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21 JUN 2025 · 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 U.S GDP and personal spending data and Nike earnings.
- In the UK – a look ahead to TheCityUK's annual conference.
- In Asia – a look ahead to Bloomberg’s China economic survey.
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Guests:
-Michael McKee, Bloomberg International Economics and Policy Correspondent, to preview next week's U.S GDP/personal spending data.
- Poonam Goyal, Senior U.S. E-Commerce and Retail Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to preview Nike earnings.
-Leo Kehnscherper, Bloomberg European Asset Management Reporter, looks ahead to TheCityUK's annual conference.
-Julian Harris, UK Economics Editor, looks ahead to TheCityUK's annual conference.
- Eric Zhu, China Economist for Bloomberg Economics, discusses Bloomberg’s China Economic Survey.
-Karishma Vaswani, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist in Singapore, discusses her column: “US Rethink on Australia Subs Is China’s Win.”
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20 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) President Donald Trump will decide within two weeks whether to strike Iran, his spokeswoman said, as Israel hit more Iranian nuclear sites and warned its attacks may bring down the leadership in Tehran.
(2) Iran is racing to get its oil out into the world, a sign of the unusual logistical steps that Tehran is undertaking as the US mulls joining Israel in bombing the Persian Gulf state.
(3) The conflict between Israel and Iran is spilling over into the digital world, inflaming a decades-long campaign of hacks and espionage between two nations renowned for their cyber prowess.
(4) Organized gangs are behind most UK vehicle theft, using electronic tools to disrupt remote locking devices, and police are struggling to keep up, with an estimated nine stolen cars slipping through their fingers for every one intercepted.
(5) The Bank of England held interest rates at 4.25% in a more divided vote than expected as policymakers weighed up the UK’s softening jobs market and weak growth against a backdrop of mounting geopolitical tensions.
(6) The European Union is continuing intensive trade talks with the US ahead of a July 9 tariff deadline set by President Donald Trump and is “making progress,” according to EU Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis
Podcast Conversation: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-18/mattel-gambles-with-ai-toys-and-kids-social-skills?srnd=undefined&sref=AuZ8DRMfSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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19 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) Senior US officials are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign that Washington is assembling the infrastructure to directly enter a conflict with Tehran.
(2) Federal Reserve officials continued to pencil in two interest-rate cuts in 2025, though new projections showed a growing divide among policymakers over the trajectory for borrowing costs as tariffs make their way through the US economy.
(3) The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates at 4.25% on Thursday and signal it is sticking with its one-cut-every-other-meeting approach as officials try to strike a balance between elevated inflation, higher oil prices and a slowing economy.
(4) London is seeking to attract more Chinese firms to list on its stock exchange as the city struggles with a shrinking equity market and a deal drought across Europe.
(5) The number of London homes for sale at £5 million ($6.8 million) or more rose to the highest on record last month, as the nation contends with the departure of wealthy foreigners looking to escape tax hikes.
Podcast Conversation: https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/SY1OU4DWLU68See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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18 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) President Donald Trump met with his national security team in Washington for more than an hour on Tuesday to discuss the escalating Middle East conflict, according to people familiar with the matter, fueling fresh speculation that the US is on the verge of joining Israel’s attack on Iran.
(2) US President Donald Trump has a wide range of military assets in the Middle East and across the globe to bring to bear in a potential fight against Iran as he weighs one of the most momentous foreign policy decisions of his administration.
(3) The top US bank regulators plan to reduce a key capital buffer by up to 1.5 percentage points for the biggest lenders after concerns that it constrained their trading in the $29 trillion Treasuries market.
(4) The UK is looking to restrict the number of visas it gives to countries which refuse to sign returns agreements with Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, as his government pursues more assertive measures to reduce levels of net migration.
(5) OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said Meta Platforms Inc. has offered his employees signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual compensation packages, as it seeks to build a top artificial intelligence team.
Podcast Conversation: https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/SY0OAOT1UM0WSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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17 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) President Donald Trump is set to depart the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in Canada a day early, after warning residents of Tehran to evacuate the city as Israel continued to bombard Iran in a bid to disable its nuclear program.
(2) President Donald Trump’s hasty exit from the Group of Seven conference in Canada deepened questions about his promise to bring peace to an increasingly violent world and added fresh evidence of his skepticism toward the institutions that have long underpinned US diplomacy.
(3) Oil jumped after US President Donald Trump called for the evacuation of Tehran, before paring gains, as the market remained on edge about an escalation in the conflict with Israel that could disrupt crude supply.
(4) Prime Minister Keir Starmer reached an agreement with US President Donald Trump to implement trading terms disclosed last month to slash US tariffs on key British exports and raise UK quotas on certain American agricultural products.
(5) US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba failed to reach an agreement on a trade package on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, an outcome that leaves the Asian nation inching closer to a possible recession as the pain of US tariffs hits its economy.
(6) The Bank of Japan left its benchmark rate unchanged and unveiled a plan to slow its withdrawal from the bond market from next year in a sign of caution following heightened market volatility.
(7) A damning report into group-based child sexual exploitation in England and Wales has found that the ethnicity of people involved in grooming gangs has been "shied away" from -- and not recorded in two-thirds of cases.
Podcast Conversation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-16/citadel-s-ken-griffin-interview-trump-harvard-immigration-and-miami?sref=AuZ8DRMfSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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16 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) Open hostilities between Israel and Iran entered a fourth day on Monday with no sign of easing, stoking fears of a wider war in the oil-rich region.
(2) Oil-watchers are bracing for a further price rally after Israeli strikes on Iranian energy assets heightened the risk to Middle East supplies.
(3) President Donald Trump said he believed it’s possible Israel and Iran could reach an agreement to end their conflict, though the two sides may need to continue fighting before they’re ready to broker a peace deal.
(4) The UK government is trying to walk a tightrope on relations with Israel, expressing support for its military action against Iran while also criticizing the war in Gaza.
(5) The UK will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, as he strives to strengthen commercial ties around the world to better insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
(6) The UK appointed the first woman to lead its secret intelligence service MI6 as Prime Minster Keir Starmer warned of the increasing threats Britain faces from its adversaries.
Podcast Conversation:https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/SXX10TT0AFB4See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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13 JUN 2025 · 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 next week’s Fed decision.
- In the UK – a look ahead to next week’s Bank of England decision.
- In Asia – a look ahead to next week's Bank of Japan decision.
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13 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) Israel launched waves of airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic-missile sites on Friday morning, a major escalation in the standoff between the two adversaries that risks sparking a wider war in the Middle East.
(2) Explosions were heard across Tehran and in the city of Natanz, home to one of its nuclear sites, according to videos and local media.
(3) US President Donald Trump says Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, Fox News journalist Bret Baier reports, citing an interview with him after Israel launches strikes against Iran. The strikes came just hours after Trump had suggested to reporters the US still believed in the prospects for a diplomatic solution.
(4) Oil surged as much as 13% after Israel carried out waves of military strikes against Iran, raising fears of a wider war in a region that accounts for a third of global crude production.
(5) Stocks fell along with equity-index futures and investors rushed to the safety of haven assets after Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear program sites in a major escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Crude oil jumped 9%, the biggest move in more than three years.
(6) Investigators have started combing the wreckage of Air India flight AI171 as they seek to determine what caused the Boeing Co. Dreamliner to crash shortly after takeoff Thursday afternoon, killing all but one of the 242 people aboard in the deadliest aviation accident in more than a decade. See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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12 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) As the pace of wealthy individuals leaving London quickens, the numbers are starting to stack up: Labour’s flagship “tax the rich” policy risks becoming a net drain on the UK economy.
(2) Rachel Reeves will pump billions of pounds into areas outside London as the Labour government tries to head off an electoral threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
(3) President Donald Trump said he intended to send letters to trading partners in the next one to two weeks setting unilateral tariff rates, ahead of a July 9 deadline to reimpose higher duties on dozens of economies.
(4) The US ordered some staff to depart its embassy in Baghdad and authorized families of military service members to leave the region, officials said, after Iran threatened to strike American bases if it’s attacked over its nuclear program.
(5) The Pentagon has launched a review of the Biden-era Aukus pact to develop nuclear-powered submarines with Australia and the UK, as the Trump administration looks to shift the burden for collective defense to allies and make sure the US has enough warships of its own.
(6) Northern Ireland has seen a third night of clashes between rioters and police, in violence that's been described by officials as racially motivated.
Podcast Conversation:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/five-affordable-french-countryside-resorts-that-pair-perfectly-with-paris?sref=AuZ8DRMfSee https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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11 JUN 2025 · Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will defend her fiscal choices and trumpet billions of pounds of infrastructure investment in the UK spending review on Wednesday, as Keir Starmer’s government seeks to regain momentum after a faltering first year in power. (2) The US and China agreed to a preliminary plan to ease trade tensions, which could revive the flow of sensitive goods between the world’s two largest economies. (3) Donald Trump can continue to enforce his global tariffs for now, a federal appeals court held in a win for the president on one of his signature economic policies. (4) European Central Bank Governing Council member Yannis Stournaras said the US’s unpredictable behavior on tariffs is undermining the dollar’s status as the global reserve currency and is an opportunity for the euro, according to an interview in Handelsblatt. (5) Secretary of State Marco Rubio rebuked five allies over sanctions they imposed on two members of Israel’s cabinet as fissures between the US and its partners widen over the war in Gaza and the treatment of Palestinians. (6) Curfew area will be about one square mile in downtown, and runs from 8pm to 6am, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass says at a press conference. Podcast Conversation: https://blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories/SWNKJEDWRGG0See https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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