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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Good morning, I'm Nathan

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Speaker 1: Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 2: We begin with the latest on pro Palestinian college protests

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Speaker 2: expanding across the country. Students at Columbia University are now

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Speaker 2: occupying parts of a campus building. We get the very

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Speaker 2: latest now with Bloomberg's John Tucker in New York.

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Speaker 3: Dozens of students to enter the campus building known as

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Speaker 3: University remains the epicenter the demonstrations taking place on campuses

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Speaker 3: across the country and even around the world. The school

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Speaker 3: is now suspending students who refused to abide by yesterday's

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Speaker 3: refuses to go and call the protests peaceful and unifying.

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Speaker 4: There has been no violence on this encampment.

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Speaker 1: Students from diverse dot grounds have shared their religious observances

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Speaker 3: At the University of Texas campus in Austin. They witnessed

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Speaker 3: a forceful response from local law enforcement and state police,

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Speaker 3: some in riot gear. At UCLA, students and faculty took

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Speaker 3: part in a walkout. John Tucker Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio, All right, John, thank you well. As those campus

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Speaker 1: protests intensify, the White House is pressuring Hamas to accept

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Speaker 1: a ceasefire deal with Israel. Secretary of State Anthony blink

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Speaker 1: And has called Israel's offer extraordinarily generous. White House Press

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Speaker 1: Secretary A. Karin John Pierre agrees.

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Speaker 5: Now is the time for Hamas to take this deal.

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Speaker 5: It is on the table.

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Speaker 1: It is time to is way past time to get

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Speaker 1: these hostages home. White House spokeswoman Karin Jean Pierre says

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Speaker 1: Hamas and not Israel, as the bigger obstacle to peace.

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Speaker 1: President bought and spoke yesterday with the leaders of Egypt

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Speaker 1: Egyptian state media report A. Mush plans to give a

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Speaker 1: written response to Israel's ceasefire offer, but it's not saying when.

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Speaker 2: Turning to markets, now, Karen, there is an unexpected change

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Speaker 2: Let's go to London and get the details on that.

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Speaker 2: From Bloomberg Daybreak Europe Banker Caroline Hepger, Good morning, Caroline.

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Speaker 6: Good morning Nathan and Karen. HSBC's COO Noel Quinn is

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Speaker 6: stepping down after some five years for a portfolio career

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Speaker 6: but you can't say Quinn hasn't delivered, with record profits

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Speaker 6: share price. As for first quarter results, pre tax profits

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Speaker 6: dipped one point eight percent but beat estimates. Plus there's

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Speaker 6: that three billion dollar share buyback. The bank is now

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Speaker 6: looking at candidates near and far to a place Quinn

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Speaker 6: will stay on during a transition. His success's main challenge

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Speaker 6: grabbing growth in Asia and managing time US China ties

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Speaker 6: in London. I'm Caroline Hepke Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Caroline, thank you. That buyback news seems to be

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Speaker 2: impressing investors. Checking shares of HSBC. They are hired by

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Speaker 1: Well, Nathan, we have management changes here in the US

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Speaker 1: as well. The CEO of Paramount Bob Backish is stepping down.

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Speaker 1: He'll be replaced by a trio of top executives and

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Speaker 1: we get more from Bloomberg's Doug Prisner.

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Speaker 7: It comes as Paramount negotiates a possible sale to David Ellison.

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Speaker 7: He's been talking with Sherry Redstone, Paramount's controlling shareholder. However,

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Speaker 7: now the olive branch. Ellison is proposing to buy three

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Speaker 2: Okay, Doug. Thanks Turning the economy. Now, the FED is

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Speaker 2: beginning its two day policy meeting today. Well, just about

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Speaker 2: everyone expects j. Powell and Company to stand pat on rates. Investors,

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Speaker 8: they may have actually re accelerated reaccelerated inflation just from

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Speaker 2: It's Matt Mickskin at John Hancock that FED decision and

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Speaker 1: Well, investors await the FED decision, Nathan. The barrage of

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Speaker 4: The big focus for investors how much the company's artificial

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Speaker 4: intelligence efforts have given its Amazon Web Services unit, already

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Speaker 4: this will also be Amazon's first earnings report since it

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Speaker 4: Tom buzzby Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Terren, thank you. More job cuts are reportedly

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Speaker 1: Nathan. While Tesla cuts jobs, Elon muskwell continues to rebound.

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Speaker 1: In the past five days, must net worth has gone

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk add at eighteen and a half

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Speaker 2: Well, Karen, some of Elon Musk's competitors in the automotive

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Speaker 2: space are delivering disappointing numbers. First quarter sales at Stalantis,

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Speaker 1: Nathan Mercedes Benz's earnings plummeting thirty four percent in the

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Speaker 1: Michael Barr Michael, good morning.

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Speaker 9: Good morning, Karen. A grim story out of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Speaker 9: Four officers trying to serve a warrant for a fellon

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Speaker 9: Officers who rushed rescue the downed officers were themselves wounded

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Speaker 9: Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings was emotional when he informed

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Speaker 9: Joshua Eyer, who was critically injured, had died.

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Speaker 5: He survived by his wife, Ashley, and his three year

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Speaker 9: Jief Chennings says Officer Ayer was a six year veteran

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Speaker 10: There really aren't words that you can say, because obviously

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Speaker 10: the families of these officers who've lost their lives this

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Speaker 9: Overall crime on New York City's subway system is down

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Speaker 9: fifty seven percent increase in total arrests. Britain's King Charles

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Speaker 9: month after his wife Kate revealed her cancer diagnosis as well.

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Speaker 1: Hemon, how many does it take?

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Speaker 1: the Bloomberry Sports Update. Here's John stash Hour John Good Morning.

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Speaker 11: Dodn't Morning care in the next received loud fans support

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Speaker 11: Game five, Knicks up three one, a chance to win

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Speaker 11: Nuggets move on and Lebron James will now decide whether

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Speaker 11: twenty second Already, the NBA's oldest player. Lebron said last

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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 2: It is a surprise move in global banking. Noel Quinn

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Speaker 2: is stepping down as CEO of HSBC after nearly five

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Speaker 2: We're joined by Bloomberg's Charlie Wells. Charlie, good morning. As

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Speaker 2: I mentioned, this did seem to come as quite a

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Speaker 2: surprise to a lot of investors. Do you have any

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Nathan, no one saw this coming. I mean last year,

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Speaker 12: Noel Quinn's pay was actually doubled, so there were just

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Speaker 12: not telegraphs coming out of this bank that this could

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Speaker 12: potentially happen. And now what Quinn said is that he

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Speaker 12: wanted to find a more a better personal work life balance.

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Speaker 12: He said that he wants to embark upon a portfolio career.

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Speaker 12: We're not entirely sure what that means, And in comments

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Speaker 12: from executives this morning from HSBC, they haven't given us

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Speaker 12: a lot of indication of why or who could have

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Speaker 12: next is going to have some pretty big shoes to

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Speaker 12: trying to break the bank apart, he successfully funded that off,

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Speaker 12: and he led HSBC through a period of heightened tensions

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Speaker 12: big shoes to Phil.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly. And when you think about heightened tensions between

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Speaker 2: Noel Quinn had during his tenure to pivot attention to

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Speaker 12: That's exactly right. I mean, HSBC is looking to diversify.

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Speaker 12: So they are a bank that is very reliant on

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Speaker 12: that's been a huge boon for the bank. You know,

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Speaker 12: their net interest margin, what beat expectations in this first quarter.

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Speaker 12: Ostensibly that's what we were all going to simply hear

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Speaker 12: And in these earnings today we got some kind of

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Speaker 12: But this is going to be a big challenge for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I guess we got better numbers just overall.

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Speaker 2: And plus this three billion dollar stock buy back, I mean,

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Speaker 12: Yeah, so shares have been trading up a couple percentage

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Speaker 11: A lot?

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Speaker 12: Lot of analysts have said that some of that capital

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Speaker 2: Only about thirty seconds left, Charlie. But whoever fills Noel

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Speaker 12: It seems like what the bank is trying to communicate

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