Kids Want Cheap Stuff — Lots Of It. Five Below Delivers
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 09:01
What do slime, beauty dupes, and a candy aisle have in common. They're powering a $4 billion retail machine. This is Five Below, a company that has emerged as one of retail's comeback stories this winter thanks to a turnaround in targeting teens.It's not exactly a dollar store, not exactly a toy store either. It's a fluorescent maze of $5 impulse buys, Stanley style tumblers, bluey bracelets, pickle ball sets, mystery boxes, shelves of slime. Almost nothing here is a need, and that's [music] kind of the poi ...
What’s the True Value of Greenland?
Bloomberg Originals· 2026-02-20 09:00
For decades, A 1946 US offer to acquire Greenland from Denmark was a state secret. The exact offer is unknown, but US diplomats had previously floated a price of $100 million in gold. But it was a non-starter.Greenland was not for sale. Sound familiar. We need Greenland for national security.One way or the other, we're going to get it. President Trump plans to buy Greenland. Is that how this ends.It wasn't. But even if it had. How does one price an island that you think secures a hemisphere.What is, for exa ...
Trump Sets Iran Deal Deadline; Oil Hits Six-Month High | Horizons Middle East & Africa 2/20/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 08:59
>> GOOD MORNING, THIS IS "HORIZONS MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA." TOP STORY, ASIA EQUITIES FALL AND OIL PRICES ARE HIGH AS IRAN WEIGHS ON SENTIMENT. PRESIDENT TRUMP WARNS IRAN THEY HAVE AT MOST 15 DAYS TO REACH A DEAL. THIS AS THE U.S. ASSEMBLES A VAST ARRAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HIS BOARD OF PEACE HAS PLEDGED BILLIONS TOWARD PEACE IN GAZA. $10 BILLION FROM THE U.S. TODAY THE FOCUS IS ON GEOPOLITICS, IT’S RARE YOU SEE AN IMPACT OF REGIONAL GEOPOLITICS ON THE LOCAL MARKET. BUT THAT’S WHAT WIE SEE ...
Risk Sentiment Looks Resilient & Robust: 3-Minutes MLIV
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 08:43
Paul. I don't know what's going to happen this weekend, but I think anybody does. Maybe President Trump does.Geopolitics is dominating. The oil price is climbing. How big a risk to risk assets is this.Yeah. Good morning, Guy. Well, I was joking with my manager a while back, telling him, you know, we've got the risk of a collapse of the British monarchy. We've got on the brink of a war.We've got, you know, private markets under extreme pressure, possible threat of an alien invasion. You know, Asian index giv ...
US-Iran: Trump Gives Tehran 10 to 15 Days for Nuclear Deal | Daybreak Europe 02/20/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 07:49
OLIVER: LIVE FROM LONDON. THIS IS BLOOMBERG DAYBREAK EUROPE. DEAL DEADLINE.PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS IRAN HAS 15 DAYS TO REACH A DEAL AS THEY AMASS MORE FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. TALKING WITH TIGHT ROPE BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE. INVESTORS BRACE FOR INFLATION.A POTENTIAL SUPREME COURT RULING THAT COULD STRIKE AT THE HEART OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TARIFF POLICY. WE HAVE EURO STOXX 50 UP HALF A PERCENTAGE POINT. WE CAN SEE THIS MORNING GIVING BACK SOME OF THE LOSSES THAT WE SAW YESTERDAY ACROSS THE BOARD.THE DOLLAR GAINI ...
Why Beef Is Getting So Pricey
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 07:45
And you dig through the the economic data, certainly inflation data, see all of these, look at all of these these tables, different parts of the economy. What can we learn from from the fact that beef prices have risen as much as they have over the last year. >> I think it's a reminder, David, that the inflation story hasn't fully gone away.that even though we hear headline numbers about inflation in the US has slowed down over the past few years, which it clearly has, there are still areas of the consumer ...
Iran Deadline Sends Oil Higher and Shakes Markets | Insight with Haslinda Amin 02/20/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 07:37
WE ARE GOING TO GET A DEAL OR IT WILL BE UNFORTUNATE FOR THEM. I WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE ENOUGH TIME, 10 OR 15 DAYS. PAUL: PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS IRAN HAS ONLY DAYS TO STRIKE A DEAL ON ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM AS THE U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYS ITS BIGGEST FORCE BUILDUP IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE THE 2003 IRAQ INVASION.I AM PAUL ALLEN IN THIS IS INSIGHT WHERE WE DIVE DEEPER INTO THE STORIES WITH CRUCIAL CONTEXT AND SHARP ANALYSIS. TENSIONS WITH IRAN DEEP IN OIL HITS THE HIGHEST LEVEL. OFFICIALS SURPRISINGLY WARY OF CUTTIN ...
Trump Gives Iran 10 to 15 Days for Nuclear Deal
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 07:12
We think either we're going to get a deal or it's going to be unfortunate for them I would think that would be enough time. Ten, 15 days, pretty much maximum. As ever.Let's get some more from Bloomberg Horizon, Middle East and Africa anchor Joumanna Bercetche And Joumanna once again getting an update throughout the week. What do we know about this US deployment and how Tehran is preparing. Well looks at 10 to 15 days.Comments is new and is what people are really latching on to in the last 24 hours. And real ...
Oil Hits Six-Month High Amid US-Iran Tensions
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 06:38
We're trading over $70, just around $72 now. And that's pretty much at the top end of the risk premium that a lot of analysts have been talking about. You know, somewhere from from three to to 0.And we've been seeing that priced in over the last few weeks there. And so we're kind of at the top of that of that level based on based on where we started when this came in. And that's pricing in the risk of some sort of action going on.Most of the analysts that that we've been hearing from will say that if there ...
DHS wants to buy $70 million luxury jet for deportations
NBC News· 2026-02-20 06:31
We have exclusive new details about a controversial push from ICE to purchase a luxury Boeing jet. The price tag $70 million. All of it taxpayer money.Julia Anley is here now. Julia, what are you learning about this jet. >> Tom, we've obtained pictures from inside the Boeing 737 Max 8 Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Gnome has recently been leasing.ICE is now waiting on the White House to approve the $70 million purchase of this plane, which comes equipped with a bedroom, multiple showers, large scree ...