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The lift in futures comes as signs of tariff optimism kick in two start the week. Sources say the next round of President Donald Trump's tariffs is poised to be more measured than previously suggest it. We get more from Bloomberg Markets reporter Valerie Titel.
The thing that the market is picking up on is in the headlines both from Bloomberg and in the Wall Street Journal. They use this word targeted and narrow, and I think that's the positivity the market is reacting too. But honestly, you read the gut of both of those articles and it still sounds quite hawkish when it comes
to what Trump can announce on April second. Yes, they say that it might be targeted to fifteen nations, but those top fifteen nations with the big trade deficits with the US make up most of the US's trade imbalances and most of the US's foreign trade.
It's Bloomberg's Valarie Titel official say President Trump will announce widespread reciprocal tariffs on nations or blocks, but is set to exclude some, and as of now, the administration is not planning separate sector specific tariffs to be unveiled at the same event, as Trump had once teased Well Nathan.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is sounding a warning as President Trump continues to clash with federal judges on a number of fronts.
If Donald Trump should defy the courts public, the public will rise up. We will Democrats will fight it in every single way.
Senator Schumer appeared on NBC's Meet the Press as the Trump administration continues to clash with a federal judge who ordered a deportation flight with alleged Venezuela and gang members to turn around. White House Borders Are. Tom Homan says that case is still playing out in court.
Cases and litigation through the Alien Enemies Act, and we'll abide by the court order as litigated. But Mike quote was, despite what he thinks, We're gonna keep targeting the worst of the worst, which we've been doing since day one in reporting from the United States to the various laws on.
The books and White House Borders Are. Tom Homan was a guest on EBC's this week, you can hear Meet the Press and this week every Sunday on Bloomberg Radio.
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Monday morning, Karen US and Russian officials have begun talks in Saudi Arabia, a day after a meeting between US and Ukrainian teams. White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz says, all sides are getting down to the nitty gritty toward a ceasefire.
This started with President Trump talking to both leaders back to back. We then Secretary of State Rubio and I engage the Russians, engaged the Ukrainians at our level, and now we have technical teams actually with Ukrainians and Russians in the same facility conducting proximity talks.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told CBS's Face the Nation the talks will focus on a potential ceasefire in the black seat on the way to a broader and permanent piece. You can hear Face the Nation every Sunday on Bloomberg Radio.
Well Nathan to the latest on geopolitical tensions with China. Montana Republican Senator Steve Danes says China must halt the flow of fentanyl ingredients into the US before any trade negotiations.
It'll be difficult to have any conversation about tariffs and non tariff barriers until the FEMO precursor.
Issue is resolved. Republican Montana Senator Steve Danes, who met with Chinese officials over the weekend, made the comments in an interview with Bloomberg on Sunday.
In Canada, Karen Prime Minister Mark Carney has called foreign election on April twenty eighth. Polls show a close contest between Carney's Liberal party and the Conservatives, as Canada faces a trade war and taunts about its sovereignty from President Trump.
President Trump claims the Canada isn't a real country. He wants to break us, so America can own us. We will not let that happen. We're over the shock of the betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.
It's been only ten days since Mark Karney became Canada's Prime minister. The sixty year old took over the governing Liberals after winning the race to succeed Justin Trudeau.
Well Nathan Turkey has jailed President Erdowan's main political rival on corruption charges. Ekronmmo glu, Istanbul's mayor, was detained by police last Wednesday, but only formally arrested yesterday. He's the most prominent person to be apprehended in a recent wave of detentions and investigations against opposition figures, which have prompted mass protests in major cities. If A Mooglu's detention has caused turmoil on Turkey's financial markets, sparking selloffs in the Lira and equities.
Turning back to markets Karen the jackmawbacked Ant Group is touting an AI breakthrough with Chinese chips. Bloomberg News has learned the company use Chinese made semiconductors to develop techniques for training AI models that would cut costs by twenty percent. The models mark Ant's entry into a race between Chinese and US companies that has accelerated since Deep Seek demonstrated how capable models can be trained for far less than the billions invested by OpenAI and Alphabet's Google.
Well, in the US, Nathan DNA testing company twenty three and Me has found for bankruptcy. The Chapter eleven plan is the latest and the saga of the company that was valued at three and a half billion dollars when it won public in twenty twenty one. Co founder an Wijitski is also stepping down. Her efforts to take the struggling company private were rejected by a committee earlier this month.
I have some deal news this morning. Karen's shares of AZEC Companies are up about sixteen percent in early trading. The Chicago based home decking company agreed to be bought by Ireland's James Hardy for eight and three quarter billion dollars.
And a programming note Nathan. Atlanta FED president Raphael Bostik speaks exclusively with Bloomberg's Michael McKee about his FED outlook, including future interest rate moves, inflation concerns, and the economic impact of tariffs. That's at one forty five pm Wall Street Time on Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television, and the Bloomberg Podcast page on YouTube. Time now for a look at some of the other stories making news in New York
and around the world. And for that we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr.
Michael, Good Morning, Good morning. Karen. Israel killed two members of hamasa's de facto cabinet in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. It brings to eleven the death toll within the twenty person forum during a renewed Israeli offensive aim at destroying the Palestinian faction as a military and governing force. According to the Israel Defense Forces, they were hit in South Gasa by air strikes which resumed last week after a truce expired. Bloomberg's Dan Williams has more Jerusalem.
What's happening in Gaza is The Israelis appear to be focusing, among other things, on the civilian government of Hamas. Keep in mind that Israel's objectivists to destroy Hamas completely and to prevent it using a cease fire or a lull in fighting to rebuild its capabilities.
Bloomberg's Dan Williams in Jerusalem. Former US Representative Mea Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, has died. Love had been undergoing treatment for brain cancer prior to her death. Mea Love was forty nine. Senator Bernie Sanders says the aim of his Fighting Oligarchy tour is to oppose an
authoritarian society undermining the Constitution. Sanders speaking to ABC, pointed a finger at Democrats, led in the Senate by Minority leader Chuck Schumer for allowing passage of the GOP spending bill.
Not just Chuck Truma, it's not Chuck Schumer, it is you got a Democratic haughty in general that is dominated by billionaires. Justice and Republican Party is that operates under the leadership of a bunch of inside the Beltway consultants, very well paid for are way out of touch.
Meanwhile, Senator Schumer says he won't resign his post despite pressure from some in his party. Thousands of postal workers stage rallies across the country yesterday. They are protesting proposed Trump administration job cuts and a merger with the US Postal Service with the Commerce Department. Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke at the Chicago rally from.
Sea to Shining Sea, we are going to make sure that we protect all of our public accommodations, whether it's the mail, whether it's education, whether it's justice, whether it's environment. We are fighting for the working people of this country.
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With the exception of Saint John's losing Saturday eight to ten seed at Arkansas, things in this NCAA tournament had surprisingly gone according to form eight games yesterday, higher seated team won seven. The only exception was Ole Miss beating Iowa State ninety one to seventy eight. Ole Miss one of four SEC teams to win. Yesterday. Florida unseated two time defining GM yukon closer game than expected seventy seven to seventy five. Kentucky took out Illinois eighty four seventy five.
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I'm Nathan Hager. Liberation Day. It is a phrase we have heard a lot from President Donald Trump when it comes to his promise of reciprocal tariffs across the board.
April second is liberation Day for our country because we're going to finally be taking in money.
We're already doing it.
And that was the President speaking just a week ago. But this morning Bloomberg News has learned the across the board tariffs that Trump's talked about maybe more targeted than previously thought and for more. We're joined now by Bloomberg News Senior editor Derek Wallbank. Derek, good morning. What have we heard when it comes to the President's tariff plans at this point, Well, Nathan, you and I.
Have talked at some length in prior conversations on how there kind of is an arbitrage moment between Donald Trump's
maximalist threats and what actually gets done now. We have talked also about that a maximalist reading of what Trump has talked about with reciprocal tariffs would be an absolute administrative chore right to go through on thousands of product lines across more than one hundred countries and try and figure out who gets what and where all things are going for for not just reciprocal on tariffs but also
non tariff things. It would be an absolute ton And so what we're given to understand is that Trump's coming wave of tariffs may be more targeted than what he had previously threatened. And we're still waiting for what details of that will look like. But you're already seeing a positive market.
Response absolutely, with futures firmly in the green this morning. So what could this mean when it comes to future negotiation. We've seen Senator Danes of Montana in China over the weekend word that there are going to be negotiations all week long between the Assistant Trade Representative and Indian officials as well. Is it going to be a scramble ahead of this April second announcement?
Well, you know, I do think that every country is looking forward to see what they can do and who they can meet with and where they can go. You know, I'm sat here in Asia right now, and Australia is trying to find a way forward to see how they can leverage their investments, including in planes and other things, to try and offset some other tariffs that would be you know, potentially considered. You know, so we're seeing a lot of those. I mean, I would note as well.
You know, we pushed a story overnight Your Time about Christy Nome is going to Central and South America. One of those stops, she's going to meet with President of Mexico. I would imagine something like this will come up, not just talk about deportations and border security. So every single one of these opportunities that world leaders have is going to be a moment for them to press their case. We're seeing still a lot of uncertainty from those world
leaders on how to engage the Trump administration. They go from a sort of elbows up mentality that comes from ice hockey that Canada is using, to a more kind of conversational, non confrontational push that Mexico is using. Everyone's trying to take notes from each other and see what might work best.
So what could this mean when it comes to the idea of tariff's being a major revenue raiser. If we have a more targeted approach, will it be able to replace income taxes like President Trump has talked about in the past. Got about a minute left.
Well, that is a bit of a catch twenty two, isn't it. Because the simple math says that the fewer tariffs that you actually levy, the less tariff revenue you're going to get. And so if Trump levy's less in the way of tariffs, he's going to get less revenue. That will give less revenue available for his domestic priorities.
And remember, Republicans in Congress are already trying to figure out how to craft a big, beautiful bill, as the President has said, for some of his domestic priorities, as well as to extend his tax cuts as well as additional tax cuts that he has promised, all without exploding the deficit anymore. And that is a very very tall
order indeed. So it's a lot of difficult decisions. We've had a lot of rhetoric, but there's going to be a lot of difficult decisions that have cost offsets attached to them.
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