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Bloomberg Businessweek

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Listen for reporting from the magazine that helps global leaders stay ahead.

Hosts Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec bring you insight on the people, companies and trends shaping today's complex economy.  You can watch and listen to Businessweek LIVE on YouTube, weekdays from 2PM to 5PM ET: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF

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Stocks Fall Before Nvidia’s High-Stakes AI Results

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . A selloff in the world’s largest technology companies drove stocks to their longest slide since August, underscoring the American market’s narrow reliance on a handful of growth giants. The S&P 500 lost almost 1%, falling for a fourth straight day. In the run-up to Nvidia Corp.’s results, the shares sank 2.8%. The bar is getting higher for the chipmaker to convince investors that the billions of dollars spent on artificia...

Nov 18, 202537 min

Beauty Product Boom Lifts Sally to Highest Since 2023

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SBH) is a global distributor and retailer of professional beauty products with revenues of $3.7 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the company sells and distributes through over 4,000 stores, including approximately 132 franchised units, throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Chile, France, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany. Denise Paulonis has served on th...

Nov 18, 20256 min

Stock Slide Deepens in Run-Up to Nvidia and Jobs

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Wall Street traders gearing up for Nvidia Corp.’s earnings and the jobs report shunned riskier assets as both events will be key in shaping the global financial outlook throughout the rest of 2025. Just days ahead of tests of the two main pillars of the bull market — prospects for artificial intelligence and Federal Reserve rate cuts — equities fell alongside crypto. The S&P 500 lost over 1% — breaching a technical level ...

Nov 17, 202542 min

Web Surfing in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Webflow is an AI-native Website Experience Platform that empowers teams to visually build, manage, and optimize websites that offer both the consumer experience customers expect and the enterprise-grade performance and scale they need. Webflow aims to give users full control over their websites without reliance on engineering, with big-name customers including NCR, Dropbox, Spotify and DocuSign. Linda Tong, the CEO of Webflow, explains why she sees the web actively splitting into two versions - ...

Nov 17, 20257 min

Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend: November 14th, 2025

Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show “Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.” Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio. You can also watch Bloomberg Businessweek on YouTube - just search for Bloomberg Global News. Like us at Bloombe...

Nov 15, 20251 hr 27 min

Massachusetts Making Push to Offset Trump’s Research Cuts

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Business leaders, investors and academics have cheered Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s efforts to counter the Trump administration’s research funding cuts with state money — so much so that a recent meeting on the initiative required overflow seating. Healey, a Democrat, in July proposed funneling $400 million to institutions affected by the federal pullback. Half of the money in Healey’s proposal would come from revenu...

Nov 15, 202549 min

Bitcoin Sinks Deeper Below $100,000 as Bear Market Grips Crypto

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Bitcoin sank deeper below the $100,000 mark, dragged down by a fresh wave of risk aversion and a selloff in tech stocks that reignited Wall Street jitters. The digital currency fell as much as 3.9% to $97,956, intensifying a slump that’s wiped out more than $450 billion in value since early October. Once-reliable sources of support — including large investment funds, ETF allocators, and corporate treasuries — have stepped bac...

Nov 13, 202536 min

FDA Pulls Warning Labels From Hormone Replacement Therapies

Hormone replacement therapies (HRTs) used to treat menopause symptoms no longer need to carry strict warnings about some potential side effects, including cancer and heart disease, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Monday. Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency is asking drugmakers to remove the strict black box warnings, with the goal of encouraging more women to take them. Labels on the medicines currently list potential side effects including cardiovascular disease, blood clots...

Nov 13, 20258 min

Lumen Inks Palantir Deal as Growth Strategy Takes Hold

Lumen Technologies is on track to restore revenue gains by 2030 by shifting to growth products and divesting noncore assets. Bloomberg Intelligence notes that the company recently announced the sale of the Mass Markets fiber unit to AT&T for $5.75 billion in cash. It's also building new fiber routes for hyper-scaler cloud providers and social-media companies for AI traffic between data centers. It aims to tap other high-growth segments like edge compute and security to restore top-line growt...

Nov 13, 202512 min

Trump-Epstein Ties Back in Spotlight as Fight in Congress Looms

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Democrats returned to pressing Donald Trump on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, highlighting a selection of emails in which the late financier and convicted sex trafficker suggested the president knew of his activities. A congressional committee on Wednesday released some 20,000 pages of documents, pivoting attention away from the ongoing government shutdown and forcing the White House to respond to an issue that has frustrated t...

Nov 12, 202542 min

Redefining Advanced Air Mobility

Lisa Wright is the Founder and CEO of Landings, a pioneering company developing a network of rural vertiports that expand access to advanced air mobility across the US. With over 20 years of experience in architecture, design, and operations, Lisa brings a unique perspective at the intersection of infrastructure, technology, and community development. Since founding Landings, she has led the company in building partnerships with municipalities, regional economic development agencies, landowners,...

Nov 12, 20258 min

Wall Street Gains on Optimism US Will Soon Reopen

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Wall Street’s bets that the largest shutdown in US history is soon coming to an end drove a rebound in stocks, spurring optimism that access to official economic data will shed light on the Federal Reserve outlook. The S&P 500 erased losses, with about 345 shares gaining. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.2%. FedEx Corp. — a barometer of the economy — jumped over 5% as it expects profit this quarter to improve fr...

Nov 11, 202536 min

Buffett Says He’s ‘Going Quiet,’ Picking Up Donation Pace

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who turned an aging textile mill into a more than $1 trillion conglomerate, said he’s “going quiet,” marking the end of an era for one of the business world’s most-watched investing gurus. In a letter disclosing that he’s donating more than $1.3 billion to four family foundations, the 95-year-old investor, who is stepping down from his role of chief executive officer at the end of the ...

Nov 10, 202536 min

The Truth About Seed Oils and Ultra-Processed Foods

In mid-October, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health hosted a media briefing to examine the health implications of seed oils and ultra-processed foods, topics that are generating increased public attention. Seed oils, such as canola, soybean, and sunflower, are a major source of essential fatty acids in diets worldwide and are often the subject of conflicting information. Ultra-processed foods account for more than half of daily calories consumed in the US but have been linked to ...

Nov 10, 202511 min

The Cutting Edge of Software Development in the AI Era

Ryan J. Salva is a veteran product leader at Google who has been at the forefront of building AI tools for developers. He is responsible for Google's products such as the recently launched Gemini CLI, an open source AI agent for developers, as well as Gemini Code Assist, the tech giant's AI coding assistant, both of which are changing how software is developed and deployed by individuals and organizations. Ryan details the evolution of Google Gemini and its coding tools for developers with Carol...

Nov 10, 202512 min

Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend: November 7th, 2025

Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show “Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.” Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio. You can also watch Bloomberg Businessweek on YouTube - just search for Bloomberg Global News. Like us at Bloombe...

Nov 08, 20251 hr 17 min

Duffy Warns of More Flight Cuts If Government Shutdown Drags On

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . US officials warned that the number of flight cancellations may need to double if the government shutdown drags out and air-traffic controller staffing shortages worsen, potentially escalating travel disruptions as the country heads into one of its busiest travel seasons. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Fox News Friday that regulators will continue to assess the strain on the aviation system and if the data mov...

Nov 07, 202529 min

Government Shutdown Ripples Through Health Care Sector

Senate Democrats are again urging Republicans to negotiate extending enhanced Obamacare premium tax credits, buoyed by sweeping gubernatorial elections in Virginia, New Jersey and a mayor’s race in New York City. Following this week's elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said lawmakers’ government shutdown fight should continue unless President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) commit to extending the ACA credits. Dr. Susan J. Blumenthal has served under four US presidents, hav...

Nov 07, 20258 min

Schwab Agrees to Buy Private Share Platform for $660 Million

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Charles Schwab Corp. agreed to buy Forge Global Holdings Inc., a marketplace for buying and selling shares of private companies, for about $660 million. Under the terms of the transaction, Schwab will acquire all of Forge’s shares for $45 apiece, according a statement Thursday. That’s about 72% more than the closing price on Wednesday. The deal would be the first for Schwab under Chief Executive Officer Rick Wurster, who took...

Nov 06, 202539 min

Teva Surges After Push Into Branded Drugs Drives Sales Beat

Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc. surged after sales of branded medications topped expectations, showing that its strategy to expand into that drug category is working. Total revenue last quarter of $4.48 billion beat consensus, driven by a 33% gain for a group of drugs that includes Austedo. Meanwhile, sales of generics — Teva’s core business — missed estimates. The Tel Aviv, Israel-based company has pushed into branded medications that have been drivers of the company’s growth in recent years. The gen...

Nov 06, 20258 min

Stocks Stage Rebound as Dip Buyers Wade Back In: Markets Wrap

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . At a time when every dip in stocks is perceived as an opportunity, buyers emerged after a brief pullback led by some of the biggest winners of the artificial-intelligence boom. Bitcoin rallied. Bonds fell. Equities rebounded, with the S&P 500 up almost 1% following a slide that underscored worries over how stretched the market has become and how sensitive it is to unfavorable news. Chipmakers, which bore the brunt of the ...

Nov 05, 202544 min

The Race for the World's First Advanced Nuclear Microreactor Developer

NANO Nuclear Energy is a leading advanced nuclear energy and micro modular reactor technology company focused on developing clean energy solutions. Last month, the firm announced that it would be investing more than $12 million to establish a manufacturing and research and development facility in Illinois, with support from a state incentive program. It is expected to support nuclear engineers, component manufacturers, researchers, and support personnel who will work in collaboration with the Un...

Nov 05, 202511 min

Stock Bulls Get Wake-Up Call From Wall Street CEOs

Watch Bloomberg Businessweek Daily LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Risky assets slid, with tech stocks and cryptocurrencies bearing the brunt of the selling, after long-simmering concerns about lofty valuations were fanned anew by a chorus of Wall Street executives who warned investors to brace for a pullback. With the rally confined to fewer and fewer shares as sentiment and technical indicators show signs of overheating, the chiefs of giants from Capital Group to Goldman Sac...

Nov 04, 202539 min

Building Pharmaceutical Supply-Chain Resilience

Antheia is the next-generation pharmaceutical ingredient producer with a mission to end drug shortages. Using advanced biosynthesis and fermentation technology, Antheia’s biomanufacturing platform enables rapid, efficient, agile, and on-demand production of key starting materials (KSMs) and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that are critical to public health. The firm believes its flexible approach supports the needs of a growing society and improves global access to essential medicines. ...

Nov 04, 202512 min

Palantir Reports Record Quarterly Revenue, Hikes Forecasts

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Palantir Technologies Inc. raised its annual revenue outlook to $4.4 billion and outpaced analyst estimates for third-quarter sales, citing “accelerating and otherworldly” growth for its artificial intelligence and data analytics products. Revenue increased 63% to $1.18 billion in the period ended in September, the company said Monday in a statement. Analysts, on average, estimated $1.09 billion. In the current quarter, sales ...

Nov 03, 202535 min

The Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease

Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She serves as Director of Fluid Biomarker Research at the Barbara and Maurice Deane Center for Wellness and Cognitive Health and is one of the leaders at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, where she co-directs the Genetics and Genomics Core and oversees the development of novel blood biomarkers fo...

Nov 03, 20258 min

Bloomberg Businessweek Weekend - October 31st, 2025

Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show "Bloomberg Businessweek Daily." Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio. You can also watch Bloomberg Businessweek on YouTube - just search for Bloomberg Global News. Like us at Bloombe...

Oct 31, 20251 hr 16 min

Trump Denies Reports That He’s Planning Strikes on Venezuela

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . President Donald Trump denied that he is considering strikes on Venezuela, contradicting a media report that he’d given approval for such a move as well as his own past statements that he was preparing land attacks after a series of boat strikes. Trump replied “no” when asked by reporters Friday aboard Air Force One if it was true he is weighing whether to attack military sites in Venezuela. He said “no” again when asked if h...

Oct 31, 202539 min

New York Road Runners CEO on the TCS New York City Marathon

New York Road Runners is a nonprofit that aims to build healthier lives and stronger communities through the power of running. The organization has served communities across New York City for nearly 70 years through inclusive and accessible running experiences. It serves runners of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds year-round with 60 adult and youth races, and programs and events, including the TCS New York City Marathon. Rob Simmelkjaer, the NYRR CEO, discusses the rich history of the upcomi...

Oct 31, 202511 min

Apple Tops Sales Estimates Despite China Dip, Amazon Reports Cloud Unit Growth

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF . Apple Inc.’s fourth-quarter revenue edged past analysts’ estimates despite a surprise sales decline in China, where it’s been struggling to stage a comeback. Total sales rose 7.9% to $102.5 billion in the period, which ended Sept. 27, the company said in a statement Thursday. That slightly beat the $102.2 billion average estimate. The company benefited from stronger-than-expected services growth, helping offset the China slow...

Oct 30, 202556 min
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