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The US Supreme Court ruled that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can stay in her job for now, reinforcing the central bank’s independence from the White House and dealing a setback to President Donald Trump.
In a separate ruling, the court expanded the president’s power to fire top government officials at other federal agencies.
Voting 5-4, the high court said Cook can remain at the Fed while she fights Trump’s bid to oust her over unproven mortgage fraud allegations. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the three liberals in the majority.

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• June Grasso, Bloomberg Law Host
• Elliot Stein, Bloomberg Intelligence litigation analyst 
• Tyler Kendall, Bloomberg Washington correspondent 
• Gautam Mukunda, Lecturer at Yale School of Management and Bloomberg Opinion contributor

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- Ed Ludlow, BTech Anchor discusses the top tech stories. Technology stocks slumped after Apple and Microsoft raised prices for their products, stoking concern that rising component costs will curb demand for devices. Investors are reassessing whether soaring memory prices may begin to choke off spending by raising costs for electronics makers and consumers alike. Separately, OpenAI is leaning toward holding off on an initial public offering until 2027, according to the New York Times, citing three people involved in the company’s deliberations.

-David Welch, Bloomberg Detroit Bureau Chief, discusses Volkswagen looking to cut tens of thousands of additional jobs. The plans include doubling staff reductions and cutting general overhead costs by €11 billion by the end of this decade. Labor leaders have pushed back against the new plans, stating they "unsettle our workforce and the regions where we operate" and vowing to oppose them with all their might.

-George Ferguson, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Aerospace, Defense, & Airlines Analyst, discusses Boeing securing an order from China Southern Airlines  valued at $3.62 billion, marking an important win for the US manufacturer after seeing orders dry up from Asia’s largest aviation market in the past decade.

-Sridhar Natarajan, Bloomberg News Chief Wall Street Correspondent, discusses the latest at JPMorgan Chase. Troy Rohrbaugh was promoted to co-president at JPMorgan and will oversee the bank's consumer business. Rohrbaugh's promotion came after the departure of Marianne Lake, and he will receive a one-time award of $30 million as part of a retention bonus. The move has lifted Rohrbaugh's odds of potentially replacing Jamie Dimon as CEO, with insiders speculating on the rapid rise of Rohrbaugh and Doug Petno, who will have sole charge of the Wall Street operations.

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-Jake Silverman, Bloomberg Intelligence Semiconductor Analyst, recaps Micron earnings. Micron Technology Inc. shares surged after the company issued a quarterly sales forecast that exceeded Wall Street estimates, signaling that an AI-fueled growth run remains strong. Micron has secured 16 strategic customer agreements, which suggests the company can mitigate the boom-and-bust cycles that have plagued the memory chip industry.

-Michael Halen, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Restaurant and Foodservice Analyst, discusses earnings from Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants Inc. posted a cautious overall profit outlook as same-store sales at Olive Garden trailed expectations. The company sees fiscal 2027 earnings per share from continuing operations between $11.10 and $11.35, below analysts’ forecast.

-Matt Miller, Open Interest Co-Host on Bloomberg Television and Co-Host of the Hot Pursuits Podcast, discusses his interview with Ford CEO Jim Farley. Ford hired veteran engineers to help train younger staff and reprogram artificial intelligence tools to address quality problems. The result of this effort is that Ford is the top mainstream brand in the latest JD Power Initial Quality Survey, with three of its models ranking highest in their respective categories.

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-Lee Klaskow, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Transport, Logistics and Shipping Analyst, recaps FedEx earnings. FedEx shares fell after the parcel delivery company posted its first earnings report since completing the spinoff of its freight unit earlier this month. Results seem to have fallen short of investor expectations after a strong run-up in the first half of the year. 

-Ryan Ward, BloombergNEF Weather Associate, discusses how AI is modeling mega storms with surprising accuracy. AI hurricane forecasts faced a first stress test in 2025: Hurricane Melissa, the strongest Category 5 hurricane in the modern era. AI models are trained on historical data, meaning a storm of this magnitude was not in the training set and potentially not predictable.

-Linda Cohn, ESPN Sportscenter Anchor, discusses retiring after 34 years at ESPN. Hall of Fame sportscaster Linda Cohn has served as a SportsCenter anchor since joining ESPN in 1992. She is ESPN’s longest-tenured SportsCenter anchor and in early 2016 was recognized for anchoring her 5,000th SportsCenter, the most of any anchor in ESPN history. In 2017, she was inducted into the National Sports Media Association (NSMA) Hall of Fame.

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-Brian Egger, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Gaming and Lodging Analyst, discusses Carnival earnings. According to Bloomberg Intelligence: Carnival's outlook for 1.75% constant-currency full-year revenue-yield growth (2.25% excluding deployment and loyalty-program changes) reflects a 100-bp guidance reduction since March, due to higher airfare and gas prices amid disruption from conflict in the Middle East.

-Robert Schiffman, Senior Tech Credit Analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses SpaceX’s historic bond debut. According to Bloomberg Intelligence: SpaceX's inaugural high grade bond offering could draw heavy demand, aided by first-time issuer scarcity and demand for diversified AI-linked credit exposure. Key-person risk, large funding needs and execution challenges tied to space and AI expansion may raise questions about balance-sheet strength and cash-flow generation over time.

-Mandeep Singh, Global Tech Research Head at Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses SpaceX. After pulling off a record $86 billion IPO in mid-June and riding an initial surge, enthusiasm waned for the stock that’s been at the forefront of a retail frenzy in speculative space and AI trades. 

-Madison Muller, Bloomberg News Health Reporter, discusses the Bloomberg Big Take: “How Eli Lilly's CEO Plans to Keep the GLP-1 Boom Going.” When Dave Ricks became chief executive officer of Eli Lilly & Co. in 2017, he was facing an industry under siege. Americans held drug companies in lower esteem than airlines, law firms and even the federal government. President Donald Trump, then starting his first term, was excoriating them for their high prices. A mounting number of reports showed that soaring costs were even forcing some diabetics to ration insulin.

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-Kevin Crowley, Bloomberg News Big Oil Reporter, discusses Chevron Corp. signing a 20-year deal with Microsoft Corp. to provide natural-gas fired power for a proposed West Texas data center. The proposed plant, Project Kilby, is expected to start producing power by 2028 and will ramp up to 2.67 gigawatts over time, enough to power more than 530,000 Texas homes.

-Sam Fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence, Director of Research for Global Industries and Senior Pharmaceuticals Analyst, discusses AbbVie agreeing to buy Apogee Therapeutics for $10.9 billion to bolster its anti-inflammatory drug portfolio. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter and reflects a roughly 49% premium to Apogee’s closing price of $90.38 on Thursday.

-Spencer Liberman, Bloomberg Intelligence Analyst, Industrials and Materials, discusses CRH agreeing to acquire US construction services company Arcosa for $8.5 billion in what is a record deal for the Irish building materials provider. 

-Dennis Lockhart, Former Atlanta Fed President, discusses the life of Alan Greenspan. Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has died at the age of 100 due to complications of Parkinson’s disease. Greenspan served as Fed chief for 18 years, from 1987 to 2006, and was known for guiding a record US economic expansion, but his legacy was later dimmed by the financial crisis that erupted after he stepped down.

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- Anurag Rana, Senior Technology Analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, joins to discuss the latest tech headlines. Accenture Plc said it’s expecting to reel in less revenue in the coming months, as artificial intelligence upends the consulting services industry and clients paused business due to the conflict in the Middle East. The company reported a 2% drop in new bookings for the quarter ended May 31, according to a statement Thursday. Accenture shares tumbled 20% in early trading in New York, marking their worst one-day drop on record. 

- Wayne Sanders, Senior Defense Analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, examines the next steps in US-Iran relations as an interim peace deal is starting to take effect, with focus shifting to the resumption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and a complex 60-day negotiating period over Tehran’s nuclear program. 

- Ira Jersey, Chief US Interest Rate Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses what Wednesday’s FOMC meeting and remarks from Chair Kevin Warsh signal about the Fed’s policy path ahead. Traders piled into betting on interest-rate hikes as soon as next month after Warsh used his debut press conference as Federal Reserve chairman to make clear the central bank won’t tolerate high inflation. 

- Ann Miletti, Head of Equity Investments & Chief Diversity Officer at Allspring Global Investments, assess the importance of portfolio diversification and earnings fundamentals as the next phase of AI implementation spurs record capex spending.

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Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz and Scarlet Fu discuss remarks from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh following the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision on a special edition of Bloomberg Surveillance.

Warsh vowed to restore price stability following his first policy meeting since taking the helm of the US central bank, after officials left interest rates unchanged and signaled growing support for rate hikes this year.

“Persistently high prices are a burden for the American people, but the recent past need not be prologue,” Warsh said in his debut press conference as chairman. Officials “are unambiguous and unanimous. This committee will deliver price stability.”

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Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz and Scarlet Fu break down the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision on a special edition of Bloomberg Surveillance.

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and were split over whether they expect to raise rates this year.

Policymakers’ new projections indicated nine officials foresee at least one quarter-point hike this year, with six anticipating at least two. Another nine expected no move or a cut.

Notably, only 18 officials out of 19 entered their projections for rates at the end of 2026. The absence of an entry suggests new Chairman Kevin Warsh, who has been critical of so-called forward guidance, declined to submit a rate forecast.

In its first gathering under Warsh’s leadership, the Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to hold its benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 3.5% to 3.75%.

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• Antonio Neri, HPE CEO, discusses the latest company news. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced new networking gear for artificial intelligence data centers, building on the products it acquired from Juniper Networks. HPE unveiled networking switches that are specialized for inferencing, or running AI workloads, and said Siemens Energy AG will use a collection of AI technologies it has built with Nvidia Corp. 
• Mandeep Singh, Global Tech Research Head at Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses the latest at SpaceX and OpenAI. SpaceX shares declined for the first time since its record initial public offering, snapping a three-day rally that vaulted it past Amazon.com Inc. as the world’s fifth-largest stock. According to Bloomberg Intelligence: OpenAI’s losses of about $34 billion, coupled with the lowering of its token pricing for its latest model, show the company’s focus on expanding beyond consumer and into enterprise use cases, including coding-agent and LLM APIs, where Anthropic and Cursor (bought by SpaceX) have higher market share. 
• Michael Dean, Bloomberg Intelligence Head of Global Autos, discusses BMW saying its profit margin could dwindle to as little as 1% this year due to weakening Chinese demand and fallout from the Middle East conflict. The company plans additional cost savings beyond those announced this year, which will weigh on its business during the second half of the year. 
• Poonam Goyal, Senior U.S. E-Commerce and Retail Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses Bloomberg Intelligence’s deep dive into E-Commerce. According to BI: Artificial intelligence is pushing US e-commerce into its next growth phase, with sales topping $2 trillion next year and nearing $2.6 trillion by 2030, despite pressure from tariffs and inflation. Amazon.com remains dominant, but Walmart, EBay, Wayfair, Temu, Shein, Etsy and Shopify-enabled merchants are widening competition through fulfillment, product data and agent-led shopping.

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