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On this motion, the yeas are 50, the nays are 48. The concurrent motion is agreed to.
The U.S. Senate just broke with President Trump and voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that's already passed in the House. That resolution doesn't require the president's signature and doesn't carry the force of law, but it does reflect lawmakers' growing concern over how this war is being handled, a war Americans have overwhelmingly opposed.
Still, President Trump threatened to attack Iran again if it doesn't agree to allow international weapons inspectors to check out its damaged nuclear facilities.
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Chapter 2: What recent Senate decision was made regarding the Iran war?
But at the same time, it's also shown us that there's a reckoning going on right now between where we get our energy and where we should be getting our energy.
American Petroleum Institute President Mike Summers on Bloomberg's balance of power. President Trump said 19 million barrels of oil flowed out of Hormuz just yesterday, and he called that a record. But the International Energy Agency says pre-war levels were at 20 million barrels a day. Still, oil prices are easing as more tankers cross, with Brent Crude now trading at $77 a barrel.
On Wall Street, tech stocks dragged down indexes after a sell-off in Korean chip makers stoked concerns about the sustainability of an AI rally.
Chapter 3: What concerns do lawmakers have about the Iran war resolution?
The tech-heavy Nasdaq led declines today, losing 580 points, plummeting 2.2%. The Dow was down 46 points, about a tenth of a percent, and the S&P fell 1.4%, down 107 points. The 10-year Treasury yields at 4.49 percent, the two-year yields at 4.19 percent. The dollar also touched the highest level since November today, as Trader Cement views on the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates this year.
Now, despite those losses, Sanctuary Wealth Chief Investment Strategist Marianne Bartels tells us not every sector is hurting.
Even though the S&P is down, there's a lot of companies up. You know, banks are doing really well. Biotech is doing really well. So what that tells me is that this is not a mass sell off of the market where investors don't want to own equities. This is really just a sector rotation correction that we're having within the market.
You can hear that entire conversation with Marianne Bartels on the Bloomberg Businessweek Daily podcast. SpaceX shares ended higher today, snapping a three-day sell-off that wiped out more than $600 billion from the Elon Musk-led rocket and satellite company's market value.
The stock gained 1% today to close at $156 a share and raised $25 billion of bonds, making it the largest mega-cap tech company to tap investors for its AI expansion. Robert Schiffman is a senior tech credit analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.
I do get it why people say, how are these ratings so high? And I think you just need to look into the future a little bit and look at the past. One is they're sitting on $100 billion of cash. Two is they're committed to IG ratings and reasonably low leverage. Three is their liquidity profile looks fantastic. They have access to huge pools of both equity and debt capital.
And their burn rate, it's going to take them three or four years to even get through the amount of capital that they have today.
That's Bloomberg's Robert Schiffman on Bloomberg Intelligence. Shares of FedEx also closed down more than 6% today after posting quarterly earnings that actually topped Wall Street expectations. And it predicts profits will continue growing this year despite rising costs and declining demand for parcel deliveries.
Homeland Security says it's granting the Iranian national team an extra day in the U.S. to prepare for its upcoming World Cup match against New Zealand. But it will be required to leave afterwards, and overall security measures and protocol will remain the same.
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Chapter 4: How is President Trump addressing the situation with Iran's nuclear program?
Stories that move markets.
Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut.
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Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut.
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Chapter 5: What implications do unfrozen Iranian funds have for U.S. relations?
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