Oliver Crook

Bloomberg News Now · Trump Says US Will Blockade Strait, Bank Earnings Incoming, More · 12 Apr 2026 podcast

His slogan has been now or never, basically, which is suggesting in some people's minds this is the time to pivot back to the European Union.

Bloomberg News Now · No Deal Between US and Iran, Hungary Key Election, More · 12 Apr 2026 podcast

Everybody here in Hungary has been tense with anticipation in terms of the outcome here.

Will it end the longest running European political dynasty within the European Union, Viktor Orban's premiership here in Hungary?

And that is the big question.

If you look at the polls leading into this, you know, there are many of them showing a double digit leave for the opposition candidate, Peter Magyar.

That being said, every single person I've spoken to, whether it's the experts, whether it's the man on the street, nobody wants to make a prediction of how this is going to go.

Bloomberg News Now · SF Fed Gov Mary Daly Talks A.I, US/Iran Make Nuclear Progress, More · 17 Feb 2026 podcast

I think that the sort of expectations are fairly low from, you know, the sort of renewed effort with the trilateral talks that involve the United States, the Ukrainians and the Russians, where basically this is the third meeting in about three weeks.

So there certainly has been an increase of the cadence of these sort of negotiations.

That being said, again, you listen to Marco Rubio while he's been in Munich, while he's been in Budapest over the last couple of days.

He's basically saying some days I feel better about it than others.

But at the end of the day,

I'm not really in a position to say whether or not we're any closer to a resolution for this war.

Bloomberg News Now · Apple Working on New Wearables, Jesse Jackson Remembered, More · 17 Feb 2026 podcast

I don't imagine that this is something you can just hammer out in a couple of summits.

The first round of talks was on February the 6th.

This is only the second round of talks.

When you think about the difficulty and the diplomacy here required in order to strike a deal, this is not something that is likely to happen overnight.

That being said, we have been surprised in the past that

by Trump foreign policy efforts that have yielded something that was completely unexpected.

We think, of course, of the truce or the ceasefire that was arrived at between the Israelis and Hamas, which really is something that at first I think there was very little optimism could really be achieved and then suddenly sort of came into fruition rather quickly.

Bloomberg News Now · Remembering Jesse Jackson, Ukraine/Russia Negotiations, More · 17 Feb 2026 podcast

I think that the sort of expectations are fairly low from, you know, the sort of renewed effort with the trilateral talks that involve the United States, the Ukrainians and the Russians, where basically this is the third meeting in about three weeks.

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