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Speaker 1: News when you wanted With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Brian

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Speaker 1: Curtis in Hong Kong and Israeli airstrike in the Gaza

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Speaker 1: stronghold of Rafa has killed at least thirty five Palestinians.

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Speaker 1: That's according to the Hamas run Ministry of Health in Gaza.

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Speaker 1: The Israeli military said the attack was based on what

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Speaker 1: it called precise intelligence, and that two senior Hamas officials

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Speaker 1: were killed. The strike came two days after the International

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Speaker 1: Court of Justice had issued a ruling ordering Israel to

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Speaker 1: halt its operations. Bloomberg's Michael Heath has more.

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Speaker 2: How much is sort of popping up all over the place,

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Speaker 2: So it just seems likely that we're going to continue

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Speaker 2: to say.

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Speaker 3: This spiral of violence.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to see how Israel can abide by what

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Speaker 2: everybody wants, and it can't stop until it's finished as well.

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Speaker 1: That's Michael Heath. Negotiations over a Gaza ceasefire had been

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Speaker 1: set to resume this week. Well. China has asked South

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Speaker 1: Korea to maintain stable supply chains and to be a

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Speaker 1: trustworthy neighbor. China, Japan in South Korea are said to

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Speaker 1: be looking at several areas for cooperation in meetings this week.

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Speaker 1: Those areas include investment and trade. It's the first three

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Speaker 1: way summit since twenty nineteen. We spoke earlier with Richard

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Speaker 1: McGregor from the Lowi Institute.

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Speaker 2: The problem hasn't been China Japan, which is usually the problem,

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Speaker 2: but it's China South Korea. They've had a particular rocky

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Speaker 2: patch and so the fact that they're all able to

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Speaker 2: meet now, I think tells you that China wants to

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Speaker 2: re engage with those countries. It's close neighbors both politically,

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Speaker 2: but most importantly economically and technologically.

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Speaker 1: Richard McGregor from the Lowi Institute, Chinese Preier Lee Chiang

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Speaker 1: said that Beijing welcomes South Korean firms, including Samsung, to

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Speaker 1: expand in China. Well less than a week after, one

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Speaker 1: person died with scores others injured on a Singapore Airlines

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Speaker 1: plane after it hit severe turbulence, a Cotter Airlines Boeing

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Speaker 1: seven eighty seven flying off Turkey also faced similar turbulence.

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Speaker 1: Twelve people reportedly were injured. The flight from Doha to Dublin,

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Speaker 1: Ireland was able to land as scheduled. Earlier today, in

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Speaker 1: business News. Wall Street returns to a holiday shortened trading week,

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Speaker 1: with a number of major S and P five hundred

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Speaker 1: companies scheduled to report earnings. We get a preview from

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Charlie Pillett.

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Speaker 4: Salesforce and HPNC are among the tech companies expected to

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Speaker 4: paint a subdued outlook for the year this corporate IT

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Speaker 4: spending remains constrained, and growing demand for AI servers, however,

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Speaker 4: could prove to be a modest lift to Dell's storage

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Speaker 4: and server segments. J Puloski is chief investment officer with

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Speaker 4: TPW Investment Management.

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Speaker 3: We're focused on earnings right, earnings drivestocks, and the reality

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Speaker 3: is that earnings are coming in better than expected because

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Speaker 3: we have a strong economy, and as long as that's

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Speaker 3: going to continue, stocks are going to be fine.

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Speaker 4: Also reporting this week Retailer's Costco, Nordstrom and the Gap

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Speaker 4: in New York. Charlie Pellet bloom Berg Radio.

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Speaker 1: That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg