We have two uh issues to deal with. One is the immediate expiration of these enhanced premium tax credits that were put in place by Democrats during co uh as a temporary measure to address healthc care affordability uh during a pandemic. Secondarily is the fact that under Obamacare, healthcare premiums have risen by 96% while insurance company profits have grown by over 2,000% during the last 15 years.Uh and so we need to tackle both of these issues concurrently. It's why I've been working in a bipartisan w ...

You're, of course, one of a handful of Republican members who crossed the aisle to sign a discharge petition that Democrats had put forward to extend Obamacare subsidies. How did we get here, Congressman. And what are you seeing that your party's leaders are not.Well, look, we have two issues to deal with. One is the immediate expiration of these enhanced premium tax credits that were put in place by Democrats during COVID as a temporary measure to address health care affordability during a pandemic. Second ...

When you get into a conversation with CEOs, they want to hear data. They want to hear facts. And I have watched him evolve and grow over the last eight months where we had conversations last week, one on housing, one on child care, where he was there with a pen and a notebook, taking notes, asking questions, and coming back with very substantive responses.So he has absorbed a lot and is now digging deep on these issues that um you know Ken Griffin expressed concern about the fact that uh he made a lot you k ...

And right now we are 2 minutes away from the end of the trading day. Romaine Bostick alongside Katie Greifeld, taking you through to that closing bell with a global simulcast. We're joined now by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec from the radio room.Welcome to our audiences across all of our Bloomberg platforms, including our partnership with YouTube. A decidedly down day. Stocks at session lows right now as we get just less than 2 minutes to those bells and Carol Massar, we're going to close below some key mov ...

We started with just one prediction market on the platform uh which was the presidential election in 2024 and since then we've gone to over 1,500 contracts on the platform across uh pretty much every domain. We've got politics, we've got world affairs, economics, culture, and we recently added weather and and of course as you mentioned sports. Well, we've had a few incidents now of alleged insider trading in prediction markets.Do you think insider trading poses a risk to fairness in prediction markets or co ...

I want to start with these sports wagering capabilities that you've added to your suite of offerings here. These preset combination contracts for professional football games, NFL games, it sounds like this is your version of parlays that are offered by traditional sportsbooks. So what is the difference between a combination trade and a parlay.Yeah. So as you mentioned, this is part of our big unveil of prediction markets, which we've offered for a little bit over a year. But remember, we started with just o ...

What's the opportunity for Hasbro over [music] the next decade that excites you most. >> I would say everything that we're doing in the gaming space. [music] So, while it is uh it is riskier than probably launching another toy or another Magic set, where we're headed on the broad definition of gaming is is super exciting.I think that that is going to be the single biggest unlock for our company. moving us away from being just Hasbro is a toy company to no Hasbro is a play and we're a game. ...

This is another megadeal involving Openai. What do we know about it. Yeah, there are a lot of deals going on in in AI right now.An open AI really is at the heart of so many of them. So Openai has been Sam Altman and Openai have been diversifying their suppliers in a number of key areas In the chip space in particular, everybody is pretty dependent on NVIDIA, of course, in video now the most valuable company in the world. Partly that's because everybody has to buy their chips to be able to train these our mo ...

This could be something that we feel at the start of trade here in Europe. Footsie futures are cool, quite a bit higher than all the futures here in Europe. And I note that it was some of the oil majors that weighed on the London market yesterday.And so, I mean, that might be there might be little else to say about that phenomenon, but we might see some of outperformance by London as a result of that. Yeah, I mean, we definitely could see that. I think, you know, the oil story is a smaller story within the ...

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