Shall we take a little step back on the trade data. Because there's been a lot of volatility underneath the hood over the last 12 months. So let me just say, we've seen this widening in the deficit.Couple of things to remember, that the deficit narrowed a lot in the first half of last year. There was a lot of uncertainty about trade. Then all of that was unwound in the second half of the year.And now we're seeing some normalization in trade data finally. So it's been a very volatile 2025. Now, the next thin ...

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And right now we are 2 minutes away from the end of the trading day. Romaine Bostick alongside Katie Graham Bell taking you through to that closing bell with a global simulcast. Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec join us right now.Welcome to our audiences across all of our bloomberg platforms, television, radio. Our partnership with youtube, a bit of a flip flop from what we saw yesterday. Carol Massar With stocks on the back foot, though, some of this seems to be tied to fears about what might be going on over ...

the first store which is in Chicago if you look at the entire state of Illinois um versus the rest of the c the country since the store opened it's had a 10% keer higher than the rest of the country and that gives you a sense of you know the momentum that you can get from the store it's obviously very crude metric but it's an easy way to sort of explain it so we really look at the combination of the store P&L and then the other benefits that come along with having the store so we have one store open we're p ...

And for us, we look at the business and go, uh, okay, as AI gets better, Figma gets better. And I think everyone should be thinking that way. As you know, AI gets better.Does your company and your products, do they also get better. >> We're also shipping faster than ever. Last year in 2025, we went from four to eight products.And we also launched over 200 features, and that growth and that momentum has not slowed down. We just launched a uh integration with cloud code where cloud code can now go to Figma de ...

It has been ugly in software. Everyone's throwing around the term SAS apocalypse. Every time AI does something or creates some new product, it hits a particular industry.Give us some color on the mood in software at the moment. >> Yeah, I get texted constantly from folks on the buy side just retrenching. I can't believe this is happening.Can it go lower. I keep saying that. It's the hundth time I've bought the dip.One of the things about software that's really fascinating is there's very few folks even on t ...

I guess I have a few questions based strictly off what President Trump said. First, to have a meaningful deal. Is ten days enough time.Well, I think it depends on how you define meaningful. If you look at the deal that the Trump administration fashioned around Gaza, that was a meaningful deal, but it was short on details. And so that could be what President Trump has in mind if he's thinking of a meaningful deal, like the deal that the Obama administration, the JCPOA, did with Iran many years ago.That was a ...

This is something that we want to explore before we hand things over to Bloomberg Businessweek daily. Kaylee, Where are we at. $66.West Texas Intermediate 66 and a half. Now, there's a 2% move today. And of course, you know, we were talking about plumbing, the depths of prices with oil just weeks ago this march to a potential strike once again against Iran has changed the game.And we wanted to ask Mike McGlone about the latest here. Bloomberg Intelligence, senior commodity strategist, has been a bear on oil ...

This moment from an AI summit in India has gone viral. Two rivals of ai companies were positioned next to each other by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, chief executive officers of rivals OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, awkwardly, refused to clasp one another’s hands. Instead, they stood with their arms crossed in the air, avoiding eye contact. Amodei had worked at OpenAI, but left to co-found his company because he felt that OpenAI was becoming too commercially focused. -------- More on ...

Here in Washington, D. C. , where I have to say traffic was pretty abysmal this morning, in large part thanks to the gathering that was taking place at the Donald J.Trump Institute of Peace. Whether or not it's going to remain named, that probably is going to depend on the outcome of what's happening in courts of law after he effectively seized it last year. The question, of course, though, that was being visited beyond the name of the building inside the building was the rebuilding of Gaza and the role the ...