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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, I'm Stephen Carroll. I'm in Brussels, where many of Europe's biggest decisions get made.
And I'm Caroline Hepke in London. We're the hosts of the Bloomberg Daybreak Europe podcast.
We're up early every weekday, keeping an eye on what's happening across Europe and around the world.
We do it early so the news is fresh, not recycled, and so you know what actually matters as the day gets going.
From Brussels, I'm following the politics, policy and the people shaping the European Union right now.
And from London, I'm looking at what all that means for markets, money and the wider economy.
We've got reporters across Europe and around the globe feeding in as stories break.
So whether it's geopolitics, energy, tech or markets, you're hearing it while it happens.
It's smart, calm and to the point.
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Chapter 2: What updates are there on the Iran ceasefire situation?
The U.S.
role was very important. It helped us identify, because of the technology that the U.S. has, the locations where most... Target tracking. Exactly. Target tracking and their intelligence helped us. And most of the operations, I would say all of the operations, not most of the operations, were... led by our armed forces with the support of the U.S.
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa in an interview with Bloomberg's Anne-Marie Hordern. Disney is reportedly planning to eliminate as many as 1,000 positions in the coming weeks. The Wall Street Journal reports many of these cuts will be focused in the company's recently consolidated marketing department. Disney is also combining some staff of Disney Plus and its Hulu services.
Now, Disney has already laid off more than 8,000 people since 2022 as part of a major restructuring. Minutes of the last Fed meeting show a growing number of officials were worried that the Iran war could further stoke inflation, and officials wanted to make clear that the Fed may have to consider raising interest rates. Here is Bloomberg's Michael McKee.
Most participants raised the concern that a protracted war could lead to further softening of labor markets, which would warrant additional rate cuts. But many participants pointed to the risk of inflation remaining elevated for longer than expected, which, quote, could call for rate increases.
The vast majority of participants noted that progress toward the committee's 2% objective could be slower than previously expected.
That is Bloomberg's Michael McKee. In the New York metro area, Long Island architect Rex Huerman pleaded guilty to murdering eight women in a string of unsolved crimes dating back to the early 1990s. They became known as the Gilgo Beach Killings. Authorities say the women were killed over a 17-year span. Here is Huerman's attorney, Michael Brown.
As attorneys, we've counseled him, we've advised him, but that decision is ultimately up to the defendant. He controls his case, and that's his prerogative, that's his right, and that's what happened here today.
The 62-year-old Heuermann will be sentenced in June to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A federal appeals court in Washington declined a request from Anthropic to pause a Pentagon declaration labeling the AI company as a risk to the U.S. supply chain.
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