House Passes Bill to End Shutdown, Oil Jumps After US Shoots Down Iran Drone, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Amy Morris. The partial government shutdown is about to end. The House just passed a massive spending package that funds the vast majority of the government and a stopgap measure that funds the Department of Homeland Security through February 13th. On this vote, the ayes are 217 and ayes are 214. Without objection, the motion is adopted. The package now heads to President Trump's desk for his signature. U.S. Central Command says a U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. In an email, officials say the drone aggressively approached the aircraft carrier with unclear intent and it continued to fly toward the ship despite de-escalatory measures taken by U.S.
forces operating in international waters. That shot oil higher, WTI 1.75% higher, Brent crude 1.6% higher. And as oil gains, stocks fall from near record levels. We do check those markets for you all day long here at Bloomberg. The S&P 500 down 1.4%. NASDAQ down 2.2%. The Dow down more than nine-tenths of a percent. The 10-year Treasury yield at 4.28%. The two-year yield at 3.56%. Bitcoin has dropped to its lowest price since President Trump won the election in 2024. Bitcoin down more than 6%, now at $73,000. Novo Nordisk shares nearly 1.5% lower after that company said its sales will likely drop this year as its blockbusters, Ozempic and Wegovy, face more competition and the company is hit by the government's push to cut drug prices.
PayPal shares are 20% lower after showing a fourth quarter profit miss. CEO Alex Chris is out after his turnaround plan failed to meet targets. Walmart shares are 2.5% higher as its market capitalization passed a trillion dollars for the first time ever.
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Walmart's strong performance led some market participants to wonder how much upside may be left for the shares. PepsiCo shares nearly 4% higher after the company announced it will cut prices for Doritos and Lay's chips by as much as 15% in a bid to lift sales by offering more affordable products. Builders are working on a plan for a massive program that would develop up to a million homes to help address the U.S. affordability crisis while allowing private capital to deploy many billions of dollars. Sources tell Bloomberg the proposal calls for builders to sell entry-level homes into a pathway to ownership program funded by private investors. This program is being initiated by the builders. One White House official says the Trump administration is not actively considering it.
Walt Disney Company announced Josh DeMauro will succeed Bob Iger as CEO of the entertainment giant, ending a three-year search to replace its long-serving leader. The Walt Disney Company chairman, James Gorman, sat down with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow to talk about those leadership changes.
Josh is just a standout executive. We looked all over the world, as you could imagine. We wanted to do this right. We wanted to make sure that whoever got the job beat all comers, and he beat all comers, so we're thrilled.
Walt Disney Company Chairman James Gorman on Bloomberg TV shares of Disney about a half percent lower. Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Myron said the absence of strong price pressures in the economy means interest rates, which he described as restrictive, should be lowered again this year.
I'm probably looking for a little bit more than a point of interest rate cuts over the course of the year. I mean, look, you know, I think that the inflation data have been a little bit distorted by some some anomalous features.
Myron told Fox Business that when he looks at underlying inflation, he doesn't see strong price pressures on the economy.
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