnesota's the first to move on.
Speaker 7: In the NBA finished the sweep of Phoenix. Anthony Edwards
Speaker 7: scored forty. The Timberwolves, lay in the game, suffered a
Speaker 7: serious knee injury to their coach Chris Finch as he
Speaker 7: collided with his point guard Mike Conley. The Clippers blew
Speaker 7: a thirty one point lead in Dallas, still won to
Speaker 7: tie the series of two. Indiana again beat injury ravage Milwaukee.
Speaker 7: The Bucks were without both Deannas Sunte di Compo and
Speaker 7: Damian Lillard, and the Pacers lead three to one. NHL
Speaker 7: in the West. Wins for Edmonton, Colorado, Vancouver they all
Speaker 7: lead their series three to one. Well a weekend for
Speaker 7: the Yankees. In two games, thirty runs, thirty seven hits,
Speaker 7: They've beat Milwaukee fifteen to five. Anthony Rizzo four hits
Speaker 7: included career home run number three hundred. Dramatic win for
Speaker 7: the Mets beat the Cardinals four to two on a
Speaker 7: Mark Bento's home run in the eleventh inning. John Stash
Speaker 7: Edward Bloomberg Sports Karen Nathan.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager at the start of another
Speaker 3: busy week in store for investors. More corporate earnings due
Speaker 3: out and a made decision from the Fed on the
Speaker 3: way before, but really when days out? Actually, so, let's
Speaker 3: get you ready for it. Lori Calvesina is with us
Speaker 3: this morning in our Interactive Broker Studios in New York.
Speaker 3: The head of US equity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, Laurie,
Speaker 3: Good morning, So what's the bigger deal for you this week?
Speaker 3: The earnings or what we hear from Chairman Powell this week?
Speaker 14: So, you know, I hate to say it, but I
Speaker 14: think for me, it's probably the earnings. We've got one
Speaker 14: hundred and sixty six companies in the SMP reporting this week,
Speaker 14: at least last I checked, So I think, you know,
Speaker 14: as always, people are going to pay attention to the FED. Personally,
Speaker 14: I'm looking for that commentary to kind of catch up
Speaker 14: with where the market already is. I'm much more interested, frankly,
Speaker 14: to hear what companies are saying about the current environment.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we have seen a big swath of companies
Speaker 3: report already. What are some of your takeaways from what
Speaker 3: we've heard from the companies that have reported so far.
Speaker 14: Somehow we managed to get through most of the reports
Speaker 14: that came out last week, and you know, I think
Speaker 14: the themes are still evolving. But I would say number one,
Speaker 14: we're not seeing any kind of you know, big problem
Speaker 14: with the economy demand anything like that. There's a laundry
Speaker 14: list of pros and cons that companies are talking about
Speaker 14: in regards to this market. For me, one thing that
Speaker 14: did jump out is that interest rate commentary. There's a
Speaker 14: lot of various expectations about what the FED is going
Speaker 14: to do backed in I remember reading one company talking
Speaker 14: about three cuts, and so I do think, you know,
Speaker 14: there's a little bit of a slippage in terms of
Speaker 14: where corporate America is versus the equity market itself or
Speaker 14: the fixed income market. I do think that geopolitical commentary
Speaker 14: is something I'm paying a lot of attention to. It's
Speaker 14: continued to be mentioned as a general risk, but no
Speaker 14: sort of you know, kind of overt impact on demand
Speaker 14: for ether consumers or corporate yet.
Speaker 3: Well, that does steer us toward whatever we could. Hear
Speaker 3: from Chairman Powell on Wednesday in the Made decision, we've
Speaker 3: done an analysis that shows the December Duvish pivot really
Speaker 3: helped to fuel the rally that we saw at the
Speaker 3: first quarter. What's the chance that pivot the other way
Speaker 3: does some damage to this rally?
Speaker 14: Well, well, I'll tell you, you know, I've heard really
Speaker 14: since the big getting of February in my client meetings,
Speaker 14: the idea is the US economy so hot, how can
Speaker 14: the FED possibly even cut this year? So I do
Speaker 14: think equity markets, equity investors at least have already started
Speaker 14: to come to terms with that potential idea. That's not
Speaker 14: really reflected in market pricing right now as far as
Speaker 14: I understand, But I do think this may be one
Speaker 14: instance where equity markets have already assumed a scenario in
Speaker 14: contrast with what they you know, we're thinking back in January.
Speaker 3: So is there a chance then that the stocks can
Speaker 3: continue to rally even with rate cut expectations getting pushed
Speaker 3: back as far as they have in the market.
Speaker 14: So I think it gets harder from here. I think
Speaker 14: a hike discussion, which is not really something I'm hearing
Speaker 14: about from investors right now, I think that would be very,
Speaker 14: very different from just a no cut scenario in the
Speaker 14: mind of equity investors. I'll tell you, Nathan, when I
Speaker 14: talked to investors, you know, they're clearly disappointed that we're
Speaker 14: not getting this interest right down draft story. But at
Speaker 14: the same time, if the economy continues to come through hot,
Speaker 14: at least a lot of the investors I speak with,
Speaker 14: I think they want the FED to do the work
Speaker 14: that needs to be done to get inflation down.
Speaker 3: Though we did get that weaker than expected first read
Speaker 3: on first quarter GDP last week, What does that tell
Speaker 3: you about what we could get in terms of corporate
Speaker 3: earnings down the line.
Speaker 14: That's a really interesting report to me. I mean generally,
Speaker 14: what our economists are saying, and I think this has
Speaker 14: been echoed around the street, is that the underlying details
Speaker 14: about that report really, you know, sort of speak to
Speaker 14: the idea that the economy is still strong, the consumer
Speaker 14: is still strong. There were some quirky things that happened
Speaker 14: with the data that caused that headline number to be
Speaker 14: a bit lower than expected. Now we'll see, you know,
Speaker 14: if that narrative holds up, But for now, that seems
Speaker 14: to be what the economic story is, or the economic
Speaker 14: read is on that report, and I think we're hearing
Speaker 14: echoes of that in corporate commentary. I'm really just not
Speaker 14: seeing any sort of demand problem coming through in the
Speaker 14: company transcripts that we're reading through.
Speaker 3: Okay, just thirty seconds left here, Lourie. What's the biggest
Speaker 3: risk for you when it comes to equities is a geopolitics,
Speaker 3: earnings or rates?
Speaker 14: I think geopolitics are always a huge one that markets
Speaker 14: have trouble digesting in advance. But I do think the
Speaker 14: rate story is important. Again, I think no cuts are fine.
Speaker 14: I think hikes are a different matter.
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