Pretty remarkable headlines coming out of Berlin now. President Zelensky says I'll give up on the quest to join NAITO as well. We haven't seen really a single concession by the Russian sides that would something like this, though, get the gears turning toward peace.Well, Joe, I think you're right that we are seeing real progress coming out of these two days of talks in Berlin. There have been Ukrainian concessions. But I would put them in quotation marks.Okay. NATO membership was something that was always g ...

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Joining us now for the Start Movers podcast, Lisa matera. All right. I have to start with Massachusetts based I robot.Hey, good morning, Boston. It's the maker of the robot vacuum, the Roomba. Yeah.So its shares really taken a hit down more than 80%. It filed for bankruptcy, proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier. They expect to complete Chapter 11 by February.But you take a look at the company, right. Is founded in 1990. Engineers from M.I. T. , the Roomba, came out in 2002.So it's been ...

We had very long and very good talks. And again, I think things are going along pretty well. 27,000 soldiers were killed last month.It shouldn't happen. Should never happen, should have never started that war, should have never, ever started. But it did.And we're trying to get it. So that was Biden's situation, which I and to get it done. And I think we're closer now. And they they will tell you that they're closer now.We had numerous conversations with President Putin of Russia, and I think we're closer no ...

And right now we are 2 minutes away from the end of the trading day. Romaine Bostick alongside Katie Greifeld here to take you through to that closing bell with the global simulcast. We're joined now by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Welcome to our audiences across all of our Bloomberg platforms.That's television, that's radio, and that includes our partnership with YouTube. And for those folks watching right now, if you are confused as to why Tim and Carol were out of the fishbowl and into a new aquarium. W ...

Number of Republicans have denounced your statement on several after the murder of Rob Reiner. Do you stand by that. Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all.He was a deranged person as far as Trump was concerned. He said he likely knew is false. In fact, it's the exact opposite that I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia.You know, the Russia hoax. He was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself in careerwise, acted like a deranged person.Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Re ...

Well, we're keeping an eye on shares of Moderna and Pfizer after the FDA is said to be investigating whether COVID 19 vaccines potentially caused deaths in adults as part of a safety review. The investigation comes at a time when HHS Secretary RFK JR has repeatedly questioned the safety of the shots, despite numerous studies proving their efficacy. Let's discuss with Dr.. Marty McCaffrey. He is the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Doctor, great to see you.Good to be here, Katie. So let's st ...

The subject arrested invent. Envision planting backpacks with improvised explosive devices to be detonated in multiple locations in Southern California, targeting U.S. companies. These bombs were to blow up at the same time on midnight this New Year's Eve.As I mentioned in my talking points on December 12th, a group of individuals, again, members of this this anti-government group, traveled out to the desert to test their explosive devices. They had precursor chemicals there. And they were going to they wer ...

Imagine someone who's seeing this big runup in AI related stocks. They feel like they've been missing out so far. They have a big chunk of money.They want to invest, say, $10,000, $50,000, and they want to sort of catch the wave. Where should they start. And why should they jump in now or why not. >> Why should they jump in.Uh, a couple of reasons. I have never seen more fear about innovation than I do now. And that is why uh in April when we went through tariff turmoil a lot of the AI stocks uh got hit and ...

Can this rally be sustained. Well, I think you have to kind of stand back and look at the bigger picture. You know, the rally that we saw, for instance, in the late seventies and early eighties was something that was, you know, remarkable at the time.But if you look at today's rally and comparison, you know, it's still barely a scratch on that. I'm not obviously saying that necessarily it's going to go to the same extremes. We're already ahead of it in nominal terms.But in terms of when it's a regime shift, ...