Chapter 1: What factors make the UK a unique place for business?
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Krisner. And we begin with the stock market, where it was another day of heavy selling in software shares, given worries over the impact of AI. A new version of Anthropic's most powerful AI model can carry out financial research.
It's also designed to be better at a range of other work-related functions, and that would include making spreadsheets and presentations, as well as software development. Today, the S&P 500 software and services sub-index fell by more than 4.5%.
After the bell, Amazon's first quarter outlook was below consensus, and the company said it intends to spend $200 billion this year on data centers, chips, and other equipment. Now, the market is suspecting that Amazon's massive bet on AI will take longer to pay off than anticipated. Here is Bloomberg analyst Poonam Goyal.
They need to invest. We know that Amazon has to continue to invest in cloud services. It needs to invest in AI. So there's a lot of catch up that needs to be done here. I think the long run narrative here is still good. The underlying results were solid across both AWS and retail.
That is Bloomberg analyst Poonam Goyal. Shares in Amazon were down 10 percent in late U.S. trading. At the same time, there was a sell-off today in Bitcoin. It tumbled below 64,000 as an unwinding of leveraged bets deepened. Bitcoin lost more than 12% during New York trading, and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says Bitcoin is facing a real crisis of faith.
A lot of people sold Bitcoin as being the next gold. And it turns out that in the face of doubts about stability, doubts about politics, the next gold turns out to be gold, not Bitcoin. I think it's a big wake up for people that maybe this isn't actually going to be an enduring asset.
That is Nobel laureate Paul Krugman speaking on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily. Bitcoin has wiped out all of its gains since President Trump's election set off a speculative rush into cryptocurrencies. Now, Bitcoin's plunge has rocked the digital asset complex, and few companies are more exposed than the Bitcoin treasury company Strategy Inc.
Today, after the bell, the company confirmed a net loss of $12.4 billion for the fourth quarter. Shares in Strategy Inc. were down by more than 2% in late U.S.
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Chapter 2: How is AI impacting the stock market and software shares?
trading, but these shares have lost 45% of their value so far this year. The treaty limiting U.S. and Russian deployment of the most dangerous nuclear weapons lapsed overnight, and President Trump is renewing calls for a stronger pact instead of extending the current agreement known as the New START Treaty. Here is former Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry.
I think we haven't addressed nuclear disarmament in over a generation here in the United States. I think it's a worthwhile endeavor. I think the complexity of this administration's foreign policy is not well understood by the market. Everything is interconnected. Russia, the Middle East, China. Russia, Ukraine, Middle East, China, Canada.
All the trade conversations, all the foreign policy and Department of War actions, they're all connected.
That's Patrick McHenry, former Republican congressman and Bloomberg News contributor. Meantime, the U.S. and Russia have agreed to restart high-level military contacts. They were suspended shortly after the invasion of Ukraine. Today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant testified before the Senate Banking Committee on financial oversight.
And during the hearing, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Besant about the possibility of the Trump administration bringing a lawsuit against Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh if he does not lower interest rates. Now, Warren's question referenced reports over the weekend that Trump joked that that he would sue Warsh if he did not get interest rates down.
Here is the exchange between Warren and Besant.
That is up to the president. Can you commit that you will... I'm sorry.
Can you commit that you will not hold up? You can't say that he won't be sued if he doesn't drop interest rates?
And he won't be criminally investigated? The president also made a joke about you that I won't repeat, Senator Warren.
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Chapter 3: What is Amazon's AI spending plan for the year?
He said he had reservations.
If this was a joke, why not just say so?
It was a joke, and he made a joke about you too, Senator Warren. Yes, he did. He got a lot of laughs.
Now, Besant went on to say that Warsh is highly qualified to be Fed chair. In Tucson, Arizona, the search continues for Nancy Guthrie, who vanished from her home five days ago. She is the mother of Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor of NBC's Today Show. Yesterday, Savannah Guthrie made an emotional plea to her mother's apparent kidnapper.
But so far, there has been no response, and investigators have no evidence Nancy Guthrie is still alive. They are taking seriously a ransom note sent to media outlets with a demand for money.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Amazon face with its AI investments?
It also contained details about Nancy Guthrie's home. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says every police resource in his county will now be involved in this investigation.
I've made a decision to contact our PCRIT team. That's our Pima Regional Critical Incident Team. It's made up of law enforcement officers from this entire valley, the Oral Valley Police Department, so many of them. And they are going to help us tremendously.
Now, the FBI is offering up to $50,000 for information used to find Nancy Guthrie. And that is news when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Krizner, and this is Bloomberg.
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This sits alongside a clear 10-year industrial strategy, unlocking smarter regulation and making it faster and easier to operate. Stability with dynamism. Global connectivity with local depth. It all adds up to greater growth. Visit business.gov.uk slash growth.
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