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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager.
Speaker 1: And I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today.
Speaker 2: Karen, we begin with the Fed's final policy decision of
Speaker 2: the year. Economists expect the Central Bank to lower borrowing
Speaker 2: costs for a third straight meeting, while signaling fewer interst
Speaker 2: rate cuts next year. We get a preview from Bloomberg's
Speaker 2: Michael McKee.
Speaker 3: Fed officials are in a way between a rock and
Speaker 3: a hard place. The economy is slowing, but inflation has
Speaker 3: gotten stuck above their two percent target. Interest rates for mortgages, cars,
Speaker 3: and credit cards remain tight, but financial conditions are easy
Speaker 3: and stock markets are setting all time highs. Before their
Speaker 3: blackout period, most central bankers were signaling they would support
Speaker 3: a rate cut today, although several said they do see
Speaker 3: reasons to pause. That puts the emphasis on their new
Speaker 3: economic forecasts and dot plot. When do they cut again
Speaker 3: and how many times? In twenty twenty five? Michael McKee
Speaker 3: Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, Mike, thanks and stick with Bloomberg for full
Speaker 2: FED coverage with a special edition of Bloomberg's Surveillance the Fed.
Speaker 2: The sides with Tom Keene, Jonathan Farrell, and Lisa A. Bromwitz.
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Speaker 1: Well Nathan, Bank of America CEO Brian moynihan expects the
Speaker 1: Fed to cut rates. He spoke about the future of
Speaker 1: monetary policy with Bloomberg's David Weston.
Speaker 4: If the economist view is you have to have a
Speaker 4: real rate structure across the curve of seventy five basis
Speaker 4: points one hundred basis points. If you're four seventy five
Speaker 4: four fifty now in the flation rates three point three,
Speaker 4: that's bigger. So you got to start to bring it
Speaker 4: in normalized. We've got to get to know positive soap
Speaker 4: and curve a curve that has real rates across it.
Speaker 4: An invert a curve means something anticipatory is going to.
Speaker 5: Go the other way.
Speaker 4: All that's got to happen. So I think they need
Speaker 4: to bring it down a little bit. They just have
Speaker 4: to be more careful because the economy is stronger than
Speaker 4: we thought three months ago, six months ago, but it
Speaker 4: still has potential weaknesses.
Speaker 1: Bank of America O Brian Monahan sees the FED lowering
Speaker 1: interest rates to the three point seventy five percent level,
Speaker 1: or three more cuts from where they are currently. Get
Speaker 1: the full conversation on the Bloomberg Talks podcast feed on Apple, Spotify,
Speaker 1: or anywhere else you download podcasts.
Speaker 6: Well, Karen.
Speaker 2: In the UK, inflation rows to an eighth month high
Speaker 2: in November. The consumer prices index increase two point six percent,
Speaker 2: drifting further above the Bank of England's two percent target.
Speaker 2: Economists say the latest report effectively ends any hope of
Speaker 2: an interest rate cut at the boees final meeting of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 1: On the stock story of the Day, Nathan comes out
Speaker 1: of the auto industry, shares of Nissans soaring on merger talks,
Speaker 1: We get the very latest at Bloomberg's Lisa Matteo Lisa,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Karen. You have that merger reportedly between Nissan
Speaker 7: and Honda. Now you have Nissan shares up about twenty
Speaker 7: three percent in Japan, Honda down three percent. Sources telling
Speaker 7: Bloomberg the deal could be expanded to include Mitsubishi Motors,
Speaker 7: which already has capital ties with Nissan, and what's more,
Speaker 7: sources a Fox con the Taiwan based per user for
Speaker 7: iPhones approached Nissan about taking a stake. Now, the nie
Speaker 7: Ke is reporting that that move while it helped accelerate
Speaker 7: merger efforts out of fears that the Japanese company could
Speaker 7: be vulnerable to take over by the Taiwanese firm. But
Speaker 7: here's the thing. If that deal were to go through,
Speaker 7: it would create the world's third largest automaker, putting the
Speaker 7: pressure on rival Toyota, as well as provide Honda and
Speaker 7: Nissan with more resources to compete with larger peers, especially
Speaker 7: ev rivals like Tesla and Chinese automakers. And something else
Speaker 7: to keep in mind. French automaker Renault, well, it could
Speaker 7: also have a say in the deal, considering it owns
Speaker 7: about thirty six percent of Nissan. Lisa Matteo, Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, Lisa, thank you now to the latest development
Speaker 2: in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The
Speaker 2: suspect Luigi Mangioni is now facing multiple murder charges in
Speaker 2: New York. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg laid out the counts.
Speaker 8: They include one count of murder in the first degree
Speaker 8: as a killing and furthers of terrorism two counts of
Speaker 8: during the second degree. One charge of the killing was
Speaker 8: done as an act of terrorism, and the second pertain
Speaker 8: to the fact that the killing was intentional.
Speaker 2: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was joined at the news conference
Speaker 2: by New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tish. She had
Speaker 2: a message for those who have celebrated the crime.
Speaker 9: There is no heroism in what Mangioni did. This was
Speaker 9: a senseless act of violence. It was a cold and
Speaker 9: calculated crime that stole a life and put New Yorkers
Speaker 9: at risk.
Speaker 2: Missioner Jessica Tish and Alvin Bragg spoke ahead of two
Speaker 2: scheduled hearings tomorrow from Mangioni in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Bragg
Speaker 2: says Mangoni could give up his fight against extradition that
Speaker 2: could bring him back to New York to face these
Speaker 2: new charges by the end of the week.
Speaker 1: Now, Nathan, let's get the latest on efforts to avoid
Speaker 1: a government shutdown. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have released a
Speaker 1: stop gap spending measure, but it could be a preview of.
Speaker 3: Fights to come.
Speaker 1: We get more with the Bloombergy's Gina Cervetti.
Speaker 10: The bill would extend current funding into mid March. It
Speaker 10: includes more than one hundred billion dollars in emergency relief
Speaker 10: for hurricane victims, the Maui wildfires, and the bridge collapse
Speaker 10: in Baltimore. But the fight to get those measures attached
Speaker 10: could point to even more challenges for President elect Trump's
Speaker 10: early priorities. Republicans will have just a one vote majority
Speaker 10: in the House through at least April. Since Trump picked
Speaker 10: three GOP lawmakers to serve in his administration, that'll be
Speaker 10: right in the middle of a push to pass a
Speaker 10: new budget along party lines, not to mention bills on
Speaker 10: border security, taxes and other budget issues. Gina Cervetti, Bloomberg Radio.
Speaker 2: Ni Gina, thank you and President Like Donald Trump has
Speaker 2: chosen football legend Herschel Walker to be US Ambassador to
Speaker 2: the Bahamas. Trump made the announcement in a post on
Speaker 2: Truth Social, his social media website. Walker most recently had
Speaker 2: an unsuccessful run for the US Senate in Georgia. To
Speaker 2: hold the ambassador position, he'll need his nomination approved next
Speaker 2: year by the Republican led Senate. Trump also announced he's
Speaker 2: nominating art collector Nicole McGraw to be US Ambassador to Croatia.
Speaker 1: Time now for a look at some of the other
Speaker 1: stories making news in New York and around the world,
Speaker 1: and for that we're joined by Bloomberg's John Tucker. John
Speaker 1: Good Morning, Good Morning.
Speaker 5: Karen, A Defense Department spokesman says none of the mysterious
Speaker 5: drones reported over the skies of the US Northeast are
Speaker 5: being flown by the Pentagon or are part of a
Speaker 5: secret government test. President Joe Biden also weighed in, saying
Speaker 5: there's nothing nefarious. Apparently there's a lot of drones authorized
Speaker 5: up there.
Speaker 6: I think you weren't started and they all guys, everybody's
Speaker 6: wanting to getting a deal, but all the lovers were following.
Speaker 5: Quote at the Pentagon, Major General pat Ryder told reporters
Speaker 5: top Department officials take seriously any cases of drones flying
Speaker 5: near or over US military, So it's that we added
Speaker 5: this was not a new concern. Boeing says it's resumed
Speaker 5: production across its range of aircraft programs at factories in
Speaker 5: the Pacific Northwest after they were shut down for weeks
Speaker 5: because of that lengthy worker strike. Following the resumption of
Speaker 5: output of its popular seven thirty seven model last week,
Speaker 5: Bois Navigan taking up building the largest seven sixty seven
Speaker 5: and Triple seven aircraft again. Twana Looney, grandmother in Alabama,
Speaker 5: is on the road to recovery after receiving a genetically
Speaker 5: modified pig kidney at NYU Langone Health.
Speaker 11: It's just like getting a second chance in life.
Speaker 5: Doctors hope this will be the first long term success
Speaker 5: case that could open the door for similar procedures for
Speaker 5: tens of thousands of Americans waiting on the donor list,
Speaker 5: and more delays for the SpaceX crew still stuck on
Speaker 5: the International Space Station months after their mission was set
Speaker 5: to end. A new SpaceX rocket was set to launch
Speaker 5: this coming February to finally bring them home, but now
Speaker 5: NASA is pushing back that mission until at least late March,
Speaker 5: citing the need for more preparation. Time Global News twenty
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Speaker 5: I'm John Tucker and this is Bloomberg Karen.
Speaker 1: All right, John, thank you some time now for the
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Speaker 6: Juan Soto has never won an MVP award. The guy
Speaker 6: the Yankees just brought in to try and replace Soto
Speaker 6: as a left handed hitting outfielder has Cody Bellinger. As
Speaker 6: a twenty three year old in twenty nineteen with the Dodgers,
Speaker 6: he hit three hundred and forty seven home runs, but
Speaker 6: Bellinger has not been anywhere near that good since then,
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Speaker 6: two World Championship team. Soto not the only one who's
Speaker 6: gone with the Yankees to the Mets. Clay Holmes was
Speaker 6: a Yankee reliever. He's now a Mets starter.
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Speaker 5: Be with the mess.
Speaker 6: Holmes met the media yesterday, as did Devin Williams, who
Speaker 6: the Yanks acquired to replace Holmes. What has happened to
Speaker 6: the Rangers a month ago? A record of twelve and
Speaker 6: four since then three and eleven shut out by Lowling
Speaker 6: Nashville two nothing only the Predators ninth win of the season.
Speaker 6: Islanders also blank four nothing at Carolina. The Devils won
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Speaker 6: They'll start rookie Michael Pennix Junior and bench the veteran
Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins, who has been struggling. Mighty lead of late
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Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. On
Speaker 2: this FED day, the final rate decision of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four is nearly upon US investors looking for more clues
Speaker 2: on the path for next year. Meanwhile, there may be
Speaker 2: a path to a deal for two Japanese automakers to
Speaker 2: take on the biggest carmaker in the world. Lots to
Speaker 2: discuss this morning, so let's get right to it with
Speaker 2: Bloomberg Radio and television news anchor Kritti Gupta Critty, Good morning. So,
Speaker 2: how big a surprise would it be if the FED
Speaker 2: decided they're going to pause today?
Speaker 10: Good morning, Good morning, Nathan. It would be a surprise,
Speaker 10: but perhaps not a shock.
Speaker 11: And I think that's a crucial difference here, simply because
Speaker 11: the market is primed and priced for what could be
Speaker 11: the last rate cut not only twenty twenty four, but
Speaker 11: that we could see for some time out of the
Speaker 11: Federal Reserve. But if they were to hold earlier, it
Speaker 11: would signal that there is perhaps extreme confidence in this
Speaker 11: economy's willingness to digest and ability to digest any sort
Speaker 11: of pitfalls that we may see into next year. And
Speaker 11: I think this is a really crucial one because if
Speaker 11: you do see a cut, there's questions of what data
Speaker 11: justifies that cut. Now, Federal Reserve officials will likely say,
Speaker 11: and have said on the wire and in the last
Speaker 11: couple of weeks and months, that any sort of cut
Speaker 11: is simply taking policy from a super restrictive level to
Speaker 11: a slightly less but still restrictive level in terms of
Speaker 11: being able to tackle that inflation uptick. But others may
Speaker 11: question that and say, is this rate cut, if we
Speaker 11: do indeed get one, something similar to a rate cut
Speaker 11: that we got in the likes of March of twenty
Speaker 11: nineteen when J.
Speaker 10: Powell had that insurance.
Speaker 11: Rate cut, even though the economy was doing quite well
Speaker 11: at the time, the unemployment rate was quite low, the
Speaker 11: peril's numbers were coming in quite strong, but it was
Speaker 11: an insurance rate cut in response to what could have
Speaker 11: been a more extreme trade war between the United States
Speaker 11: and China. And in retrospect, say in a couple of
Speaker 11: months time, there's a very real likelihood that we asked
Speaker 11: the same questions about what drove today's rate cut if
Speaker 11: we do indeed get one and.
Speaker 2: As if a FED day weren't enough. Now, this news
Speaker 2: that Nissan and Honda are apparently in merger talks, this
Speaker 2: is really a fight for survival for Nissan Critty it is.
Speaker 11: And look, there's a third and fourth player worth mentioning here,
Speaker 11: which is Renault has a more than forty three percent
Speaker 11: stake in Nissan at the moment. It's been trying to
Speaker 11: reduce at stake to about fifteen percent and do it
Speaker 11: in a way that they can get a pretty decent
Speaker 11: kind of bang for their buck. If they do see
Speaker 11: this kind of consolidation between Nissan and Honda, it could
Speaker 11: be a pretty big boost for the likes of Renault.
Speaker 11: But then there's another player here worth paying attention to,
Speaker 11: and that's Fox Con. What we know is kind of
Speaker 11: the assembler of smartphones. It's in the Apple supply chain.
Speaker 11: They've been trying to get a steak in the EV
Speaker 11: maker for some time and struggling to get that steak.
Speaker 11: If they do indeed get it, though, Nathan, it brings
Speaker 11: up a lot of questions about kind of cross border consolidation,
Speaker 11: cross border steaks between a Taiwanese company into what could
Speaker 11: be a Japanese carmcon giants.
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