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FullSpeed Automotive is among the largest franchisors and operators of automotive aftermarket repair facilities in the United States. It is home to flagship brands such as Grease Monkey, SpeeDee Oil Change & Auto Service, and Kwik Kar. FullSpeed brands offer oil changes, tire sales and rotations, brake services, car washes, and other ancillary services through multiple brand formats that target several desirable segments of the service market. The company's geographic footprint includes more than 900 franchised and company-owned locations.

 
Brian Maciak was announced as the company’s new CEO in November of 2025. He discusses the health of the $500 billion aftermarket services industry and what the broader economic outlook means for his customer base. Brian speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

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In a piece written for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor of MIT's Department of Economics, muses on whether there is a way to better understand the mind and methodology of US President Donald Trump. Acemoglu writes that "most of the (Trump) administration’s actions — the questionable crypto dealings, the appointment of unqualified allies to high-level positions, the unconstitutional deportations and National Guard deployments, the ouster of a Latin American head of state — have a logic. They’re all attempts to expand executive power, steps toward a type of imperial presidency."

The 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences details his assessment and whether the expansion of Trump's executive powers will ultimately lead to a fundamental change in American politics. Professor Acemoglu speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

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US President Donald Trump is calling for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that, his administration says, will force technology companies to pay for the new power they need to run massive AI data centers under construction across the country.

The truth is Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., OpenAI and all the other major tech firms behind the AI data center boom are more than happy to shell out for more electricity generation. And they have been.

Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars on capital investments annually, far exceeding the budgets of the entire utility segment. Data center developers have in fact already said they’d like to buy electricity off the nation’s power grids as opposed to signing contracts directly with power generators. That’s because grid rates can be cheaper, grids are equipped with backup resources and such systems can help stabilize supplies during extreme weather events. Hyperscalers have also been signing contracts to help bring back nuclear or build new nuclear.

Either way, the reality is tech companies have been trying to secure power from every source they can find — both on and off the grids — with data center power demand set to triple by 2035.

Today's show features:

• Bloomberg News Senior Editor for Technology & Strategic Industries Michael Shepard on the White House working with a group of Northeastern state governors on an emergency wholesale electricity auction to push technology companies to fund new power plants
• Lesley Marks, Chief Investment Officer, Equities at Mackenzie Investments, on where investors should be seeking returns in 2026 and the biggest risks to markets
• Maja Vujinovic, CEO of Digital Assets at FG Nexus, on recent volatility in the cryptocurrency sector and key indicators for 2026
• David George, Senior Research Analyst at Baird, recaps big bank earnings and looks ahead to another big week for the financial sector

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Rick Woldenberg runs two educational-toy businesses near Chicago, Learning Resources and hand2mind. The firms are considered to be among the world leaders in the development of over 2,000 experiential, hands-on learning materials, which are sold in more than 100 countries. But their products have been hit especially hard by President Donald Trump’s fluctuating global tariffs. Woldenberg’s companies sued last April to invalidate the tariffs as exceeding the president’s authority. The suit is now before the Supreme Court in one of the most economically important clashes in the country's history.

As global corporations await the American high court's ruling on the tariffs' legality, Woldenberg details their impact on his family-run firms, and how he's weathering the storm. Rick speaks with Carol Massar, Tim Stenovec and Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

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Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer Ted Pick started summing up his outlook after Wall Street’s banner year for trading with four words: “The setup is ideal.”

After Wall Street’s five giant banks reported a record $134 billion of trading revenue from last year and an upswing in dealmaking, Pick and peers agreed it’s poised to continue — albeit with caveats.

“As a student of these businesses for decades, I would bet you that 2021 is not the ceiling,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO David Solomon said, referring to the last record year for lenders’ trading businesses. “The world is set up at the moment to be incredibly constructive in 2026 for M&A and capital markets activity, and I think the likely scenario is it is a very, very good year.”

President Donald Trump’s turbulent policy changes and trade talks have kept investors on edge — but for bank traders that has kept paying off as clients rush to reposition their portfolios. At the same time, his administration’s deregulatory efforts and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts are reviving a moribund environment for mergers and acquisitions — quickly filling dealmakers’ pipelines.

As Morgan Stanley and Goldman posted quarterly results Thursday after reports from their largest rivals earlier in the week, the market-centric firms added to predictions for another bumper year for Wall Street operations. That contrasted with other corners of banking, such as credit-card units that have come under threat as Trump demands a cap on interest rates. Industry executives have been fielding questions about how they may respond to that, even as they themselves await information from the White House.

Today's show features:

• Bloomberg News Chief Wall Street Correspondent Sri Natarajan breaks down earnings from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and Cathy Seifert, Vice President of CFRA Research, on BlackRock’s quarterly earnings and outlook
• Andrejka Bernatova, Founder and CEO of Dynamix, on why she believes smaller energy companies have a chance to benefit from US action in Venezuela
• Bloomberg Intelligence Global Head of Technology Research Mandeep Singh on earnings from TSMC and the health of the semiconductor sector
• Emily Green, Head of Private Wealth Management at Ellevest, on financial planning and portfolio management strategies 

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Carolyn Tisch Blodgett is the CEO and founder of Next 3, where she oversees the investment and management of a portfolio of assets in the sports, media and entertainment space. She invests across teams, leagues and technologies including Gotham FC of the National Women's Soccer League, TGL and Los Angeles Golf Club, LOVB, Transmit.Live, Jackpot.com and more. Tisch Blodgett also serves as the governor of the reigning NWSL champions, where she is the lead owner across the business. Under her leadership, the Gotham FC has seen significant growth across fan attendance, revenue and on-field performance and league-record sponsorship deals.

The increasingly popular league is facing challenges, however, as top European leagues and other organizations drive up the price tags for top players. Carolyn discusses the financial health of the NWSL as well as the growth surge in women's sports more broadly with Carol Massar, Tim Stenovec and Bloomberg News Sports Reporter Vanessa Perdomo on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

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Germany will take the lead of European nations sending military personnel to Greenland after Denmark said its meeting with top US officials intent on controlling the world’s biggest island revealed that a “fundamental disagreement” remains.

The decision to dispatch reinforcements to the Arctic territory as early as this week highlights the urgency with which European nations seek to respond to US threats over Greenland. A meeting of foreign ministers from Denmark and Greenland with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington failed to dispel the specter of a US takeover.
On Thursday, Germany’s “exploration mission” of 13 soldiers will arrive in Nuuk as European nations begin to work out how to ensure security in the region. Their task will be to “explore the framework conditions for possible military contributions to support Denmark in ensuring security in the region, for example, for maritime surveillance capabilities,” according to a statement from the German defense ministry.

France will participate in the joint drills in Greenland this week, according to the defense ministry’s press office, which provided no details.

In addition, Sweden is sending “several officers,” Norway two persons and the UK one officer. The reconnaissance group is visiting the island ahead of the planned “Arctic Endurance” training exercise, UK Defense Minister John Healey told reporters in Sweden. Denmark on Wednesday said the drill with North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies would become a permanent fixture.

Today's show features:

• Ed Price, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at New York University, on Western Europe's response to President Donald Trump's Greenland overtures and why some allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin are concerned that he is abandoning them
• Matt Hornbach, Global Head of Macro Strategy at Morgan Stanley on the market outlook and potential impact of the Supreme Court’s pending tariff ruling
• Karin Kimbrough, Chief Economist at LinkedIn on Wednesday’s retail and PPI reports as well as a new report detailing the impact of AI on the US labor market
• Michael Townsend, Managing Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs at Schwab, on expectations for the pending Supreme Court ruling on IEEPA tariffs and renewed legal action against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell

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Acadia Pharmaceuticals, a leader in neuroscience and rare disease, is working to advance next-generation therapies. The company's commercial portfolio already includes the first and only FDA-approved treatments for Parkinson’s disease psychosis and Rett syndrome. Acadia is also developing the next wave of therapeutic advancements with a pipeline that includes mid- to late-stage programs in Alzheimer’s disease psychosis and Lewy body dementia psychosis, along with earlier-stage programs that address other underserved patient needs.

Catherine Owen Adams, the CEO of Acadia, discusses her firm's commitment to turning scientific promise into meaningful innovation that can help make a difference for underserved neurological and rare disease communities around the world. Catherine speaks with Tim Stenovec and Emily Graffeo on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

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Wall Street traders sent stocks lower as inflation data failed to alter bets on a pause in Federal Reserve rate cuts while JPMorgan Chase & Co. led a slide in banks after its results. Bonds wavered. The dollar rose.

Signs that price pressures are gradually abating gave a degree of comfort to investors in the immediate aftermath of the data, but the moves across asset classes waned as the session progressed. The S&P 500 fell from a record. JPMorgan sank 4.2% as investment-banking fees missed the guidance, with revenue from both underwriting and advising on mergers dropping.
Not even a slower-than-expected increase in the core consumer price index was able to sustain the advance in Treasuries that followed the data. After Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues deployed three rate cuts since September, money markets continued to project the next reduction only in mid-2026.

Today's show features:

• Chris Whalen, Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors, on JPMorgan Chase earnings and the global banking sector
• Matthew Luzzetti, Chief US Economist and Head of US Economic Research at Deutsche Bank, on the latest US CPI print and challenges to Federal Reserve independence
• Savanthi Syth, Managing Director for Airlines and Advanced Air Mobility with Raymond James, on Delta’s quarterly earnings and the airline sector outlook
• Bloomberg News Senior Editor, Equities Americas Eric Weiner on the Tuesday trade and Bloomberg Economics US and Canada Economist Stuart Paul on key data and the Federal Reserve

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