Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Krisner, and we begin with earnings reported after the bell. Alphabet's fourth quarter revenue was above expectations. However, the company also said it plans to spend far more than investors had anticipated this year. CapEx is set to double in 2026. Here is Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde.
They are dialing this up because they must feel, it must be taken that they've felt from the market, you've got some bandwidth to do this right now. Because what we've heard time and time again, think of Microsoft's numbers, is that their issue isn't one of demand, it's one of supply. Shares in Alphabet were down by something greater than 1% in late U.S. trading.
Qualcomm gave a lackluster forecast for revenue in the current period, and the outlook only added to concern over component shortages and how that may drive up prices and in turn hurt consumer demand. Qualcomm is the largest maker of smartphone processors. Here's Jay Goldberg from Seaport Research Partners. So I think there's a near-term problem and a longer-term problem.
The near-term issue is memory. Memory prices are expensive. That cuts into everybody's margins. It's going to eventually cut into consumer demand. Phones will be more expensive because of the memory. It's a well-known story. So I think that's a near-term headwind. Longer term, I think Qualcomm has some pretty significant challenges, and I'm not sure they're ready to address them yet.
That's Jay Goldberg from Seaport Research Partners. Shares in Qualcomm were down by more than 9% in late U.S. trading. The sales forecast from the British chip designer Arm Holdings was disappointing, and right now U.S.
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Chapter 2: What were Alphabet's fourth quarter earnings and investor reactions?
listed shares in Arm down more than 6% in late U.S. trading. In the equity market today, the appetite for risk was diminished, and the rotation out of tech shares gathered momentum. Software firms were caught up in another wave of selling, but chipmakers saw bigger losses, We had the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 4.3% today.
Now the NASDAQ 100 dropped nearly 1.8% and breached its 100-day moving average. That is a level seen by some analysts as a harbinger for more losses. Here is Sarah Hunt, Chief Market Strategist at Alpine Woods. The market was coming into all of this on fairly high levels and had a lot of expectations.
And even if you're meeting some of those, it's not good enough in an environment where people are starting to get scared again about what is going to get disrupted by AI. And you can hear more from Sarah Hunt on the Bloomberg Businessweek Daily podcast. The U.S. and Iran are set to meet in Oman on Friday to discuss a nuclear deal. Even so, President Trump sent a warning to Iran's leaders as U.S.
military forces entered the region. Here is Trump speaking exclusively to NBC News. I would say he should be very worried, yeah, he should be. As you know, they're negotiating with us. I know they are, but the protesters have said, you know, where are the Americans? You promised them we would have their back. Do we still have their back?
Well, we've had their back, and look, that country's a mess right now because of us. We went in, we wiped out their nuclear. So that's the question, if we wiped them out... You know, we have peace in the Middle East. If I didn't take out their nuclear, think of it, if we didn't take out that nuclear, We wouldn't have peace in the Middle East because the Arab countries could have never done that.
They were very, very afraid of Iran. They're not afraid of Iran anymore. President Trump speaking with NBC's Tom Yamous. Now, earlier today, the U.S. said it wanted to discuss other issues with Iran. However, Iranian leadership. wants to limit discussions to its nuclear program. The Department of Homeland Security will immediately reduce its enforcement presence in Minneapolis by 700 agents.
White House Border Czar Tom Homan says the government will rely more on taking custody inside jails rather than making arrests in the community. More officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails means less officers on the street doing criminal operations. This is smart law enforcement, not less law enforcement. It's safer for the community, safer for the officers.
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Chapter 3: How is Qualcomm's revenue forecast affecting the tech market?
and safer for the alien. About 2,000 immigration agents will remain in Minnesota. The drawdown follows weeks of uproar after immigration agents shot and killed two US citizens. Today, US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant appeared before a House committee with the intention of discussing the annual report from the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
He was asked whether President Trump has the authority to fire a member of the Fed's Board of Governors over a policy disagreement. Here is Besant in an exchange with New York Democratic Representative Richie Torres. I'm not a lawyer. What is the administration's opinion? There are varying opinions in the administration. What's the prevailing opinion, the official opinion?
Again, we'll have to see. Do you consider the Federal Reserve an executive agency or a legislative agency? I consider it an independent agency. So neither executive nor legislative? We'll see. Therefore, independent of presidential control.
Chapter 4: What challenges are impacting Qualcomm's performance in the near and long term?
It sounds like you do have an opinion. Again, we will see, Congressman. Thank you for establishing the independence of the Federal Reserve. I do believe that the Federal Reserve has to maintain credibility and be like Caesar's wife. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.
Incidentally, President Trump is trying to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook for cause, citing allegations of mortgage fraud in a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. And that is news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Doug Krisner and this is Bloomberg. As a place to do business, the UK stands apart. Not because of a single advantage, but a uniquely powerful combination of many.
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