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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Karen Moscow. The Justice Department is facing new pressure to release more information about its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The lawmakers who sponsored the bill to compel the agency to unseal its documents were able to review the unredacted files. Republican Thomas Massey says what he saw could lead to more criminal prosecutions.
The user interface is a little clunky at first, but what I saw that bothered me were the names of at least six men that have been redacted that are likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files.
Republican Thomas Massey was joined by Democrat Ro Khanna. He described those six men as, quote, very powerful people who raped these underage girls. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, appeared for a video deposition before the House Oversight Committee, but it didn't last long.
At any point during your personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, were you aware that Mr. Epstein was sexually abusing minors and adult women? I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions.
Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during the five-minute hearing. It led the oversight panel's top Democrat, Robert Garcia, to ask, who is she protecting? In related news, in the UK, Keir Starmer shored up his position as prime minister at the end of a dramatic day in Westminster that at times seemed like he might be forced to step down.
Figures across the governing Labour Party told Bloomberg that Starmer appeared to be safe in the immediate term after he secured the public support of every cabinet minister. The source of Starmer's latest woes are his controversial appointment in late 2024 of Peter Mandelson to serve as Britain's U.S. ambassador, despite his known ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
To Arizona now, where the investigation into the disappearance of Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy, has entered the second week. A ransom deadline set by the 84-year-old's purported abductors apparently passed last night. Savannah Guthrie released a video saying her family is at an hour of desperation.
No matter where you are, even if you're far from Tucson, if you see anything, you hear anything, if there's anything at all that seems strange to you, that you report to law enforcement.
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Chapter 2: What new information is emerging from the Epstein investigation?
It would mark President Trump's most consequential retreat from the fight against climate change. Sources tell Bloomberg a move to scrap the Obama-era endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, is expected as early as tomorrow. The policy underpins rules including federal emission standards for cars and trucks.
Turning to the markets now, and trading begins this morning with stocks at or near record highs. Chip companies did some of the heavy lifting. We get more with Bloomberg's John Tucker. John.
The Dow, it closed at a record, helping push the S&P 500 to within a few points of a record. NVIDIA, it rose 2.4%. And Broadcom, it ended the session up 3.3%. Stuart Kaiser is head of U.S. equity trading. It's a strategy at Citigroup Global Markets. He was on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.
I think what you're really seeing is within the tech trade, the shift has moved kind of away from the spenders and to the beneficiaries of that spending. Well, the AI spending this morning showing up in the results for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. Their January sales grew at the fastest clip in months. This is the contract chipmaker for NVIDIA reporting a 37% rise in January revenue.
Chapter 3: Who are the powerful individuals implicated in the Epstein files?
TSMC, which also produces chips for Apple, it has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the surge in artificial intelligence. In New York, I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.
All right, John, thank you. While Alphabet has received more than seven times orders for the expected $1 billion sale of an ultra-rare 100-year bond, a landmark transaction in the debt-fueled race for artificial intelligence supremacy. The 100-year note received the most orders among the five sterling tranches that Alphabet's looking to raise today.
The 100-year note is part of a broader financing spree for Alphabet, which raised funds in U.S. dollars and is now tapping Swiss francs and the sterling market across different maturities. CVS Health missing Wall Street profit projections for 2026. It failed to clear the high bar the market set for the company after saying in December all of its business units would grow this year.
Coca-Cola offered a 2026 full-year sales outlook with a top end of the range that came in around Wall Street estimates. It was bolstered by higher prices and demand for zero-sugar drinks.
spotify the swedish music streaming giant added a record number of users last quarter it far surpassed wall street expectations and taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing's january sales grew at their fastest clip in months taking a look at futures this morning they are higher as traders gear up for a slate of economic data s p futures up about two-tenths of a percent. So are Nasdaq futures.
Dow futures are little changed and your treasury yield at 4.17 percent. And that's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Karen Moscow 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. As one of the world's leading financial centres, the UK puts over £10 trillion to work every day, fuelling innovation across every sector. Home to four of the world's top universities, it provides exceptional talent and breakthrough research.
This sits alongside a clear 10-year industrial strategy, unlocking smarter regulation and making it faster and easier to operate.
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