1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: Doug Prisner. Frontier Airlines is reportedly exploring a revived bid 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: for Spirit Airlines. Wall Street Journal reports these budget carriers 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: recently held talks, though discussions are at an early stage 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: and may not lead to a deal. If an agreement 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: is reached, it would likely happen as part of Spirit's 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: restructuring of its debt and other liabilities in bankruptcy. McDonald's 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: quarter pounders are being linked to an E. Coli outbreak 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: in the Mountain West States. The Center for Disease Control 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: says forty nine people from ten states have been sickened 11 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: from the strain. Ten have been hospitalized, including a child, 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: and one older person in Colorado has died. Starbucks has 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: suspended guidance for fiscal twenty twenty five, this after the 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: company reported same store's sales fell seven percent in the 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: latest quarter. Here is Starbucks CEO Brian Nickel. Through product development, 16 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: marketing and in store experience, we need to remind everyone 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: one that we are and always have been, Starbucks Coffee Company. 18 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: Brian Nickel there, the CEO of Starbucks. The stock was 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: down as much as five percent in late US trading. 20 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: This week, the CEO of Qualcomm, Christiano Aman, unveiled a 21 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: new version of the company's Snapdragon microprocessor. He said new 22 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: phones that handle artificial intelligence on the device itself will 23 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: be common within a few years. Arman told Bloomberg TV 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: that over the next five years, we are probably going 25 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: to have all of us an AI smartphone. 26 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 2: Within the next five years, we're probably going to have 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: all of us with an AI smartphone. The problem is 28 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 2: you have to wait for the new use cases to 29 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 2: come up. It remind me of the transition from feature 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: phones to smartphones. In the beginning, we talk about apps. 31 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: So we have ten apps and became hundreds of apps, 32 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 2: then thousands of apps, and we started to see that 33 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: happening right now. 34 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: Qualcom CEO Christiano Aman speaking there, shares in Qualcom today 35 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: we're up nearly two and a half percent. Separately, today 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: the British chip designer ARM Holdings canceled a license granted 37 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: to longtime partner Qualcom. It had allowed Qualcom to use 38 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: arm intellectual property to design chips. Now this move escalates 39 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: a legal dispute between these two firms over vital smartphone technology. 40 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: We go to Tesla next after the bell tomorrow, the 41 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: company is set to report third quarter results. We have 42 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: a preview now from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett. 43 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 3: Investors will be focused on the electric vehicle maker's autonomous 44 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: gross margins and forward looking guidance. CEO Elon Musk made 45 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 3: a big bet on autonomous vehicles and unveiled the company's 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 3: dedicated Robotaxi on October tenth, but the event was light 47 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 3: on details. The Austin based company sold one point eight 48 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 3: million cars globally in twenty twenty three, while sales perked 49 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 3: up in the third quarter thanks to strong deliveries in China. 50 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 3: Tesla is facing its first potential year over year decline 51 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 3: in New York. Charlie Pellett's Bloomberg Rade. 52 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: Bank of America CEO Brian moynihan is urging the FED 53 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: to be measured as it goes about cutting interest rates. 54 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: Moynihana is in Sydney, where he spoke exclusively to Bloomberg 55 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: during his first trip to Australia, where Bank of America 56 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: is marking sixty years of business. So we've got to 57 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: get back in line, and so they're on that path. 58 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: They're relate to the game they've got to make sure 59 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: they don't go too hard now, and that's what they 60 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 3: are all trying to figure out watching the data. 61 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: That's Brian moynihan, CEO of Bank of America. The International 62 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: Monetary Fund is boosting its growth forecast for the US 63 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: next year. However, the IMF cut its estimate for the 64 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: rest of the world by a tenth of one percent. 65 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: That growth rate now forecasts to be three point two percent. 66 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: At the same time, the Fund is forecasting inflation globally 67 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: will slow to a rate of four point three percent 68 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: next year. That would be down from five point eight 69 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: percent in twenty twenty four, and the Fund gave credit 70 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: to the central banks of the world for taming inflation 71 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: without sending nation into recession. Here is ECB President Christine Laguard. 72 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:10,119 Speaker 4: It looks very much that inflation is on the right 73 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 4: track of D's inflation. You know, we come from very 74 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 4: high numbers, as high on average for the whole of 75 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 4: the EUR area as ten point six percent, and the 76 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 4: latest reading we had for the inflation in September was 77 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 4: one point seven. 78 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: Christine Laguard there, the head of the ECB, speaking earlier 79 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: to Bloomberg in Washington, where the annual meetings of the 80 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: World Bank and the IMF are underway. That is news 81 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: when you want it, with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Prisner, 82 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: and this is Bloomberg