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  • Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.

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    (1) Federal Reserve officials have dialed back their expectations for interest-rate cuts this year, though Chair Jerome Powell kept the door open for more as he emphasized the new forecasts represented a conservative approach.

    (2) G7 leaders are set to reach a political agreement to provide Ukraine with $50 billion of aid using the profits generated by frozen Russian sovereign assets, according to an Elysee official.

    (3) Labour is expected to reiterate its promise to target carried interest in its election policy pledges when the party announces its election manifesto today.

    (4) French President Emmanuel Macron said he won't resign if his party suffers a poor result in a snap parliamentary election as he appealed to voters not to succumb to the "fever of the extremists."

    (5) Fired SpaceX engineers have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk for sexual harassment and retaliation in California state court, escalating their multifront legal battle with the billionaire chief executive and his aerospace company. SpaceX and Elon Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit.

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    (1) Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned that France would be plunged into a debt crisis similar to one sparked in the UK two years ago if far-right leader Marine Le Pen were to win legislative elections slated for the end of the month and implement her economic program.

    (2) Conservatives on the left and right of the UK's ruling party lashed out against Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's manifesto, saying there's little prospect the electoral offer will shift opinion polls showing Keir Starmer's Labour is set for power in next month's election.

    (3) Federal Reserve officials may not be ready to finalize closely watched projections for interest rates until the publication of a key report on consumer prices on the final day of their two-day policy meeting.

    (4) The Biden administration is considering further restrictions on China's access to chip technology used for artificial intelligence, targeting new hardware that's only now making its way into the market, people familiar with the matter said.

    (5) While the Italian prime minister's star keeps rising internationally, problems lurk back home with allies she can't quite trust and an economy operating on borrowed time.

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  • Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.On today's podcast:
    (1) Rishi Sunak faced last-minute calls by cabinet ministers to add new tax cuts and a tougher migration policy to the Conservative manifesto after early drafts provoked disquiet over the lack of big-ticket pledges that might prevent a heavy defeat in the UK general election.

    (2) Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is seen garnering 34% of voter intentions in the first round of upcoming French legislative elections, compared with 19% for President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party, according to a poll.

    (3) Bill Gross is finding opportunities in Europe after surprising election results in the region rattled markets and sent French bond yields to their highest mark this year.

    (4) The European Central Bank must stay cautious, and last week’s cut in borrowing costs won’t necessarily be followed by further rapid moves, according to President Christine Lagarde.

    (5) Apple took the wraps off long-awaited new artificial intelligence features, including a partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, betting that a personalized and understated approach to the technology will win over customers.

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    (1) After a crushing defeat in the European Parliament election on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron called a snap legislative ballot in a desperate bid to stop the rise of his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen.

    (2) Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set to solidify her power after winning the vote in Italy for the European Parliament as far-right parties gained across the union.

    (3) Benny Gantz resigned from Israel's emergency government and called for elections, criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the war against Hamas.

    (4) Britain's Labour opposition has scrapped plans to reintroduce a tax-free limit on pension saving as the five main political parties prepare to publish their manifestos this week amid questions about how they'll pay for their campaign pledges.

    (5) Apple's developers conference on Monday will show whether the iPhone maker can become a major player in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, marking a critical moment for a company forced to adapt to a new era.

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  • Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Tom Busby takes a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week.

    In the US – a preview of next week’s U.S CPI data and Fed decision, and a look at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.In the UK – a preview of London tech week.In Asia – a look ahead to India CPI data and a monetary policy decision from the Bank of Japan.

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    (1) After a series of recent setbacks, Europe’s far-right parties are aiming for gains in elections to the European Parliament that kicked off on Thursday.

    (2) The European Central Bank delivered on its promise to cut interest rates but left investors querying where policy is headed next by also saying it will take longer for inflation to reach 2%.

    (3) In a staggering loss for US prosecutors, a jury found UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch not guilty of criminal charges that he pulled off Silicon Valley’s biggest-ever fraud 13 years ago by duping Hewlett Packard Co. into buying his software startup for $11 billion.

    (4) Britain’s next government will immediately face a funding crunch in town halls after councils warned of a £6.2 billion ($7.9 billion) hole in their budget plans over the next two years.

    (5) Keir Starmer’s Labour Party plans to provide mortgage guarantees to first-time buyers in a bid to help young Britons get onto the housing ladder if it wins next month’s general election.

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    (1) The European Central Bank is poised to start lowering interest rates from record highs, confident that inflation is sufficiently contained to ease the burden on the economy.

    (2) Nvidia was already the world’s most valuable semiconductor firm. Now, it’s become the first computer-chip company ever to hit $3 trillion in market capitalization.

    (3) A flood of cash from passive equity allocations will pour into the stock market in early July, setting up a continuing rally through the early summer, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s trading desk.

    (4) LondonMetric Property will join the FTSE 100 Index in a reshuffle that pushes Ocado Group out of Britain’s blue-chip gauge for the first time in six years.

    (5) The return of Brexit architect Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK and a candidate in next month’s general election has seen the right-wing party close to within just two points of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservatives, threatening a dire election result for the premier, a new poll by YouGov showed.


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    (1) Rishi Sunak reached for a tried-and-tested Conservative weapon in his first UK election campaign debate with Keir Starmer, repeatedly warning that the Labour leader would raise taxes. But their heated prime-time TV clash showed up the prime minister’s own weaknesses as much as his opponent’s.

    (2) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is gearing up for coalition talks after his party lost its majority in parliament, forcing him to rely on allies to form a government for the first time since he stormed to power a decade ago.

    (3) US job openings fell in April to the lowest level in over three years, consistent with a gradual slowdown in the labor market.

    (4) Intel agreed to sell a stake in a venture that controls a plant in Ireland to Apollo Global Management Inc. for $11 billion, helping bring in more external funding for a massive expansion of its factory network.

    (5) UK banknotes featuring the portrait of King Charles III will enter circulation Wednesday, though they’re likely to be rare for some time in everyday cash transactions.

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    (1) India will announce election results later today, with investors already cheering a third term victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi based on exit polls, pushing stocks to a record.

    (2) Rishi Sunak is considering hardening his Conservative Party’s position on the European Convention on Human Rights, as disastrous polling and Brexit architect Nigel Farage’s decision to stand for Reform UK in the general election leave the premier’s ruling party facing a potential wipe out.

    (3) Marks & Spencer’s chief executive officer pay rose by about £2 million ($2.6 million) last year as the UK retailer’s turnaround progressed.

    (4) A glitch during a software update early Monday led the New York Stock Exchange to erroneously halt trading on about 40 stocks and display odd trades showing a 99% drop in companies including Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

    (5) GameStop shares have surged after the Reddit account that drove the meme-stock mania of 2021 posted what appeared to be a $116 million position in the video-game retailer on Sunday.

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    (1) South Africa's African National Congress has begun talks with rivals to form a government following its worst performance since Nelson Mandela led it to power at the end of apartheid in 1994.

    (2) Keir Starmer will today pitch Labour as the "party of national security" in a bid to squeeze Rishi Sunak's Conservatives on traditional Tory turf as the rivals prepare to face off in a UK election debate on Tuesday.

    (3) Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico's first female leader in a landslide victory, capitalising on outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's popularity while also inheriting rampant criminal violence and a large fiscal deficit left by his government.

    (4) Oil swung between gains and losses after OPEC+ set out a plan to restore some production as early as October, despite concerns over the demand outlook and robust supply from outside of the group.

    (5) Emmanuel Macron wants to strengthen France's global influence. Unrest on an island territory thousands of miles from Paris is a huge test for that ambition

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  • Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Tom Busby takes a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week.

    In the US – a preview of the May jobs report in the U.S, and a look ahead to Gamestop earnings.In the UK – a look ahead to the next ECB decision and European Parliament elections.In Asia – a preview of China trade data, TSMC's sales and revenue, and the Computex tech show.

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    (1) Donald Trump was found guilty in the first criminal trial of a former US president in the nation’s history, a verdict that could reshape the political landscape five months before Election Day.

    (2) President Joe Biden will allow Ukraine to launch US-provided munitions against military targets inside a limited area of Russia, overcoming concern that any such move could provoke a wider war with the West.

    (3) US officials have slowed the issuing of licenses to chipmakers such as Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for large-scale AI accelerator shipments to the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter, while officials conduct a national security review of AI development in the region.

    (4) Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, who plans to purchase the company that owns UK’s Royal Mail, says the British postal service needs new investment to be competitive.

    (5) Just hours after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confidently predicted that the ruling party would easily retain its three-decade stranglehold on politics, it was increasingly clear that voters had other ideas — sending the country into uncharted terrain.


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  • Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.

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    (1) BHP has decided against making a firm offer for Anglo American, instead walking away for now from what would have been the biggest mining deal in over a decade.

    (2) Jamie Dimon said he expects problems to emerge in private credit and warned that "there could be hell to pay," particularly as retail clients gain access to the booming asset class.

    (3) The European Central Bank is set to take the unprecedented step of imposing fines on several lenders for their protracted failure to address the impact of climate change.

    (4) Saudi Arabia is preparing to formally launch a secondary offering of shares in oil giant Aramco as soon as Sunday, a deal that could raise more than $10 billion and rank among the largest of its kind in recent years.

    (5) Wall Street firms are buying up family-owned businesses from electricians to pest control. The UK's richest plumber has regrets about selling out.

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    (1) Ukraine must be allowed to target missile crews inside Russia with European-supplied weapons, according to French President Emmanuel Macron.

    (2) Germany and France have agreed to make rapid progress to deepen the European Union’s capital markets to boost investment in the bloc after years of discussions, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

    (3) Keir Starmer’s poll-leading opposition Labour Party is seeking to reassure the City of London it is not considering further taxes on Britain’s banks if it wins power at the UK general election on July 4.

    (4) The White House said an Israeli strike on an encampment in Rafah that left dozens dead was devastating but would not cause President Joe Biden to freeze additional arms shipments to the country.

    (5) With just hours left on the clock, advisers for BHP Group and Anglo American Plc were still struggling to find a breakthrough to salvage BHP’s ambitious $49 billion takeover plan.

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    (1) The killing of an Egyptian soldier in a clash with Israeli troops at a Gaza border crossing on Monday further inflamed regional tensions after an Israeli airstrike killed an estimated 45 Palestinians at a camp for displaced people.

    (2) The Labour party has won the endorsement of 120 business executives who have said that a “new outlook” is needed so the UK can “break free” from a decade of economic stagnation in a letter to The Times.

    (3) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will promise pensioners a tax cut if his Conservatives upset the odds and win the general election, the latest gambit to try to shore up the core vote as internal polling showed the Tories could lose more than 100 seats due to the resurgence of the right-wing Reform UK party.

    (4) Price increases at UK retailers fell in early May to their lowest level in more than two years, adding to signs of an improving economic outlook.

    (5) The US stock market is finally as fast as it was about a hundred years ago. That was the last time share trades in New York settled in a single day, as they will from Tuesday under new Securities and Exchange Commission rules.

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  • In this Holiday Edition of Bloomberg Daybreak:

    We take a look at markets and inflation's impact on equities with Alicia Levine of BNY Mellon and Invesco's Brian Levitt

    We check in on the strength of the global economy with Bloomberg's Michael McKee and Anna Wong.

    Plus, we get some travel tips for the summer with The Points Guy, Brian Kelly.

    Hosted by Nathan Hager

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  • Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Tom Busby takes a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week.

    In the US – a preview of core PCE inflation and GDP data, and a look ahead to Dell and HP earnings.In the UK - a look ahead to the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva.In Asia – a preview of a two-day summit between Japan, South Korea and China in Seoul.

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  • Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.

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    (1) In the City of London, executives are looking forward to the imminent general election as a chance for clarity after a turbulent few years.

    (2) A two-speed global economy skewed by US strength is overshadowing this week’s Group of Seven meeting as officials confront the prospect of less synchronized monetary policies.

    (3) Segantii is shutting down and returning capital to investors after an insider trading charge in Hong Kong sparked concerns about a flood of redemptions, according to people familiar with the matter.

    (4) Elon Musk’s SpaceX has initiated discussions about selling existing shares at a price that could value the closely held company at roughly $200 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

    (5) Alphabet and Meta Platforms have held discussions with major Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in the tech giants’ artificial intelligence video generation software, according to people familiar with the matter.

    (6) Citigroup, HSBC Holdings and Barclays are ordering more staffers to report to company offices five days a week as regulatory changes make it trickier for Wall Street to allow working from home.

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    (1) Standing in the rain and being drowned out by protesters playing the Labour Party’s 1997 victory anthem “Things Can Only Get Better” will not have been Rishi Sunak’s preferred backdrop for his announcement naming the date of the next UK election.

    (2) UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to stake the Conservative Party’s future on a rare summer election was so secret that even his chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, appeared surprised by the plan.

    (3) Nvidia the chipmaker at the center of an artificial intelligence boom, gained in late trading after a bullish sales forecast showed that AI computing spending remains strong.

    (4) Federal Reserve officials earlier this month coalesced around a desire to hold interest rates higher for longer and “many” questioned whether policy was restrictive enough to bring inflation down to their target.

    (5) BHP Group just won an extra week to convince Anglo American Plc on its $49 billion takeover plan. But the world’s biggest miner still must resolve the deal’s most intractable obstacle: What to do about South Africa?

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    (1) UK inflation cooled less than expected last month due in part to lingering price pressures at restaurants and pubs, threatening to delay interest rate cuts from the Bank of England.

    (2) European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde indicated that an interest-rate cut is probable next month with the rapid gain in consumer-price growth now largely contained.

    (3) Two Federal Reserve officials reinforced a higher-for-longer message on interest rates, emphasizing a need for patience as the central bank waits for more evidence inflation is moving lower.

    (4) Barclays is among Wall Street firms weighing whether to require scores of workers to commute to company offices five days a week, as US brokerage regulators enact new rules for supervising work at home.

    (5) Cheap electric vehicles from China are already pushing into Europe, undercutting one of the region's biggest industries. BYD which overtook Tesla.

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