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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. An armed wing HAFAMAS has taken responsibility for

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Speaker 1: the attack on a Gaza border crossing. We have more

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg's Ed Baxter.

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Speaker 2: Israel says the attack as for as the Korem Shalom

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Speaker 2: crossing to close the barrage from Rafa and Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Benjamin that Yahoo's comments came very quickly.

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Speaker 3: I pledge here today from Jerusalem, on this Holocaust Remembrance day,

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Speaker 3: if Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will.

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Speaker 2: Stand alone and eliminate Hamas.

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Speaker 3: I say to the leaders of the world. No amount

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Speaker 3: of pressure, no decision by any international forum, will stop

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Speaker 3: Israel from defending itself.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the peace talks have moved to cutter Ed Baxter,

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Chinese President Chi Jinping is in Europe for a three

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Speaker 1: nation visit aimed at strengthening economic ties. He arrived in

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Speaker 1: France on Sunday. He will also visit Serbia, which is

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Speaker 1: not an EU member's date, and Hungary as well, and

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Speaker 1: soon after she returns to Beijing he'll have a prominent visitor.

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Speaker 1: The story from Bloomberg to Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 4: President, she will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week.

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Speaker 4: Bloomberg News has learned the Russian leader plans to visit

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Speaker 4: China May fifteenth and sixteenth, a little more than a

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Speaker 4: week after his inauguration for a fifth term this coming Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: Putin's last trip to China was back in October, a

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Speaker 4: rare trip abroad as he is under an international criminal

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Speaker 4: court arrest warrant tied to the war in Ukraine. In Washington,

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Speaker 4: I'm Nathan Hager Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's campaign is telling donors the ex president has

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Speaker 1: a chance to go on the offensive and expand his

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Speaker 1: electoral support. More from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

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Speaker 5: The former president's team says it's polling now shows Trump

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Speaker 5: has a chance to win Minnesota and Virginia. That's according

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Speaker 5: to two donors who heard the presentation at a retreat

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Speaker 5: in Palm Beach. President Biden carried both states in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: Trump doesley Biden now, though in most national and swing

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Speaker 5: state polls, including six of seven states in the latest

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Speaker 5: Bloomberg News Morning Consols survey different picture, though when it

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Speaker 5: comes to money, Trump trailed Biden by almost one hundred

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Speaker 5: million dollars in campaign cash as of last month, and

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Speaker 5: Trump lost Minnesota in the end to Biden Beck in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty in part because Trump's campaign hit a cash

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Speaker 5: crunch during the crucial closing stretch thin Denise Pelgreeen Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Meta Platforms is being sued over whether Facebook users have

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Speaker 1: the right to control their feeds that story from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Amy Morris.

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Speaker 6: The lawsuit argues that a federal law often used a

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Speaker 6: shield internet companies from liability, also allows users to take

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Speaker 6: control of their feeds using external tools. The night First

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Speaker 6: Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed the lawsuit this week

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Speaker 6: against Meta Platforms on behalf of an amor's professor who

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Speaker 6: wants to release a tool called unfollow Everything two dot

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Speaker 6: zero to let his users unfollow all the content fed

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Speaker 6: to them by Facebook's algorithm. A UK developer released the

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Speaker 6: original Unfollow Everything, but took it down in twenty twenty

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Speaker 6: one after receiving a seasoned assist letter and a lifetime

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Speaker 6: Facebook ban from Meta Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Sony Pictures, and Apollo Global Management have reportedly entered formal

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Speaker 1: talks to acquire Paramount. The New York Times says the

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Speaker 1: move comes as exclusive talks between Paramount and sky Dance

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Speaker 1: Media and in last Friday. The Times reporting a cohort

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Speaker 1: of Paramount's board of directors met on Saturday and signed

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Speaker 1: off on deal negotiations. Last week, Sony and Apollo submitted

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Speaker 1: a non binding letter of interest offering to buy Paramount

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Speaker 1: for around twenty six billion dollars in cash. Bloomberg Intelligence

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Speaker 1: says a deal with Sony and Apollo would be rife

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Speaker 1: with regulatory challenges. They include a merger of two major

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Speaker 1: film studios and foreign ownership of US broadcast networks. The

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Speaker 1: Time says it's unclear what sky Dance we'll do next.

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Speaker 1: Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting in Omaha on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and Warren Buffett heaped praise on Apple after revealing that

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Speaker 1: he has reduced his stake in the company. Berkshire reported

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Speaker 1: a position at Apple worth one hundred and thirty five

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Speaker 1: point four billion dollars at the end of the first quarter.

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Speaker 1: That's down by thirty eight point nine billion from the

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Speaker 1: end of last year. Buffett said, despite the sale, Apple

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Speaker 1: is even better than either American Express and Coke, which

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Speaker 1: are wonderful businesses that Berkshire also owns. In the week ahead,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear from a number of FED speakers. In addition

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Speaker 1: to more quarterly earnings, we have a preview from Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 7: We've heard from eighty percent of S and P five

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Speaker 7: hundred companies. Stocks of reclaim the fifty one hundred mark

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Speaker 7: after a batch of bettle than expected earnings. Dan Suzuki

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Speaker 7: is Deputy Chief investment Officer at Richard Bernstein Advisors.

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Speaker 3: I think it's really earnings growth and fundamentals, kind of

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Speaker 3: plain old boring stuff, and that's what's improving. That's what

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Speaker 7: And importantly, it's not that it's just improving, but it's

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Speaker 7: broadening out. Disney and Uber will be in focus this week,

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Speaker 7: along with Airbnb, Anheuser Busch, InBev, Armhole Holdings, Occidental Petroleum,

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Speaker 7: and Ubs in New York. Charlie Pellett, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm Doug Prisoner and this is Bloomberg