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Speaker 3: Well, John, the apparent stabilization in the energy and equity Marcus.
Speaker 3: This morning comes as the US and Israel reassure world
Speaker 3: leaders and investors they will no longer target energy infrastructure
Speaker 3: in Iran. Oil and gas prices have surged this week
Speaker 3: following strikes from both sides. As heard right here on
Speaker 3: Bloomberg Radio, President Trump said he told Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 3: Benjamin Att and Yahoo to stop attacking Iranian oil and
Speaker 3: gas fields.
Speaker 4: I told him, don't do that, and he won't do that.
Speaker 4: We didn't discuss, you know, we do. We're independent. We
Speaker 4: get along great, it's coordinated. But on occasion he'll do
Speaker 4: something and if I don't like it, and so we're
Speaker 4: not doing that anymore.
Speaker 3: And President Trump also told the reporters he is not
Speaker 3: putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you.
Speaker 2: It is really Prime Minister Bevinia Benetna, who said his
Speaker 2: country would no longer target energy infrastructure after its attack
Speaker 2: on an Iranian gas field that sparked retaliatory strikes.
Speaker 5: Israel acted alone against the SLOWEA gas compound. Fact number two.
Speaker 6: President Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks,
Speaker 6: and we're holding out.
Speaker 2: Benjaminetna, whose comments came after Israeli officials previously said they
Speaker 2: had to inform the US about the attack.
Speaker 3: Still John Oil heading for another weekly gain as the
Speaker 3: war in the Middle East drags on. The straight up
Speaker 3: Horor Moves is on but closed, and analysts warned that
Speaker 3: the crisis may deepen. Well Kennedy covers the oil markets
Speaker 3: for Bloomberg.
Speaker 6: Ivon has throughout this conflict and continues to strike energy infrastructure.
Speaker 6: It has from the beginning hit refineries throughout the region,
Speaker 6: and we saw enough strike this morning on a Qight refinery.
Speaker 6: So there hasn't been a stop to this strikes on
Speaker 6: energy infrastructure in the region. But as long as holl
Speaker 6: Moves is closed, the energy problems will remain. The main
Speaker 6: fundamental driver of energy markets right now is a straight
Speaker 6: up Hoar Moos, which is normally responsible for twenty percent
Speaker 6: of the world's energy flows, is effectively shut. We're probably
Speaker 6: losing about half of that ten million dollars a day roughly.
Speaker 6: That's unsustainable and less places go much much much higher, and.
Speaker 3: As blimbers will Kennedy and other energy markets, European natural
Speaker 3: gas futures surge to almost double their pre war level.
Speaker 3: Fuel prices also climbed, with central bankers warning that the
Speaker 3: conflict carries the risks of tighter monetary policy.
Speaker 7: And care in.
Speaker 2: Tensions between the UNS and Japan over the around world
Speaker 2: remained evident as President Trump hosted the Prime Minister Sunday
Speaker 2: tuki Ichi at the White House. Your President Trump's response
Speaker 2: when a reporter has them why the US hadn't inform
Speaker 2: Japan and European allies in advance of his striking Iran
Speaker 2: One thing.
Speaker 4: You don't want to signal too much. You know, when
Speaker 4: we go in, we went in very hard, and we
Speaker 4: didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who
Speaker 4: knows better about surprise than Japan?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 7: Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay?
Speaker 2: Japanese Prime Minister's Sonatakichi's slight smile appeared to drop. She
Speaker 2: raised her eyebrows. However, President Trump and the Prime Minister
Speaker 2: otherwise exchanged warm words during their White House meeting, including
Speaker 2: him calling her a popular, powerful, woman well.
Speaker 3: John the Director of National Intelligence. Telsey Gabbard acknowledge to
Speaker 3: lawmakers at the US and Israel have different goals for
Speaker 3: their joint military campaign in Iran, and Bloomberg's Amy Morris
Speaker 3: has more from Washington.
Speaker 8: Gabard says the Trump administration's goals are centered on degrading
Speaker 8: Iran's military, but Israel's aim is to remove Iran's leadership.
Speaker 9: We can see through the operations that the Israeli government
Speaker 9: has been focused on disabling the Iranian leadership and taking
Speaker 9: out several members, obviously beginning with the Ayatola and the
Speaker 9: Supreme Leader.
Speaker 8: The conflict has led to Iranian retaliation against several Gulf
Speaker 8: countries and strained US ties with allies in Europe. Gabbard
Speaker 8: says she does not know if Israel supports President Trump's
Speaker 8: desire for a deal with Iran. She was on Capitol
Speaker 8: Hill for a House Committee hearing on Global threats in Washington.
Speaker 8: Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 2: And in other news this morning. The Justice Department has
Speaker 2: sent a subpoena to former FBI and director James call Mey.
Speaker 2: This is part of an investigation into whether former law
Speaker 2: enforcement and intelligence officials waged a conspiracy against President Trump.
Speaker 2: The subpoena seeks information about Comby's role in putting together
Speaker 2: an intelligence assessment about rudj's interference in the twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: presidential election.
Speaker 3: John, let's turn to the Marcus, where stocks are on
Speaker 3: track for a third straight week of losses and it
Speaker 3: could be another volatile session as we close out the
Speaker 3: trading week. It is triple Witching day on Wall Street.
Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Tom Busby has more on what to look for.
Speaker 10: Wall Street bracing for what could it be an unusually
Speaker 10: volatile day because of a large number of stock index
Speaker 10: and ETF options expiring today roughly five point seven trillion
Speaker 10: dollars worth now this triple which in comes at a
Speaker 10: troubling time for the markets, with the war and Iran
Speaker 10: about to enter its fourth week, oil prices at multi
Speaker 10: year highs, and a lot of traders now lowering their
Speaker 10: bets for any interest rate cuts from the Fed this
Speaker 10: year in order to keep an expected jump in inflation
Speaker 10: somewhat in check. Tom Busby, Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks Tom, and in company who shares Fedax. They're up
Speaker 2: more than ten percent in early trading, but raising their
Speaker 2: full year profit forecast. FedEx says it does not expect
Speaker 2: the war in the Middle East to have a direct
Speaker 2: material impact on its business.
Speaker 3: Well in the US says charged a super Microcomputer co
Speaker 3: founder with sending AI technology to Asia. John Prosecutor's charge
Speaker 3: Yi Shwan wally Leau in a scheme to send US
Speaker 3: assembled servers containing in videos cutting edge chips to China
Speaker 3: and violation of UX export controls. The indictment marks the
Speaker 3: big is chip smuggling case prosecutors have pursued since first
Speaker 3: restricting in video shipments to China. On twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: shares of super microw aer down twenty two percent in
Speaker 3: early trading.
Speaker 2: And Open Ai developing a desktop application to bring together
Speaker 2: its popular chat GPT, chat pot coding tool and web browser.
Speaker 2: That's an effort to keep users engaged in the face
Speaker 2: of fierce competition for rivals like Anthropic. It's unclear when
Speaker 2: the application.
Speaker 3: Is going to launch, and we have a programming note.
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Speaker 3: We are nearing the end of the third week of
Speaker 3: the war with Iran. Israel Is saying it will no
Speaker 3: longer target energy infrastructure after an attack on an Iranian
Speaker 3: gas field spark retaliatory strikes against energy assets across the
Speaker 3: Middle East, and that caused oil and gas prices to surge,
Speaker 3: and it prompted a rebuke from President Trump. We want
Speaker 3: to get the very latest at Bloomberg's Dumana Bversecchi in
Speaker 3: Dubai Jumana, Good morning. What we did hear that Israel
Speaker 3: in the US may be refraining from attacks on energy
Speaker 3: infrastructure going forward, but it really doesn't mean Iran is
Speaker 3: what's the latest on the fighting.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right, And to your point, I think there
Speaker 12: was an attempt to at least de escalate one part
Speaker 12: of the war yesterday, which is specifically the Israeli attacks
Speaker 12: on those gas fields in Iran, which was deemed to
Speaker 12: be a red line, and President Cheoump visibly trying to
Speaker 12: put a distance between himself and the military action that
Speaker 12: Israel conducted, and actually was interesting to hear from Israeli
Speaker 12: Prime Minister last night and he said that they did
Speaker 12: act solo and upon the US's request, they are not
Speaker 12: going to be targeting energy infrastructure anymore. Now that's not
Speaker 12: to say that strikes on infrastructure is still not taking
Speaker 12: place as we understand. There was a heavy wave of
Speaker 12: air strikes over central Tehran overnight as well, but in retaliation,
Speaker 12: I mean, Iran keep going and they keep lashing out
Speaker 12: at Gulf allies. Overnight, more rounds of attempted attacks on
Speaker 12: some key refineries in the region, another refinery in Kuwait
Speaker 12: this morning announcing that it is halting production. This is
Speaker 12: the second day in a road that it's been targeted.
Speaker 12: They've also launched projectiles towards Saudi Arabia once again towards
Speaker 12: their eastern oil fields, the northern part of Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 12: Even yesterday an attempt on that Yanbu port on the
Speaker 12: Red Seas, so not even on the Persian Gulf. So
Speaker 12: the strikes on energy continue. But I think one thing
Speaker 12: that has become apparent from the US and is really
Speaker 12: perspective is the strikes on the Iran gas field are
Speaker 12: I mean the plan it's for that not to be
Speaker 12: repeated again out of the fear of how Iran could
Speaker 12: respond specifically on some of those Gulf allies energy infrastructure.
Speaker 3: And as you discussed all the finding that's still going on.
Speaker 3: We did hear Benjaminett. Yeaho's sounding more optimistic that the
Speaker 3: war could be over soon, but it really doesn't sound
Speaker 3: like there's any sign of that.
Speaker 12: No, absolutely not. And to what I was saying yesterday,
Speaker 12: the military operations have continued overnight. A massive wave of
Speaker 12: air strikes is what the ADF IDF have been describing,
Speaker 12: and I think you know from their perspective, it's still
Speaker 12: very clear that the key military objectives has still not
Speaker 12: been achieved, even though so far they're happy with the
Speaker 12: progress that has been made, and we're perhaps getting a
Speaker 12: little bit more color on what those military objectives actually
Speaker 12: are in terms of degrading Iran's military capabilities, degrading their
Speaker 12: nuclear capabilities, the radication of their naval force, or complete
Speaker 12: demolition of their naval forces is the term that US
Speaker 12: President Trump has used. But then, interesting enough, overnight we
Speaker 12: had some comments as well from Telsey Gobbert, the US
Speaker 12: National Security Chief, and she was saying that there is
Speaker 12: a bit of a divergence between the US's objectives and
Speaker 12: Israel's objectives in that Israel perhaps have one step further,
Speaker 12: which is that maybe one of their explicit objectives is
Speaker 12: to see a change in leadership rights For the US.
Speaker 12: It's mainly focused on the degradation of military power.
Speaker 3: And as the fighting spreads as well, are we also
Speaker 3: getting closer where we could see other nations coming in,
Speaker 3: And if other nations come in, could that mean more
Speaker 3: objectives come in as well and possibly change what we're
Speaker 3: looking at here.
Speaker 12: I think you have to think of that through the
Speaker 12: framework of one what the US administration is trying to
Speaker 12: do to reopen the strait, because as long as the
Speaker 12: Strait of Homers remains closed, you're going to continue to
Speaker 12: see this upward pressure on oil prices, on energy prices,
Speaker 12: on gas prices, as we've been talking about the last
Speaker 12: couple of weeks, and so far, countries around the world
Speaker 12: have been very noncommittal in terms of willing to sign
Speaker 12: up to those maritime missions because they don't want to
Speaker 12: get involved in the war. But then the other way
Speaker 12: to think about it as well is yesterday's actions and
Speaker 12: the strike on Katar on Restafan facility was so significant
Speaker 12: that we are seeing a shift and tone out of
Speaker 12: some of these Gulf nations. And I will say that
Speaker 12: it was really interesting to hear from the Saudi Foreign
Speaker 12: Affairs Minister the night of those attats. He said that
Speaker 12: Saudi Arabia's patients is not unlimited and they reserve the
Speaker 12: rights to respond either politically or non politically.
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