Chapter 1: What insights does Vanguard provide about bonds?
Today's show is brought to you by Vanguard. To all the financial advisors listening, let's talk bonds for a minute. Capturing value and fixed income is not easy. Bond markets are massive, murky, and let's be real, lots of firms throw a couple flashy funds your way and call it a day. But not Vanguard. At Vanguard, institutional quality isn't a tagline. It's a commitment to your clients.
We're talking top-grade products across the board of over 80 bond funds. actively managed by a 200-person global squad of sector specialists, analysts, and traders. These folks live and breathe fixed income. So if you're looking to give your clients consistent results year in and year out, go see the record for yourself at Vanguard.com slash audio. That's Vanguard.com slash audio.
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Nathan Hager. There is the sound of the opening bell from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 entering today's session in record territory at the open. The S&P 500 is little change to the upside, a gain of about another point.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is adding to its record gains, up two-tenths of 1% or about 100 points. And the Nasdaq Composite opens, little change to swinging between gains and losses, I think we can say. We'll get back to the market in the moment, but we begin with chases on the high seas. The U.S.
military says it has seized a Venezuela-linked ship, formerly known as Bella 1, after a pursuit from the Caribbean into the North Atlantic. Bloomberg's Simon Casey has been tracking this with the very latest now.
It's a Russian-linked vessel, I think we can call it that. It's part of the Shadow Fleet, which many of you know. No, it's part of this global fleet of tankers that are subject to sanctions. Frequently, they turn off their transponders. They literally try to fly under the radar.
Bloomberg's Simon Casey reports U.S. European Command says it seized the vessel, formerly known as Bella 1, for violating U.S. sanctions. U.S. Southern Command says it interdicted another stateless, sanctioned Dark Fleet vessel, the Sophia, in Caribbean waters overnight. On all this, oil is swinging. Right now, West Texas Intermediate is lower by three-quarters of one percent.
Brent crude is down three-tenths percent. All this comes after President Trump announced that the U.S. is going to receive up to 50 million barrels of sanctioned Venezuelan crude to be sold at market prices to benefit both countries. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the U.S. needs to control oil sales to change Venezuela and to reassure U.S. oil companies concerns.
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Chapter 2: How are the Dow Jones and S&P 500 performing today?
Leaders in Denmark and Greenland are pushing for a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. That's after the White House said President Trump has not ruled out military force to take over the Arctic territory. Danish Deputy Parliament Speaker Lars Christian Brask says this should not be how allies treat each other.
Some common sense. must be applied. We've been a partner with the US for more than 80 years. We have helped them in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And actually, I think the Danish military lost most soldiers per population of any in those wars.
Danish Deputy Parliament Speaker Lars Christian Brask spoke on Bloomberg Television. The Wall Street Journal reports Secretary Rubio told U.S. lawmakers this week President Trump's goal is to buy Greenland from Denmark.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his team is moving on to the most difficult issues now that they've reached a breakthrough on security guarantees with President Trump's envoys during talks in Paris. We get more from Bloomberg's Greg Sullivan.
We heard from European leaders and American negotiators that progress was made. European leaders were quick to stress that there is now alignment between the U.S., Europe, and Ukraine on security guarantees. We heard talk of a multinational reassurance force that would be in the country were peace to be achieved. The role and scope of that force is still unclear.
Bloomberg's Greg Sullivan reports President Zelensky also says he hopes to meet with President Trump soon. Turning back to the markets, Treasury yields are falling after we got our first look at how the labor market ended last year. We get more on that from Bloomberg's Michael McKee.
ADP is out with its monthly estimate of jobs created in the month of December. 41,000, they say. Annual pay up 4.4%. The change in private employment, of course, is 41,000. They don't measure what's happening with government.
Bloomberg's Mike McKee says we'll get those numbers when the Labor Department reports December jobs on Friday. In corporate news, Alaska Airlines has placed its biggest order of Boeing jets ever as it lays the groundwork to build a global network. Alaska says it's buying 105 narrow-body 737 MAX 10s and another five Boeing 787-10 wide-body aircraft. At the open, Boeing shares are lower by 0.3%.
Alaska's up 0.4%. Warner Bros. Discovery is little change to the downside. The studio's board rejected Paramount Skydance's latest offer, saying it is still inferior to the deal it already has with Netflix. At the open, Netflix shares are up 1%.
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Chapter 3: What recent actions has the U.S. military taken regarding dark fleet tankers?
Paramount is down three-tenths of 1%. Ventix Biosciences is surging by more than 50, 5-0% at the open. The Wall Street Journal reports Eli Lilly's in advance talks to buy the maker of Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis treatments for a billion dollars. And that's news when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Nathan Hager. This is Bloomberg.
Today's show is brought to you by Vanguard. To all the financial advisors listening, let's talk bonds for a minute. Capturing value and fixed income is not easy. Bond markets are massive, murky, and let's be real, lots of firms throw a couple flashy funds your way and call it a day. But not Vanguard. At Vanguard, institutional quality isn't a tagline. It's a commitment to your clients.
We're talking top-grade products across the board of over 80 bond funds. actively managed by a 200-person global squad of sector specialists, analysts, and traders. These folks live and breathe fixed income. So if you're looking to give your clients consistent results year in and year out, go see the record for yourself at Vanguard.com slash audio. That's Vanguard.com slash audio.
All investing is subject to risk. Vanguard Marketing Corporation Distributor.
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