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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Good morning, I'm Nathan

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Speaker 1: Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 1: following today.

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Speaker 2: Let's begin with Alphabet. Those shares are hired by more

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Speaker 2: than eleven percent. Google's parent company reported first quarter revenue

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Speaker 2: that exceeded analyst expectations thanks to gains in its cloud

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Speaker 2: computing unit. Alphabet's chief financial officer Ruth parazzas AI services

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Speaker 2: are increasingly fueling growth.

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Speaker 3: We are very pleased with our financial results for the

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Speaker 3: first quarter, driven in particular by strength and search and cloud,

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Speaker 3: as well as the ongoing efforts to durably re engineer

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Speaker 2: And alphabet chief financial officer Ruth Parat says the company

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Speaker 2: will pay a dividend of twenty cents a share, it's

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Speaker 2: its first ever, and will repurchase an additional seventy billion

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Speaker 1: Well Nathan shares a Microsoft, You're out more than three

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Speaker 1: and a half percent. Quarterly sales and profit climb more

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Speaker 1: than projected, lifted by corporate demand for the software maker's

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Speaker 1: cloud and artificial intelligence offerings. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior tech analyst

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Speaker 1: underrag Rana says it was a good quarter for azure

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Speaker 1: It's cloud computing business.

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Speaker 4: The AGEL gross of thirty one percent. I mean that's

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Speaker 4: a big jump. The expectations were twenty eight percent, and

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Speaker 4: frankly speaking, going into the quarter, we thought anything above

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Speaker 4: a very big number, frankly given the current macro conditions.

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Speaker 1: Aside from cloud computing, Bloomberg Intelligence is underrag Rana says

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Speaker 1: Microsoft's desktop software business benefited from stabilizing demand for personal computers.

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Speaker 2: Well, Karen, the biggest tech winner this morning maybe Snap.

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Speaker 2: Those shares are surging more than twenty three percent. The

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Speaker 2: social media company reported first quarter results of pet estimates

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Speaker 1: Well, Nathan. One company that's not participating in this bounce

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Speaker 1: back tech rally is Intel. Shares are down seven percent.

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Speaker 1: The biggest maker of personal computer processors gave a lackluster

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Speaker 1: forecast for the current period. Analysts say that's an indication

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Speaker 2: Karen, want to get you up to date now on

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Speaker 2: that proposed takeover in the mining industry. Anglo American has

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Speaker 2: rejected a thirty nine billion dollar takeover proposal from BHP Group,

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Speaker 2: saying it significantly undervalues the company. Bloomberg's Martin Richie says

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Speaker 2: a rejection is not uncommon in deals of this nature.

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Speaker 4: This is no unusual in takeover deals.

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Speaker 2: Many uneless SARI have said that they think the premium

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Speaker 2: of this complexity, and Bloomberg's Martin Richie says BHP is

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Speaker 2: now going to have to improve its offtware if it

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Speaker 1: Well, Nathan, we get another key reading on inflation today

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Speaker 1: with the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the PCEE deflator. It

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Speaker 1: comes a day after a report that showed US economic

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Speaker 1: growth slid to an almost two year low while inflation jumped,

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Speaker 1: and we get a preview with Bloomberg's and Michael McKee.

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Speaker 5: Well, that was a surprise. Pce inflation on a quarterly

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Speaker 5: basis came in a lot hotter than anticipated yesterday. Today's

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Speaker 5: report on March inflation will answer the question posed, was

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Speaker 5: that because of January and February being revised higher, or

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Speaker 5: than forecast. If it were, that would really rock markets.

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Speaker 5: Investors would see evidence inflation is not just sticky but

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Speaker 5: actually rising again as reason for the Fed to give

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Speaker 5: up any plans to cut interest rates this year. Eyes

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Speaker 5: will also be on the report's consumer spending data. Slowing

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Speaker 5: growth with rising inflation is the last thing Wall Street

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Speaker 5: wants to see. Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mike, thanks, Now, let's turn to politics and

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Speaker 2: reports that former President Donald Trump's advisors are taking aim

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Speaker 2: the authority to remove J. Powell as chairman before his

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Speaker 1: Well Nathan, speaking of Donald Trump. Immunity for the former

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Speaker 1: president and all future presidents is now before the Supreme Court,

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Speaker 1: and Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has the details.

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Speaker 6: The Justice has expressed skepticism towards sweeping immunity, but did

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Speaker 6: Justice Samuel Alito asked, without immunity, would presidents be able

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Speaker 7: After leaving office?

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Speaker 8: Is not that the president is going to be able

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Speaker 6: But Justice Katanji Brown Jackson said, if there is no

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't there be a significant risk that future presidents would

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Speaker 6: Justice Sonya Sotomayor brought it back more specifically to Trump,

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Speaker 5: What you're asking us to say, President, it's an intoc

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Speaker 6: The justices seemed to say this may not be done

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Speaker 6: At Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, ed, thank you, and testimony resumes this morning

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Speaker 2: in the Manhattan hush money trial of the former president,

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Speaker 2: and it's the defense's turn to question former National Inquirer

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Speaker 2: publisher David Pecker. He was the prosecution's first witness and

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Speaker 2: described helping a very embarrassing stories that Trump feared would

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Speaker 1: Well, we turned to geopolitics. Now, Nathan and Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State Anthony Blencoln meeting with Chinese President Shijin Ping in Beijing.

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Speaker 1: This follows about five hours of talks with China's Foreign

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Speaker 1: Minister Wang Yi, who says problems are mounting between the

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Speaker 9: Kushani's relationship is beginning to stabilize across the areas. Our

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Speaker 9: two sides have increased dialogue, cooperation, and the positive side

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Speaker 9: of the relationship. This is welcomed by our two peoples

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Speaker 1: Following those comments from Foreign Minister Wig Yee, Chinese state

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Speaker 1: need to resolve some remaining issues and that the two

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Speaker 1: countries should be partners, not rivals. Honest. Time now for

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Speaker 1: a look at some of the other stories making news

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Speaker 1: joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr. Michael, good Morning, Good.

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Speaker 10: Morning, Karen Police crackdowns on college campuses nationwide have led

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Speaker 10: to arrests and universities calling off commencement. Bloomberg's Amy Morris

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Speaker 11: The University of Southern California canceled its main commencement ceremonies

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Speaker 11: ban encampments and moved final exams to new locations. This

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Speaker 11: against pro Palestinian student organizers in Washington, Amy Morris, Bloomberg, Radio.

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Speaker 10: Harvey Weinstein's accusers and their advocates were shocked and angered

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Speaker 10: advocates sought to send a clear message that the movement

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Speaker 8: You can't throw out one hundred years of legal precedents

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Speaker 10: The decision does not mean Weinstein will go free. He

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Speaker 10: President Biden is in the New York City area for fundraisers. Yesterday,

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Speaker 10: the President visited Syracuse. Biden announced a six billion dollar

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Speaker 10: investment in semiconductor manufacturer Micron that he says will create

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Speaker 10: thousands of jobs in New York and Idaho.

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Speaker 12: Together a Shermer leader and I, we took action to

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Speaker 12: make sure these chips are made in America again, creating

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Speaker 12: tens of thousands, and I mean tens of thousands of

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Speaker 10: Last night, the President attended a fundraiser in Westchester County.

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Speaker 10: Biden wraps up his New York visit today with more

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Speaker 10: campaign stops. Global News twenty four hours a day and

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Speaker 10: whenever you want it. With the Bloomberg News. Now, I'm

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Speaker 10: Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Herot all right, Michael, thank you. Time now for the

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Speaker 1: Bloombergy Sports Update with John stash Hour. John, Good morning,

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Speaker 8: It's become an annual part of the NFL draft. Teams

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Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson. That's why the top three picks last night

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Speaker 8: Caleb Williams of Chicago, Jaden Daniels to Washington, Drake May

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Speaker 8: Michael Pennix junior. He was not expected to go that high,

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Speaker 13: One of those teams I can contribute with my you know,

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Speaker 8: Game four Sunday afternoon, after two losses in Cleveland, Orlando,

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Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. Well,

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Speaker 2: the bulls are back in the driver's seat this morning

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Speaker 2: after blowout earnings for Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet and

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Speaker 7: Some Good morning, Nathan, Yeah, the bar high for sure,

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Speaker 7: only does they have a good sales quarter a good

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly not. So is this becoming more of a

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Speaker 7: And I think the context here is really important for

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Speaker 7: Microsoft has come out and said, look, that's not what's

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Speaker 7: And that's the message coming out of both Microsoft and

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Speaker 2: Critty, how does this set us up for what we

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Speaker 7: To deliver it? Absolutely is, especially because a lot of

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Speaker 2: Just thirty seconds left here, Critty, But does the market

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Speaker 2: narrative change? Will we get March PCEE later on this morning?

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Speaker 7: It could change. Look, there was a lot of what

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