Bloomberg reporting that SoftBank and Arc Investment Management are among potential investors in a major funding round for Tether. Uh let's bring in now Katherine Doherty of Bloomberg News. She's in the finance team.Katherine, what are some of the numbers we need to know about here. So Bloomberg earlier reported, and this is following up on the news, that Tether is looking to raise between 15 and 20 billion in exchange for a 3% stake. This is valuing the company at 500 billion.This would cement Tether as on ...

It was a very very encouraging pe meeting. It was positive, you know, to hear from President Trump his commitment as a president of peace to end this ugly war on Gaza, this aggression, Israeli aggression uh against innocent people from our point of view. So um it's this is very important and encouraging and also to talk about no annexation to talk about developing Gaza where people will stay on their own land and even those who left their homeland they are entitled to return back.Those are very encouraging ...

I've been advocating for quite some time about the need to create some joint European borrowing facility to cover what I consider the quintessential European public good which is common European defense. And I do sense that there is much more momentum now amongst my colleagues. Some of the countries that were inherently against the idea of additional further joint borrowing have changed their mind and I'm pretty sure that Germany will eventually also agree to this necessity.uh and we need to make sure that ...

The final elements, the final remnants of Hamas are hold up in Gaza City. They vow to repeat the atrocities of October 7th again and again and again, no matter how diminished their forces. That is why Israel must finish the job.That is why we want to do so as fast as possible. ...

We also had vice president JD Vance saying that TikTok could be valued now at around 4 billion. That's one four. That seems to be a lowball over compared to what TikTok US operations had been valued as it had been valued close to $40 billion.So, you know, definitely a cut there. We heard this from the vice president, J. D.Vance, who said that ultimately this is going to be determined by the amount paid and all the US buyers will likely welcome this. Our story points out that a lowball valuation bytedance an ...

In an indictment that came over the objection of career prosecutors who said there wasn't sufficient evidence to support the charges. Key, key context on that. Well, we're going to dig into it as well with Senator Amy Klobuchar, who sits on the Judiciary Committee.Because we want to understand that there is definitely the concern of politics around this, given the president's public statements throughout the week saying, you know, now's the time to act and calling for this action. Now there is an indictment ...

What would be the red line for you to be happy to escalate this from a national issue to a NATO mission. >> No, it's of course NATO is always the frame for us to defend our territory. Uh we have integrated our army and the other ones as well in Europe into NATO.So if there was really an attack on one of our countries, article five would have be to be imposed. So you don't believe there has been any attack. >> Until now.Uh we do not see really an attack. We see that Putin is trying to test us and we show uh ...

Can we begin with all these incursions by Russian fighter fly fighter jets and Russian drones into NATO's air space and Poland, Estonia, Denmark, those sort of areas have been hit by this. And we have reports today that Britain, France and Germany have told the Russians that if that happened again, NATO's, particularly with the jets, would shoot them down. Is that is that your understanding as well, or you don't know.Well, this type of this type of messaging is taking place all the time, of course, informal ...

Talk a little bit about the impacts of these fiscal pressures, Erin. Yeah, So the impact is it's starting to affect school districts, credit ratings we're seeing. So S&P global ratings recently came out with a report that showed that it's taken negative ratings and it's negative rating.Action has jumped 40% from 2024 to 2025. So the pressures are really starting to trickle down, and that makes it more expensive for these schools to borrow. And how does that affect the bond market very quickly.Yeah. So inves ...

US President Donald Trump has pressed Turkish President Rish Ta Erdogan to stop buying oil from Russia. And during their sitdown at the White House, Trump left the door open to Ankura obtaining F-35 fighter jets, saying Turkey must do something for the US in return. Let's now bring it on her ant.Yesterday, we're previewing this U meeting between Presidents Erdogan and Trump. The first time Erdogan actually meets with Trump in the Oval Office in six years, the possibility of deals. And of course just now we' ...