Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Local media in Israel say seven hostages have been released by Hamas, under the US-brokered ceasefire deal. (2) The White House has signalled it's open to doing a deal with China to calm fresh trade tensions, days after announcing new 100% tariffs. (3) Stocks, oil and cryptocurrencies were hammered Friday by the flare-up in tensions, but US equity-index futures jumped on the change in tone. (4) Presiden...
Oct 13, 2025•17 min
Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Host Nathan Hager take a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week. In the US – a look ahead to earnings for U.S banks. In the UK – a look ahead to the annual New Energy Finance summit in London. We also focus on a conversation with Citadel CEO Ken Griffin from Citadel’s securities conference on gold. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 10, 2025•38 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Israel’s government approved a deal that will see Hamas release any remaining hostages held in Gaza in exchange for more than 2,000 prisoners, another major step toward fulfilling the terms of a peace agreement and ending the two sides’ bloody conflict. (2) Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald T...
Oct 10, 2025•16 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Israel and Hamas have agreed to terms for the release of all hostages held by the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, a major breakthrough in the US- and Qatari-brokered negotiations to end their two-year war. (2) French President Emmanuel Macron said he’ll name a new prime minister by Friday evening, having for the time being avoided the need to call a snap election that would have deepened the politic...
Oct 09, 2025•20 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Spot gold smashed through $4,000 an ounce for the first time, as concerns over the US economy and a government shutdown added fresh momentum to a scorching rally. (2) From across the political spectrum, Emmanuel Macron’s rivals are turning up the pressure on the French president, demanding their choice of prime minister, snap elections and even his resignation. (3) Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence st...
Oct 08, 2025•25 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Emmanuel Macron gave his outgoing prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, 48 hours to negotiate with France’s political parties in a last-ditch effort to prevent the country from falling deeper into crisis. (2) President Donald Trump said he would negotiate with Democrats over health care subsidies, a move that could open the door to resolving the government shutdown that has stretched into a secon...
Oct 07, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) France’s Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned Monday just a day after President Emmanuel Macron named a new cabinet, deepening the country’s political crisis and sparking a selloff of French assets. (2) Gold rose to another record — closing in on the $4,000 an ounce mark — as the US Federal government shutdown dragged on. (3) President Donald Trump is pressing Israel and Hamas to seal a settlement ...
Oct 06, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Japan’s election of a pro-stimulus leader shook up global markets, sending stocks surging on prospects for more spending, while currencies and bonds weakened, driving investors toward alternative assets such as gold and Bitcoin. (2) President Donald Trump is pressing Israel and Hamas to seal a settlement to the two-year conflict that’s devastated Gaza and destabilized the Middle East as the warring side...
Oct 06, 2025•17 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 the impact of lumber and timber tariffs on housing, and President Donald Trump’s Pfizer deal on drugmakers. In the UK – a look ahead to the Nobel Prize decisions. In Asia – a look ahead to the impact of the Golden Week holiday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 03, 2025•38 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) UK counter-terrorism police named a British citizen of Syrian descent as the perpetrator of an attack on a synagogue that killed two people. Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, carried out the attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on Thursday morning, according to statements from Counter Terrorism Policing and Greater Manchester Police. (2) German air traffic control said it suspended f...
Oct 03, 2025•17 min
On today's podcast: (1) The US Supreme Court refused to allow President Donald Trump to immediately oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while she sues to keep her job, dealing a setback to his efforts to exert more control over the central bank. (2) White House Budget Director Russell Vought is planning to swiftly dismiss federal workers, a sign that Republicans will lean into hardball tactics to pressure Democrats to cave to end a government shutdown. (3) Arab and Muslim national leaders ar...
Oct 02, 2025•19 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Congress blew past a midnight funding deadline, triggering the US government’s first shutdown in nearly seven years — and the third under President Donald Trump. (2) US equity-index futures fell as the deadline to avert a government shutdown lapsed, disrupting one of the country’s largest employers and threatening to delay key economic data releases (3) Pfizer has won a reprieve from the US President's ...
Oct 01, 2025•28 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Vice President JD Vance said he believes the US government is on track to shut down, seeking to pin the blame on Democrats one day before federal funding is set to lapse. (2) President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said they had agreed to a 20-point plan designed to end the war in Gaza, though the prospects for peace remained unclear without the direct involvement of Hamas. ...
Sep 30, 2025•22 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves can be sure the bond markets have her back. But on Monday she faces down her own party, and she may find them tougher to win over. (2) The government is set to define what “contributions” foreign workers must make in order to claim settled status in the UK, marking a tightening of its stance on legal migration. (3) UK companies are becoming less forthcoming abou...
Sep 29, 2025•19 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 the U.S jobs report and the Electric vehicle sector. In the UK – a look ahead to the Bloomberg Women, Money, Power conference in London. In Asia – a look ahead to the China PMI data. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2025•39 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump announced a fresh round of tariffs, including a 100% duty on branded or patented pharmaceuticals starting October 1, unless a company is building a manufacturing plant in America. (2) Former FBI Director James Comey was charged with lying to Congress and obstruction related to testimony he gave in 2020, accelerating President Donald Trump’s push for legal action against his percei...
Sep 26, 2025•16 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) HSBC Holdings said it’s achieved a world-first breakthrough in deploying quantum computing in financial markets, as a race intensifies among some of Wall Street’s biggest firms to embed the cutting-edge technology in their daily operations. (2) Intel has approached Apple about securing an investment in the ailing chipmaker, according to people familiar with the matter, part of efforts to bolster a busin...
Sep 25, 2025•21 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) President Donald Trump said NATO nations should shoot down Russian aircraft that violated their airspace and struck a more sympathetic tone on Ukraine’s chances of winning the war. (2) Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took a conciliatory tone in his return to TV Tuesday night, saying “it was never my intention to make light of the death of a young man.” (3) Super Typhoon Ragasa is set to cross China’s south...
Sep 24, 2025•21 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Russia was testing NATO’s readiness to retaliate with its series of incursions along the eastern flank of the alliance. (2) Nvidia will invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to support new data centers and other artificial intelligence infrastructure, a blockbuster deal that underscores booming demand for AI tools like ChatGPT and the computing power needed t...
Sep 23, 2025•28 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Donald Trump’s order on H-1B visas which requires a $100,000 fee for applications — will hurt margins of Indian outsourcers who use the program to deploy engineers to client sites. That’s a blow to India’s $280 billion IT services sector, which is already grappling with sluggish growth as customers cut back on technology spending due to geopolitical tensions and Trump’s tariffs. (2) Canada, the UK and A...
Sep 22, 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 – how The K-Shaped Recession Hasn’t Hurt US Equities...Yet In the UK – Are Private Markets Entering Their Golden Age In Asia – a look at Stephen Miran's Impact on EM and the Dollar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 20, 2025•38 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Nvidia plans to invest £2 billion ($2.7 billion) to support the UK’s artificial intelligence industry in partnership with several venture capital firms. (2) With golden carriages, military splendor and an opulent banquet, the UK’s royal gambit paid off this week, as President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer concluded an historic state visit by hailing the trans-Atlantic relationship and — a...
Sep 19, 2025•21 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Federal Reserve officials lowered their benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point and penciled in two more reductions this year following months of intense pressure from the White House to slash borrowing costs. (2) The Bank of England is set to rein in its quantitative tightening program amid concerns that its gilt sales are worsening volatility in the bond market. (3) King Charles III urge...
Sep 18, 2025•21 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Microsoft, OpenAI and other American companies announced plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on technology infrastructure in the UK, part of a series of business deals that coincide with President Donald Trump’s visit to the nation this week. (2) British drugmaker GSK pledged to invest $30 billion in the US over the next five years, making the announcement as President Donald Trump arrives in the...
Sep 17, 2025•17 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) US President Donald Trump expects to announce economic deals totaling more than $10 billion during his trip this week to the United Kingdom, senior US officials said Monday. (2) Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suffered a third forced departure from his government in less than two weeks as one of his senior advisers resigned amid media allegations about his past conduct. (3) President Donald Trump said h...
Sep 16, 2025•22 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) China’s economic activity slowed more than expected across the board in August, adding to the likelihood that policymakers will roll out more stimulus to hit the official growth goal. (2) US and Chinese representatives discussed TikTok, trade and the economy during a day of high-level talks in Madrid, a senior Treasury official said, as diplomacy between the world’s two biggest economies intensifies. (3...
Sep 15, 2025•19 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 the next Fed decision and earnings from FedEx. In the UK – a look ahead to President Trump’s visit to the UK. In Asia – a look ahead to the next monetary policy decision from the Bank of Japan and what’s next after its ruling Liberal Democratic Party Shigeru Ishiba resigned. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Sep 12, 2025•39 min
The UK's Prime Minister is facing growing questions over what he knew about Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffery Epstein when he appointed him as Ambassador to the US. Keir Starmer fired him after Bloomberg published a series of emails between Mandelson and the convicted paedophile. The departure comes at a difficult time for the British government as it prepares to host a state visit for US President Donald Trump who continues to face questions about his relationship with Epstein. In thi...
Sep 12, 2025•12 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) When Peter Mandelson was appointed the UK’s ambassador to the US in February, many in the British government predicted it would end in a scandal. Mandelson, a political operator once known as the “Prince of Darkness” for his capacity for political intrigue and spin, was fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday after Bloomberg published a series of emails between Mandelson and convicted pedophile...
Sep 12, 2025•22 min
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) A search is underway for the killer of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who was fatally shot Wednesday at a Utah university. (2) Poland has asked allies for additional air defense systems and counter-drone technology to better protect its land from Russian incursions, according to people familiar with the matter. (3) The CEO of Citigroup Jane Fraser says she...
Sep 11, 2025•28 min
