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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Caroline Hepker. And I'm Stephen Carroll. The United States says that it has carried out multiple strikes on targets in Iran after President Trump accused Tehran of dragging out talks on an interim peace deal. The attacks come just 24 hours after earlier US strikes, which were launched in retaliation.
for the downing of an American Apache helicopter. In an interview with Fox News, Trump said that he had spoken directly to senior Iranian officials and warned that the US would carry out further strikes on Thursday unless Iran's leadership agreed to sign a deal. William Roebuck is executive vice president at the Arab Gulf States Institute.
He wants a deal that's better than what President Obama got or what Biden looked at. He thinks the JCPOA was a bad deal and he's gone to war over it.
former U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain William Robach there. Before the latest strikes, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that the country's armed forces were fully prepared for fresh attacks and capable of targeting additional American assets. Meanwhile, with the Strait of Hormuz still largely closed, new data shows that U.S.
crude inventories fell by 7.2 million barrels last week as the drawdown in global oil reserves continues. New analysis from Bloomberg Economics shows the risk of Europe falling further behind the US if the EU doesn't enact major reforms.
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Chapter 2: What recent actions did the US take against Iran?
Bloomberg's Tiba Adebayo has the story.
Oil companies, miners, chip makers and banks are the big winners among European firms. Bloomberg Intelligence data forecasts operating margins to grow almost 8% for stock 600 companies this year. That's after three consecutive years of declines. Rising crude prices have made big oil the biggest contributor to the reversal. Banks are being boosted by higher rates and savings from AI-led job cuts.
But despite the progress, Europe's margin recovery remains fragile as the Iran war continues to disrupt energy markets. And if inflation remains sticky, the outlook for consumer companies may darken further. In London, Tiwa Adebayo, Bloomberg Radio.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the US strikes on Iran?
The European Central Bank is expected to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023 today, with more than three months of conflict in the Middle East, keeping oil prices elevated. Economists in a Bloomberg poll are predicting a quarter point hike when policymakers meet. That decision would make the European Central Bank the world's first major...
Central Bank to lift interest rates in response to the crisis and expectations are building that Eurozone officials will have to tighten more than once this year. The ECB announcement takes place at 1.15pm London time today. Protesters have clashed with police in Belfast overnight as UK politicians blame extremists online and Elon Musk for promoting unrest.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill says that some are encouraging hatred.
These bad actors are actually using what's happened on Monday night and playing to people's fears and orchestrating this whilst they sit cosy in their homes and encourage all these other people to go out onto the streets.
O'Neill was joined by a range of politicians in pointing to social media as a catalyst for violence, which started after a video of a stabbing circulated online. Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey called for a crackdown on social media and, quote, tech billionaires fueling hatred.
Elon Musk has repeatedly amplified both far-right UK politicians and calls for mass deportations on his platform in the past few days. OpenAI says China has been using chat GPT accounts to stir up local opposition to data centres in the US. Bloomberg's Ewan Potts has the details.
OpenAI says it's found a cluster of chat GPT accounts originating from China that used AI to create English-language social media posts about data centres raising the cost of electricity for Americans. The start-up says the accounts were likely linked to a private, unnamed Chinese technology company doing work for Chinese provincial-level government clients.
OpenAI says the postings did not have a wide reach, but they raised concerns about foreign attempts to undermine a strategic US industry. In London, I'm Ewan Potts, Bloomberg Radio.
Now to some sports news. The New York Knicks are on the brink of the first championship win since 1973 after beating the San Antonio Spurs by one point. Their one-point victory featured an NBA Finals record, a 29-point comeback culminating in just the final second of play. Here are the last few seconds as heard on ABC.
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