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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us for this special edition of Bloomberg Daybreak.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nathan Hager. The US market is closed for the

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day holiday. Coming up this hour, we will look

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Speaker 1: at how the retailers are doing as we approach the

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Speaker 1: holiday shopping season beginning with Black Friday. Plus we'll get

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Speaker 1: an update on some big antitrust cases, including the Justice

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Speaker 1: Department's lawsuit against Google. Also, is there room for seconds

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Speaker 1: at the Thanksgiving Feast? We'll look at the ozampic effect

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Speaker 1: on the holiday meal. First, though, let's dig into what's

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Speaker 1: driving the market and talk about oil, because crude has

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Speaker 1: been on quite a ride. We've seen about a thirty

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Speaker 1: dollars swing in the price of a barrel this year.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of factors at play, among them

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Speaker 1: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and of course,

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Speaker 1: the ongoing recovery from the pandemic. So for more on

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Speaker 1: what's in store for the energy space, we have an

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Speaker 1: expert roundtable set up for you. John Kilduff is with

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Speaker 1: us on the phone. He is the founding partner at

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Speaker 1: a Game Capital, and Stephen Shork is joining us on zoom.

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Speaker 1: Stephen is president of the Short Group. Thanks to both

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Speaker 1: of you for being with us on this holiday. And

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you, John, because it wasn't that long

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Speaker 1: ago we were talking about the return of one hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars a barrel oil. Now we're quite a ways off

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Speaker 2: What happened, well, basically, the sum of our worst fears

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Speaker 2: for the market just never materialized. With the initiation of

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Speaker 2: the Ukraine War foot or was thought to put you know,

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Speaker 2: meaningful amounts of Russian supplies of crude oil and refined

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Speaker 2: products at jeopardy to be embargoed by the West, but

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Speaker 2: they wouldn't be purchased. Meanwhile, they found a home almost

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Speaker 2: mediately in China and India and Turkey to a lesser extent.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, from there a similar situation here

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Speaker 2: with situation in Gaza. Fears about you know, all kinds

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Speaker 2: of a parade of horribles, about the straight of Hormos

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Speaker 2: situation has been very much contained to Gaza, no regionals

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Speaker 2: still and certainly no threat to any supplies of oil.

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Speaker 2: So once those geopolitical risk premiums dissolved, we're back to

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Speaker 2: dealing with the relative even or oversupply and the worries

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Speaker 2: and China and the situation with their blackluster economy, their

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Speaker 2: now showing significant economic weakness and demand for oil.

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Speaker 1: Is that how you see things, Steven? Is risk premium

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Speaker 1: off the table? Is there risk it returns?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely no. I'd never even thought risk premium was

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Speaker 3: perplexed that there is no risk premium and in fact

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Speaker 3: there's now a discount being priced into the market. It

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Speaker 3: is just amazing to me that the market continues to

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Speaker 3: ignore what is going on. This is a war, not

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Speaker 3: between Israel and Hamas. This is not a military conflict,

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Speaker 3: This is not a police action. This is a war.

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Speaker 3: This is a war between Israel and let's face it, Iran.

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Speaker 3: The Hamas has Belat, the Hutis have all declared war

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Speaker 3: And the fact that we have forty percent of the

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Speaker 3: think the market's taking a tremendous risk. So the theme

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Speaker 3: and you know, China never never materialized. China quite frankly

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Speaker 1: He raises an interesting point, John, is this market underpricing

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Speaker 1: the potential for risk premium to return and what about

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Speaker 1: the fundamentals going into twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you would need to see a real

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Speaker 2: escalation here. I mean for me, and I don't mean

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Speaker 2: what everything Stephen just said, and I would have been

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Speaker 2: whatever reason that the calculation just wasn't there. I don't

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Speaker 2: and certainly it's going to it's hard to make an

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Speaker 2: and OPEC plus overall. Once again, o pech plus has

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Speaker 2: They have delivered. They're only producing nine million barrels a day.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine that the United States produces thirty percent

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Speaker 2: the case, and Sadi exports are down, so you know

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Speaker 2: there's a potential for relative tightness emerging. But again, without

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Speaker 1: I think I hear you want to pop in there, Steven.

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Speaker 1: What's your view on whether the Saudis continue with these

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Speaker 1: supply cuts that we've seen over the last couple of months.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, no, No, I'm certainly on board with John

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Speaker 3: with regard to offers, the geopolitics that it is a

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Speaker 3: wait and see market, right. We know everyone knows that

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Speaker 3: risk there, but for no one's willing to price it

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Speaker 3: certainly is a concern with Saudi Arabia. And let's keep

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Speaker 3: in mind the sunny Saudis and the Shiah Persians don't

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Speaker 3: I mean, let's be honest here, and the fact that

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Speaker 3: the curve. We're going into a situation where we're pricing

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Speaker 3: want to say in crude oil. You're not seeing that

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Speaker 3: concern with regard to supply in that manner, but the

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Speaker 3: overall global market when we see how the spreads have

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Speaker 3: really started to come down the front end. OPEK watches

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Speaker 3: with the spreads collapsing with Saudi Arabia, if they're going

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Speaker 3: If the spread state their way, they are, they'll probably

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Speaker 3: cut rather than add production. Going into twenty twenty four, is.

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Speaker 1: That how you see it as well, John? And if

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Speaker 2: The Sadi's have certainly put their shoulder to the wheel

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Speaker 2: here that the energy minister Mahan Bensaman, as you know,

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Speaker 2: one hundred. The question I have though, is that are

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Speaker 2: cycle where the Saddies throw a fit again like they

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Speaker 2: the price to try to squeeze out higher cost producers,

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Speaker 2: which they're kind of suffering from right now. Part of

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Speaker 2: their problem is the United States with the twelve million

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Speaker 2: As the years go by. Here, we'll see if that persists.

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Speaker 2: But I do believe the Sattis want higher prices, and

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Speaker 2: and with Stephen on that that they're more than likely

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Speaker 1: Stephen, what about the impact of central banks and demand?

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Speaker 1: Can prices grind higher when we could potentially see interest

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a really interesting point, and really I'm perplexed.

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Speaker 3: and we're looking at eighteen consecutive months of credit card

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Speaker 3: So certainly if we do seetea of if rate rises

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Speaker 3: then I can see this certainly being a catalyst that

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Speaker 3: can certainly propel oil prices higher into the new year.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for this look at what could be driving oil

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Speaker 1: prices into twenty twenty four. That was Stephen Schork, president

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Speaker 1: of the Short Group, joining us on zoom and John Kilduff,

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Speaker 1: founding partner at Again Capital, with us on the phone

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Speaker 1: on this special Thanksgiving Day edition of Bloomberg Daybreak, and

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Speaker 1: straight ahead we'll get you set for Black Friday. We'll

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Speaker 1: look ahead to the holiday shopping season with Bert Flickinger

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Speaker 1: of Strategic Resource Group. It's eighteen minutes past the I'm

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Speaker 1: Nathan Hager, and this is Bloomberg. Welcome back to this

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Speaker 1: special edition of Bloomberg Daybreak. The US markets are closed

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Speaker 1: for the Thanksgiving holiday. I'm Nathan Hager and retailers, well,

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Speaker 1: they're open and entering their most crucial time of the

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Speaker 1: year for many. It has already begun with Black Friday

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Speaker 1: sales underway. And for more on the kickoff of holiday

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Speaker 1: shopping season, we welcome Bert Flickinger, Managing director at Strategic

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Speaker 1: Resource Group. Bert, this time of year is always big

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Speaker 1: for retail, but how big is this year's holiday shopping season,

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Speaker 1: particularly when you think about companies like Walmart warning about

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Speaker 1: the consumer outlook heading into next year.

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Speaker 4: Nathan, Happy Thanksgiving Day, and there is some concerns with

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Speaker 4: Walmart and everyone else that while retail sales will be

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Speaker 4: up three to three and a half percent over the

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Speaker 4: holiday season and this Black Friday weekend, overall, adjusted for inflation,

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Speaker 1: All right, Berd Flick and thanks for this. It's Bird

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Speaker 1: still ahead on this Thanksgiving edition of Bloomberg day Break,

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Speaker 1: We'll take the pulse of some key antitrust cases in

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Speaker 1: a busy year for the Justice Department against corporate America.

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Speaker 1: It's thirty five minutes past the hour. I'm Nathan Hager,

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Speaker 1: and this is Bloomberg. Welcome back to this special Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: edition of Bloomberg Daybreak. I'm Nathan Hager. Us markets are

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Speaker 5: creating a choice screen like Google has been forced to

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Speaker 5: do in Europe.

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Speaker 1: Now, along with this case, with involving the Justice Department,

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Speaker 1: Google is facing another matter, a lawsuit from Epic Games.

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Speaker 1: Tell us more about where that one stands as well.

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Speaker 5: Right, So, this one just started and it's going to

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Speaker 5: go through toward the end of December. It is just private.

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Speaker 5: We did have state attorneys general involved, but they have

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Speaker 5: settled with Google. Basically everybody who was a plaintiff in

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Speaker 5: this case except Epic Games has settled the case. And

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Speaker 5: what Epic Games really objects to are Googles policies and

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Speaker 5: strategies to force buyers of the Android mobile devices to

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Speaker 5: download apps through Google's Playstore and not outside of the Playstore,

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Speaker 5: and any kind of app purchases or in app purchases

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Speaker 5: have to be made through the Playstore and Google services

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Speaker 5: that payment. And so what Epic says is this allows

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Speaker 5: Google to charge developers really an unfairly high fee every

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Speaker 5: time somebody is buying an app. Epic would like access.

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Speaker 5: You know, they tried this with Apple. They want to

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Speaker 5: be an app store themselves and distribute apps on mobile devices.

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Speaker 5: They tried this with Apple. They're now trying this with

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Speaker 5: Google to get in there so that they can be

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Speaker 5: an app store and they can service the payments themselves.

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Speaker 1: Well, the last time Epic tried something like this with

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Speaker 1: Apple and ended up losing. Why does it think it

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Speaker 1: stands a better chance this time around?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 5: And it mostly lost. There was one little piece and

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Speaker 5: which Epic one, but really what it was going for

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Speaker 5: it lost. There's some differences. The biggest difference here is

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Speaker 5: that Apple's case was before a jury and Google's case,

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Apple's case was before a judge. Google's case

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Speaker 5: is before a jury, and I think that really could

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Speaker 5: cause a difference because a judge is going to focus

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Speaker 5: on the very technical requirements of what a plaintiff has

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Speaker 5: to prove to show illegal monopoly maintenance, and there are

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Speaker 5: a lot of technical hurdles the plaintiff has to get over.

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Speaker 5: It's difficult to win. A jury may be a little

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Speaker 5: less focused on that. You know, if the plaintiffs can

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Speaker 5: portray Google as a bully here or doing something unfair,

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Speaker 5: you know, maybe that'll sway a jury and they'll focus

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Speaker 5: less on whether or not Epics met those technical requirements

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Speaker 5: and more on Google's So maybe Epic feels it has

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Speaker 5: a better shot here given that they'll be playing to

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Speaker 5: a jury and not to a judge.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, this one's just getting started, so a

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Speaker 1: lot more to watch there. But let's turn back to

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department. The other big case that it's been

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Speaker 1: pursuing is against Jet Blues purchase of Spirit Airlines under

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Speaker 1: anti competitive argument. Why does the Justice Department see this

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Speaker 1: as anti competitive when you have quite a few much

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Speaker 1: bigger airlines that both of these are competing with.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so interesting because they really are in the

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Speaker 5: scheme of things in the United States, two small airlines

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Speaker 5: compared to the legacies. But what the Department of Justice

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Speaker 5: is concerned about is that Spirit has a very particular model.

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Speaker 5: It's called an ultra low cost carrier, and it offers

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Speaker 5: very low fares for an unbundled product. In other words,

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Speaker 5: just the fair. If you want to check a bag,

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Speaker 5: if you want to drink, if you want some extra

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Speaker 5: leg room, you have to pay for all of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's right, right, right exactly, And some people, you know,

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Speaker 5: rely on that very low fare in order to visit

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Speaker 5: friends or family or go on a vacation. Jet Blue

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Speaker 5: is a little bit different. It's kind of a step up.

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Speaker 5: It has bigger seats, a little more leg room, a

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Speaker 5: few more amenities, and it charges higher prices. And Jet

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Speaker 5: Blue spin made no bones about the fact that it

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Speaker 5: intends once it buys Spirit to change those planes, reduce

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Speaker 5: the seating, and increase the fares. So what the Department

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Speaker 5: of Justice is worried about is this ultra low cost

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Speaker 5: unbundled option being removed from the market for some consumers

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Speaker 5: that depend on it.

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Speaker 1: So what is Jet Blue saying to try to assuage

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department that this won't be as anti competitive

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Speaker 1: as insane?

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Speaker 5: Jet Blue has a good argument too, you know, they say, look,

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Speaker 5: first of all, we're really small, and we're all struggling

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Speaker 5: to fight against compete against the big guys Delta, United

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Speaker 5: American Southwest. We also bring down fares. We bring down

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Speaker 5: the fares of those really expensive airlines, and we'll be

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Speaker 5: able to expand capacity with Spirits planes and Spirits pilots,

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Speaker 5: and we'll pull the fares down when we compete more

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Speaker 5: vigorously against the big legacy airlines. And that's a pro

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Speaker 5: competitive effect. So this is going to be an interesting

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Speaker 5: trial where the judge is going to have to really

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Speaker 5: look at both have set both sides, you know, the

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Speaker 5: anti competitive side and the beneficial side, and decide which

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Speaker 5: one outweighs the other.

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Speaker 1: And just quickly, Jen, what do you make so far

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Speaker 1: of the Justice departments pretty aggressive stance in going after

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Speaker 1: what it sees is anti competitive anti monopoly practices.

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Speaker 5: It's been good to its word.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: When the Biden administration came in, there was an executive

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Speaker 5: order in which the administration really encouraged all of the agencies,

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Speaker 5: not just DOJ and FTC to enforce the anti trust laws,

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Speaker 5: to be you know, to be careful about consolidation and

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Speaker 5: industries and do what they could to make the economy

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Speaker 5: more competitive. And the DJ said Hey, we're going to

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Speaker 5: follow through with that, and you know, it's been good

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Speaker 5: to its word. Instead of settling cases that the DOJ

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Speaker 5: views as problematic, like was really the primary practice in

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Speaker 5: the past, that DJ has brought quite a few lawsuits

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Speaker 5: and they are trying to stem the tide of m

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Speaker 5: and A activity and to stop what they view as

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Speaker 5: anti competitive conduct by dominant firms. So, you know, they've

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Speaker 5: had mixed success. They've had some success, they've had some failures,

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Speaker 5: but they are doing exactly what they said they would.

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Speaker 1: Do, and they've given you a feast of topics to

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Speaker 1: take a look at. Thanks for this, Jen, great having

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Speaker 1: you on with us. It's Jennifer Ree, senior litigation analyst

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Speaker 1: for Bloomberg Intelligence. Still ahead on this special holiday edition

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Speaker 1: of Bloomberg day Break, we'll take a look at the

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Speaker 1: story that really matters the Thanksgiving feast. How much is

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Speaker 1: that turkey and trimming's really costing you this year. It's

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Speaker 1: fifty minutes past the hour. I'm Nathan Hager, and this

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Speaker 1: is Bloomberger. Welcome back to the special edition of Bloomberg Daybreak.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nathan Hager. US markets are closed for Thanksgiving Day

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Speaker 1: and we now turn to the story. You're really focused

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Speaker 1: on this holiday, your meal, the turkey, the green bean casserole,

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Speaker 1: grandma's pumpkin pie. How much is it really costing you

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Speaker 1: compared to years past? And how much room is there

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Speaker 1: for seconds with many Americans now on appetite suppressing drugs

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Speaker 1: like ozempic and wagovy. For some answers. We're joined by

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Speaker 1: Dina Shanker, who covers food for Bloomberg News. So this

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Speaker 1: must really be your time of year. Dina, thanks for

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Speaker 1: being with us. So overall inflation is slowing is the

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving meal following?

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Speaker 6: That was not the expectation from Wells Fargo Agrifood Institute's

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Speaker 6: report that came out last month. Basically, out of home

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Speaker 6: eating is just still more expensive, even if that inflation

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Speaker 6: has slowed down. Eating at home is just getting more

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Speaker 6: expensive as certain parts of the supply chain remain elevated.

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Speaker 6: We've seen, for example, canned foods are way up, and

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Speaker 6: that could include your canned pumpkin and your pumpkin pie.

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Speaker 6: It could include canned cramp berries. But at the same time,

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Speaker 6: ham prices are up to all the while the big centerpiece,

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Speaker 6: the turkey. The prediction was for those prices to come

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Speaker 6: down compared to the last year, So that is its

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Speaker 6: own special reason for coming down, because essentially wholesale prices

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Speaker 6: are down from farmers putting too many birds in the barns,

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Speaker 6: and then retailers get to lower their price and consumers

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Speaker 6: win with lower prices. But we make up for it

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Speaker 6: with the other with the sides and everything else that

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Speaker 6: we want to eat.

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Speaker 1: So I guess we're getting a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: balance maybe when it comes to the price of the

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Speaker 1: meal compared to years past. But you have to wonder now,

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Speaker 1: with so much attention on these GLP ones o Zepic

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Speaker 1: with Gooviy, we talk about it all the time, is

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Speaker 1: that going to make the Thanksgiving table a little less

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Speaker 1: of a spread that it's been in the past.

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Speaker 6: So I spoke to a number of people that are

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Speaker 6: taking the GLP on drugs and it was really interesting.

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Speaker 6: Nobody said they were going to serve like less dishes,

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Speaker 6: but some people said they were going to make smaller

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Speaker 6: amounts because they're all eating smaller serving. One woman I

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Speaker 6: spoke to said, basically, she's going to make that sweet

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Speaker 6: potato castrole, She's going to make the green bean castrole.

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Speaker 6: But she barely plans on eating it. It's mostly for

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Speaker 6: her parents the guests, and she's going to send them

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Speaker 6: home with the leftovers. One woman I spoke to told

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Speaker 6: me that usually in preparation for Thanksgiving, she spends weeks

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Speaker 6: scouring the internet looking for the best recipes, and she's

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Speaker 6: just not thinking about it this year. So she's going

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Speaker 6: to make everything and she's actually going to even skip

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Speaker 6: her shot so that she can enjoy herself after doing

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Speaker 6: all that work. But all that time that people spend

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Speaker 6: thinking about food and the run up to Thanksgiving, if

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Speaker 6: you're on one of these drugs, chances are you are

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Speaker 6: not doing all that thinking.

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Speaker 1: And obviously one Thanksgiving isn't going to give you a trend.

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Speaker 1: But I have to think a lot of grocery stores,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these big retailers that sell groceries are

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Speaker 1: keeping a really close eye on what happens if there's

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Speaker 1: going to be an ozembic impact on their bottom lines

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Speaker 1: depending on what we see this Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we've been talking to food companies and

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Speaker 6: they definitely have their eye on it. One of the

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Speaker 6: most interesting points came from Walmart because they have, you know,

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Speaker 6: a pharmacy division and a supermarket division, so they are

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Speaker 6: able to see the overlap there, and they said that

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Speaker 6: the shoppers taking weight loss drugs were buying a little

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Speaker 6: bit less food.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 6: Actually, that woman who I just told you about who's

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Speaker 6: skipping her shot, she says her sons noticed that her

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Speaker 6: house doesn't have the same level of snacks that they

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Speaker 6: used to keep around. So it's definitely it really does

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Speaker 6: have an impact on the people taking it. I think

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Speaker 6: the big question is is how many people are going

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Speaker 6: to be taking it at any given time, considering the

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Speaker 6: high cost, considering the lack of availability of the drugs

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Speaker 6: for everybody who wants them, and then also there are

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Speaker 6: side effects from these drugs, and some people don't want

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Speaker 6: to stick with them through the side effects, so they

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Speaker 6: stop taking them.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to be interesting to see just how

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Speaker 1: many leftovers there really are after this Thanksgiving. Thanks for this, Dina,

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Speaker 1: great having you on with us. That's Bloomberg News Food

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Speaker 1: reporter Dina Shanker, and thanks as well to Jenniferree of

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence, Spurt Flick and Jurr of Strategic Resource Group

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Speaker 1: and our Oil Panel, John Kilduff and again Capital and

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Speaker 1: Stephen Short of the short group special thanks to you

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Speaker 1: as well for joining us on this Thanksgiving holiday. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nathan Hager. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global

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Speaker 1: business headlines are coming up right now