1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: The news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: I'm mad Kalegi. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed US 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: partners in Asia to boost defense spending toward five percent 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: of gross domestic product, warning that more urgency is needed 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: to prepare for a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Addressing 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: defense officials at a conference in Singapore, Hexath warned countries 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: against deepening economic ties with China while boosting defense relations 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: with the US, and he made clear President Donald Trump's 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: administration would apply the NATO model to the region, aggressively 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: demanding country spend more to defend themselves. The S and 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: P five hundred index has just wrapped up its best 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: months since nineteen ninety, up six percent. We get more 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett. 14 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: Markets were driven by headlines, particularly those related to tariffs, 15 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 2: with expectations that traditional drivers like earnings and fundamentals will 16 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: take over once trade clarity is achieved. The S and 17 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: P five hundred index advanced almost two percent this week, 18 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: following a slide that earlier reached one point two percent. 19 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 2: The S and P five hundred closed Friday little changed 20 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: heading into the new trading month and fifty nine eleven 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 2: of five tens of one percent on the year. In 22 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 2: New York Charlie Pellett Bloomberg. 23 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: Radio, President Trump said he would be increasing tariffs on 24 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: steel to fifty percent from twenty five percent, saying the 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: move would help protect American steel workers. During a visit 26 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: to a United States steel plant on Friday. Trump was 27 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: visiting the plant to champion an expected deal between US 28 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: Steel and Japan's new Pond Steel as one that would 29 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: ensure the iconic American firm remains US owned and operated, 30 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: even as the tails on the agreement remained vague. He 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: said the new tariffs would benefit the new ventures US operations. 32 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: Russia said it's sending a delegation to Istanbul Monday for 33 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: a second round of talks with Ukraine, amid wrangling over 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: Keep's insistence that Moscow outlined its peace proposals before any meeting. 35 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: The warring sides have tussled over the parameters negotiations after 36 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: Turkey hosted the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine 37 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: since the early months of the war on May sixteenth. 38 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: Moscow did not accept a US proposal for a thirty 39 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: day cease fire and used the meeting to repeat its 40 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: demands to end its invasion, now in its fourth year. 41 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: President Trump expressed confidence a talk with Chinese President Shijunping 42 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: could ease fresh trade tensions after White House officials vented 43 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: anger over Beijing's pace of issuing promised export licenses. The 44 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: dust up threatened to again upend trade and relations between 45 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: the world's two largest economies, which have been held together 46 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: by a fragile week's old tariff truce. It's unclear if 47 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: she would agree to a conversation with Trump. The last 48 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: known call between the two leaders took place days before 49 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: the US president's inauguration in January. JP Morgan Chase chief 50 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: executive officer Jamie Diamond Warren that a crack in the 51 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: bond market is coming after what he says is massive 52 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: overspending and quantitative easing by the US government and Federal Reserve. 53 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 2: It is going to happen. And I tell this to 54 00:02:58,600 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 2: my regular as someone who in this room. 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 1: I'm telling you what's going to happen, and you're gonna panic. 56 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna panic. 57 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond, speaking at the Reagan National Economic Forum. US 58 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: treasuries are on track for their first monthly loss this 59 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: year as President Trump's abrupt policy shifts shake investor confidence. 60 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: Worry about the budget deficit picked up in May tied 61 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: to a tax cut bill moving through Congress. Elon Musk 62 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: said he will continue to advise President Trump, even after 63 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: stepping away from the Department of Government efficiency effort he 64 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: has spearheaded. Musk spoke fronting at a White House appearance. 65 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: So this is not the end of doors, but really 66 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 2: the beginning. My time as a special government point necessarily 67 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: had to end. 68 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: It was a limited time things one hundred and thirty 69 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: four days, I believe, which ads in a few days. 70 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: Musk says he plans to remain in the President's orbit, 71 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: despite vows to pull back from Washington and prioritize his 72 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: business empire. President Trump spoke about Musk leaving American Zoe, 73 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: I'm a great debt of gratitude. So I just want 74 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: to thank Elon for his time as special government employee. 75 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: Can you imagine Nicoll him an employ a first from 76 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: Microsoft a contract with a US labor union. The deal 77 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: is heading for a vote by union members. It includes 78 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: a thirteen and a half percent rais in July for 79 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: about three hundred people who worked for Microsoft's Xenemax video 80 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: game studio. Ford's planned to make EV batteries at a 81 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: new plant in Michigan and hire seventeen workers There could 82 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: be at risk. That's if Congress cuts federal text credits 83 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,119 Speaker 1: for clean energy, as outlined in the Trump Tax Cuts 84 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: and Spending bill that passed in the House and is 85 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: now headed to the Senate for debate next week. Loretta Switt, 86 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Hulahan, the 87 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: demanding head nurse of a behind the line surgical unit 88 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV series Mash, 89 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,799 Speaker 1: has died. She was eighty seven. Publicist Harlan Bole says 90 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: Swift died Friday at her home in New York City, 91 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 1: likely from natural causes. Swift and Alan Alder were the 92 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: longest serving cast members on Mash, which aired on CBS 93 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy two until it's finale to a record 94 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: audience in nineteen eighty three. The Friday numbers on Wall 95 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: Street the DOW gain fifty four, NASDAK lost sixty two. 96 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,799 Speaker 1: The SNP was a fraction lower the tenure treasurer yield 97 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: as at four point three nine percent. The two year 98 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: is at three point nine percent. That's news when you 99 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: want it with Bloomberg News. Now I made Kalggy. This 100 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: is Bloomberg