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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 - we look ahead to Friday's December jobs report. Bloomberg Economics says the data should show job growth resuming its slowdown and the unemployment rate edging up.
In the UK - consumers are feeling the pinch from the higher cost of living - but they're still spending enough to fuel London's restaurant and cultural scenes. The weaker pound versus the dollar has also helped attract more big-spending tourists, particularly from the US. We check in on the restaurant scene.
In Asia - as 2023 comes to a close, we take a look at what's ahead for markets in China, India and Japan in 2024.
In Washington - while our attention is focused on the presidential election in 2024, a possible government shutdown and other disruptions loom.
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On today's podcast:
1) Maine’s secretary of state ruled that Donald Trump cannot run in the state’s Republican primary, citing his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
2) The US military is trying to reassure shipping companies that a multinational force is making it safe to sail through the Red Sea and Suez Canal even though attacks from Yemen-based Houthi rebels show no sign of stopping.
3) Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable chipmaker, is selling a less-capable version of its best graphics product for video gamers in China, after the US government tightened restrictions on what the company can market in that country.
Full Transcript:
Good morning. I'm John Tucker and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. Let's begin with politics and another ban for Donald Trump. Maine's secretary of state has removed the former president from the Republican primary ballot ahead of the twenty twenty four election. Details this morning from Bloomberg's Ed Baxter, Secretary of State Shedd of Bellows, is using the insurrection clause to become the first election official to take unilateral action. Bellow says insurrection for his activities in the January sixth election overturn riots. The Trump campaign says it will appeal in Former Congressman John Katko says it should go to the top. It's got to go to Supreme Court. Several states and now I had this ruined. So the Supreme Court's going to set the parameters of what we do with situationally like this going forward. So the US Supreme Court should have a number of cases now from which to choose on the issue. At Baxter Bloomberg Radio, All right, ed, Thanks, And ahead of yesterday's decision, presidential campaign blasted main Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, colloring her hyperpartisan and a virulent leftist. Trump's campaign says it will quickly seek to appeal her decision in Maine State court, and turning down to geopolitical news, half of containerships which regularly use the Suez Canal are avoiding the route and the recent attacks by the houthy militants of the Red Sea. Data compiled by Flexport shows two hundred and ninety nine container ships have either changed course or planned to That accounts for eighteen percent of global trade. Mercury Resources CEO Anton Posner says many major firms want to know more about the US response to the attacks. We're seeing increased freight, increased insurance, a lot of uncertainty, and mixed signals from shipowners, container lines, and from governments on what's happening. To basically mitigate the risk and the threats that are out there, phonesium in the ardent groups. Mercury Resources CEO Anton Post nurses some companies are your puting off decisions until the new year, as at tax continue. The US says it's speaking with shipping firms in an attempt to ease the concerns, and Johnny also continued to follow developments in Ukraine, Russia launching deadly strikes on civilian targets in Ukrainian cities overnight. It came days after Russia reported one of its ships in Crimea was damaged by Ukrainian missile strike, with Kiev stepping up attacks against Moscow's navy, and as we enter the new year, Ukraine's pleating with foreign donors to send aid a mid uncertainty over its twenty twenty four budget and turning down to the markets and the final day of the twenty twenty three rally with the investors anticipating FED rate cuts in the new year. The S and P five hundred cap yesterday's session just a few points away from its all time high. This year, the S and P five hundred is up almost twenty five percent, with the MSCI All Country World Index rallying about twenty percent. Mona Mahajan, the senior investment strategist with Edward Jones, says the rallies broadened over the final bonds of twenty twenty three year really driven by that magnificent seven a large cap technology trade, and over the last few weeks we have seen a broadening of participation, whether it's value cyclical parts of the market, whether it's small and MidCap parts of market, whether it's bond markets, all of which have played some catch up in recent weeks. Mana mahajin with m Where Jones says signs of cooling inflation and anticipation of a FED pivot continued to drive the rally forward and oversus this morning, John European stocks eking out one last gain on the final trading day of the year, but it's not all good news specifically in the UK, and Bloomberg. Stephen Carroll joins us with more from London. Good morning, Stephen, Good morning, Karen and John. Inflation has slowed sharply in the UK in recent months, but consumers are increasingly worried about the year ahead. A KPMG survey shows four and ten people are more concerned about their financial security now than they were a year ago, while data from Barcleycard indicates households are cutting back on things like clothing and eating out. All of that raising fears of a consumer that could tip the economy into session. When relative bright spot the latest house price data from nationwide showing prices fell less than two percent in twenty twenty three, defying expectations of a sharper downturn in London, Stephen Carol Bloomberg Radio, thanks Steven and In a banner year for stocks, the Nasdaq scept for its best year since nineteen ninety nine after his seven trillion dollar search artificial intelligence mania driving the run for the tech heav engauge from Nvidia to Microsoft, the seven largest US tech stocks, the Magnificent Seven, were responsible for sixty four percent of the nanstac rally this year. The index is up over fifty percent in twenty twenty three. And speaking of Nvidia, John the chip making giant is selling a hobbled version of a gaming chip to its Chinese customers. Bloomberg Tech reporter Ian King says the move comes after the US government tightened restrictions on what the company can market there. Really what matters is what happens in the AI accelerator market, and Video said it's going to have new tips for that business for China to meet these new rules. We don't know when that's coming, orisindeed if that will actually come, and that will have a much more concrete impact on revenue and bloombergsing and King says, this version of Nvidia's chip for China's market has about ten percent fewer processing cores than what it sells in other countries and elon Musk acts formally, Twitter lost its effor in court to block at California loss seeking to control toxic posts. More from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett. In an eight page ruling of federal judge in Sacramento rejected arguments by the company formerly known as Twitter that the measure violates the free speech rights of social media platforms. The ruling comes after Musk ignited a firestorm in November by endorsing anti Semitic posts on his platform. X Corps CEOs scrambled to contain the fallout after major advertisers like Sony, Discovery, Apple, and CBS stopped or paused spending on the site. In New York, Charlie Pellett bloom Radio, it is time now for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world and for that were joined by Bloomberg's Amy Morris, Amy, Good Morning, Good morning, Karen. The Biden administration is warning Texas about its new immigration law to deal with illegal migration, Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons reports in a letter. The Justice Department reportedly says it will file a lawsuit against Texas if it implements the law that would empower state and local law enforcement officials to arrest, jail, and prosecute migrants suspected of entering the US ilegally. CBS News reports the DOJ says the law would basically criminalize actions that are already illegal at the federal level, and would undermine relations with Mexico and prevent officials from enforcing federal immigration laws. The measure is already being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union that argues the law is unconstitutional. In Washington, Nancy lyons Bloomberg Radio, more US sailors and marines are being moved into the Eastern Mediterranean. CBS for reporting the two amphibious ships carrying fifteen hundred sailors and marines, along with jet fighters, helicopters, and armored vehicles, have transited the Suez Canal from the Red Sea into the Eastern Mediterranean. This gives the US military more ability to evacuate Americans from Lebanon if necessary. Israeli officials have been increasingly vocal with their threats to clear out a buffer zone in southern Lebanon if Hesbella's shelling of northern Israel doesn't stop. President Biden meanwhile says he's devastated to learn another American was killed by AMAS. American Judy Weinstein Hagai, was killed in the October seventh Hamas incursion. Biden vowed to do everything possible to bring home the remaining hostages, including IDF soldier Aiden Alexander from New Jersey. Alexander's mother is calling for her son's return. He's my boy, and every day, every minute of the day, I'm just I'm terrified. There are now six Americans presumed captive in Gaza, and the World Health Organization says it's getting harder to deliver medical supplies and fuel to Gaza because hungry people keep stopping the convoys searching for food. Gaza's health ministry also says dozens of people were killed in strikes across the Gaza Strip yesterday, days after Israeli forces said they'd be expanding operations. The Washington Post reports the director of one hospital says Sunday's attack killed at least eighty people. Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with Bloomberg News. Now I'm Amy Morris, and this is Bloomberg Karen. All right, Amy, thanks. We bring you news throughout the day right here on Bloomberg Radio. But now, as Amy's said, you can get the latest news on demand, and that means whenever you wanted, just subscribe to Bloomberg News Now to get the latest headlines right at the click of a button. Get informed on your schedule. You can listen and subscribe to Bloomberg News Now on the Bloomberg Business app, Bloomberg dot com plus apples, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update. Here's Dan Schwartzman. Dan, good morning, Good morning Karen. The Cleveland Browns clinched just their second trip to the playoffs since two thousand and two with a dominating performance against the New York Jets. Joe Flacco got hit. He rolls out of the head, he runs it, then he crows it and fort caught it head, the thirty head, the twenty head, the fifteen head, the ten head of five past no good head. He vaulted for tag jing board Hot you. That's courtesy of ESPN eight to fifty Radio in Cleveland, behind three hundred and nine passing yards and three touchdowns from Joe Flacco. The Browns improved eleven and five on the season with a thirty seven to twenty win over the Jets. Jerome Ford catching two touchdown passes while David and Joe who gains one hundred and thirty four yards on six catches. Jets fall to six and ten on the season. Week seventeen of the NFL season continuing Saturday with the Marquee matchup in Dallas as the ten and five Cowboys are hosting the eleven and four Detroit Lions. Speaking of Detroit, the Pistons were oh so close to ending their twenty seven game losing streak as they led the Boston Celtics by nineteen points at halftime and at one point by twenty one points before collapsing and losing in overtime one twenty eight to one twenty two. By dropping their twenty eighth consecutive game, the Pistons time the Philadelphia seventy six ers for the longest losing streak of all time, which Philly accomplished between the end of the twenty fourteen twenty fifteen season and the start of the next year. Elsewhere, Nikola Jokich turning in a perfect triple double, not missing from the field or the free throw line in the Nuggets one forty two to one to five, winner of the Grizzlies. That's your Bloomberg Sports update on the ent shportsman from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on SYRIASXAM, the Bloomberg Business Appen Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak and good morning. I'm John Tuckery. You did hear. Among our top stories mains Secretary of State rule that Donald Trump cannot run in the state's Republican primaries, citing his efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election results. Let's take a deeper dive into the story this morning. We're joined now by Terry Haynes of Pangea Policy. Always a pleasure to speak to you, Terry. Certainly it's not going to be the last word, and it sets up for what one observer calls an epic constitutional showdown. What is your view? My view, firstly is discount anytime anybody says things like epic. But secondly, John, I think what you have to understand is what listeners have to understand is a little bit of perspective here Colorado. This Colorado Supreme Court, by a four to three decision, made its determination, but its Secretary of State has already said that Trump's going to be on the primary ballot, you know, abbs in some sort of additional action. So if that doesn't confuse things enough. Secondly, what you've got from the main Secretary of State yesterday is kind of an executative version of what the Colorado Supreme Court said, deciding on our own that trum Trump was an insurrectionist, but also understanding that the thing is going to be appealed. Net I wouldn't look for any of these things to stick. The Supreme Court of the United States is almost certainly not going to allow states to decide how to interpret the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, or alone denied candidate to federal rights under the Fifth Amendment. So, you know, generally speaking, I think these things are overblown. And the last thing I will say is there's a lot of state and federal courts that have decided in ways opposite of the Colorado and main courts. People need to remember that too. Donald Trump initially ran as a disruptor, and now he seems to be running as a victim. Does this all embolden him or does it give rise to some something along the lines of Trump fatigue. You know, that's a very good question, and I think the answer probably is some of both. The conventional wisdom right now is that this emboldens and empowers him with the electorate. You can certainly see how that might be so instinctively. But at the same time, it also I think adds to the appeal of not Trump Republican candidates who say, look, if you like the conservative policies and have them during Trump's administration, we can have those back, and we can have them without the circus. We're going to find out which of those is true, or potentially whether both of them are true, starting in about three weeks in Iowa, and so you know, we will see. But the attains me not to make a call on that, but I mean, truly we will see. I'm not going to be the expert on the feelings of the Iowa electorate, but the bottom line is is that I underperformed in the Iowa caucuses is going to give rise to a narrative that Trump, it might not be as strong, and the challengers are getting stronger, and that will reinvigorate the race at it to some extent. All right, speaking of challengers, Nikki Haley also making news with what she says or doesn't say, are the causes of the Civil War, namely slavery. How does that play out in the election cycle. I think that's a blip, honestly, John. It's used by and I'm not meaning to to minimize, No, I mean to minimize what she said or how she said it. But I think it's a blip. You know, she did what she needed to do, which was she was trying to make a trying to use a kind of states rights versus federal point about the war to make a case about the tensions that exist today. It was ham fisted, and she took it back, she clarified, and I think that that goes away pretty quickly. Honestly, this is kind of out of left field. Is Joe Biden going to stick with Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate? Oh? I think so. Yeah. The Biden sees Harris whole including faults, but he would have a devil of a time taking taking her off the ticket at this point, and for that reason alone, I think he won't give us your view of how the election is all playing out. I will refer listeners right back to a very interesting Bloomberg story on the terminal about a Quinnipiac poll that was released on Wednesday that shows Biden and Trump basically the dead heat and the popular poll, but if you add Bob Kennedy to it, it becomes a thirty eight Biden thirty six Trump Kennedy twenty two race. And I point that out only to say that I've been saying for some time that third parties are going to be more invigorated and more important to this presidential race. You're listening to Bloomberg Daybreak today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed at six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street time on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York, Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington, Bloomberg one o six one in Boston, and Bloomberg nine sixty in San Francisco. 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On today's podcast:
1) The world’s debt market is on track to post its biggest two-month gain on record as traders ramp up expectations that central banks everywhere will slash interest rates next year.
2) Apple Inc. said it would put its latest smartwatch models back on sale in its US retail stores Wednesday after it won a court ruling in a patent fight, providing a quick reprieve for its $17 billion business.
3) One of Cathie Wood’s exchange-traded funds has executed a massive shake-up in its Bitcoin-related holdings as the cryptocurrency rounds out a blockbuster year.
Full transcript:
Good morning. I'm John Tucker and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today, the massive year and rally in bonds. In fact, the world's debt market on track to post its biggest two month gain on record. Bloomberg's Cretigoda has more other reasons behind the move. It's a complete when eighty in the markets. As investors around the world become more and more confident that inflation is actually in the rare view mirror, it's creating a massive bet in the bond market that is really unseen historically. The momentum that you're seeing in just the last two months has really created this idea that maybe you might see rates go even lower in twenty twenty four, not just from the Federal Reserve, but from market participants as well. Swaps, the measure through which traders make bets on the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world, well, they're pricing about one hundred and fifty basis points of rate cuts right here in the United States and the UK next year. It's almost one hundred and seventy five basis points in the Eurozone. As investor confidence bills, the central banks have done their job, RIGHTO brigs Quitty Goop, who says the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Total return indexes risen nearly ten percent over November and December. Well, we turned to equities now, John, and European stocks are hovering near a two year high after the rally seen across Wall Street in Asian markets, and we go to London and get the latest with daybreak, europe banker Stephen Carroll, Stephen, thanks, Karen and John. European markets started out the day with gains, but that positive sentiment has petered out for now. The stock six hundred has dipped into the red, along with the benchmarks in London, Paris and Frankfurt. Energy among the worst performing sectors, Oil majors falling as crude prices retreat. Now, trading volumes across Europe are less than half their thirty day average, but the European benchmark is up almost thirteen percent this year, and it's still hovering at its highest level since January twenty twenty two. In London, Stephen Carrol Bloomberg Radio, all right, thanks Steven. Oil retreating from a one month high. Traders say key technical gauges their flashing weakness amid thin holiday trading, supply risk posed by Yemen based hoothy rebels haven't abated, even as incidents in the Red Seas start to slow down. The shipping giant hapag Lloyd says it will keep its vessels away from the Red Sea, despite the launch of a US led task force to protect the key trade route. Sylvia Westall is Bloomberg's managing editor in the Middle East. This idea of having a protection for shipping in this region, it actually already exists, as actually already forces based there. So I think some of the companies are a bit confused as to what it will really entail. Bloomberg's managing editor, Sylvia Westall says spot rates for a container shipping have jumped twenty six percent over the past four weeks. As we check Brent Crue, the international benchmark, it is down thirty one cents at seventy nine thirty four a barrel, and John Bitcoin is about forty three thousand dollars. It's been quite a run for the cryptocurrency we get more with the Bloomberg's Eddie Vanderwald prices went up from about sixteen thousand in the end of last year to more than forty three thousand at the moment. That's a rally of one hundred sixty percent, which you know, in bitcoin land is not uncommon. We do see these big up moves, but usually that is you know, associated with a lot of excitement and a lot of media attention and so on. We haven't seen that this year. What we are seeing though, is as the expectation of lower rates in the US and elsewhere probably comes to fruition. Next year, money becomes cheaper and there's more speculative money around, and some of that can flow into into assets like bitcoin, and Bloombergy Eddy Vanderwald says optimism over our possible sec approved bitcoin ETF is also helping fuel gains. Meanwhile, Caaren Well Kathy Woods Exchange Traded Funds has executed a massive shakeup in its bitcoin related holdings. More from Bloomberg's Jeff Bellinger. The Arc Next Generation Internet ETF sold all of its remaining shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and on the same day, our investment management data show that it bought more than four point three million shares of pro Shares Bitcoin Strategy ETF, making it the fund's second biggest holder. Wood has been trimming her holdings in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust in recent months, even as bitcoin rose to its highest levels since April of twenty twenty two. Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg Radio, All right, Jeff, thanks well. Apple putting its latest smart watch models back on sale and its US retail stores a's after it went accord ruling pausing a US sales ban on its newest models. Mark German covers Apple for Bloomberg in California and sin So, what happens now the Apple stores in the US did, about two hundred and seventy of them began resuming sales of the Series nine and Ultra TiO that are at the very center of this patent dispute with Massoow Thursday about noon Pacific time, the Apple Watch Ultra TiO in series line will return to the online stores. You could buy the model that you'd like from their online store and then staring on Saturday, all Apple stores in the US nationwide will begin car the alteratt series sign again, and Bloomberg's Mark German says the ruling now buys the company sometime and it's ongoing patent dispute with medical device maker Massimo. In geopolitical news, the Biden administration that is announced to another aid package for Ukraine. Bloomberg's Baxter has the story. It is two hundred and fifty million dollars in weapons and equipment and the final package of the year. It's drawn from Pentagon stocks, including ammunition for artillery and air defense systems, as well as anti armor munitions and more than fifteen million rounds of small arms ammunition. The DoD as well says that Javelin anti tank systems and Stinger Ata aircraft missiles will be offered. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in a statement, said it is imperative the Congress act swiftly to advance our the US national security interests by helping Ukraine defend itself. Ed Baxter Bloomberg Radio. All right, John, thanks time now for a look at some of the other stories making new around the world. And from that we're joined by Bloomberg's Amy Morris Samy. Good morning, Good morning, Karen. A coalition of mayors is asking the federal government to provide more support to manage the influx of migrants arriving by bus or plane from Texas. Mayors from New York City, Denver, and Chicago all say they need help as Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends more migrants to Democratic led cities. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson all of our cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity or nearly out of room. Without significant intervention from the federal government, this mission will not be sustained. In addition, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has issued an executive order which requires thirty two hours notice from charter bus companies transporting migrants to the city. President Biden is justifying US attacks on targets in Iraq. Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons reports. In a letter to congressional leaders, President Biden says that Christmas Day attacks on three installations linked to an Iran backed insurgent group were necessary to prevent further attacks on US military personnel. Biden writes that the strikes were intended to quote degrade, and disrupt attacks on the US and its partners, and to deter Tehran's proxy forces from conducting further attacks. The US and its allies are trying to keep the Israel Hamas conflict from escalating into a broader war. In Washington, Nancy lyons Bloomberg Radio residential candidate Nikki Haley is refusing to say that slavery led to the Civil War. During a New Hampshire town hall yesterday, a voter asked Haley what was the cause of the Civil War, and the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the UN gave a lengthy response about the role of government and the rights of the people, but she never mentioned slavery. What do you want me to say about slavery? I love, argued my question. Next question, the voter who asked the questions that he found it astonishing slavery wasn't even mentioned. US Representative Lauren Bobert says she's changing districts in Colorado. It's the right move for me personally, and it's the right decision for those who support our conservative movements. Alberta Republican announced on Facebook she'll move to the fourth congressional district, trying for the seat vacated by Ken Buck, who won't be seeking reelection. Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Ami Morris. This is Bloomberg Karen right Amy, thank you. What we do bring you news throughout the day right here on Bloomberg Radio. But now, as Amy said, you can get the latest news on demand, and that means whenever you want it. Just subscribe to Bloomberg News Now to get the latest headlines at a click of a button. Get informed on your schedule. You can listen and subscribe to Bloomberg News Now on the Bloomberg Business app, Bloomberg dot com plus apples, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update. Here's Dan Schwartzman. Dan, Good morning, Karen Stunner in Denver. As the Broncos have decided that nine time Pro Bowl quarterback Russell Wilson will be benched starting a Sunday's game against the LA Chargers, Jared Stidham will get the start. Head coach Sean Payton says it's all about getting a spark on offense, rather than get into the specifics, because I think that would be unfair today. It's more about what we're We weren't doing effectively enough offensively, and you know, when we were getting two or three turnovers. It's one thing, but you know. Ultimately our job is to get the ball in the end zone, and we've got to be more efficient doing that, all of us. That's Curtisyebroncos dot Com. Wilson starts the first year of a five year, two hundred and forty two point six million dollar extension next year at thirty nine million bit guaranteed for twenty twenty four. If Wilson can't pass a physical in early March, thirty seven million more will be guaranteed. Week seventeen of the NFL season gets under way, the Jets on the road in Cleveland facing the Browns. Cleveland is ten and five, Jets come in at six and nine. Trevor Simeon gets a star for New York Joe Flaco. He is a quarterback for the Browns. The finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class at twenty twenty four half in announced. First time candidates include Julius Peppers and Antonio Gates. In the NBA, the Philadelphia seventy six ers remain hot. They knock off the Magic in Orlando one twelve to ninety two. Meanwhile, Milwaukee a big one forty four to one twenty two win over the Brooklyn Netsianna Santa Tocompo thirty two points, ten rebounds and eight assists. That's your Bloomberg Sports Update. I'm Dan Schwartzman from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias, exam, the Bloomberg Business app and Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg day Break, and I'm John Tucker. Good morning. The world's bomb market on track to post its biggest two month game on record. Meantime, SMP five hundred flirting with a record. Let's get you set up for the trading day ahead. We're joined now by Tim Craighead Bloomberg Intelligence Senior equities strategists. Hey, equities guy, Let's start off with Yeah, the debt market. Investors seem convinced central banks have won their battle against inflation. What could possibly go wrong? Tim, Well, I'll tell you it's very apropos to start off with a bond market if you're talking talking about stocks, because that's what striving stocks right now. There is no doubt about it. To the degree that we've seen, whether it's US, whether it's Europe, around the globe, a big rally since late October he had equities. It's all about bond markets. And if you look at expectations of central bank policy and use the FED as the bell weather, we've gone from expecting no rate cuts over the course of the next six to twelve months to where now you're looking at fifty basis points in six months and one hundred basis points in a year. And this is the issue. John. If this doesn't play through, if we have a change in reference for some inflation spike or something along those lines over the course in the next month or two, then this run we've had into year end across all asset classes is due for one of these abrupt, volatile changes like we saw a couple of times in twenty twenty three. That's the risk. Hey, looking back on history, how unusual is it to see bonds and equities rally at the same time and what does that indicate. It is interesting in that if you look whether it's in the post pandemic period where you can really dig into this microscopically over or longer term, quite often you do see one versus the other. And it's the same in the equities market, where you see either earnings driving equities, or you see valuation driving equities, and you know the corollary there is valuations quite often in stocks are driven by what's transpiring and interest rates. And you know the point that you're making here, it is unusual. We've seen stocks and bonds rip over the course of the past two months, and granted we're from a depressed level where you remember back into the depths of the cell off in October, it was all about uh longer for a higher for longer from a from a policy rate standpoint, and then all of a sudden we started seeing better inflation prints and that whole psychology changed, which allowed the run up in bonds, which allowed the run up and valuation. You look at the pe on either US or European markets and they've they've ramped up a couple of points. That's a big move, and it's all because of the change in bonds. So I think you can find narrow points of time like this where you see a big swing and interest rates that does have an immediate impact in the equities market. And it's all about the valuation connection, all right, specific to equities, what right now is the bar for earnings moving forward? It's a pretty low barrow, I would imagine in the US. Yeah, and I think you're right, and it is a difference between the US and the European markets. From a US perspective, we had an earnings recession through late twenty two into first half of twenty three, and we've started to see positive revisions coming over the last six months as we went through the mid year earning season into the third quarter reporting season, and estimates are still ticking up in the US. If you look over here where I'm at in London and Europe, we actually had much better earnings performance over the course of twenty two into the first half of twenty three. You'd be surprised. If you look to the chart on forward earnings expectations for Europe versus the US. Europe far outperformed over the course of the last eighteen months, but the last three months it started to change. We've had negative estimate revisions here in Europe and that's likely to continue into the next year. We think that's a big risk factor for the first half of the year where we are seeing a tick up in the US, and a lot of that's because of the TMT space, which was really the cause of the earnings, recession in the US starting to actually come alive, and we don't have that crutch. Here. You're listening to Bloomberg Daybreak today, your morning brief. The story is making news from Wall Street to watch Hington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed at six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. 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On today's podcast:
1) US futures were steady, with an all-time high this year firmly in sight, and Treasuries gained amid optimism that the Federal Reserve is getting close to cutting interest rates.
2) Legendary designer Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are enlisting an Apple Inc. veteran to work on a new artificial intelligence hardware project, aiming to create devices with the latest capabilities.
3) US strikes on targets in Iraq and fresh attacks by Houthi militants on shipping in the Red Sea provided the latest warning signs that the war in Gaza risks expanding into a wider conflict destabilizing the Middle East.
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Good morning. I'm John Tucker and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. In the markets, the S and P five hundred beginning to day hovering at a record The so called Santa Claus rally has left the index just half a percent off its all time high. Despite warnings about overpot levels, equities continue to power ahead on best. The Fed's going to cut rates as early as March, and Bloomberg's executive editor for Markets Paul Dobson says, there seems to be a lot of momentum in the markets. It may be in anticipation of big New year flows into equity funds and people trying to get a little bit ahead of that. As part of the explanation, I think, you know, we're getting very close to that record high in the SMP, and the market loves the target to chase. Bloomberg's Paul Dobson says if the S and P five hundred completes a ninth straight week of gains, it will be its longest winning streak since two thousand and four. Well in Company News, john Tesla could soon lose its title as the world's leader in electric vehicles. The Chinese automaker BYD's sales or forecast to overtake Tesla this quarter. Katrina Nicholas is Global Business editor for Bloomberg in Asia. BYD makes its own batteries and now it also makes its own chips. That has shielded the company from a lot of supply chain crunches over the years. Remember back in twenty twenty during COVID, we had a worldwide shortage of semiconductors and that snarled a lot of automakers. They couldn't get the chips that they needed to make the cous and Bloomberg Global Business Editor Katrina Nicholas as BYD offers half a dozen higher volume models that costs much less than what Tesla charges for its cheapest Model three sedan in China. Meanwhile, Tesla preparing to roll out a revamped version of its Model Y from its Shanghai plant. Bloomberg News has learned the electric carmaker currently conducting preparation work in China, and mass production may start as soon as mid twenty twenty four. Sources say the new Model Why will have much more obvious exterior and interior changes than the most recent update in October, which anadled a new wheel design and ambient lighting. Well John another high tech company in the spotlight this morning, Apple is appealing a US salesman of its smart watches after the White House refuse to overturn the measure. The company is trying to defend a business that generates roughly seventeen billion dollars a year. Mark German covers Apple for Bloomberg in Los Angeles. Apple's belief is they have a software update up at sleeves that will bring the Apple Watch in compliance with the ITC. And so what Apple has done is they submitted details of this software upgrade to the US Customs Agency and on January twelve, the US Customs Agency will make a decision whether or not to approve the refresh to the watch to make them fix. If they go ahead and approve that and the ITC and other entities and the US agree, the Apple Watch can come back to market and Bloomber's Mark German says the US International Trade Commission determined in October that Apple violated two Massimo health technology patents with a blood oxygen sensor in its watches, and Karen saying in the tech sector, a couple of heavyweights joining forces on the artificial intelligence That's good. Details this morning from Bloomberg's Jeff Bellinger. Legendary designer Johnny Ive and open ai Sam Altman are enlisting a veteran to work on a new artificial intelligence hardware project. Sources say that as part of the effort, outgoing Apple executive Tang Tan will join IVES design firm love From, which will shape the look and capabilities of the new products. Altman, an executive who has become the face of modern AI, plans to provide the software underpinnings. The work marks one of the most ambitious efforts undertaken by IVES since he left Apple in twenty nineteen. The designer is famous for the products he helped devise under Apple co founder Steve Jobs, including the iMac iPhone and the iPad. His hope is to turn the AI device work into a new company, but sources say development of the product's remains at an early stage. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Radio. All right, Jeff, thanks, Now we turn to the latest developments in the Middle East. US strikes on targets in Iraq and fresh attacks by hu They militants in the Red Sea, providing the latest warning signs that the war in Gaza risks expanding into a wider conflict of stabilizing the region. Ras Madison is news director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for a Bloomberg News. You've got all these groups operating in the region, supported by Iran, who are carrying out sort of unilateral attacks on targets throughout the region, including these shippers, and of course Iran sort of warning increasingly that this does increase the risk that they get drawn in. It also increases the risk that the US militarily gets drawn in because of course they're having to shoot down a bunch of this stuff as it's flying around the region targeting this shipping. And we're talking about a coalition of military ships in the region potentially to escort some of this commercial shipping through, and so all of that adds to environment of high tension in Bloomberg's ras Madison says. Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will expand it's Garza ground defensive in the coming days, despite international efforts to halt the fighting and back here at home care on. Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are moving north toward the American border. As tom US officials prepared to meet with Mexico's president. That story this morning from Bloomberg's and Baxter. The caravan has reached Chiapas, Mexico, thousands carrying signs that say exodus from poverty. The caravan hopes to reach the border as Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln and Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Majorcas meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Odador. The State Department says item one is quote unprecedented irregular migration in the Western hemisphere. Now, the US says the parties need to address border security challenges and identify ways for Mexico to help in the fight. Some of the caravan have traveled from as far away as South America. At Baxter Bloomberg Radio. All right, thanks Karen, and that brings us to five oh seven Time down for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. For that, we're joined by Bloomberg's Amy Morris. Amy, Good morning, Good morning John. Several pro Palestinian protesters were arrested after swarming Rockefeller Center, Grand Central and other areas of the long holiday weekend. Police arrested at least a half dozen people for disorderly conduct menacing at graffiti now In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams says there's always a serious concern about safety in Time Square. On New Year's Eve, he says there's an added concern protesters will disrupt more celebrations after pro Palestinian supporters tried to spoil the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting over this past year. The police department did an amazing job doing the tree lighting to mitigate any form of major disruptions, and they're going to do it this year. Adam says NYPD will monitor online chatter. Top Biden administration officials are in Mexico today to discuss the influx of migrants. More on this from Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons. US Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln in Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandre Mayorcis will meet with Mexican President andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to address the ongoing border security challenges and what each country can do to alleviate the problem. B Lincoln's office notes the migration across the southern border has been unprecedented. B Lincoln is expected to focus on creating legal pathways into the US as well as additional enforcement in Washington. Nancy lyons Bloomberg Radio Now, one of Mayor Adam's main focuses next year will be trying to get the federal help on the migrant crisis. I have to keep hammering away at this issue, and I'm really pleased that we are now in the chorus of other cities that are joining us. There are currently sixty eight thousand asylum seekers in New York City's care right now. And a new program would allow New York City to direct money to new construction after a tax incentive favorable to developers lapsed last year. The New York Times reports the plan would direct public money toward mixed income housing projects in wealthier neighborhoods. The hope is that developers will produce more affordable units using the income from those high rent market rate apartments. The Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm maybe Morrison. This is Bloomberg John. All right, thanks Amy, and that brings us to five ten on Wall Street. Time down for the Bloomberg Sports Update. And for that, here's Dan Schwarzman. Good Morning John. Week seventeen of The NFL season kicks off tomorrow in Cleveland as the Browns are hosting the Jets. Cleveland is ten and five, Jets coming at six and nine. Jets head coach Robert Salad talking about how the Jets can take some inspiration from Cleveland season. They're doing a really nice job. Defensively, they're playing at an eightee level, very similar. Special teams are doing very well. But for sure, we'll definitely look at some things in areas where we can be better, so in the event this happens again, we can keep the vote above water and just kind of replicate what they're doing. That's courtesy of Jets dot Com. Trevor Simeons starting at quarterback for the Jets. Joe Flacco for the Browns. GA in the NBA to Detroit Pistons, setting a record for most consecutive losses in a single season in league history as they dropped their twenty seventh in a row, losing to the Brooklyn Nets won eighteen to one twelve, Cameron Johnson leading the Nets with twenty four points. Elsewhere in the league, futility in Washington as the Wizards are five and twenty four, losing to the Magic one twenty seven to one nineteen, while the Spurs are only four and twenty five after a one thirty one to eighteen home loss to the Jazz. The Nets added again tonight as their home for the Milwaukee Bucks, while the Knicks are on the road facing the thunder in Oklahoma City. The three day NHL Christmas Holiday is over most of the league in action tonight. The Rangers home for the Washington Capitals. Devil's welcoming in the Columbus Blue Jackets. It's the Boston Bruins on the road of the Buffalo Sabers, while the Islanders are home for the Pittsburgh Penguins. That's your Bloomberg Sports update on Dan Schwartzman from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syria's Exam, the Bloomberg Business app, and Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm John Tucker. We are looking at the risk of a wider Admit East war. This morning. Fresh attacks by Houthi rebels shipping in the Red Sea provided the latest warning signs. Let's get the update this morning, and I'm happy to say. We're joined by Bloomberg's Rob Mathieson, the news director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ro's nice to talk to you again. It's not anything new attacks in this region. What is different this time? Well, that's right. The attacks and themselves are not that new. They have been a patent for many years now in this sort of narrow area of water in the Red Sea. And of course the Houthies who are based in Yemen but bat by Iran sort of quite often targeting shipping in the area, but again sort of harrying them more than sort of causing serious damage. But what we're seeing is an escalation in that pattern of attacks in the backdrop of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. And we're also seeing it come against the backdrop of those other attacks that are going on, strikes against US forces who are based in Iraq, retaliatory strikes against groups that are operating in Iraq, all of those groups in the end sort of seemingly linking back to Iran, which says it's not trying to disrupt commercial shipping in the area, but neither is it seemingly raining in these groups that it supports and so all of that comes at a moment of high tension in the region. You've got significant military forces operating. The US Navy is in the area, other countries sending naval ships to try and support shipping that's passing through, and so the possibility of sort of a broader conflict does exist as a result, although so far we haven't seen that happen, and Iran has sort of urged some restraint itself. In a climate where you just have shipping in such close proximity, the possibility of a broader conflict cannot be ruled out. Is this going to draw in other actors at this point, Well, there are multiple actors on this sort of the Iran supported side already involved in different ways. Obviously in the conflict itself with Israel. You've got Hesblah still lobbying things from the across the Lebanon border. You've got the Huthi's operating out of Yemen. You've got groups operating out of Iraq, so they've got quite a few proxies at the moment for Iran operating in the region. On the other side, you've got the US Navy quite actively trying to support shipping shooting down drones and other rockets as they're firing through the air from Yemen. You've got other countries sort of saying they want to send their ships to support, and this talk this plan for sort of a naval support task force that's going to support shipping and deter further strikes in the region. You've got India talking about sending warships. So again, you've just got an awful lot of actors involved, none of whom who want really to end up in an outright conflict. But again, with so much shipping in close proximity, be it commercial shipping and naval shipping, the possibility of an accident even cannot be ruled out. Yeah, is it likely that the US would be forced to act even more assertively in this region, Well, they're very much not wanting to unless they have to, particularly again when it comes to Yemen. The US has been working hard in recent years to extricate itself from Yemen and of course urging the Saudi Arabians to also de escalate there, and not something that the US President Joe Biden wants to get particularly directly involved in again and certainly doesn't want to get involved in a one on one conflict that involves Ran and so it does exist as a possibility. The US very much doesn't want to end up with boots on the ground in another conflict. They've become very risk averse about that if you see prior history involving places like Afghanistan for example, they don't want to do that. But again, more and more they are engaging directly in support of shipping in the region and shooting down stuff that might be even flying towards Israel from Yemen for example. So at some point it doesn't become a bit moot. Are they sort of involved militarily yes? Are they directly military involved? They would say no, and they don't want to be Whether or not this is your expertise, I don't know. But in terms of the impact on commodities, especially oil for instance, is it kind of surprising we haven't seen a bigger jump in commodity prices as a result of these attacks. Well, we are seeing oil at least being supported as a result of this. You've got brand near eighty one dollars a barrel, it's about the highest level in almost a month. You're also seeing gas prices rise in a way that the commodity that may react more to this is gas because of concerns around restrictions on supply in the region if Iran really got involved in a conflict, and so the immediate concern maybe less about oil and how much needs to be shipped through that region or how much oil can come from Iran, but really the concern is about a possible impact on gas. We saw some gas fields in fact out of operation in the early days of this conflict between Israel and her mask that was out of an abundance of caution, and they have now resumed operation. But really the commodity that may react the most of this is gas, and that's one that we're watching closely. Today. You're listening to Bloomberg Daybreak. Today you're warning brief the story is making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed at six am Eastern each morning, on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street time on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in the New York, Bloomberg ninety nine one in Washington, Bloomberg one oh six one in Boston. And Bloomberg nine sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon Alexa devices. Just say Alexa play Bloomberg eleven thirty plus. 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1) The US military launched strikes on three installations in Iraq targeting what it said is a terrorist group backed by Iran that Washington has accused of a series of attacks on American personnel, including one Monday which left three people injured.
2) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined three prerequisites to achieving peace in its war with Hamas: the destruction of the group, the demilitarization of Gaza and for Palestinian society to be “deradicalized.”
3) Former President Donald Trump told a federal appeals panel on Saturday that he should be granted immunity from prosecution with regard to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election because he was acting within the bounds of his official duties when he took the actions.
4) OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above $100 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said, a deal that would cement the ChatGPT maker as one of the world’s most valuable startups.
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Good morning. I'm John Tucker and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. We begin with developments in the Mid East. The US military launched strikes on three installations in Iraq over the weekend, targeting what it says is a terrorist group backed by Iran. Washington's accusing the group of engaging in a series of attacks that injured American personnel. Late Monday, US Central Command released a statement saying the air strikes appeared to kill a number of Hensblah militants and Irans as a member of its armed forces was also killed. Meanwhile, Iran saying an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed a senior commander of its Revolutionary Guard, and Iran's president promising Israel will pay a price for the action. The Lebanese militant group HESBLA is calling the strike an assassination that crosses a line. Well in Israel, John pressure is growing on Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu to shift his nation's approach, and it's more with Hamas off and published in the Wall Street Journal Yesday, Natanya, Who's said, in order to achieve peace, Hamas must be destroyed. In Palestinian society must be deradicalized. It comes on the heels of the Biden administration continuing to back Israel's right to defend itself, but it's calling on Israel to scale back a large attacks and engage in more precise operations to reduce the toll on Palestinian civilians. Allies of Israel on Capitol Hill, like South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, says he blames civilian deaths on Hamas. Israel is trying to mitigate casualties. We need more humanitarian aid as long as it doesn't go on to the hand of the hands of a mosque. Republican Senator Lindsay Graham was speaking on ABC's This Week and the Hamas run Health Ministry says more than twenty thousand people have been killed in Gaza since the wars started in response to the October seventh terror attack in Israel, Atlanta Councils Senior Fellow Carmel abittells Bloomberg. The pressure is also growing on the Biden administration to encourage Israel to change its policy. The atrocities as we've seen them in Gaza are just agonizing, and with that public opinion in the United States and around the world is shifting, and pressure on Israel is growing to, if not entirely end the war through a permanency is fire, to at least pursue a temporary ceasefire, and to move to the next phase of this war. Carmiel Arvid with the Atlantic Council was speaking with our Kaylee Lines on Bloomberg's Balance of Power. You can hear the full analysis the Balance of Power podcast, available wherever you download your podcasts. Well back here in the US, john pressure continues to mount on universities following testimony from earlier this month in which the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania struggle to respond to questioning about how calling for the genocide of Jews violates school policy. In the wake of calls for the resignation of Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, a growing number of faculty members are turning their focus to the other eleven members of the powerful governing board that runs a school. Some faculty are calling for members of the Harvard Corporation, the university's board, to resign or apologize. One professor even floated an idea to the Governor of Massachusetts a new school governance structure that would give lawmakers the chance to appoint a board member to represent the public interest. And we're also following Karen the geopolitical developments in Russia's war with Ukraine. Russia says a warship that an eastern Crimean port had been damaged in a Ukrainian missile strike, and Ukraine wasn't just engaging in naval attacks. The New York Times reported this weekend that the Ukrainian military claiming it shot down five Russian fighter jets in three days, one of the biggest weekly losses for the Russian air force since that war began. Man John The New York Times is also reporting Russia President Vladimir Putin could be thinking about a ceasefire. In a recent address to his generals, he said Ukraine was so belieaguered that Russia's invading troops were doing what we want quote an unquote, But behind the scenes, sources tell The Times Putin's signal through intermediary since at least September that he's open to a ceasefire that would freeze fighting along current lines. And turning to politics here in the States, former President Trump says he has absolute immunity having served as a former president. Trump telling a federal appeals panel that he should be granted immediately from prosecution with regard to his efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election because he was acting within the bounds of his official duties when he took the actions. The appeals panel has said it will hear the arguments. January eighth, Let's go to markets now. John wall Street's returning to a holiday shortened training week, and Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett joins us with a preview. After eight weeks of gains for the S and P five hundred index, there are questions as to whether the holiday chare will continue into twenty twenty four. Sarah Hunt is chief market strategist at Alpine Woods Capital Investments. I think that the biggest problems we're going to see next next year are going to be around whether or not earnings and growth can really increase to the extent that the market is expecting it to, because if it can't, we're priced really well. We had a lot of multiple expansion this year and not a lot of earnings growth. We're pricing that in for next year. There are no scheduled S and P five hundred earnings this week. Bank earnings with the likes of JP Morgan, Chase, City Group and Wells Fargo kickoff January twelfth in New York Charlie Bloomberg Radio, all right, thanks Charlie. In corporate news this morning, sources tell Bloomberg open Ais in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at evaluation at or above one hundred billion dollars, and Bloomberg's Dennis Pelagreeny joins US with that story. Sources say investors potentially involved in the fundraising round have already been included in preliminary discussions, and if the funding round happens is planned, the creator of chet GPT would be the second most valuable startup in the US, behind only Elon Musk's SpaceX. Sources also say open Ai has held discussions to raise funding for a new chip bench with Abu Dhabi based G forty two, and has discussed raising up to ten billion dollars for that. It's unclear whether the chips venture and the wider possible company funding efforts were now hearing about our related Denise Pelygrindy Bloomberg Radio. All right, Denise. Thanks. Elsewhere on the corporate front, the Sole Economic Dailies reporting Samsung has delayed mass production plans at its new hiplant in Texas. Sources tell the South Korea newspaper mass production would begin in twenty twenty five. Samsung previously said the factory would star production in the second half of twenty twenty four. Is another blow to the Biden administration's ambition to increase domestic semiconductor supplies. All right, thanks Karen, and 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 Scott car Scott. Good morning, Thanks John, Good morning. Following a weekend of reportedly intense fighting between Israel and Hamas, particularly in northern Gaza, where Israeli forced to say now they've largely taken control, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo paid a visit to IDF troops in the region Monday and estimated seventy people were said to have been killed and one Israeli strike in central Gaza. The Israeli military says fifteen of its troops lost their lives over the weekend. Federal officials are now calling for the opioid reversal drug nalaksoone to be stocked in all government buildings. Recently, the Department of Health and two Human Services has proposed all federal buildings should be stocked with the drug, alongside automated external defibrillators. It marks the first change in federal building safety guidelines in nearly fifteen years. The US now has new plans in place to target banks that facilitate payments for Russia's military industrial complex. Bloomberg's Amy Morris has more from Washington. President Biden is amending two executive orders that will for the first time, allow the US to impose so called secondary sanctions over the Ukraine War. US officials tell Bloomberg that means banks could face severe financial penalties for doing business with firms already sanctioned, whether they know it or not. While many international banks no longer do business directly with Russia, they can act as correspondent banks for financial institutions in third countries that still do. In Washington, Amymoor as Bloomberg Radio, a wearable AI device developed by former Apple employees, is set to ship in March it's called the Humane AI Pin, and for about seven hundred dollars you can attach it to your clothes and interact with it. Former Apple worker Imanchadris part of the team behind the creation of the new AI device. There are no wakewords, so it's not always listening or always recording. In fact, it doesn't do anything until you engage with it, and your engagement comes through your touch, voice, gesture, or the laser ink display. The pins projectors designed to be able to send information onto a user's hand. We were able to pack a law of technology into something really small. It runs a Qualcom snap Dragon chipset, and that means it's really fast, which is crucial for AI. A recent demo of the pin shows it doing everything from real time language translation to making calls and playing music, Global news twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with Bloomberg News. Now, I'm Scott Carr, and this is Bloomberg John. All right, Thanks God. That burns us to five eleven on Wall Street Time. Now offer the Bloomberg Sports Update PIM for that. Here's Dan Schwartzman. It was a Christmas Day tripleheader in the NFL and a Christmas miracle in Kansas City as Las Vegas Raiders knock off the Chiefs twenty to fourteen. Zameir White twenty two carries one hundred and forty five yards on the ground for Vegas. She's falled to nine and six on the season. Raiders are now seven and eight. Meanwhile, he was ugly in Philadelphia despite the Giants making it close to the second half, Swift makes the move zone Scott Eagles. That's courtesy of Fox Sports. Giants lose at Philly thirty three to twenty five, as Eagles are now eleven and four. Giants fault of five and ten on the season. Afterwards, head coach Brian Davill didn't have much to say, give them credit. Came down to the you know, to the end and just it's quite done to get the June that's courtesy off Giants dot Com. And in the finale, the Ravens now twelve and three, winners of five in a row. They dominate the forty nine Ers in San Francisco thirty three to nineteen as Brock Purty throws four interceptions for the forty nine Ers five games on the NBA docket, Nick surprise the Bucks in New York won twenty nine to one twenty two. Jalen Brunson thirty eight points, Nuggets knocking off the Warriors one twenty to one fourteen. Celtics a road went over the Lakers in Los Angeles one twenty six to one point fifteen. Christaps Porzingis twenty eight points, eleven rebounds, while the seventy six ers fall to the Heat in Miami won nineteen to one thirteen and Luka Doncic with fifty points for the Mavericks in a one twenty eight to one fourteen went on the road in Phoenix. That's your Bloomberg Sports update on Dan Schwartzman from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias Exam, the Bloomberg Business app and Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm John Tucker. As you just heard the US military launching Christmas Day strikes three installations in Iraq, targeting what it said is a terrorist group backed by Iran. Here to discuss that and what else is going on on the Mideast, joining us from Dubai this morning Bloomberg News Henry Meyer. Henry, thanks for being with us this morning. What do we know about this US air strike and the reasons behind it? Good morning, John, Yes, I mean what we understand is that the US military attacked three installations in Iraq yesterday, targeting this group which is linked to Iran, and this was in retaliation for an attack on a US base in Iraq that wounded three servicemen. So, you know, I think that this is a pattern which we've seen in the past. Obviously, there have been in a series of attacks in recent weeks on US military installations in both Syria and Iraq which have met with American retaliation. But you know what's interesting is that this happened on at the same time as Israel is reported to have carried out an airstrike in Syria which assassinated the top Iranian revolutionary regards military advisor in the country. So, you know, we see a sort of certain escalation which is taking place, obviously in the context of the war in Gaza, and this is sort of fanning concerns that there will be other fronts that will open up in this war. Yeah, with respect to the US Christmas Day strikes in Iraq is that directly tied to the war between Israel and Hamas. It's not directly tied. But what we've seen since October seventh, which is when you know, the war began in a Gaza, that the number of attacks have increased on US basis in the region. So definitely there has been you know, a link between the two. So you know, I think obviously what happened in Syria, I would argue, is much more serious actually because we've seen this pattern of attacks in Iraq and Syria on US basis and with you know, retaliation that has been going on for several weeks. But I would argue that the you know, the reporter at Israeli operation to target this senior reigning commander in Syria that could lead to a much bigger spiral of confrontation in Iran has avowed to take revenge. Henry, the Israeli Prime Minister Nittanya, who he was out with an op ed piece. In it he delivers what he says are prerequisites for peace with Hamas. What are those conditions? Well there, Primarily what he says is the demilitarization of Gaza, and he said the the radicalization Palestinian society. I mean, Israelis have been you know, quite very critical of the Palatinian authority. What they say has been the refusal to condemn the attacks October seventh on southern Israel, so you know event and then the final condition is the establishment of a buffer zone, which would be a sort of security cordon to prevent such attacks taking place in the future. You know, what that tells you is that the Israeli war goals are still very ambitious, and you know, they're not close to fulfilling them. And despite all the American pressure which has been increasing to at least scale back the operation, if not to end it in Gaza, we can see from Nata Naho's statement here that you know, they are determined to continue. The Biden administration has pressed Israel to change the approach. Is there any sign that is going to change just about twenty seconds. We don't know if that's going to happen, and we know that there are talks that are going to take place this week in Washington with a key advisor of Nittanyahu. He will be discussing whether that can happen. But as I said, the signals coming from Israel are still very much that they will continue at the current rate of offensive. You're listening to Bloomberg Daybreak today your morning brief. The story is making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. 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3) In Asia - After a devastating pandemic and prolonged economic slowdown in China, how has Macau's casino and gaming business recovered?
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- Israeli President Isaac Herzog said his country is prepared to agree to a second humanitarian pause in fighting in exchange for the return of more hostages held by Hamas.
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