Michael and Susan Dell are donating six and a quarter billion dollars to fund the Trump accounts program for children. The president praised the move, writing on social quote, two great people i love dell. Bloomberg senior editor mike shepard joins us now in washington.Jeff, this is just an insane amount of money to be donating. It is an insane amount of money to donate, and the idea is to give additional and additional group of children access to this program known informally as the Trump accounts, but for ...

Auto Industry Trends - US economy strength is driving stronger than expected auto sales [2] - Pandemic resulted in a deficit of approximately 6 to 7 million vehicles not purchased [2] - Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are using pricing to offset some tariffs [4] - There's a shift back to hybrid vehicles and trucks, away from electric vehicles [5] - Pickups and larger SUVs are currently the strongest segment in the US auto industry [6] Market Forecast - Initial forecasts of a 15 million vehicle Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) for 2025 are now expected to be 16 to 163 million [3] - US auto market is expected to be constructive, supported by low unemployment and potential rate cuts [4][5] Tesla Analysis - Analyst maintains an outperform rating on Tesla, not primarily due to its auto business [6][7] - Tesla's potential in robotaxi and humanoid markets is a significant opportunity, with an assumption of only 5% penetration in the humanoid market [8] - Humanoid market opportunity is large and not fully appreciated by investors [9] - Analyst believes it's too early to definitively say Tesla is overvalued, citing a lack of real-life data to disprove Tesla's potential in humanoids and robotaxis [12][13]

What is your call for next year. So our story for next year is a continuation of what this year has been essentially, which is that we essentially got a kitchen sink in the first quarter. We made a significant bare market low in April.That was the end of an economic cycle we built. I believe that there's a now a rolling recovery of all the policy changes that we've seen really effect a much stronger 2026 from an economic standpoint. And a lot of it has to do around this investment cycle.So our target, 7800, ...

There are so many different metrics that come at us. Is there a metric that catches your attention more than most, or is it that you rely just on kind of the work you guys do. I rely on what we do, but I also look at all the metrics to tell a story. And frankly, what you're seeing the metrics tell the story of.Essentially it was solidly optimistic for this upcoming holiday season. There are good metrics. A lot of the metrics surpass their expectations.The other thing when you look at online versus in-store, ...

The repression has intensified. The fact is the executions reflect the degree of violence and cruelty the Islamic Republic has unleashed against the Iranian people. Arrests have become far more widespread and have now reached layers of society that although always under threat hadn't been directly targeted like this before.I see the repression now as extremely serious. The establishment's violence against its own people is a naked one, and I know people are deeply angry. ...

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Let's start with crypto, eh. Is the volatility over at least for now. And B, please share your thoughts on crypto Treasury companies with us.They're very related answers, Guy. Good morning. I don't think the pain is over for crypto overall.I do think it's really, really important that MicroStrategy came out yesterday afternoon and said that they have a reserve fund to pay. I can't remember how many months, but it was their next 14 months of dividend payments that they're going to owe, which was a big relief ...

By not provoking Beijing, you feel, this is the way I'm reading it, you feel that this could die down sooner. >> Yes, I think so. How long.>> Because I think Japan uh has already show its uh willingness because it's in in the parliament. Yeah. Uh in the QA session.>> Yeah. >> So that has some uh backgrounds. Yeah.So it's not uh uh just uh different uh uh uh uh policy uh uh uh uh change through from the Japanese uh side but for Beijing side maybe take a I think maybe a year to to to to stabilize the situatio ...

How much dialogue has Taipei had with Tokyo in the days and weeks following that. Has there been coordination on the response for Taiwan, from Taiwan. Yes, because the the so-called Taiwan contingency becomes a Japan contingency.Therefore, it's also a Japan United States security contingency. So you're talking about the survival doctrine. Essentially, it's a survival situation, survival threatening situation.Yes. Yes. So we have very good communication channels with the Japanese government.So we are trying ...

What this tells us. We had this obviously expectations, but now it's finally happened. And what do we understand.You know, you definitely show bankers under severe liquidity strains now. And I think the plan we are seeing about a one year delay is actually worse than a lot of investors expectation. And that could also have another you know, it's over ¥3 billion coming due in late December.So right now, investor are expecting that you know, we'll probably see the same treatment. And you know overall Vancouve ...