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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here
Speaker 2: are the stories we're following today. Breaking across the Bloomberg
Speaker 2: this morning, the International Energy Agency is proposing a release
Speaker 2: of emergency oil reserves that would be the largest ever
Speaker 2: in its history. Sources tell Bloomberg that the IEA has
Speaker 2: proposed a release in the range of about three hundred
Speaker 2: million to four hundred million barrels as governments seek to
Speaker 2: contain a spike and energy prices driven by the Middle
Speaker 2: East War. Begin More from Bloomberg Middle East Breaking News
Speaker 2: editor Patrick Sykes.
Speaker 3: That would be a huge amount of supplied potentially to
Speaker 3: enter the market at a time when, of course, lots
Speaker 3: and lots of ships are stuck on the wrong side
Speaker 3: of the straight up ball moves in the Persian Gulf,
Speaker 3: and some of those producers in the Middle East have
Speaker 3: had to shut in production or put it back at
Speaker 3: least as a result of the crisis.
Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Patrick Saike says the near total closure at the
Speaker 2: Strait of Horror Moose have led to cuts from Persian
Speaker 2: golf producers that have so far shaved about six percent
Speaker 2: of global oil output, and.
Speaker 4: As the war enters its twelfth day careen, the White
Speaker 4: House has been sending mixed messages. First, Energy Secretary Chris
Speaker 4: Wright posted and deleted a message that the US Navy
Speaker 4: had escorted a tanker through the Strait. White House Press
Speaker 4: Secretary Caroline Levitt says the military is still working on
Speaker 4: options to keep Hormose open.
Speaker 5: The US military is jarring up additional options following the
Speaker 5: President's directive to continue keeping the straight up from Moose open.
Speaker 2: White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt, then President Trump posted there
Speaker 2: were no reports of Iran laying mines in the Strait,
Speaker 2: only to announce later that the US had destroyed ten
Speaker 2: inactive mine laying boats. All this as a tax continue
Speaker 2: for a twelve a day and we get the very
Speaker 2: latest from Bloomberg's owner Aunt in Dubai.
Speaker 5: Yesterday marked the most intense date of strikes on Iran
Speaker 5: by the US equity American officials, and overnight into Wednesday,
Speaker 5: we have seen countries in the Persian Gulf intercepting various
Speaker 5: drawn and missile launches from Iran, some of them headed
Speaker 5: for again other energy assets, including the Sheba oilfield in
Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia as well as the Eastern Region in Saudi
Speaker 5: Arabia again, which is home to some of the some
Speaker 5: of the largest oil producing assets in.
Speaker 2: The Kingdom, and Bloomberg's on Iran says the UK Navy
Speaker 2: reported three ships hit by suspected projectiles in the Straight
Speaker 2: Up Our Moves and the Persian Golf this morning. One
Speaker 2: of them was a cargo ship that had a fire
Speaker 2: on board. And one of the two members of the
Speaker 2: Iranian women's soccer team who was granted asylum by Australia
Speaker 2: last night has decided to to draw her claim and
Speaker 2: return to Iran. Several members of the team were branded
Speaker 2: traders after they failed to sing their national anthem before
Speaker 2: a Women's Asian Cup match last week.
Speaker 4: Well Karen analysts are weighing in on whether this will
Speaker 4: be a short or long conflict. Richard is President Emeritis
Speaker 4: at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Speaker 6: The problem with the US position is it only took
Speaker 6: one to start the war US, but it's going to
Speaker 6: take three to end it. And that's mean first of all,
Speaker 6: the United States is going to have to, shall we say,
Speaker 6: lean on Israel to be blunt to bring the war
Speaker 6: to an end. Sooner than the Prime Minister wants. Even
Speaker 6: more difficult is the United States, so is going to
Speaker 6: have to persuade Iran to bring a war to this
Speaker 6: war to an end, and that I think is going
Speaker 6: to be the biggest challenge for this president who increasingly
Speaker 6: wants to wrap this up to Claire victory, declare mission accomplished.
Speaker 6: But again he doesn't have the power to do that.
Speaker 6: He's got to bring a run.
Speaker 4: Around Council on Foreign Relations. President Emeredis Richard Haas spoke
Speaker 4: to Bloomberg's Romain Bostic and Katie Grindfeld. You can watch
Speaker 4: their full interview on our new video Experience on the
Speaker 4: Bloomberg Business app.
Speaker 2: Well, we turned to politics at Home now. Nathan in
Speaker 2: one of the most conservative congressional districts in the US.
Speaker 2: A special election in Georgia to replace former Representative Marjorie
Speaker 2: Taylor Green has an unusual runoff, a Democrat facing a
Speaker 2: Republican endorsed by President Trump. The Democrat, Sean Harris, is
Speaker 2: a retired Army general and cattle farmer. He leads Republican
Speaker 2: district attorney Clay Fuller thirty seven point three to thirty
Speaker 2: four point nine percent, with ninety nine percent of the
Speaker 2: vote counted. Both candidates will face off again after neither
Speaker 2: of them won the majority in a seventeen candidate field.
Speaker 2: Harris spoke with the Bloomberg's Balance of Power before the
Speaker 2: votes were counted and said he has what it takes
Speaker 2: to win.
Speaker 7: My name is the name that people know and trust
Speaker 7: here in the district, and that's why we're actually going
Speaker 7: to win this thing tonight. And if we don't win
Speaker 7: in tonight, we're going to win the runoff because I'm
Speaker 7: getting Democrats independence and yes, Republicans are voting for me.
Speaker 2: And Georgia Democrat John Harris will face Clay Fuller and
Speaker 2: in April seventh runoff to fill the remainder of Marjorie
Speaker 2: Taylor Green's term this year then Karen.
Speaker 4: It was also a primary election day in Mississippi and
Speaker 4: incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde Smith will face Democratic challenger
Speaker 4: Scott Collum in the after they easily won their races.
Speaker 4: Hyde Smith was endorsed by President Trump, and with ninety
Speaker 4: three percent of votes counted, she defeated Sarah Adlodka eighty
Speaker 4: point eight to nineteen point two percent. Column received seventy
Speaker 4: three percent of the Democratic votes, and House incumbents, including
Speaker 4: longtime Democratic Congressman Benny Thompson, also easily won their Mississippi
Speaker 4: primary races.
Speaker 2: And we are hearing now that the International Energy Agency
Speaker 2: is proposing a release of reserves oil stockpire release of
Speaker 2: about three hundred to four hundred million barrels. Still, NIMEGX
Speaker 2: screwde oil remains higher this morning a four point eight
Speaker 2: percent of four dollars three cents at eighty seven dollars
Speaker 2: forty eight cents a barrel. Brent is up four and
Speaker 2: a quarter percent. It's at ninety one dollars forty one cents, and.
Speaker 4: Karen futures are lower this morning. Ahead of a key
Speaker 4: reading on inflation before the opening bill, we get the
Speaker 4: consumer Price Index for the month of February. It's projected
Speaker 4: to show core inflation stripping out volatile energy and food
Speaker 4: prices rose two tenths percent last month.
Speaker 2: And right now, taking a look at Oracle and Company news,
Speaker 2: shares are up ten percent in early trading. Revenue top
Speaker 2: analyst estimates, and the software maker gave an outlook that
Speaker 2: suggested there is little letup and demand for AI computing.
Speaker 2: Aniragrana covers Oracle for Bloomberg Intelligence.
Speaker 8: It's actually very clean numbers. I think the things that
Speaker 8: sticks out most as capital expenditure is not going to
Speaker 8: go up. I think people are worried about a lot
Speaker 8: of these cloud providers adding to capex, so that's a
Speaker 8: good thing, which revenue slightly higher, capex remaining flat, the
Speaker 8: backlog is growing, So I think this is a good
Speaker 8: print from multiple facets.
Speaker 2: And Bloomberg Intelligence is anaag Rana notes that before the report,
Speaker 2: Oracles stock had lost more than fifty percent of its
Speaker 2: value from mid September peak as Wall Street grew worried
Speaker 2: about its high AI costs.
Speaker 4: Wall Street's biggest bank, JP Morgan Chase Karen is restricting
Speaker 4: its lending to private credit funds after marking down the
Speaker 4: value of certain assets in their portfolios. Sources say the
Speaker 4: devalued loan are two software companies. That is a sector
Speaker 4: that has been in the spotlight in recent weeks due
Speaker 4: to investor concern over the potential impact from artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4: This news is the latest sign of stress in a
Speaker 4: once booming segment of the credit market.
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Speaker 9: Michael, good Morning, Good morning Karen. The Department of Homeland
Speaker 9: Security remains without funding approval from Congress, as TSA agents
Speaker 9: are working without That means long lines at security with
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Speaker 9: is now president and CEO of the trade group Airlines
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Speaker 1: Is this the new norm?
Speaker 4: Is this the new populism politics? Where airlines in the
Speaker 4: American public are pedalized every time these guys don't agree
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Speaker 9: Meanwhile, some US airports, including San Francisco International Airport, used
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Speaker 6: Andreies so far have been minor that have been reported.
Speaker 9: Sheriff Conthine says, there's about a three mile stretch of damage.
Speaker 9: Here's the Governor, Mikey Cheryl says she wants to scale
Speaker 9: that state's new property tax relief program for senior citizens
Speaker 9: to help close a three billion dollars structural deficit. In
Speaker 9: her first budget address since entering office in January, Cheryl
Speaker 9: proposed two billion dollars in spending reductions. The largest reduction
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Speaker 9: stay New Jersey tax benefit for homeowners age sixty five
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Speaker 4: Good morning on Nathan Hager. As the war where Iran
Speaker 4: enters its twelfth day, major moves maybe on the way
Speaker 4: now to calm an energy market that has been whipsawed
Speaker 4: by the fast moving conflict. Bloomberg News has learned that
Speaker 4: the International Energy Agency is now proposing the largest ever
Speaker 4: release of emergency oil reserves. For the latest, We're joined
Speaker 4: from Istan Bull by Bloomberg News Middle East Breaking News
Speaker 4: editor Patrick Sykes and Patrick. Before we got this latest word,
Speaker 4: we had already heard that this could be the biggest
Speaker 4: release since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. What's the latest we're
Speaker 4: hearing now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Indeed, that would be a huge amount of supplied
Speaker 3: potentially to enter the market at a time when, of course,
Speaker 3: lots and lots of ships are stuck on the wrong
Speaker 3: side of the straight up ball moves in the Persian Gulf,
Speaker 3: and some of those producers in the Middle East have
Speaker 3: had to shut in production or put it back at
Speaker 3: least as a result of the crisis. I think we'll
Speaker 3: be watching potentially later to today, later today for a
Speaker 3: final decision on those reserves. But potentially yes, some release
Speaker 3: to the market in the form of supply.
Speaker 4: Three hundred to four hundred million barrels a day is
Speaker 4: what sources are telling us. Will that be enough to
Speaker 4: calm the market is we are watching Nimex and Crew
Speaker 4: both spiking still this morning.
Speaker 3: I think the market will quite quickly. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: sure it'll provide some limited relief, but I think longer
Speaker 3: term the market will get quite quickly. Back to question
Speaker 3: of duration in the straight or forms. This is an
Speaker 3: emergency measure. It will provide some relief at the front end,
Speaker 3: but for longer term calming of the market, any return
Speaker 3: to the kind of price levels we saw before the
Speaker 3: start of the war, I think you need a resolution
Speaker 3: to the conflict and particularly to the security situation in holmost.
Speaker 4: What does the security situation look like right now? We've
Speaker 4: heard reports of some ships being hit potentially or targeted.
Speaker 3: Yeah. By my account, today has been one of the
Speaker 3: worst for attacks on shipping in the region. We've had
Speaker 3: three separate incidents reported by the UK Navy agency that
Speaker 3: looks at these. I think a cargo bulk carrier. So
Speaker 3: it just under lines note I think hours after Trump
Speaker 3: and his administration we're talking about targeting Iranian mining capabilities
Speaker 3: to secure the straight, Iran appears to have responded with
Speaker 3: an uptick in attacks.
Speaker 4: It raises a question about whether the US is ready
Speaker 4: to fulfill President Trump's promise to escort ships through the
Speaker 4: Strait of Horror moves. What's the situation there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was some confusion yesterday. One US official had
Speaker 3: said that that had begun, one ship had passed, and
Speaker 3: that was later denied by the White House and the
Speaker 3: posting question was deleted. I think if and when it
Speaker 3: comes yes, perhaps similar to these reserves, right, it'll provide
Speaker 3: some relief in that traffic will be able to start
Speaker 3: moving again. On the other hand, those convoys are going
Speaker 3: to be themselves a target and the rate of transit
Speaker 3: is still going to be very very low with the
Speaker 3: kind of hardware you would need to commit to get
Speaker 3: them through, So you're looking at potentially resumption, but at
Speaker 3: a much lower volume. Still.
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