Pierre Bien-Aimé
speaker
917 appearances
43 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Pierre Bien-Aimé’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 42 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 18.
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stocks today.
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There's a number of reasons for the sell-off.
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The latest driver is a jump in oil prices this week.
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Investors worry that an impasse in the Middle East will keep inflation hot and force central banks to raise interest rates.
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There's also swelling fiscal deficits, competition from corporate borrowers, and Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh's reliance.
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Reluctance to give forward guidance.
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Bond yields also rose to multi-year highs in Germany and France, and the tenure Treasury yield was on track for its highest level since January 2025, before it paired that move.
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Speaking of the Middle East, maritime security firms say two oil tankers were hit by rockets within minutes of each other while trying to make a midnight crossing of the Strait of Hermuz.
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Both ships were traveling through a corridor along the coast of Oman and the southern reaches of the waterway that the US has set up as a way to try and break Iran's hold on the street.
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No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Iran has been firing regularly at ships to assert its hold on the waterway.
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And Novartis is pausing clinical trials of an experimental therapy targeting autoimmune and neurological disorders after three patients died.
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The treatment is a form of cell therapy in which a patient's own immune cells are removed, engineered in a lab to destroy malfunctioning cells, and then infused back into the body.
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Novartis said it's working with independent safety boards overseeing each of its eight paused studies and sharing what it knows with regulators.
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And we have a lot more coverage on the WSJ's What's News.
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Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Here's your midday brief for Monday, August 31st.
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I'm Pierre Bienneme for the Wall Street Journal.
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Former Congressman George Santos is the first person to be banned for life from using Calci.
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That's after a federal regulator said that Santos made more than $17,000 betting on his own attendance at President Trump's State of the Union address.
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In addition to the ban, Calchi says it is imposing a penalty of more than seventy-one thousand dollars on the former Republican representative.
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