Bags are packed. I'm ready to go to San Francisco. Super Bowl week is always crazy, but I'm ready.Let's go. I'm Randall Williams, a sports business reporter at Bloomberg News, and I'm taking you inside the world's biggest, flashiest, and most expensive sporting events to answer one question. How did sports become this big of a business.Today, we're headed to the single most watched event in American sports. Welcome to the Super Bowl. Now, using the word big to describe the Super Bowl is an understatement.La ...

For Singaporeans heading into Malaysia for their weekly shopping trip, you might find that your Singapore dollar just doesn't stretch as far against their >> ring. >> For more, we're actually joined by our resident Asian currency expert Marcus Wong. Tell us a little bit more about what's happening with the Singapore dollar Malaysian ring cross.>> Well, as you mentioned, you know, the ring has been doing very well. Uh if you look at the Singapore ring cross, it's there about 3.10% right now. Slightly over tw ...

Each year, Davos serves as a serene setting to explore the world's most urgent issues, and in 2026, flashpoints were everywhere. The world must not return to the law of the jungle, where the strong bully, the weak without collective governance cooperation, gives way to relentless competition. The architecture, the very architecture of collective problem solving or under threat.A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable. Of course, nostalgia is part of our human story. But nosta ...

Indian IT stocks took their biggest hit in years this week. The plunge was part of a global sell-off triggered by Anthropic's new artificial intelligence tool that led to abrupt fears about the power of AI to undercut the traditional IT services industry. It's also crystallized concerns about whether the legacy IT giants of the world have done enough to adopt AI or to counter its potentially disruptive influence.The stakes are high for India's more than $280 billion software services sector. Firms like Tata ...

It's 5 AM in New York City. Good morning. I'm Vonnie Quinn with your Bloomberg Brief.Let's get you set up for the day. Future is higher right now. The nasdaq 100, though, set for the worst week since april.Bitcoin bouncing back to a certain extent. This has a busy week of big tech earnings shows massive spending plans for A. I.The latest from Amazon vowing $200 billion of spending this year and indirect talks between the US and Iran. Omani officials say separate talks have been had with delegations from Was ...

Good morning. Good morning. It's Friday the sixth.This is what we're talking about this morning. Tech has been hit hard again. Amazon's big spending plans are just adding to the angst.Silver, it was had a really wild night overnight. We'll get to that in a minute. And Bitcoin bouncing off 60,000.It's down, though, 50% since October. Michael Saylor strategy hits the rocks with a 2.4% billion Q4 loss. Let's put some of that together to show.We show you where we are in terms of equity market futures right now ...

♪ >> NEWSMAKERS AND MARKET MOVERS. THIS IS "THE PULSE" WITH FRANCINE LACQUA. FRANCINE: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE, AND ALMOST TO "THE PULSE," I’M FRANCINE LACQUA HERE IN LONDON.IT’S BEEN A BRUISING WEEK IN TECH WITH A BILLION SELL-OFF AND A SHARP FALL IN BIG TECH DESPITE REVENUE GROWTH. HUGE CAPEX SPENDING HAS BEEN A BIG CONCERN AND THIS WEEK’S SPENDING ANNOUNCEMENTS HAS DONE NOTHING TO ALLAY THOSE FIERCE. THIS WEEK TWO OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES ANNOUNCED COMBINED SPENDING PLANS FOR THE YEAR $650 BILLION.$200 BI ...

The situation is the anthropic the proximate cause of this selloff was anthropic. The reason this tool that was going to easily compete within the legal services. And but this decline has been going for a while.There's been a year's worth. They sort of peaked in summer 2025. And so fish stocks have gradually been selling off since then.I think the idea is basically like when the Internet came along and kind of hopped on, you know, news publishing music, high street retail. The idea is, no, it's the ton of l ...

I wanna pull you both into Iran, for our remaining couple of moments here. Becca, there are important talks tomorrow that'll be taking place in Oman. Do you have any reason to be optimistic here with the flotilla off the coast.Does that change the dynamic this time around. I am most certainly not optimistic. Really.And I think some of that is because of the firepower that we've seen massed in the region at this point in time. We've also seen Iran engage in some risky behavior, whether that is an attempt to ...

How has the rise in these short term rentals affected Cape Town's housing market as a whole. Yeah, it's interesting because if you take a look at Cape Town, it is in comparison to a number of other major cities. About this issue of access and affordability.So if we zoom in to Cape Town specifically. On the one hand, there is this issue of the rise of short term stays that is contributing to the decline and inventory of some of these longer term permanent housing. And we've seen that over the past few years. ...