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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Garen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 2: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 1: The drop in Nasdaq futures comes after a couple of

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Speaker 1: key tech earnings reports after the bell a huge run

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Speaker 1: up in a trio of stocks on optimism over artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 1: It's turning into investor disappointment this morning. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: Google parent Alphabet. Those shares are down more than five

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Speaker 1: company's core search advertising business is a focus, and we

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Speaker 1: get more on that from Bloomberg Technology host ed Ludlow

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: One thesis or idea is that maybe the streets concern

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Speaker 3: about weakness in the search business is they don't yet

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Speaker 3: see tangible evidence that all of the R and D

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Speaker 3: and work in generative AI and all of the product

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Speaker 3: Compare and contrast that with Microsoft, where you see the

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Speaker 3: contribution of AI across its kind of legacy and newer

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Speaker 3: offerings and software suites. Aed Lovelife for bloombergis in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: All right, ed, thanks, So we're also seeing weakness in

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Speaker 2: shares of Microsoft this morning that stock is down about

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Speaker 2: one point six percent despite easily beating profit and revenue forecasts,

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Speaker 2: and we get the latest from Bloomberg's John Tucker, John

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Speaker 4: Microsoft posted its strongest revenue growth since twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 4: sixty two billion dollars. The profit easily beat estimates, coming

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Speaker 4: in at two dollars ninety three cents a share. Artificial

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Speaker 4: intelligence products are driving spending on cloud computing. Microsoft's as

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Speaker 4: Your Cloud Services sales gain thirty percent, But as one

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Speaker 4: analyst puts it, the company delivered a healthy set of results,

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Speaker 4: but not as strong enough dose to appease the market.

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Speaker 4: A loptimism for Microsoft's AI prospects last week cent to

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Speaker 4: its market cap above three trillion dollars. John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, John, thanks for also seeing shares of chip

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Speaker 1: maker Advanced micro Devices fall nearly seven percent. AMDs stock

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Speaker 2: Well, Nathan, while investors diggest earnings, they'll have another huge

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Speaker 2: event on the calendar of this afternoon the FED decision

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Speaker 2: and more importantly J Powell's news conference, we get more

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Speaker 5: Will the Fed offer any surprises today? Certainly not on

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Speaker 5: interest rates. Fed funds stay in the five and a

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Speaker 5: is likely they will change their tightening bias to something

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Speaker 5: more neutral, dropping language about additional policy firming. That will

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Speaker 5: put the burden of making news on Chairman J.

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Speaker 5: The biggest news he could make would be guidance on

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Speaker 5: rake cut timing, which is very unlikely. Finally, with tug

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Speaker 5: Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mike, thanks and catch our special edition at

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Survey Lence, the Fed decides starting at one thirty

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Speaker 1: Let's turn to politics. Now, this just crossed the Bloomberg terminal.

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Speaker 1: Karen a Brand Bloomberg News Morning Consult poll. It finds

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Speaker 1: President Biden continues to trail former President Donald Trump in

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Speaker 1: seven swing states. Six in ten voters in those states

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Speaker 7: Bloomberg's Amy Morris has the numbers. The monthly survey serves

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Speaker 7: as a warning for Biden, who lags Trump forty two

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Speaker 7: a head to head matchup, But when a third party

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Speaker 7: The gap between those two issues is narrowing, which suggests

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Speaker 7: by a twenty two point margin. Swing state voters say

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Speaker 7: they trust Trump over Biden to handle immigration. In Washington,

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Speaker 7: Amy Morris Bloomberg Radio, All right, Amy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you well. From the White House to Congress, the

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Speaker 7: Secretary Mayorcis is willfully breaking federal immigration laws.

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Speaker 2: Congressoman Marjorie Taylor Green spoke from the House floor, and

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Speaker 1: All right, let's turn back to the markets and company news.

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Speaker 1: Karen Walmart has announced a three for one stock split,

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

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Speaker 8: The company says a lower price will help more of

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Speaker 8: its employees buy shares. CEO Doug McMillan said, quote, Sam

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Speaker 8: in a range where purchasing whole shares rather than fractions,

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Speaker 8: retailer has an existing stock purchase program for employees, through

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Speaker 8: In New York, Charlie Bloomberg Radio, All right.

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Speaker 2: Charlie, thanks Lelon Muss fifty five billion dollar Tesla pay

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Speaker 2: package has been struck down by a Delaware judge following

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Speaker 2: companies into question. Mus twenty eighteen award was the largest

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Speaker 2: agree on new payment terms for their CEO.

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Speaker 1: And Karin and other wealthy executives. In the news, Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: News has learned media mogul Byron Allens made a fourteen

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Speaker 1: Paramount Global. Paramount is one of the crown jewels in

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Speaker 2: And Bloomberg News has learned Carlisle Group co founder David

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Speaker 2: the Baltimore Orioles baseball team from the Angelos family for

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Speaker 2: one point seventy three billion dollars. Time now for a

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Speaker 7: Some are calling Israel's secret counter terrorism operation at a

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Speaker 7: Iran has now signals it's prepared to hit back against

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Speaker 7: largest social media companies are going to face some questions

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Speaker 1: The kickoff of big tech earnings is looking like a

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Speaker 1: bit of a disappointment so far for investors. Both Microsoft

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Speaker 1: Street expectations as a whole, but expectations around artificial intelligence

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News national political reporter Gregory Cordy to break down

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Speaker 1: what we've learned from this latest iteration of the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: News Morning Consult Swing state poll. What did we find, Gregory, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So does that mean that the former president is widening

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