Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Nathan Hager. The blockade on Venezuelan oil continues even after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro. Overnight, U.S.
Chapter 2: What recent actions have been taken regarding Venezuelan oil sanctions?
Central Command says the Coast Guard boarded and seized a fifth vessel suspected of trying to evade sanctions. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X that the Olena was intercepted in the eastern Caribbean. It is suspected of being part of Russia's shadow fleet.
This latest interdiction comes after President Trump announced on Truth Social he's canceled plans for a second wave of attacks on Venezuela. More from Bloomberg's Kasia Klimashinska.
Yesterday he spoke about possible land strikes against drug cartels in Venezuela. So that's still very much on his mind. But also on his mind is the oil production. He really wants the U.S. companies to go in to start pumping and selling oil.
Bloomberg's Kasia Klimashinska in Washington, where President Trump will host more than a dozen oil industry executives at the White House this afternoon. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says interest in Venezuela is high.
How can you not be interested in the world's largest oil reserves in the same hemisphere? So I think there's questions, of course, questions about security, questions about what the long term profile is going to be. But the interest level is through the roof.
And Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says the government is not likely to subsidize oil companies if they return to Venezuela. Burgum was a guest on Bloomberg Surveillance. Tensions over immigration enforcement are on the rise from coast to coast.
Protesters took to the streets this morning in Portland, Oregon after a federal agent shot and wounded two people a day after an ICE officer killed a woman in Minneapolis. This is Portland Mayor Keith Wilson.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Trump's cancellation of the Venezuela strike?
Portland is not a training ground for militarized agents. The consequences are not abstract.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson. Homeland Security says the man and woman who were shot entered the U.S. illegally from Venezuela and had ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. The New York Times reports the agency has not provided immediate evidence of that. On Wall Street, investors were waiting to see if the Supreme Court would rule today on President Trump's tariffs. They'll have to keep waiting.
The justices did not issue their opinion on the president's use of emergency law to impose import taxes. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Nathan Dean says it's leaving the world wondering whether it's in line for refunds.
Bloomberg News has called it refund chaos. And back on January 2nd, the Customs and Border Protection Agency actually put out an interim final rule that would actually reaffirm that these refunds would be sent via electronic transfer. So that's certainly interesting to see if these refunds are coming.
Nathan Dean with Bloomberg Intelligence. White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett told Fox News today the administration has a detailed backup plan if the high court does rule against the tariffs. The Supreme Court said it's next opinion day for Wednesday. Traders are also reacting to the latest jobs report, but some of them may have gotten an early heads up from President Trump.
Last night he posted a chart on social media. That included data that weren't supposed to come out till this morning. Bloomberg's Michael McKee explains.
It appears that he wanted to brag about job creation under his administration from January to January. So he published a total number of jobs created during the year. But the problem was, is it included the figures for December and. And December's figures not only added to it, but subtracted some because of the revisions. And you would have had to parse all that out.
Bloomberg's Mike McKee reports the chart did not specifically spell out the December numbers. The White House does get briefed on jobs the day before the report comes out, but the administration is not allowed to comment on the numbers until a half hour after they're released. As for today's release, it showed 50,000 non-farm payrolls were added in December and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%.
Traders are now pricing in almost no chance of a rate cut from the Fed this month. And stocks are on the rise with the S&P 500 up 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is 0.4% higher. The Nasdaq composite is up seven-tenths of one percent. Meta Platforms has cut deals with three companies that will make the Facebook parent the biggest buyer of nuclear power of any of its AI competitors.
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