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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Amy Morris. Here are the

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Speaker 2: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 3: We begin this morning with earnings for an entertainment giant.

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Speaker 3: We're watching shares of Disney this morning. They're hired by

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Speaker 3: about one percent in early trading. Cost cuts and the

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Speaker 3: Hollywood strikes are boosting Disney's bottom line, and the company

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Speaker 3: expects content spending to be about three billion dollars less

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Speaker 3: than usual. Disney's also boosting the price of its premium

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Speaker 3: subscription for streaming by twenty seven percent. Geeta Ronganathan covers

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Speaker 3: Disney for Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 4: They have pricing power and they're going to exercise it.

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Speaker 4: And this is what it's really coming down to now

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Speaker 4: in the streaming wars, the subscriber hyper focus is over

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Speaker 4: and done with. Now it's all about our pool growing

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Speaker 4: revenue per user, and that's exactly what Disney is doing.

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Speaker 4: This should pad not only the top line, but also

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Speaker 4: the bottom line.

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Speaker 3: Geita Ronganathan with Bloomberg Intelligence notes it's the second price

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Speaker 3: increase for Disney plus in less than a year.

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Speaker 2: Well, we see Disney shares on the rise. Today's big

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Speaker 2: market moving event will likely be the latest reading on inflation,

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Speaker 2: We get the consumer price index for July at eight

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Speaker 2: thirty am Wall Street time, and economists anticipate a tame

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Speaker 2: reading and increase of just two tenths of a percent.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Michael McKee has details.

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Speaker 5: This may be the least important, most important economic indicator

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Speaker 5: level of interest rates going forward will depend on whether

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Speaker 5: inflation is coming down. FED officials have suggested one more

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Speaker 5: rate increase going forward, but they also say they are

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Speaker 5: data dependent. The data suggests a decent progress report. Slowing

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Speaker 5: housing inflation will be the main driver of that. Used car,

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Speaker 5: travel and apparel price gains have also slowed, while energy

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Speaker 5: officials have two more inflation reports to see before their

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Speaker 5: next meeting. These data will be interesting, but not definitive.

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Speaker 5: Michael McKee, Bloomberg Daybreak.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Mike, thanks, turning away from marks now, we have

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Speaker 3: breaking news out of South America. A state of emergency

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Speaker 3: of Fernando Via Vissentsio an assault on democracy. Bloomberg Stefan

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Speaker 3: Kufner has more from Ecuador's capital, Quito.

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Speaker 6: He was someone who was known nationally kind of the

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg Stephan Kufner says Via Vesensio was running second in

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Speaker 3: Ecuador is now under a sixty day state of emergency

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Speaker 3: and the country's presidential vote is still set for ten

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Speaker 2: Another major story we're following this morning brings us to Hawaii,

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Speaker 2: devastating wildfires on the west side of Maui, claiming at

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Speaker 2: least three dozen lives so far. We get that story

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Speaker 2: from Bloomberg's Ed Baxter.

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Speaker 7: Lahaina Town was Hawaii's for first capital. It turned into

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Speaker 2: It looked like.

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Speaker 8: An area that had been bombed in a war.

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Speaker 7: Owners of businesses on Front Street shutting down their websites,

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Speaker 7: Resorts are telling people the reservations up to two weeks

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Speaker 7: She says. Aloha is being shown though in relief efforts

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Speaker 7: of the island's Ohana family in San Francisco. I'm at

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Speaker 7: Baxter Bloomberg Daybreak.

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Speaker 3: Tensions between Washington and Beijing are also in focus this morning.

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Speaker 3: The White House has officially announced limits on US investments

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Speaker 3: in China. Dan Flatley has more from our Bloomberg ninety

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Speaker 3: nine one newsroom in Washington.

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Speaker 9: Biden signed an executive order which gives a year for

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Speaker 9: But the intent is to restrict the knowledge that comes

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg. Dan Flatley reports the order won't go into effect.

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Speaker 2: Until next year, and it won't be retroactive presidential politics.

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Speaker 2: Also in focus this morning, Donald Trump says he's still

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Speaker 2: unsure if he'll participate in the first GOP debate. The

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Speaker 10: Why would I sign a pleasure of people on there

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Speaker 10: that I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have certain people, as

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Speaker 10: you know, somebody that I'd endorse. So they want you

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Speaker 2: The former president currently enjoys a wide lead over the

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Speaker 2: for August twenty third in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 3: Turning for politics to space, we're learning Richard Branson's Virgin

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Speaker 3: Galactic is poised to launch its first private space tourists today.

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Speaker 3: The journey allows Virgin Galactic to begin clearing a backlog

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Speaker 3: main competition comes from Blue Origin, the commercial space company

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Speaker 3: founded by Jeff Bezos.

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Speaker 2: New numbers this morning paint a bleak picture of diversity

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Speaker 2: According to executive recruiter Spencer Stewart, the number of black

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Speaker 2: five years ago. Time now for a look at some

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Speaker 2: of the other stories making news around the world. For that,

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Speaker 8: Good morning, John.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Good morning Amy. An armed Utah man accused of

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Speaker 11: making violent thrats again President Joe Biden was shot and

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Speaker 11: that state. As Good Moore in this report from Bloomberg'sjeff Bellinger.

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Speaker 8: Special agents were trying to serve a warrant on the

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Speaker 8: home of Craig Robertson in Provo, south of Salt Lake

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Speaker 8: he had heard President Biden was coming to Utah and

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Speaker 8: he was planning to dig out a camouflage suit and

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Speaker 8: Robertson referred to himself as a mega Trumper. He had

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Speaker 8: also posted threats against top law enforcement officials overseeing court

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Speaker 11: At a time of rising tensions, China has lifted a

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Speaker 11: global tourism industries rebound from COVID. The top state prosecutor

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Speaker 11: defiant and to being suspended by Governor Ron De Santis.

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Speaker 2: This is an outrage.

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Speaker 11: DeSantis removed Monique Warrel for what he calls neglect of duty.

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Speaker 11: She faced criticism this week after two police officers were

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Speaker 11: Council says Guatemala's lawlessness is fueling waves of desperate immigrants,

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Speaker 11: but many of the guns in Guatemala are being legally

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Speaker 11: imported from the US. American gun makers have been the

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Speaker 11: And he helped shape the sound of the nineteen seventies

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Speaker 11: with a group simply known as The Band. Robbie Robertson,

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Speaker 11: the songwriter and lead guitarist to the band, has died.

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Speaker 11: He was eighty years old. Global News twenty four hours

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Speaker 11: a day, power by more than twenty seven hundred journalist

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Speaker 11: I'm John Tucker. This is Bloomberg. Amy.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, John. Time now for our Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: Sports update. For that, we bring in John's Dash hour Amy.

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Speaker 12: The Phillies made a trade just before the deadline to

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Speaker 12: acquire thirty one year old pitcher Michael Lorenzen from Detroit.

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Speaker 12: He had been the Tigers All Star representative. Last night

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Speaker 12: in Philly, crowd of thirty thousand He made just his

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Speaker 13: Three to two pitch, swinging a high fly ball center field,

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Speaker 8: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hagar.

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Speaker 3: The South American nation of Ecuador is under a state

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Speaker 15: Via Visensio has a long history as a journalist going

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Speaker 15: he would never try to reach a deal reach a

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Speaker 15: The details we have from the government are that he

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Speaker 3: It sounds as though stability in Ecuador has been in

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Speaker 15: Well, you got to remember Ecuador's sandwich between Peru and Colombia,

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Speaker 15: lot of issues with violent crime drug related crime. They're

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Speaker 15: the two biggest producers of cocaine in the world. Ecuador

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Speaker 15: had a history of being a more peaceful place, although

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Speaker 15: it has had its own share of political turmoil, that

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Speaker 15: hadn't spilled off over into violence quite as much. But

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Speaker 15: become just a bigger issue for the society in this

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Speaker 15: presidential race. Of the eight candidates who were going into

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Speaker 15: the August twentieth election, all of them were basically focused

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Speaker 15: the real question now will be where do voters turn.

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Speaker 15: With Via Vicencio no longer a part of this race,

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Speaker 15: do they look to a more hardline candidate. How does

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Speaker 15: the government in place try to address this. The president

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Speaker 15: clear whether that kind of measure will really have a

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Speaker 15: lot long term impact.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: To say that something like this has an impact on

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Speaker 3: How could a state of emergency, a sixty day state

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I think it's very much going to be seen

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Speaker 15: as a temporary measure. I think Ecuador is really quite

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Speaker 15: So I think the government's focus now is getting to

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Speaker 15: that August twentieth date without any more major episodes of violence.

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Speaker 15: This is not the first political attack even in recent

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Speaker 15: weeks in Ecuadora, a mayor of the southern port city

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Speaker 15: of Manta was recently killed. So the challenge is on

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Speaker 15: for the government to try to just get to that

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Speaker 15: August twentieth date, hand over to a new president and descent,

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