Trump Vows More Strikes, Haley: Iran Was Never Going to Deal, More
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News When You Want It with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Amy Morris. President Trump says Iran will, quote, pay the price for delaying negotiations for an interim peace deal after renewed attacks overnight. We're going to be attacking them, attacking them very hard.
You're resuming bombing? Yeah, well, based on the helicopter, I guess we have the right to do that.
Trump referring there to the downing of a U.S. military helicopter off the coast of Oman. President Trump says more strikes are coming. Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, says the president should stop negotiating.
Iran was never going to do a deal. They have excavated 50 of the 69 tunnels that hold missiles. They're rearming.
Hear more of our interview with former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, on the Bloomberg Talks podcast. Indexes dropped after Trump made those remarks. We check markets for you all day long here at Bloomberg. The S&P 500 down 1%, NASDAQ down 1.25%, the Dow down 1.3%, the 10-year Treasury yield at 4.54%, and the 2-year yield at 4.13%. WTI crude oil now at $91 a barrel and Brent crude at $94 a barrel. Supermicro Computer has announced a plan to raise $7 billion through a package of equity offerings to help pay for the production of more AI servers. Shares of Supermicro Computer now have fallen 20%. Rising gas prices pushing inflation to its highest level in three years last month. Bloomberg's Michael McKee has the May Consumer Price Index.
Four point two percent is the inflation rate for the last 12 months in the headline CPI. That's exactly what was anticipated.
What recent actions did Trump announce regarding Iran?
The month over month for the headline is up half a percent as anticipated for the core. It is a two tenths gain. And for the year over year number, it is two point nine percent.
Bloomberg's Mike McKee reports two-tenths percent gain for the core was still a bit cooler than expected. Sources tell Bloomberg that SpaceX's initial public offering has attracted demand for more than four times the available shares. SpaceX is pricing more than 555 million shares at $135 apiece. That pricing takes place tomorrow. Shares begin trading on Friday. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Kuwait Investment Authority have each placed orders for shares worth $1 billion to $5 billion. Banks leading the IPO will stop taking institutional investor orders after the market closed today. Bill Gates on Capitol Hill for a closed-door hearing about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, telling the House panel that his meetings with Epstein were a grave error in judgment.
and that he never had any indication that Epstein was involved in ongoing criminal conduct. House Oversight Chair James Comer says the panel would be asking Gates about emails Epstein sent to himself about Gates having sex with Russian girls. Gates says he's never interacted with Epstein's victims, but has admitted to having two affairs. Comer also says he wants Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch to testify about how he's handled the Epstein files. He wants that testimony set for next month. The reemergence of the New World Screw Worm and continued drought are complicating efforts to rebuild beef supplies, and it's keeping prices high. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins told the House Agriculture Committee that they've been ready for this.
We know this development is a serious threat, but it did not catch us off guard. The last USDA had an equivalent of 10 full-time employees working on the New World Screw Worm. Before it was even confirmed, we had over 110 employees.
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