In a special July 4th edition of Bloomberg Daybreak...Bloomberg’s Nathan Hager looks at the biggest tech stories from 2025 and what we can expect for the rest of the year. He speaks with Gene Munster of Deepwater Asset Management and Dan Ives from Wedbush. 

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On today's podcast:
1) President Trump twists arms in Congress to pass his tax cut bill as House Republicans overcome a key hurdle. The House voted 219-213 to move toward a final vote on Trump's "big beautiful bill", which includes tax cuts, a phase-out of Biden-era clean energy incentives, and funding for Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. Debate began immediately on the legislation, setting up a potential final vote for later in the morning in Washington, ahead of Trump's self-imposed July 4 deadline.
2) Traders and the Fed await a critical June jobs report. Markets are cautious ahead of the employment report, which will help identify the path ahead for interest rates, with investors closely monitoring economic data before adding to their portfolios.
3) The Trump administration lifts chip design software curbs in a trade deal with China. The Commerce Department informed the world's three leading chip design software providers that they no longer need government licenses to do business in China.

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On today's podcast:
1) Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax bill is running into Republican resistance in the House as moderate and ultraconservative GOP lawmakers threaten to defy the president and sink his domestic agenda
2) President Donald Trump threatened Japan with tariffs of up to 35% as he ramped up tensions for a third straight day, fueling fears of a worst-case scenario among market players and raising doubts over Tokyo’s tactics in trade talks.
3) Wall Street’s largest lenders boosted their dividends after passing this year’s Federal Reserve stress tests, a hurdle that regulators made easier to clear by softening some of the requirements laid out in previous years.

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On today's podcast:
1) Senate Republican leaders continue to scrounge for votes to pass Donald Trump’s $3.3 trillion tax and spending bill as lingering intraparty fights threaten to upend the legislative centerpiece of the president’s domestic agenda.
2) President Donald Trump lashed out at Elon Musk on Tuesday, accusing the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive officer of benefiting excessively from government electric vehicle subsidies. Tesla shares tumbled.
3) US equity futures are taking a breather after the S&P 500 notched its best quarter since 2023, as investors monitor progress on trade talks and wrangling in Washington over President Donald Trump’s tax bill.

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On today's podcast:
1) Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rushing to meet President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline for pushing through his massive tax and spending bill, but first he has to work through a list of approximately eight Republican senators who have expressed opposition to portions of it.
2) US equity futures climbed as progress in trade negotiations between the Trump administration and key partners added to the upbeat sentiment that had pushed the S&P 500 to a fresh record high.
3) Canada has withdrawn its digital services tax on technology companies such as Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. in a move to restart trade talks with the US.

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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 the June jobs report and commodities outlook.
• In the UK – a look ahead to the annual summer economic conference in the Southern French city of Aix.
• In Asia – a look at relations between China and Iran.

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1) China said it has further confirmed details of a trade framework with Washington, echoing US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s earlier comments about a US-China agreement that stabilized ties.
2) Stocks gained as the US moved closer to trade deals with China and other major trading partners, while expectations are rising for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts this year.
3) The Treasury Department announced a deal with G-7 allies that will exclude US companies from some taxes imposed by other countries in exchange for removing the Section 899 “revenge tax” proposal from President Donald Trump’s tax bill.

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On today's podcast:

 
1) President Donald Trump said the US would hold a meeting with Iran next week but cast doubt on the need for a diplomatic agreement on the country’s nuclear program, citing the damage that American bombing had done to key sites.

2) President Donald Trump said he has three or four people in mind to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell when his term expires next year.

3) Shell Plc said it has no intention of making a takeover offer for BP Plc, refuting an earlier report that two of Europe’s biggest companies were in active merger talks.

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On today's podcast:
1) Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo conceded to his upstart rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary in the race to become mayor of New York City after the 33-year-old Queens lawmaker racked up commanding leads across Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

 
2) US President Donald Trump disputed an intelligence report that found the airstrikes he ordered on Iran had only a limited impact on its nuclear program, even though the assessment came from the Pentagon.

 
3) NATO leaders sought to project confidence that the US will defend allies after President Donald Trump fueled doubts about his administration’s continued commitment to crucial collective obligations.

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On today's podcast: 
1) President Trump declares a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, but Israel is accusing Iran of breaching it. President Trump declared the ceasefire after a night of attacks, saying Iran had "gotten it out of their system" and thanking Tehran for giving early notice of their missile strike on a US air base in Qatar. Israel agreed to the truce as long as Iran did not launch further attacks, and the Iranian government signaled it would abide by those terms, according to a senior White House official.

2) Voters in New York head to the polls for the Democratic Mayoral Primary. Polls open at 6 am on Tuesday and voters will choose from 11 candidates who are running for the official Democratic ticket. Surveys show the contest is expected to come down to former Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State Assembly member, Zohran Mamdani.

 
3) President Trump blasts Jay Powell again hours before the Fed chair speaks to Congress. Powell will testify before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee this week, explaining why interest rates will likely remain steady until at least September. In a post on social media, President Trump says he hopes Congress b"really works" Powell over for not lowering rates already.

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