US Military Continues Iran Buildup, Former Prince Andrew Arrested, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Dan Schwartzman. The U.S. is deploying a massive force in the Middle East to put pressure on Iran with two aircraft carriers, including the world's largest, the Gerald R. Ford, hundreds of fighter jets and refueling tankers, giving President Trump the option for a major attack against the Islamic Republic. Trump says Iran cannot be allowed to go nuclear.
And we do have some work to do with Iran. They can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. You can't have peace in the Middle East if they have a nuclear weapon. And they can't have a nuclear weapon. And they've been told that very strongly.
Meanwhile, oil is jumping on reports that the U.S. may be edging closer to war with Iran than many Americans might think. Bloomberg News senior editor Eric Wiener says threats against Iran creates uncertainty in the oil marketplace.
What is OPEC's reaction going to be? How much has to be extracted from the US? How much more development needs to go on to make up for that demand? It opens up a Pandora's box of questions that the market doesn't really want. The market, which really, really likes certainty, really likes to know what's coming next. This introduces a whole variable that you can't really plan for.
That's Bloomberg News senior editor Eric Wiener. West Texas Intermediary is currently hovering at around $66.70 a barrel. Meanwhile, President Trump's board of peace set up to secure an end to the war in Gaza met today for the first time in Washington. Trump says the board received roughly $17 billion in pledges toward humanitarian and reconstruction efforts in Gaza, with the U.S. contributing $10 billion. The president is also announcing that more than a half a dozen countries have promised personnel toward a stabilization force in the Palestinian enclave.
Albania, Kosovo, Kazakhstan have all committed troops and police to stabilize Gaza.
What military actions is the US taking regarding Iran?
Egypt and Jordan are likewise providing. Very, very substantial help, troops, training, and support for a very trustworthy Palestinian police force.
Trump also says that son-in-law Jared Kushner will be a, quote, envoy of peace. Disgraced former Prince Andrew, the brother of the U.K. 's King Charles III, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office after further details emerged about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. We get more details from Bloomberg's Luis Moon.
The key question now is what's going to happen next? So we've had a statement not long ago from the former prince's brother, King Charles, saying that the law must take its course, that the police have his full support with cooperation, with the investigation and the whole process. And so that's really, as you say, the key question, what's going to happen next, whether or not the former Prince Andrew will be charged.
That's Bloomberg's Luis Moon. Today happens to be Andrew's 66th birthday. In an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday, co-chief executive officer of Netflix Ted Sarandos gave more details as to why the streaming giant gave Warner Bros. Discovery a seven-day window to re-engage with Paramount Skydance, who's locked in a bidding war for Warner Bros.
We've granted the seven-day window to get some clarity about the Paramount deal because Paramount has been out spreading a lot of misinformation to shareholders, into the markets, into regulators, in ways that have run the narrative to a state of confusion.
Sarandos also says Netflix's bid to acquire Warner Bros.
What is the significance of Trump's statements on Iran's nuclear capabilities?
Discovery will lead to more films being released in theaters, something that Hollywood has been complaining about. Despite all the Trump tariffs, the U.S. trade deficit widened in December to $70.3 billion, resulting in a full-year deficit of just over $900 billion, one of the largest in data back to 1960.
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