Canada Hits US With Counter-Tariffs As Trade War Looms | Daybreak Europe 8/24/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-08-24 08:41
>> FROM LONDON, THIS IS BLOOMBERG DAYBREAK: EUROPE. I AM LIZZY BURDEN. THE AI TRADE UNDER PRESSURE.TECH STOCKS LEADING DECLINES IN ASIA AS ALIBABA RAISES OVER $10 BILLION IN THE NEW SHARE SALE. NVIDIA WARNS OF PRICE HIKES AS MEMORY COSTS SURGE. CANADA HITS BACK AS MARK CARNEY WARNS THE COUNTRIES AT WAR OVER TARIFFS.BLOOMBERG LEARNS HIS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T EXPECT TALKS WITH THE U.S. TO RESUME BEFORE THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. RUSSIA HAS REJECTED A TRUCE ON ATTACKS AGAINST GRAIN EXPORTS BY THE BLACK SEA. UKRAINE'S ...
Grok Bot saves so much time and is so easy
Matthew Berman· 2026-08-24 07:26
You can have it put together grocery lists for you. You can have it register your car at the DMV. All of these tedious tasks that require you clicking through websites that might take just, you know, 10 minutes, 20 minutes each.You save so much time by just having your bot do it for you. One of my favorite use cases is having my Grockbot return Amazon items for me. So rather than clicking through the whole return flow, it just goes and does it for me and gives me the QR code for it.It can book you gym times ...
New York woman describes violent attack at the Grand Canyon
NBC News· 2026-08-24 07:25
This video shows the moment Alexis Rowan fought her attacker to save her life on a remote reservation deep inside the Grand Canyon. The New York City mother on a hiking trip with her friend to the sacred blue oasis of Havasupi. >> You'd never think you're going to a beautiful land and this is what we come home with.>> Just hours in, on August 12th, she asked this man for directions. Authorities identifying him as 29-year-old Taylor Pa. She says she immediately sensed danger.>> I knew it in my stomach. I'm l ...
Iran Economic Isolation Plan: Bessent Set to Unveil Details
Bloomberg Television· 2026-08-24 07:22
So what's on the agenda here. Good morning guy. Well, TBC is what you just have mentioned.We have to await, of course, the details of what Scott Benson will lay out in this press conference. But what is widely expected is an announcement of some kind of secondary sanctions against countries that continue or choose to continue to do deals or trade deals with Iran. That, of course, includes countries in the Gulf, namely the United Arab Emirates. That, of course, includes India and the big one, China, which bu ...
Expect Volatility with a Negative Skew: 3-Minutes MLIV
Bloomberg Television· 2026-08-24 07:13
Mark, let's think about what we might hear from Scotland, since I suppose at the start of this week, that seems to be a big area of focus. Yes, he's he's committed to talk about Iran and what could happen there that could bring China into the mix, could be a macro event, or could we be focused on the fiscal story out of the US. Because he's also suggested he'll be talking more about that this week.What do we expect from best and what could what volatility should be braced for. Uh, I think that the fiscal si ...
Why are we arguing about wealth taxes? | FT #shorts
Financial Times· 2026-08-24 07:02
Why are we arguing about wealth taxes. The notion of taxing the very rich is gaining traction even in that billionaire's playground, the US. Californians will vote in November on a measure to tax residents worth a billion dollars or more.Proposition 40, and the state's wealthy are building a war chest to defeat it. This comes at a time when more young Americans are embracing democratic socialism and leftist politicians who favor taxing the rich much more. So, how do wealth taxes work.Most people get taxed o ...
Demographics And Destiny 8/24/26
CNBC Television· 2026-08-24 07:00
With a CNBC, your money minute. I'm Jessica Edinger. What's happening to America's people, the workforce, the driver of growth and wealth.>> 2030 is the year when deaths will exceed births at the current rate. >> CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorcin citing data from the Washington Post >> raises all sorts of questions, by the way, about immigration in this country in terms of what you may need if you want to grow. The Welden Cooper Center for Public Service finds that between now and the year 2050, the overall populat ...
The Scientist Who Scans Fathers' Brains: Parenthood Shrinks Your Brain, And Drops Testosterone 25%!
The Diary Of A CEO· 2026-08-24 07:00
you've discovered something about the brain I think is quite surprising. >> So we found that in fathers the brain is actually shrinking and I'll explain why but also there are studies that find that both men and women who report having had more kids have markers of a younger looking brain age and then also typically men when they do this show about a 25% drop in testosterone. The next studies of single women have found that, you know, if you show them a series of body types, the dad bot is the most popular ...
Alibaba Raises $10 Bln in Record Hong Kong Share Sale
Bloomberg Television· 2026-08-24 06:44
Anthony, just give us the scale and size of this for Alibaba, what it tells us about their ambitions and why it's been met with such negativity by investors. This is a pretty big deal in the context of the entire market, right. It's the largest follow on offering in Hong Kong history. It's a big deal in the context of the market liquidity. It's about a third of the volume of the entire market on an average day, and it's about three and a half times the normal trading volume of Alibaba.If you include the Hon ...
Canada Braces for Lengthy Trade Standoff With the US | Insight with Haslinda Amin 8/24/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-08-24 06:37
Geopolitics and Trade Relations - United States imposed 50 percent import tariffs on Canadian items including plywood, electronics, and hockey sticks following the collapse of trade negotiations[2][6] - Canada planned counter-tariffs worth 20 billion U.S. dollars on American products, with a retaliation date set for September 8th[6][10][26] - Canada's prime minister warned of a protracted trade war that could continue through the U.S. midterms in November[2][8] Corporate Strategy and AI Investments - Alibaba raised 10.2 billion U.S. dollars in Hong Kong through a secondary share placement to fund its high-risk artificial intelligence strategy, resulting in negative free cash flow and near-term losses[4][62][65] - Alibaba increased its capital expenditures to 10 billion U.S. dollars in a single quarter, though return on investment remains poor[64][65] - Memory supply shortages led to price hikes for chips and high bandwidth memory, driving up capital expenditure across the technology sector[68][69] Banking and Monetary Policy - Reserve Bank of India collected over 65 billion U.S. dollars in special foreign currency deposits from the Indian diaspora, bringing total inflows to nearly 73 billion U.S. dollars[99][100] - Reserve Bank of India brought forward the closing of the special deposit scheme from September 30th to August 31st due to higher-than-expected response, exceeding the 2013 collection of 34 billion U.S. dollars[101][103][104] - Indian banking sector expects a net interest margin compression of 3 to 12 basis points for the short-term period, with foreign exchange reserves reaching 680 billion U.S. dollars[108][111]