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Speaker 3: And Karen, futures are getting a lift on this last
Speaker 3: trading day, the holiday shortened week. On optimism over trade talks,
Speaker 3: President Trump's negotiators made quote big progress in a meeting
Speaker 3: with Japanese officials. We're seeking to avoid higher levies that
Speaker 3: he's threatened against US trading partners. Let's get more from Bloomberg.
Speaker 3: Tokyo Bureau a chief Isabelle Reynolds.
Speaker 4: Japan's negotiator. Akazawa has been the focus of global attention
Speaker 4: really because he's been first in the line to try
Speaker 4: and get a reprieve from these global tariffs. He was
Speaker 4: preparing for talks with the Commerce Secretary and the Treasury
Speaker 4: Secretary while he was on his way to Washington. Suddenly
Speaker 4: Trump announces, oh, I'm going to be part of these negotiations.
Speaker 4: So that must have been rather a shock for him.
Speaker 4: It's rather unclear what actually happened in the end. About
Speaker 4: what seems to have happened, in fact, is that Akazawa
Speaker 4: went to the White House and had brief talks with
Speaker 4: Trump ahead of the actual negotiations.
Speaker 3: Bloomberg'szi Isabelle Reynolds says the talks did not result in
Speaker 3: an immediate halt on the terrace, but preparations are underway
Speaker 3: for a second round of talks to take place later
Speaker 3: this month.
Speaker 2: Well John Chinese President Xijin Pang is making a diplomatic
Speaker 2: push to counter US pressure on nations to limit trade
Speaker 2: ties with Beijing. He is wrapping up a three nation
Speaker 2: tour of Southeast Asia, and she promoted the idea of
Speaker 2: a quote Asian family and called for regional unity.
Speaker 3: And Goldman Sachs as US investors could be forced to
Speaker 3: offload up to eight hundred billion dollars in Chinese docks
Speaker 3: in a worst case financial decoupling with China. In the
Speaker 3: same scenario, Chinese investors might need to up unload their
Speaker 3: US financial assets, which could amount to one point seven trillion.
Speaker 3: And Carlisle Group CEO Harvey Schwartz says that global economic
Speaker 3: growth relies on the two countries finding a work together.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a good outcome if the number
Speaker 5: one and two largest economies in the world haven't found
Speaker 5: an equilibrium around cooperation. It's really critical for the global
Speaker 5: economy and for trade that we and China find a
Speaker 5: place of cooperation and equilibrium. And I think the faster
Speaker 5: that can happen, the better it is for all business
Speaker 5: activity globally, especially in the United States.
Speaker 3: Carlota Groups CEO Schwartz was speaking to Shinali Bask for
Speaker 3: Bloomberg Original's upcoming series Bullish.
Speaker 2: Well, John, we turned to the markets now, and futures
Speaker 2: are higher. Following yesterday's sell off on Wall Street, the
Speaker 2: S and P five hundred drop two and a quarter
Speaker 2: percent of the Nasdaq fell three percent after ved share j.
Speaker 2: Powell said trade tensions risk undermining the Fed's employment and
Speaker 2: inflation goals. Powell spoke at the Economic Club of Chicago.
Speaker 6: The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly
Speaker 6: larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be
Speaker 6: true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation
Speaker 6: and slower growth.
Speaker 2: Powser marks are in live here on Bloomberg, reinforce a
Speaker 2: message he has repeatedly emphasized. FED officials are in no
Speaker 2: hurry to change the Central Bank's benchmark policy rate. The
Speaker 2: Fed next to Side's on May seventh.
Speaker 3: In Monetary policy, also and focus this morning overseas, the
Speaker 3: European Central Banks center making an interust rate decision. Now,
Speaker 3: let's get the very latest from Bloomberg to you on
Speaker 3: parts in London.
Speaker 7: You won good morning, John and Karen.
Speaker 8: While the Fed may be in no hurry to change rates,
Speaker 8: that is exactly what we're expecting today from Frankfurt. Sixty
Speaker 8: one of sixty two economists in Bloomberg's survey reckon the
Speaker 8: European Central Bank will cut rates at their lunchtime meeting.
Speaker 8: That will take the deposit rate from two and a
Speaker 8: half to two and a quarter percent. The threat of
Speaker 8: swinging tarists from the United States putting pay to any
Speaker 8: talk of a pause at this meeting, and investors expect
Speaker 8: at least two more rate cuts later this year. But
Speaker 8: you won't be surprised to hear there is a lot
Speaker 8: of uncertainty around the outlook in London.
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Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: Back here in the USh, the government's anti trust trial
Speaker 2: taking a breakoup Meta Platforms continues today. Now, some may
Speaker 2: think about a Platforms as a giant conglomerate, but according
Speaker 2: to Mark Zuckerberg, the company is fighting for its survival
Speaker 2: begin more with Bloomberg's Denise Pelle Greeney and.
Speaker 9: A marathon three days of testimony in the Federal Trade
Speaker 9: Commission's trial to break up Meta, the CEO of the
Speaker 9: company that owns Facebook, Insta, WhatsApp, and Threads, testified Facebook
Speaker 9: is fighting for its existence even when it's ahead. The
Speaker 9: FTC wants to force Meta to sell off Insta and WhatsApp,
Speaker 9: citing emails and documents that suggest Meta bought the companies
Speaker 9: to eliminate competitive threads. But Zuckerberg and Meta's lawyers say
Speaker 9: staying alive in the fast moving world of social media
Speaker 9: requires staying nimble, and they also say the acquisitions didn't
Speaker 9: harm competition. The outcome of the trial is uncertain. Denise
Speaker 9: Pellogrity Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 3: Thanks Denise and shares of Hurtz. They are driving higher
Speaker 3: this morning. In fact, they're storing twenty five percent. CNBC
Speaker 3: is reporting Bill ac Coman's Pershing Square Capital Management has
Speaker 3: a massed position of almost twenty percent of the car
Speaker 3: rental Company.
Speaker 2: And finally, John Harvard University's refusal to comply with a
Speaker 2: Trump administration deal to require it to reform its governance
Speaker 2: and and diversity programs is resulting in retribution the administration's
Speaker 2: freezing funding of two point two billion dollars of multi
Speaker 2: year grants. Accusing Harvard of mishandling antisemitism on campus, President
Speaker 2: Trump said this school should lose its tax exempt status,
Speaker 2: and several outlets reported that the IRS is considering the issue.
Speaker 2: But Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and former president
Speaker 2: at Harvard, tells Bloomberg the university needed to push back
Speaker 2: on the administration's requests.
Speaker 10: Harvard should not go interjecting itself into politics, but god,
Speaker 10: when it is the object of an extra legal set
Speaker 10: of orders and threats, I don't think it had any
Speaker 10: viable choice at all but to respond us strongly.
Speaker 2: And Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers also told Bloomberg
Speaker 2: that President Trump's actions toward Harvard are part of an
Speaker 2: effort to suppress institutions that challenge his administration. You can
Speaker 2: catch David Weston's full conversation with Summers on the Bloomberg
Speaker 2: podcast page on YouTube. Time now for a look at
Speaker 2: some of the other stories making news in New York
Speaker 2: and around the world, and for that we're joined by
Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Michael Barr Michael, Good Morning.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Karen. Federal John said there is probable cause
Speaker 11: to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt of court
Speaker 11: for sending accused Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador
Speaker 11: prison last month. Despite his order to immediately halt the deportations.
Speaker 11: US District Judge James Bosberg issued in orders saying that
Speaker 11: officials acted in willful disregard. The administration plans to appeal
Speaker 11: the ruling. Maryland Senator Chris van Holland has flown to L.
Speaker 11: Salvador to find out more about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention.
Speaker 11: The Maryland man was being detained in the notorious L.
Speaker 11: Salvador prison after he was deported last month. A federal
Speaker 11: judge found of Brego Garcia's detention unlawful and ordered the
Speaker 11: administration to facilitate his return to the US. Van Hollins
Speaker 11: says he had met with US embassy personnel and Salvadoran officials.
Speaker 12: This is simply about letting him have his day in court.
Speaker 12: We used the courts to make sure that we don't
Speaker 12: convict people who are not guilty, and that we convict
Speaker 12: those who are.
Speaker 11: Meanwhile, the Trump administration wants a US appeals court to
Speaker 11: block a judge's directive that government officials be questioned about
Speaker 11: their failure to seek the return of Abrego Garcia. Attorney
Speaker 11: General Pam Bondi.
Speaker 1: He is not coming back to our country. President Buquelea
Speaker 1: said he was not sending him back.
Speaker 13: That's the end of the story.
Speaker 11: Ag Bondi says the administration believes a Brego Garcia was
Speaker 11: a member of MS thirteen, an allegation his family denies.
Speaker 11: Ten New York prison guards have been charge in connection
Speaker 11: with the fatal beating of a twenty two year old
Speaker 11: prison inmate, including two charged with murder. Prisoner messiaht Natwee
Speaker 11: at the Mid State Correctional Facility was sent to a
Speaker 11: hospital where he died on March first, on a Daga
Speaker 11: County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 14: The first count charges two individuals corrections officers Jonah Levy
Speaker 14: and Caleb Blair, with depraved mind murder. Not an intentional murder,
Speaker 14: but a murder so depraved and so wanton and disregarding
Speaker 14: of human life that New York law allow us allows
Speaker 14: it to rise to the level of intentional murder.
Speaker 11: DA Fitzpatrick says other guards are accused of trying to
Speaker 11: cover it up. Global news twenty four hours a day
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Speaker 2: All right, Michael Barr, thank you time now for the
Speaker 2: Bloomberg Sports Update. Here's John Stanshawer, John, good morning, want
Speaker 2: to care in.
Speaker 13: All good for the Yankees.
Speaker 15: They got Clark Schmidt back in the rotation, pitched well
Speaker 15: in his season debut. They got a seventh inning, go
Speaker 15: ahead home run from Aaron Judges first homer in eleven games,
Speaker 15: and a game saving diving catch and right field from
Speaker 15: Clave Bellinger for the final out of a four to
Speaker 15: three win over Kansas City. They sweeped the series. Play
Speaker 15: tonight at Tampa Bay, too feel very much like a
Speaker 15: Yankee home game. The Ray's home stadium is where the
Speaker 15: Yankees play their spring training games. The Mets in Minnesota
Speaker 15: helped scoreless for seven innings. They tied the game with
Speaker 15: three in the eighth, but lost to the Twins four
Speaker 15: to three, and ten Red Sox won one nothing the
Speaker 15: Tampa Bay. David Hamilton's homer the only run Nationals lost
Speaker 15: in Pittsburgh sixty to one. The Orioles won nine to
Speaker 15: one over Cleveland. Jackson Holiday at a Grand Slam in
Speaker 15: Toronto's three to one went over Atlanta. The Blue Jay
Speaker 15: set a club record five pitchers had nineteen strikeouts.
Speaker 13: The Brazman now five and thirteen.
Speaker 15: NBA play in two wins with the road teams Miami
Speaker 15: in Chicago. Tyler Hero scored thirty eight Dallas in Sacramento
Speaker 15: as the MAVs won the second quarter by twenty five.
Speaker 15: The Heat and the MAVs play tomorrow in Atlanta and
Speaker 15: in Memphis to see who gets the last playoff spots.
Speaker 15: Then Saturday it's the Nixon Pistons Game one at the Garden.
Speaker 15: Detroit won only fourteen games last season, forty four wins
Speaker 15: this year.
Speaker 13: The Knicks coach is Tom Dibbodell.
Speaker 16: They've had a great season. I think, you know, Jab's
Speaker 16: done a great job there that they added the I
Speaker 16: think really good veterans to compliment you know, the young
Speaker 16: players that they have in a lot of their guys
Speaker 16: that made big steps. You look at the development of
Speaker 16: Duran and you know Stewart and you know obviously obviously
Speaker 16: one is Cunningham.
Speaker 15: Yeah, all Kid Cunningham did this season is an average
Speaker 15: twenty six points, six rebounds, and nine assists per game.
Speaker 15: Last Stanley Cup Loundspot goes to Montreal this after the
Speaker 15: Canadians went only eight of their first twenty four games.
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Speaker 3: Hey, that brings this to five twelve. On Wall Street,
Speaker 3: the markets they continue to be whips on by trade uncertainty,
Speaker 3: and let's try to get a handle on where things
Speaker 3: stand right now with Bloomberg Senior editor Bill Ferry's joining
Speaker 3: us this morning. Bill, thanks for being with us. Wall
Speaker 3: Street seems to be grasping at some positive signs in
Speaker 3: the trade talks between the US and Japan. Let me
Speaker 3: put the question out there, is that hope well placed
Speaker 3: this morning?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think the jury is out on that.
Speaker 17: President Trump going online yesterday to say that, you know,
Speaker 17: big progress, big progress had been made in the trade
Speaker 17: talks with the Japanese team, and definitely this Japanese delegation
Speaker 17: is being seen as a test case by dozens of
Speaker 17: countries that are hoping to see just what it will
Speaker 17: take to strike a deal with the Trump administration. But
Speaker 17: I got to point out it was a very relatively
Speaker 17: short meeting for a trade negotiation. The top Japanese to
Speaker 17: go met with Trump for about fifty minutes, and then
Speaker 17: he met with officials from Treasury in Commerce for just
Speaker 17: over an hour, about an hour and fifteen minutes. So
Speaker 17: usually trade deals are really detailed back and forth negotiations
Speaker 17: that take hundreds of hours and weeks. So they have
Speaker 17: scheduled a second round of meetings later in this month.
Speaker 17: But that ninety day clock that President Trump put on
Speaker 17: reaching deals with other countries is already ticking.
Speaker 3: And to be sure, the levies remain in place for
Speaker 3: Japan at this juncture.
Speaker 7: That's right. What Japan is wanting to do.
Speaker 17: They want to see the full twenty four percent tariffs,
Speaker 17: the reciprocal so called reciprocal tariffs wiped away. They'd like
Speaker 17: to see that ten percent kind of baseline tariff also gone.
Speaker 17: And those are the kind of things I think investors
Speaker 17: and the markets are going to really be looking at
Speaker 17: when they finally if they finally come to a deal,
Speaker 17: they're going to see is it possible? Well, how far
Speaker 17: back can you roll these tariffs? How far is President
Speaker 17: Trump willing to go?
Speaker 3: That's Japan or talks with other countries right now going on?
Speaker 17: Well, the administration says that there are talks maybe at
Speaker 17: lower levels taking place. We know South Korea is preparing
Speaker 17: to send a delegation. We've heard Scott Bessett talking about
Speaker 17: countries like Argentina and even India being near the near.
Speaker 7: The front of the queue.
Speaker 17: But in terms of the substantive talks, President Trump said
Speaker 17: he wants to sign off on all these deals he
Speaker 17: popped into this meeting with the Japanese. For him to
Speaker 17: do so with all these other countries is definitely going
Speaker 17: to take a lot of time.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 3: At the same time, fedch Heir Howell doesn't sound like
Speaker 3: he's going to ride to the rescue as the trade
Speaker 3: work continues. What's happening on that front.
Speaker 17: Well, he's definitely signaling kind of a wait and see
Speaker 17: approach here so far. Even though I think the markets
Speaker 17: have been pricing in between three and four rate cuts
Speaker 17: this year, he said that, you know, the FED needs
Speaker 17: to see price stability before they really make a move
Speaker 17: that he wants to make sure that inflation, the bump
Speaker 17: up and inflation expected from tariffs, doesn't become a longer
Speaker 17: term problem. Remember the FED got burned during the pandemic
Speaker 17: when they said that the inflation was temporary or it
Speaker 17: was in a transition, transitory. After the pandemic was winding down,
Speaker 17: it wasn't transitory. It climbed higher. It became a political problem,
Speaker 17: became an economic problem. They don't want that to happen again.
Speaker 17: So they're really more in a wait and see mode.
Speaker 3: It's hard to dealing trade in foreign relations. The Chinese
Speaker 3: president Hujinping, he's not a three nation Southeast Asia tour,
Speaker 3: and the message there seems to be you can't rely
Speaker 3: on the US, but you can rely on us.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 17: So Shei Jinping in Cambodia today. He's already visited Malaysia
Speaker 17: and Vietnam. Those are countries that also have a good
Speaker 17: trading relationships with the US and va Nom in particular
Speaker 17: has become a place where supply chains have been re
Speaker 17: routing as companies tried to move out of China. Now
Speaker 17: a lot of those countries are starting to have a
Speaker 17: second look at China, seeing it as perhaps a more
Speaker 17: stable economic partner to have, and they're also worried about
Speaker 17: these same reciprocal tariffs and some of the other trade
Speaker 17: issues that the US is bringing up.
Speaker 7: So it'll be very interesting to see where that develops.
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