Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes On today's podcast: (1) German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russia’s Vladimir Putin is unlikely to materialize, even though it was touted earlier by President Donald Trump. (2) European powers referred Iran to the United Nations to face the re-imposition of tough international sanctions after the Islamic Republic failed to comply with demands to negotiate with the ...
Aug 29, 2025•20 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, gave a tepid revenue forecast for the current period, signaling that growth is decelerating after a staggering two-year boom in artificial intelligence spending. (2) Francois Bayrou said he will negotiate directly with lawmakers next week and warned against new elections as he battles to stop France’s parliament from forcing him to resign. (3) NATO members are ...
Aug 28, 2025•21 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump said he was prepared for a legal fight with Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook after he moved to oust her from her post following allegations that she falsified mortgage documents. (2) France’s bond yields could spike to 100 basis points above their German peers for the first time since 2012 if the nation’s political crisis deepens, according to Carmignac. (3) UK long bond yields ...
Aug 27, 2025•20 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump moved to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her post at the US central bank in the wake of allegations from a White House ally that she falsified documents on mortgage applications. (2) US President Donald Trump threatened to impose fresh tariffs and export restrictions on advanced technology and semiconductors in retaliation against other nations’ digital services taxes...
Aug 26, 2025•21 min
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Host Tom Busby take a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week. In the US – a look ahead to personal spending data and earnings from Nvidia. In the UK – a look at the upcoming Medef Conference. In Asia – a look at the next Bank of Korea decision and the HK IPO market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 22, 2025•39 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Warnings on defaults are starting to pile up in the $1.7 trillion private credit market, prompting at least some analysts to raise concern about underappreciated risks in one of Wall Street’s favorite money spinners. (2) Bond investors are heading into Friday’s much-anticipated Jerome Powell speech largely expecting the Federal Reserve chair will indicate policymakers will start cutting interest rates n...
Aug 22, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook signaled her intention to remain at the central bank, defying calls for her resignation by President Donald Trump over allegations of mortgage fraud. (2) Most Federal Reserve officials highlighted inflation risks as outweighing concerns over the labor market at their meeting last month, as tariffs fueled a growing divide within the central bank’s rate-setting committee...
Aug 21, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Global stocks paused after a record-breaking run, with a sharp selloff in heavyweight technology shares dragging markets lower and futures indicating further declines. (2) President Donald Trump has bought hundreds of bonds since he returned to office, including those sold by US companies affected by the sweeping changes to federal policies he’s championed. (3) A package of security guarantees for Ukrai...
Aug 20, 2025•20 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) US President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin and urged the Russian leader to begin making plans for a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after meeting the Ukrainian president and European leaders at the White House on Monday. (2) The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official and other people familiar with the matter, a move t...
Aug 19, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his European allies arrive in Washington on Monday anxious to find out what Donald Trump committed to at his summit with Vladimir Putin and apprehensive that he’ll force Kyiv into making unpalatable concessions. (2) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared at a Jaguar Land Rover factory in May that his world-leading trade deal with President Donald Trump includ...
Aug 18, 2025•22 min
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Host Tom Busby take a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week. In the US – a look ahead to housing data and retail earnings. In the UK – a look at challenges facing European banking consolidation ahead of an upcoming shareholder vote in Italy. In Asia – a look at Japan CPI, PMI, and trade. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 15, 2025•39 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to strengthen his rapport with Donald Trump ahead of their summit, praising the US leader’s efforts to broker an end to the war in Ukraine and dangling the promise of economic cooperation as well as a new arms control treaty. (2) The Trump administration is in talks with Intel to have the US government take a stake in the beleaguered chipmaker, according to people...
Aug 15, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) US Treasuries held onto gains after traders boosted bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at its next meeting. (2) President Donald Trump said he may name the next Federal Reserve chair “a little bit early” and added that he was down to three or four potential candidates as he looks for a successor to Jerome Powell. (3) US President Donald Trump warned he would impose “very severe conseq...
Aug 14, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Stocks climbed to a record as an in-line US inflation reading eased price concerns and bolstered bets on a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut in September. (2) President Donald Trump assailed Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Solomon, saying the bank made a “bad prediction” about the impact of Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda on markets and consumer costs. (3) Britain’s embattled stati...
Aug 13, 2025•16 min
On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump extended a pause of sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods for another 90 days into early November, stabilizing trade ties between the world’s two largest economies. (2) EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, has been named to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing the former head of the agency earlier this month. (3) The US Treasury secretary has the ear of an impulsive president—and nervous investors worldwide hop...
Aug 12, 2025•22 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices agreed to pay 15% of their revenues from Chinese AI chip sales to the US government in a deal to secure export licenses, an unusual arrangement that may unnerve both US companies and Beijing. (2) European nations are seeking to talk to Donald Trump ahead of the US president’s planned meeting in Alaska with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with...
Aug 11, 2025•17 min
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Guest Host Amy Morris take a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week. In the US – a look ahead to U.S CPI, PPI, and retail sales data, along with Cisco earnings. In the UK – a look at Europe’s renewable energy sector and Vestas earnings. In Asia – a look at ahead to the next RBA decision, and the impact of chip tariffs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 08, 2025•38 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured cabinet approval on Friday for a military takeover of Gaza City, which he described as part of a final push to topple Hamas after 22 months of fighting and recover its last 50 hostages, dead or alive. (2) President Donald Trump said he had chosen Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Stephen Miran to serve as a Federal Reserve governor. (3) President Don...
Aug 08, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Indian goods to 50% as a penalty for its purchases of Russian oil, escalating a fight with a key Asian partner and sparking outrage in New Delhi. (2) Donald Trump declared plans for a 100% tariff on semiconductor imports while promising to exempt companies such as Apple Inc. that move production back to the US, triggering a scramble among trading partners and...
Aug 07, 2025•19 min
On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump said he’d impose increased tariffs on countries buying energy from Russia while clarifying that levies on semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports would be announced “within the next week or so.” (2) Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter arrived in Washington to make a last-minute bid for a deal to lower the 39% tariff imposed last week by Donald Trump. (3) The outlook for Wall Street bonuses is improving, with payouts now set to rise across most sect...
Aug 06, 2025•16 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump said he would be “substantially raising” the tariff on Indian exports to the US over the Asian nation’s purchases of Russian oil, a move New Delhi slammed as unjustified in an escalating fight between the two major economies. (2) The Swiss government said it is determined to win over the US on trade after last week’s shock announcement of 39% tariffs on exports to America. (3) Tes...
Aug 05, 2025•15 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump said he will announce a new Federal Reserve governor and a new jobs data statistician in the coming days, two appointments that may shape his economic agenda amid anxiety over the trajectory of global growth. (2) US stock futures advanced as equity investors took some positives from increased expectations for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts following Friday’s weak US payrolls d...
Aug 04, 2025•19 min
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Tom Busby take a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week. In the US – a look ahead to earnings from Walt Disney and Uber. In the UK – a look ahead to earnings from BP. In Asia – a look at ahead to how US smartphone production will be impacted by Apple’s shift towards India, along with an outlook for China property. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 01, 2025•39 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump unveiled a slew of new tariffs that boosted the average US rate on goods from across the world, forging ahead with his turbulent effort to reshape international commerce. (2) Copper traders are rushing to book up storage space in a bet that US President Donald Trump’s shock decision not to tariff the main traded form of the metal will prompt a wave of copper into warehouses on the...
Aug 01, 2025•21 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Meta is taking advantage of its lucrative advertising business and stepping up spending next year, with executives saying now is the time to seize on investment opportunities in artificial intelligence. (2) Microsoft said it will spend more than $30 billion in the current quarter to build out the data centers powering its artificial intelligence services. (3) Standard Chartered announced a fresh $1.3 bi...
Jul 31, 2025•20 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Hawaii and remote parts of California’s coast are bracing for tsunamis to hit within hours, after a powerful earthquake in Russia’s Far East triggered alerts across the Pacific. (2) US President Donald Trump is set to make the final call on maintaining a tariff truce with China before it expires in two weeks, an extension that would mark a continued stabilization in ties between the world’s two biggest ...
Jul 30, 2025•19 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) A gunman killed at least four people and himself at an office tower that houses Blackstone Inc., Rudin Management, the National Football League and KPMG among others, sparking hours of chaos and fear in Midtown Manhattan on Monday evening. (2) The European Union dodged an imminent trade war with the US this week, but markets and a growing chorus of critics have dispelled early hopes that the deal will b...
Jul 29, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) The US and European Union agreed on a hard-fought deal that will see the bloc face 15% tariffs on most of its exports, including automobiles, staving off a trade war that could have delivered a hammer blow to the global economy. (2) US and Chinese officials are meeting Monday to extend their tariff detente beyond a mid-August deadline, and haggle over other ways to further defuse trade tensions. (3) UK ...
Jul 28, 2025•17 min
While discussions of US tariff policies dominated Q2 earnings calls to an unprecedented degree, another equally important trend is bubbling just under the surface in C-suites and on trading floors: concern that the economic uncertainty caused by tariff turmoil may lead to a downturn. That’s the conclusion of the third edition of the CEO Radar—a tool to help CEOs determine which issues truly deserve their time and attention. It unpacks the leading topics discussed on more than 4,500 earnings call...
Jul 27, 2025•15 min
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Tom Busby takes a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week. In the US – a look ahead to a monetary policy decision from the Fed and earnings from some of the “Magnificent Seven” tech companies. In the UK – a look at President Trump’s trip to Scotland. In Asia – a look at ahead to China PMI data and a conversation on Asia tech investing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 26, 2025•38 min
