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TikTok Seals US Deal, Fed Chair Interviews Wrapped, More

23 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

2.528 - 15.458 Doug Krisner

News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Doug Krisner. TikTok and its Chinese parent company have closed a deal to transfer part of TikTok's U.S. operations to American investors. Here is Bloomberg's Annabelle Droolers.

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Chapter 2: What are the details of TikTok's deal with U.S. investors?

15.86 - 35.204 Annabelle Droolers

We've got TikTok and ByteDance that have established that JV to transfer parts of TikTok's U.S. business to non-Chinese owners. And so as part of that deal, you're going to get essentially a newly created U.S. entity. And we've actually already been hearing that staff within the U.S. had already been starting to be split into these teams just in the last few weeks.

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35.224 - 39.049 Annabelle Droolers

So essentially just creating a bit of a firewall around what happens in the States.

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39.029 - 62.903 Doug Krisner

That is Bloomberg's Annabelle Droolers. Now, this new U.S. entity will be owned by Oracle, Silverlake, MGX and existing ByteDance investors. President Trump says he has completed interviews with candidates to succeed Jay Powell as Fed chairman. Trump reiterated he has someone in mind and an announcement is coming soon. Here is Trump speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.

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64.585 - 77.895 Donald Trump

I'll be telling you soon. No, I have somebody that I think will be very good, but I'm not going to reveal it. Someone from Wall Street? Someone from Wall Street? Somebody that's very respected, very well known, and will do, I think, a very good job.

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78.112 - 95.6 Doug Krisner

Now, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson previously said Trump could announce his pick for Fed chair as soon as next week. The struggling chipmaker Intel issued a lackluster forecast for the current quarter. Now, in recent months, the market has been betting on new products from Intel, further boosting the company's finances.

95.7 - 104.153 Doug Krisner

However, Intel says supply shortages are making it harder to meet customer demand. We got reaction from Matt Bryson of Wedbush Securities.

104.133 - 124.183 Matt Bryson

So it's a little bit hard to tell. When Intel tells you that they're really supply constrained, you don't know with their guide how much is the disappointment on the top line. Is it their inability to fulfill demand or is it rather just demand has dipped?

124.433 - 139.843 Doug Krisner

Capital One Financial has agreed to acquire the fintech company Brex. It focuses on corporate expense management and accounting. Now, the acquisition was announced as Capital One issued its latest quarterly results. More from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

139.823 - 155.622 Charlie Pellett

The deal would be Capital One's biggest since its roughly $35 billion acquisition of Discover Financial Services last year, which created the biggest U.S. credit card lender. Stephen Bigger is director of financial institutions at Argus Research.

Chapter 3: What did President Trump say about the Fed chair interviews?

213.281 - 218.889 Howard Lutnick

So let's talk about the national security and shipping lanes and let's see if we can't figure out a framework to do that together.

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219.149 - 240.398 Doug Krisner

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaking to Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In Minnesota, there have been confrontations between protesters and immigration agents following the shooting of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent earlier this month. Today, Vice President J.D. Vance spoke in Minnesota in an effort to, quote, lower the temperature.

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240.578 - 257.275 J.D. Vance

When federal law enforcement officers violate the law, that is typically something that federal officials would look into. We don't want these guys to have kangaroo courts. We want them to actually have real due process, real investigation, because again, Sometimes they're accused of wrongdoing, and it turns out when you learn the context, they didn't actually do anything wrong.

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257.556 - 270.017 Doug Krisner

Vice President Vance also defended the Trump administration's deportation raid, saying they are trying to enforce the law. And that is news when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Krisner, and this is Bloomberg.

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