Bloomberg Intelligence

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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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