[music] Global bond [music] sales have skyrocketed in early 2026. Now, the first week of January alone saw approximately [music] $240 billion in issuance. That's an almost 30% increase over the same week in 2025.So, what's driving this mad dash to borrow. [music] Well, the answer seems to involve several factors. The biggest of which is tech companies increasing available funds for the ongoing AI buildout.Normally issuance at the very beginning of the year is dominated by banks, but this year it's [music] t ...

>> LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. , THIS IS "BALANCE OF POWER" WITH JOE MATHIEU.JOE: PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE IS ON A SIMILAR WAVELENGTH AS GOVERNOR TIM WALZ. WELCOME TO THE MONDAY EDITION AS WASHINGTON REAL FROM ANOTHER DEADLY ICE SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS, SETTING UP A PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LIKELY ON FRIDAY. EVEN AFTER THE PRESIDENT SPOKE WITH TIM WALZ IN A CALL THAT HE DESCRIBED AS PRODUCTIVE, THIS HOUR, WE GET AN UPDATE FROM TYLER KENDALL AND FROM OUR SENIOR WASHINGTON EDITOR WENDY BENJAMINSON, DELVING ...

Whatever to America or the industry. If there's a 10% cap on credit card rates, as President Trump has proposed. So the only thing I know for sure is that all the credit card businesses in the country lose money. In the credit card business, I get swipe fees.I get most of those away with rewards. I earn credit. When somebody is revolving a balance, I lend credit when somebody pays it at the end of the month.After all that, you charge interest rates, you have losses and you get a margin. Maybe you make 4%, I ...

Amy Gower, lead metals commodity strategist of Morgan Stanley. writes, Saying we don't think prices have peaked with geopolitical risk positive signals from central banks and ETF buying. We highlight our bull case 5700 for the second half.Amy joins us now for more. Amy, good morning. Just to clarify, start the second half of this week or the second half of this year is the second half of this year.Amy, let's get into that. We have moved so, so quickly on the precious metals. Have we got a new driver here gi ...

POTENTIALLY HAVE AND I FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION. JONATHAN: THEY MADE THEMSELVES EASY TO FIND. LET'S TURN TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE, TRADERS TURNED TO THE FIRST CENTRAL-BANK DECISION OF THE YEAR.JOINING US NOW IS ENDA CURRAN. SOME POTENTIAL SPIES IN THIS NEWS CONFERENCE GIVEN CHAIRMAN POWELL'S ASSERTIVE POSTURE TOWARD THE WHITE HOUSE. ENDA: A LOT OF POLICY AND POLITICS. A LOT OF INTEREST AROUND ANY FRESH COMMENTARY AROUND THE NEUTRAL RATE.WHERE ARE THEY IN THE LABOR MARKET. DO THEY THINK THE LABOR MARKET WILL S ...

And before we get to the political fallout with regard to government funding and now a likely government shutdown at the end of the week, we want to update things with Bloomberg's Washington correspondent Tyler Kendall who's got her eyes on everything coming out of the administration. Tyler, we should note press secretary is scheduled to deliver a briefing this hour. What else can you tell us.>> Right. And no doubt Joe Caroline Levit is going to be asked questions about the potential political fallout here ...

SCARLET: WELCOME TO "BLOOMBERG ETF IQ." KATIE: WE SURVIVED IN THE SNOWSTORM. WE MADE IT IN BECAUSE WE NEED TO BRING YOU THE BIGGEST STORIES IN THE NEARLY $19 TRILLION GLOBAL ETF INDUSTRY. WE KICK CUP A BUSY WEEK WITH EQUITIES RISING AT TECH EARNINGS AND GOLD TOPPING $5,000 NOW FOR THE FIRST THAT THOUSAND DOLLARS AN OUNCE FOR THE FIRST TIME.SCARLET: WE WILL BEGIN TO FLOWS AND VOLUME INTO ETF'S. KATIE: AND THE ISSUER BEHIND T-BILL AS A PROPOSAL PULLING ONE OF WALL STREET'S MOST REGULAR ASSET CLASSES INTO THE ...

MATT: HAPPY MONDAY MORNING. "BLOOMBERG OPEN INTEREST " STARTS RIGHT NOW. COMING UP, NVIDIA AND ANOTHER $2 BILLION IN A CUSTOMER, COREWEAVE, HEAD OF RESULTS FROM META, APPLE, MICROSOFT, THIS WEEK. DANI: SENATE DEMOCRATS THREATENED TO BLOCK A SPENDING PACKAGE AFTER A SECOND DEATH BY ICE IN MINNESOTA. MATT: UNDER PRESSURE, THE DOLLAR DROPPED ON TALK OF COORDINATED U.S. JAPANESE INTERVENTION WHILE GO -- WHILE GOLD STORMS THROUGH $5,000 PER TROY OUNCE. DANI: SO MUCH GOING ON, IF YOU MADE IT INTO THE OFFICE, WHIC ...

DOWN ABOUT A QUARTER OF 1% ON THE RUSSELL. THIS MORNING, A RUPTURE IN FOREIGN RELATIONS. ON THE GREENLAND ISSUE, I DISAGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT.WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS BRING DOWN THE TEMPERATURE. WE LIVE IN AN ERA OF GREAT POWER OF RIVALRY. THE RULES-BASED ORDER IS FADING.-- ACCESSIBLE. THE USE OF TARIFFS AGAINST ALLIES IS COMPLETELY WRONG. WHEN FRIENDS SHAKE HANDS, IT MUST MEAN SOMETHING.PRES. TRUMP: GETS EVERYTHING WE WANT, ESPECIALLY REAL NATIONAL SECURITY. WE AGAIN HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE LEADERSHIP ON THIS ...

Oo, Anglo-American. I I don't know about that. But I think that if we get this as a regular annual event, right, thinking about liberation day, how that panned out uh in terms of the uh the the I guess the Trumpian hubris uh meeting European, let's say, resilience.I think if we put that together with what happened [snorts] this time, we can see the Europeans are gradually realizing that appeasement is not the right strategy. They're not yet in the field of instant maximal retaliation. But I do think that th ...