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Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm Brian Curtis. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 1: following today. Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the

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Speaker 1: even more developments at Baxter has the story from San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: Ed, Yeah, two more days, Brian, two more days. Israel

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Speaker 2: says eleven more hostages returned today and says it is

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Speaker 2: that means until Thursday this week more and follows more

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Speaker 2: Kaylee Lyons points out any pause is only temporary.

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Speaker 3: And as we're talking about a ceasefire, temporary one extending

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Speaker 3: for whatever period of time. Again reportedly now an extra

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Speaker 3: Netanyahu has said repeatedly that at the end of this

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Speaker 3: now the ceasefire is still very much temporary, even if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with a pause extension, there are concerns. White House

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Speaker 2: National Security spokesman John Kirby admits it does provide Hamas

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Speaker 4: Group like Commosit terrorist group, which clearly doesn't abide by

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Speaker 4: laws of war. We try to take advantage of any

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Speaker 4: watching that closely as well as our Israeli counterparts. You

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Speaker 2: But that said, he says, the US would like to

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Speaker 4: We would, of course hope to see the pause extended further,

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Speaker 4: and that will depend upon Hamas continuing to release hostages.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln says he will

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Speaker 2: this affect the Israeli aid calculus in the US? Well,

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Speaker 2: that is, Congress has expected a resumed debate this week.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Jordan Fabian says, up in the air.

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Speaker 5: That's a shift before in the beginning, when this is

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Speaker 5: But then the calculus get tough because Republicans don't want

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Speaker 2: And Elon Musk has been on Israel, touring and talking

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Speaker 6: Musk said that he'd like to help rebuild Gaza at

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Speaker 6: he basically said that he was disturbed by some of

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Musk also visiting Israel in the shadow with an

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Speaker 2: a number of high profile advertisers. President Joe Biden, meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: taking credit for easing supply chain pressures and lowering inflation today, says,

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Speaker 7: Let me be clear, any corporation has not brought their

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Speaker 2: Biden also says he's set up a council review supply

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Speaker 2: chain actions, calling it an early warning system. Global News

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Speaker 2: with Bloomberg News now in San Francisco. I'm Ed Baxter,

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Speaker 2: and this is Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Brian, and thanks very much, with Brian Curtis and Vonnie

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Speaker 1: the top business and economic stories. Saudi Arabia is asking

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Speaker 1: we get the story from Bloomberg's and CADS.

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Speaker 8: Saudi Arabia has been making a largely unilateral supply cut

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Speaker 8: faces pressure to intervene in crude markets following a seventeen

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Speaker 8: of a new supply surplus in Washington and Kate's Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 9: Online shoppers are clicking their way to big savings for

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Speaker 9: Cyber Monday, and then this comes as buy now, pay

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Speaker 9: Bloomberg's Spencer Sober says expectations are high.

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Speaker 1: Earlier they were predicting about twelve billion in sales, and

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Speaker 1: that's from Adobe, which monitors insights from by hundreds of

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Speaker 3: Now based on the strength of the consumer on Black

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Speaker 9: That's Bloomberg's Spencer Sober there. The holiday weekend already saw

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Speaker 1: Meantime, Amazon's proper hoosed acquisition of I Robot has hit

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Speaker 1: a potential snag in Europe. More from Bloomberg Samuel Stalton.

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Speaker 9: Reddit is leading a class of twenty twenty four candidates

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Speaker 12: The Central Bank's position is clear. Deflation has effectively pushed

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Speaker 1: Joining us now on the program is Larry Lieberg, Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Editor on International Economics and Security team at Bloomberg, to

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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us. The pause is a

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Speaker 1: good thing. Let's hope it continues. Can we make the

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Speaker 1: jump in saying we don't know what both sides are thinking,

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Speaker 13: That's exactly true, and they're tired enough at least for

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Speaker 13: the moment that they're extending their agreement to swap hostages

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Speaker 13: Eleven freed hostages arrived in Israel, and in the rather

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Speaker 9: How are the calculations made, though, Larry, Because if Israel

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Speaker 13: Well, yes, but Israel's political logic is also that all

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Speaker 13: But yes, Israel said it can't just end this and

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Speaker 1: Some point, Larry, there's a massive imbalance in those killed.

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Speaker 13: Well, I think there is a lot of pressure. Israel

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Speaker 13: The idea that they're using such large bombs us applied

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Speaker 9: Laurie, how much does Hamas know about all of the hostages?

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Speaker 9: So there seems to be suggestion that some are lost

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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, they may know that some have died. They

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Speaker 13: terrorist offshoots that may have grabbed some of them, and

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Speaker 13: they may not have complete leeway to deal for them.

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Speaker 13: And that's one of the mysteries and one of the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned you mentioned US munitions, and we talked

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Speaker 1: being placed on Israel in terms of future conduct of

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Speaker 13: Well, there certainly have been some questions raised by some Democrats,

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Speaker 13: concerned about providing weapons and how they're used in will

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Speaker 13: or should play some constraints on it. The problem again

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