Joining us now is Abby Joseph Cohen, Columbia Business School professor and retired Goldman Sachs partner. And great to have you. On the day that we crossed through the 7000 threshold on the S&P 500, I know it doesn't mean a lot fundamentally, but it is a big round number.And I wonder what your take is on this continued a i boom. You know, a small CEO said just now his customers are starting to realize that it's sustainable and so are aggressively building up their equipment. Well, I'm delighted to be here ...

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TOM: TOM: GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. HERE'S WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA.TRUMP GREEN LIGHTS A WEAKER DOLLAR. DOLLAR. GOLD HITS ANOTHER RECORD. GOLD HITS ANOTHER RECORD.ASML PRINCE A MASSIVE BEAT WITH ASML PRINCE A MASSIVE BEAT WITH MAG 7 EARNINGS INCOMING. MAG 7 EARNINGS INCOMING. GUY: GUY: YOU MENTIONED THE DOLLAR. YOU MENTIONED THE DOLLAR.WE'VE SEEN BIG MOVES OVERNIGHT. WE'VE SEEN BIG MOVES OVERNIGHT. EURO-DOLLAR. EURO-DOLLAR.WE’VE HAD A ONE TOUCH -- A TOUCH OF 120 OVERNIGHT. GOLD IS HEADED FOR A HUGE DAY AS WEL ...

♪ ANNOUNCER: NEWSMAKERS AND MARKET MOVERS. THIS IS "THE PULSE" WITH FRANCINE LACQUA. FRANCINE: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE, WELCOME TO "THE PULSE," I’M FRANCINE LACQUA IN LONDON.ASML, THE TOP MAKER OF SEMICONDUCTOR SMASHED EXPECTATIONS BUT THE DOLLAR AT THE LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2022 FUELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S COMMENTS SAYING HE’S COMFORTABLE WITH ITS RECENT DECLINE. PRES. TRUMP: IT’S GREAT.LOOK AT THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR, LOOK AT THE BUSINESS WE’RE DOING. I COULD HAVE IT GO UP OR GO DOWN LIKE A YOYO. FRANCINE: WE ...

I think it's great. I mean, the value of the dollar, to look at the business would know that was that was doing great. I want it to be just like it's our level, which is the fair thing.You could have it. I could have it go up or go down like a yo yo. So here's the latest this morning.President Donald Trump downplaying dollar weakness, saying he's comfortable with the greenback's value after its steepest one day drop in some eight months. But index town a candle joins us now from Washington. Morning, Tyler.Y ...

VONNIE: IT IS 5:00 A. M. IN NEW YORK CITY, I'M VONNIE QUINN WITH YOUR BLOOMBERG BRIEF.RECORD HIGHS I HAD A BIG TECH EARNINGS. AN EARLY BOOST TO THE MARKET ON A HIGH DEMAND. THE DOLLAR DESTABILIZING A BIT AFTER ITS WORST PERFORMANCE IN FOUR YEARS.PRESIDENT TRUMP BRUSHING OFF WOES, SPECULATION OF A LONGER-TERM DECLINE. CHAIR POWELL IS SURE TO GET QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE FED TRADERS PRICE IN A MORE DOVISH POLICY SHIFT UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP. LET'S LOOK AT THESE MARKETS BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE GREEN.TWO S ...

I want to ask you about the Amazon news, because we did indeed get confirmation that Amazon is cutting 16,000 jobs. Email that went out an error was actually uploaded today and Amazon says it's going to help its US employees with 90 days for finding other jobs and so on. But what does this mean.16,000 seems to be a large figure. It is and look revenue per employee will be a big metric for all these hyperscalers going forward. In the case of Amazon, I mean, they are still the largest public cloud provider.Th ...

JOUMANNA: GOOD MORNING. THIS IS HORIZONS MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA. THE DOLLAR PLUNGES TO ITS LOWEST LEVEL IN NEARLY FOUR YEARS AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE'S NOT CONCERNED ABOUT ITS DECLINE.GOLD CONTINUES TO HIT FRESH RECORDS AND ASIAN STOCKS RISE AS THE DEBASEMENT TRADE TAKES HOLD. AS INVESTMENTS GEAR UP FOR A FED RATE DECISION TODAY, BOND TRADERS ARE RAMPING UP BETS ON A DOVISH POLICY TILT AS SUCCESSION COMES TO THE FORE. I'M JOUMANNA BERCETCHE EAT IN DUBAI.IT'S FED DAY, SO ALL EYES WILL BE ON WHAT LANGUAGE ...

How much new information do you think there is in what President Trump had to say about his comfort level on a weaker dollar. Not much. It's hit a market that was vulnerable already.We've been talking a lot on the show recently and over the long period of time, the dollar is in a structural downtrend that started at the start of last year. We kind of paused a bit in the second half. We talked a lot about how we expected 2026 to be another year of depreciation for the dollar.It obviously was particularly wea ...