Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. Good morning, I'm Nathan
Speaker 1: Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're
Speaker 1: following today.
Speaker 2: Karen, we begin with a health scare at McDonald's and
Speaker 2: a plunge in shares of the fast food giant. For
Speaker 2: the latest, let's bring in Bloomberg's John Tucker, John and Nathan.
Speaker 3: The CDC says forty nine people from ten states have
Speaker 3: contracted E coli traced to ingredients in McDonald's quarter pounders.
Speaker 3: Ten people have been hospitalized. An elderly person in Colorado
Speaker 3: has died. Every patient interviewed by the CDC said they
Speaker 3: ate at McDonald's before falling ill. Most of the eight
Speaker 3: quarter pounder hamburger specifically, McDonald's USA president is Joe Erlinger.
Speaker 4: This is a temporary change as the investigation continues, and
Speaker 4: we are working quickly to return our full menu in
Speaker 4: these states as soon as possible.
Speaker 3: Well, the company thinks it could be the youngions that
Speaker 3: going to quarter pounders. Apparently the quarter pounders are the
Speaker 3: only sandwiches that routinely take these particular onions. The true
Speaker 3: number of people, in fact, it likely much higher than
Speaker 3: is currently known, and may involve additional states. According to
Speaker 3: the CDC, McDonald's is a member of the DELL also
Speaker 3: has the thirty fifth biggest waiting of the S and
Speaker 3: P five hundred. A major outbreak is going to haunt
Speaker 3: restaurant chains for years. You'll recall back in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 3: an E. Colian neurovirus outbreak across Chipotle locations in multiple
Speaker 3: states led to a drastic drop in sales there. McDonald's
Speaker 3: shares down six percent pre market in New York. I'm
Speaker 3: John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, John, thank you. Now we want to turn
Speaker 1: to geopolitics and the latest from the Middle East. Secretary
Speaker 1: of State Anony blenk In is on his way to
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Speaker 1: nettan Yahoo in Jerusalem. He says they both agree that
Speaker 1: the killing of Hamas leader Yaya Sinwar has opened new
Speaker 1: possibilities for ending the war in Gaza.
Speaker 5: You're resolute in our defense of Israel when it comes
Speaker 5: to a tax it's receiving from Iran, from Iran's proxies,
Speaker 5: and we stand with Israel, and we'll always stand with
Speaker 5: Israel in its defense. It's also very important that Israel
Speaker 5: respond in ways that do not create greater escalation and
Speaker 5: do not risk breading the conflict.
Speaker 1: Anthony Blenkin is on his eleventh trip to the Middle
Speaker 1: East since the October seventh Hamas attack that sparked the
Speaker 1: Gaza conflict. Overnight, Israel said it confirm the death of
Speaker 1: cleric Haschem Safadin at an airstrike in Lebanon three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He was widely expected to become the next leader of
Speaker 1: Hesbola after the killing of Hassan ISRAELA.
Speaker 2: Now, Karen, let's head back to the US and get
Speaker 2: the latest from the campaign trail. Kamala Harris says she
Speaker 2: would work with Congress to raise the federal minimum wage
Speaker 2: to at least fifteen dollars an hour if elected. The
Speaker 2: Vice president discussed your economic proposals in an interview with
Speaker 2: NBC News.
Speaker 6: My plans are focused on working people, the middle class,
Speaker 6: and what we must do is strengthen hardworking people to
Speaker 6: be able to to do what they dream and aspire
Speaker 6: to be able to do. His plans are about giving
Speaker 6: tax cuts, massive tax cuts to billionaires in big corporations.
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris has called for raising the minimum wage before,
Speaker 2: but hasn't specified a dollar amount. Former President Trump sidestepped
Speaker 2: a question about the issue during a campaign stop at
Speaker 2: a McDonald's in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Well Nathan Donald Trump was back in North Carolina last night,
Speaker 1: outing his pledge to make it easier to buy a car.
Speaker 4: I will make interest on car loans fully tax deductible,
Speaker 4: because affording a car is essential to restoring the American.
Speaker 1: At a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, the former president
Speaker 1: said the tax break would only apply to cars made
Speaker 1: in the US. He did not say whether his plan
Speaker 1: would apply to foreign owned automakers that manufacture in the US,
Speaker 1: like Volkswagen, Toyota, and Hyundai.
Speaker 2: Well Karen Donald Trump's views on monetary policymakers in global
Speaker 2: trade are being challenged by Christine Legard. In an interview
Speaker 2: with Bloomberg, the European Central Bank president invited the Republican
Speaker 2: nominee to ec he's headquarters in Frankfurt.
Speaker 7: He should come and visit us, And you know I
Speaker 7: have I have thousands of hard working people, economists, jurists,
Speaker 7: a computer scientists, and I can assure you that they
Speaker 7: work super hard every day, not just once a month.
Speaker 2: ECB President Christine Legard made the comments to Bloomberg's Francine Lockwa.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump told Bloomberg earlier this month, the FED share
Speaker 2: has the greatest job in government. In his words, you
Speaker 2: show up to the office once a month.
Speaker 1: Well, turning to the markets now, Nathan, bonds are extending
Speaker 1: to clients this morning. They have sold off significantly since
Speaker 1: the Fed started cutting interest rates. Two year treasury yields
Speaker 1: have climbed thirty four basis points in September. That's a
Speaker 1: move not seen since nineteen ninety five. Bank of America
Speaker 1: CEO Brian moyna has has urged Federal Reserve policymakers to
Speaker 1: be measured.
Speaker 4: We've got to get back in line. And so they're
Speaker 4: on that path. They're late to the game. They've got
Speaker 4: to make sure they don't go too hard now. And
Speaker 4: that's what they are all trying to figure out. Watching
Speaker 4: the data.
Speaker 1: Brian moynihan tells Bloomberg he expects the FED to cut
Speaker 1: rates by fifty basis points by the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Well, that differs Karen from the view of Apollo Management
Speaker 2: chief economist Torsten Slock. He says the chances are rising
Speaker 2: the Fed doesn't cut at all next month.
Speaker 1: I mean, you really do begin to ask the question,
Speaker 1: where is the slowdown?
Speaker 2: And as we've been debating before, so it's monetary policy
Speaker 2: really restrictive.
Speaker 1: If it is so restrictive, why is the economy.
Speaker 3: Still doing so well?
Speaker 2: Apollo Management chief economists Torsten Slocks says tailwinds from looser
Speaker 2: financial conditions, higher government spending, and elevated stocks and GDP
Speaker 2: growth are building well.
Speaker 1: Nathan, is a busy day on the earnings front, with
Speaker 1: nearly three dozen companies in the SNP five hundred reporting.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Coca Cola, IBM, and AT and T today.
Speaker 1: We also have a couple of big reports out of Europe.
Speaker 1: This morning, we go to London and get the latest
Speaker 1: from Bloomberg's Ewen Paus. Good morning, Ewen.
Speaker 8: Karla Nathan Deeutsche Bank kaz apport today. Forty two percent
Speaker 8: increase in profits in the third quarter are help by
Speaker 8: gains at the investment bank, but Germany's biggest lender also
Speaker 8: sounding a note of course and setting aside more money
Speaker 8: to cover bad debt. Over at Heineken, it was bad
Speaker 8: weather in Europe and slow consumer spending in the US
Speaker 8: that saw bier volumes misestimates, but the Dutch brewer says
Speaker 8: higher pricing means it will still hit its profit target
Speaker 8: for the year and over at the world's biggest beauty company.
Speaker 8: Another sales decline in China, the fifth straight quarter of
Speaker 8: lower sales there for Laurel investors today asking if the
Speaker 8: shares are still worth it? In London, I'm you Imports
Speaker 8: Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks you, and Apple CEO Tim Cook is in China,
Speaker 2: promising to keep investing in the country during a meeting
Speaker 2: with Beijing's top technology official. China is the world's largest
Speaker 2: smartphone market and remains Apple's most important market outside the US.
Speaker 2: This is Tim Cook's second visit to the country this year.
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Speaker 1: some of the other stories making news in New York
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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Michael Barr. Michael, good morning, Good.
Speaker 9: Morning, Karen. The Georgia Supreme Court rejected a last minute
Speaker 9: push by the Republican Party to reinstate a set of
Speaker 9: new election rules that included, among other things, a requirement
Speaker 9: that ballots be handcounted in the upcoming US presidential vote.
Speaker 9: The Republican National Committee challenged a lower court's decision last
Speaker 9: week to strike down the rules as unlawful. Scott Turner,
Speaker 9: founder of the nonprofit Eternal Vigilance.
Speaker 2: Action, that collective sigh of relief you heard was from
Speaker 2: our election officials around the state.
Speaker 9: The court's decision means the rules will remain blocked at
Speaker 9: least heading into the November fifth election. Two Georgia election
Speaker 9: workers to fame by former Trump attorney rudyja Gi are
Speaker 9: getting some of his prized possessions. The ruling comes from
Speaker 9: a federal judge, as Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss have
Speaker 9: been trying to collect on a one hundred and forty
Speaker 9: six million dollar defamation judgment. The possessions include his nineteen
Speaker 9: eighty Mercedes Benz, signed photos of Yankees' legends, some luxury watches,
Speaker 9: and his New York City apartment. We're learning more about
Speaker 9: the arrest of the former CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch.
Speaker 9: Michael Jeffries, along with two other co defendants, have been
Speaker 9: indicted for allegedly running an international prostitution and sex trafficking
Speaker 9: ring for decades. According to the Eastern District of New York,
Speaker 9: they forced male models into participating in lude acts. US
Speaker 9: Attorney Brion Peace to anyone who thinks they can exploit
Speaker 9: and coerce others by using the so called casting couch system,
Speaker 9: this case is served as a warning Jeffrey's attorney. He
Speaker 9: says that they will respond in court, not in the media.
Speaker 9: Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasson says that he'll
Speaker 9: have an announcement soon on his decision regarding a possible
Speaker 9: re sentencing of the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 1: As I said about it ten days ago, I said
Speaker 1: I would make a decision within ten days or so.
Speaker 3: I planned to have a decision by the end of
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 9: Lyell and Eric Menendez were sentenced to life in prison
Speaker 9: for the nineteen eighty nine murders of their parents. Their
Speaker 9: defense team says there is new evidence supporting the brothers
Speaker 9: claims of sexual and physical abuse by their parents. New
Speaker 9: York's MTA may face a six hundred and fifty two
Speaker 9: million dollars budget shortfall in twenty twenty eight, as higher
Speaker 9: overtime costs and lower fare box collections threatened to strain
Speaker 9: the transit agency's finances. New York State Comptrollert Thomas Denopoli
Speaker 9: warned in a report that about two hundred million dollars
Speaker 9: larger than the MTA's own production projections for its budget
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Speaker 1: Sports update. Bron to you by try State Outie. Here's
Speaker 1: John Stashauer, John, good morning.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Karen. The Knicks made a couple of big
Speaker 10: offseason moves in hopes of catching the Celtics to the
Speaker 10: Eastern Conference. They added Karl Anthony Towns and Mchal Bridges
Speaker 10: for one night. Anyway, those moves didn't help open the
Speaker 10: night in Boston, so the Celtics Oyster the championship ender
Speaker 10: and then took a twenty four point lead in the
Speaker 10: first half. Boston won won thirty two to one.
Speaker 9: On nine.
Speaker 10: Jason Tatum scored thirty seven. He made eight of the
Speaker 10: Celtics twenty nine three pointers. Twenty nine threes ties the
Speaker 10: NBA record. Then some NBA history in La Lebron James
Speaker 10: sharing the court with his son Bronni. You only played
Speaker 10: three minutes. The Lakers beat Minnesota. Good start for the Rangers,
Speaker 10: good start to their season. They're five oho to one
Speaker 10: in Montreal, two goals in the first two minutes. Rangers
Speaker 10: won seven to two. Devils lost to Tampa Bay eight
Speaker 10: to five. The Islanders lost to a t That's right,
Speaker 10: one nothing. Capitol's won four one in Philadelphia. The Bruins
Speaker 10: shut out in Nashville for nothing. No lack of star
Speaker 10: power for the World Series against Friday in LA. But
Speaker 10: there's no doubt who the biggest headliners are. And here's
Speaker 10: Aaron Judge on shoe Hey Otani.
Speaker 11: It's for average, it's for power, the speed, you know,
Speaker 11: doing what he did this year with the fifty stolen bases.
Speaker 11: That's it got talked about a lot I don't think
Speaker 11: it got talked about enough. It's just he's an impressive,
Speaker 11: impressive athlete, you know, the best player in the game
Speaker 11: and order to ambassador for the sport.
Speaker 10: Speaking of out Tony, the ball he hit for his
Speaker 10: fiftieth home run was sold a option for four point
Speaker 10: four million. Meanwhile, Dodger legend has passed away. Fernando Alezuela
Speaker 10: was sixty three, had been ill, came from Mexico, burst
Speaker 10: onto the scene as a twenty year old. In nineteen
Speaker 10: eighty one, Fernando Mania was born. He won the Rookie
Speaker 10: of the Year and the say Young John Stashey, We're
Speaker 10: Bloomberg Sports Karen Ethan.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager bringing you an exclusive conversation
Speaker 2: with Bank of America's CEO Brian moynihan. Speaking with Bloomberg's
Speaker 2: Heidi Stroud Watts in Sydney. They talked about interest rates,
Speaker 2: his warning for the FED, and what the election could
Speaker 2: mean for America's fiscal situation. Let's listen.
Speaker 4: In you think about the US economy, you have great
Speaker 4: insight on what's going on. If you look at that
Speaker 4: consumer spending this year, the month of October so far
Speaker 4: versus last year, or third quarter versus last year's third quarter,
Speaker 4: it's up in a four to five percent range, which
Speaker 4: is consistent with a low inflation, low growth economy. That's
Speaker 4: across about a trillion and a quarter dollars to twenty
Speaker 4: and a half dollars spent in a quarter, so it's
Speaker 4: a big sample and the people moving around they spend
Speaker 4: it each quarter on all different things, but generally growing
Speaker 4: consistent where we were pre pandemic, when you had fed
Speaker 4: funds rate at the two percent level, two and a
Speaker 4: half percent level, you had inflation and control, and you
Speaker 4: had growth in the two percent level. So that gives
Speaker 4: us confidence that our experts to do all analysis are
Speaker 4: backed up by the data we see our client, and
Speaker 4: that's what we see for the consumer.
Speaker 13: Is there of a degree of bifurcation the demographically.
Speaker 4: It's less about bifurcation because I'd assume that the sort
Speaker 4: of too it's look inflation hits people in the lower
Speaker 4: brackets more than it does others. Because but the good
Speaker 4: news is gas prices come down, food prices are tipped
Speaker 4: over inflations, and controls down in the three percent range
Speaker 4: as opposed it was running pretty hot, and so that helps.
Speaker 4: But if you have auto debt, that debt and you
Speaker 4: want to get a new car, that debt is higher.
Speaker 4: If you have mortgage debt and you already had a
Speaker 4: mortgage loan, it's very low. And so it really depends
Speaker 4: on the consumer and really where they are. But the
Speaker 4: average American consumer has more money than they did before
Speaker 4: the pandemic, is in better credit quality before the pandemic,
Speaker 4: still has the money and accounts from some of this
Speaker 4: stimulus in the pandemic and is spending money. And that's
Speaker 4: all good stuff for the US economy because we're such
Speaker 4: a consumer. That's the unique thing about it's a consumer
Speaker 4: driven economy. It's a consumer lot economy.
Speaker 13: Are you thinking about making allocations or allowances with stress
Speaker 13: at this point?
Speaker 4: We always do that. So every quarter we run stressed
Speaker 4: has thousands of them. Every day we run them into
Speaker 4: market's business stuff. We always look at it and so
Speaker 4: what's the case if it turns out the wrong way.
Speaker 4: So even how we set our reserves. We have a
Speaker 4: modeled series of cases we put in, so it's not
Speaker 4: all base case based cases about half and the rest
Speaker 4: are stress cases and the atom all together. We're actually
Speaker 4: set our reserves as if unemployment was going to be
Speaker 4: a five percent at the end of next year, not
Speaker 4: what the market predicts at four point three. So there's
Speaker 4: a conservatism built in to that, and then we look
Speaker 4: beyond that.
Speaker 13: Those those are some potential complications for the FED depending
Speaker 13: on what happens in just under two weeks time. Right
Speaker 13: does the fiscal scenario, particularly under another Trump administration, but
Speaker 13: also certainly there are risks when it comes to the
Speaker 13: Harris camp as well. Is that something that you're thinking about.
Speaker 4: I would separate a very near term question of the
Speaker 4: FED getting the trajectory. Our experts have them cutting again
Speaker 4: a couple more times this year, one hundred basis points
Speaker 4: this year, and another one hundred basis points more evenly
Speaker 4: spread a quarter each quarter next year. It gets to
Speaker 4: three to three point twenty five as a terminal rate,
Speaker 4: and an inflation comes down to the two two point
Speaker 4: three percent is a move in the twenty five and
Speaker 4: the twenty six, and so that is a well engineered
Speaker 4: fed change, and so the dangers that data or they
Speaker 4: go too fast or too slow, and that risk is
Speaker 4: higher now than it was six months ago. And so
Speaker 4: as they move, everybody's going to watch them. And you
Speaker 4: see the self in territories one day and you see
Speaker 4: the rally the other day. Everybody's going to watch all that.
Speaker 4: That is completely different from and I don't think that
Speaker 4: will be impacted by the elections. All the fiscal problem
Speaker 4: in the United States, And to give you the sound bite,
Speaker 4: the US just finished the fiscal year. The budget deficit
Speaker 4: for that year was equal to the entire economy of
Speaker 4: the country of Australia one point eight trillion dollars. So
Speaker 4: think about the size of that, and we've got to
Speaker 4: get back in line. These are good times and we
Speaker 4: should be managing more carefully. And frankly, we need to
Speaker 4: have the politicians too, set those budgets, fund those budgets,
Speaker 4: and run tax policy against those budgets to figure out
Speaker 4: how to make this work. It's probably gonna be raising
Speaker 4: revenue and cutting expense or some combination. It's not a
Speaker 4: new problem. That's one we got to start to wrestle with.
Speaker 4: Not that it's critical tomorrow morning, that it'll be critical
Speaker 4: over the next few years.
Speaker 13: But given that risk, do you think the FED went
Speaker 13: too big too soon.
Speaker 4: No, they were late to the game and they admit that.
Speaker 4: So it's nothing that we're saying. It's they were late
Speaker 4: and they had to move fast because inflation got ahead
Speaker 4: of them and they and they've done a good job
Speaker 4: of bringing it back down from probably a double digit
Speaker 4: rate down to about three percent last quarter three and
Speaker 4: a quarters. They're getting close to it. And it's never
Speaker 4: the inflation average from if one of my teammates tolling
Speaker 4: from nineteen ninety to twenty twenty four was two and
Speaker 4: a half percent, the inflation average from nineteen from two
Speaker 4: thousand twenty two and a half percent. It's four and
Speaker 4: a half percent just in the last twenty twenty to
Speaker 4: twenty four, and so we've got to get back in line.
Speaker 4: And so they're on that path. They were late to
Speaker 4: the game. They got to make sure they don't go
Speaker 4: too hard now, and that's what they are all trying
Speaker 4: to figure out watching the data. But whether it's it's
Speaker 4: a terminal rate that's the key, and that we think
Speaker 4: is around three percent, that's a whole different indust rate
Speaker 4: environment in the US and other markets than it's been
Speaker 4: in the last fifteen years or so.
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