Japanese voters will head to the polls on Sunday after Prime Minister Sana Takayichi took a bold gamble and called for a snap election just 3 months into her role. Takayichi is not only putting her leadership on the line as Japan's first ever female prime minister, but the stakes are also high for the country and beyond. Japan plays an outsized role in global financial markets as one of the world's largest economies.Takai's decision to call a snap election already triggered a sharp sell-off in Japan's longe ...

LET’S GET STARTED. >> NEWSMAKERS AND MARKET MOVERS, THIS IS "THE PULSE" WITH FRANCINE LACQUA. FRANCINE: GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO "THE PULSE," I’M FRANCINE LACQUA HERE IN LONDON.THE GLOBAL SLUMP IN TECH STOCKS PAUSES AS SELLERS WEIGH WHETHER THE SELL-OFF WENT TOO FAR. IT EXTENDED ACROSS THE SECTOR INCLUDING CHIPMAKERS THE LAST FEW DAYS. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS HAVE BEEN WIPED OFF THE VALUE OF COMPANIES, STOCKS, CORPORATE BONDS BUT ALSO LOANS.WE’RE JOINED BY OUR SENIOR STRATEGIST. NEIL, THE NATURE OF THE SELL ...

♪ >> IT IS 5:00 A. M. IN NEW YORK CITY.I AM VONNIE QUINN WITH YOUR "BLOOMBERG BRIEF." GLOBAL TECH SELLOFF STALLING AS A SILVER AND GOLD CONTINUED THEIR DOWNWARD SLIDE. INVESTORS PUNISHING ALPHABET ON ITS PLANS. ARM -- ON ITS CAPEX PLANS.IRAN CONFIRMS TALKS WITH THE UNITED STATES AS A SECOND DAY OF PEACE TALKS CONTINUES IN ABU DHABI. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THESE MARKETS. WE HAVE FUTURES DECIDING ON A DIRECTION AT THIS POINT.NASDAQ 100 FUTURES UP ABOUT 0.1% RIGHT NOW. THIS AFTER WE ERASED ALL OF OUR GAMES AND M ...

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It is Thursday the fifth. Good morning. On today's agenda, the tech selloff expands.The shiny stuff slumps again and it's another blockbuster earnings day. Okay, Tom, let's talk about the volatility we're seeing. It continues in some so many asset classes and you wonder whether or not this starts to connect, whether or not the overall volatility story becomes a problem for markets.So it was down 11% completely, reversing some of the positions we saw earlier on in the week as we bounced back. Bitcoin's appro ...

Boy. Where to start, Mark. I mean, let's start with the sell off in tech, shall we.Sell off in tech, sell off in software specifically, but also some of the big tech names and move into value ending cement, a winding back, some momentum trades. What was your take on what we've seen over the last few days. Yeah, the price action's really been quite remarkable.I think there are a few kind of tangents to get about this. First of all, the price action so far has seemed very much like a rotation in stocks. There ...

>> LIVE FROM FRANKFURT, THIS IS DAYBREAK ERA. THE TRILLION DOLLAR TECH WIPEOUT. ALPHABET, QUALCOMM SLIDE AFTER EARNINGS AS CONCERN MOUNTS ABOUT THE SECTORS MASSIVE SPENDING ON AI.THE ONE TECH ETF USING A TRILLION DOLLARS IN THE PAST SEVEN DAYS. OIL TANKS ON EASING GEOPOLITICAL RISK. THE U.S. AND AROUND CONFIRMED TALKS BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP WARNS THE SUPREME LEADER SHOULD BE VERY WORRIED.PLUS, RATES ON HOLD. THE ECB AND BOE EXPECTED TO LEAVE INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED WITH A FOCUS ON THE FORWARD GUIDANCE. WE BRI ...

JOUMANNA: GOOD MORNING. THIS IS HORIZONS MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA. A GLOBAL TECH ROUT SNOWBALLS INTO ASIA, MELTING ANXIETY OVER FROTHY VALUATIONS AND MASSIVE AI SPENDING DRIVES INVESTORS TO TRIM EXPOSURE.PRECIOUS METALS PLUMMET WITH SILVER FALLING SHARPLY AND GOLD SLIDING AS THEY STRUGGLE TO FIND A PRICE FLOOR AFTER THE RECENT MARKET ROUTS. PLUS, OIL SLUMPS ON EASING GEOPOLITICAL RISK AS THE U.S. AND IRAN CAN FROM TALKS. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS THE SUPREME LEADER SHOULD BE WORRIED.IT HAS JUST GONE 9:00 A. M. ACROS ...

Asian markets trading lower for a second day amid a global selloff tied to growing concerns about air disruption across industries. Software stocks have been at the center of the selling and erasing almost trillion from members of an iShares ETF, which tracks the sector. And concerns around AI are also having a big impact on tech earnings.Shares of both Qualcomm and ARM Holdings plunged in extended York trading after signaling a memory chip shortage fueled by air hardware. Demand will squeeze growth in the ...

Mark, it looks like this tech sell off has been around the world, but Nasdaq futures actually now in the green. Can we say we haven't yet reached peak tech. Not too sure.It's looking a little bit ugly here in Asia. And the poster child of the tech story there, the AI story in particular is the KOSPI index. Korean equities driven by people like Samsung and SK Hynix, and he's having a pretty rough day here in Asia and he looks like is going to end badly for the spree there.And that really is an indication tha ...