Trump Chip Tariffs; OpenAI and Broadcom Take on Nvidia

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Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here
are the stories we're following today.
Karen, we begin with trade this morning. In the latest
announcement from President Donald Trump, as heard live on Bloomberg Radio,
the President says tariffs on semiconductor imports are coming soon.
Chips and semiconductors will be putting tariffs on companies that
aren't coming in. We'll be putting a tariff very shortly,
probably our hearing. We'll be putting a fairly substantial tariff
on not that high, but fairly substantial tariff.
President Trump says the levies could spare companies like Apple,
which have pledged to boost investments in the United States.
The President previously suggested the tariff rate on ships could
be well above one hundred percent, reaching potentially two hundred
or three hundred percent.
Well, Nathan, President Trump was speaking at a White House
dinner attended by some of the world's biggest tech leaders.
The guest list ranged from Apple's Tim Cook, open Ai,
Sam Altman, and Google Sundar Peshai, and sitting beside the
President was metis Markus Zuckerberg. He was pressed by the
President on the company's US investments.
How much are you spending would you say over the
next few years?
Oh, gosh, I mean I think it's probably going to
be something like, I don't know, at least six hundred
billion dollars through twenty eight in the US.
Yeah, to met As Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the White
House earlier Thursday, many of the same executives joined First
Lady Malania Trump for a discussion on AI.
And we have a major new development potentially in the
AI space this morning, Karen, We've learned that open ai
is partnering with Broadcom to design and produce artificial intelligence
chips and what would be a direct challenge to Nvidia.
Bloomberg News is reporting the first accelerator chips that begins
show next year. Broadcom CEO told investors on his latest
earnings call that the company's AI outlook will improve significantly
next year, with expected revenue from semiconductors to reach more
than six billion dollars in the fourth quarter.
Nathan, let's turn to the economy now. In today's critical
jobs report, which could cement a rate cut at this
month's FED meeting, markets are currently pricing in a quarter
point cut in September. Speaking at a fireside chat yesterday,
Chicago Fed President Austin Goulesby said the number will be important,
but stressed he's looking at a broad range of data points.
I'm one of the data dogs, so you're never going
to hear me say throw away a number and pay
no attention to it.
But I'm just going to index on that.
Number tomorrow morning, a little bit less than we normally would.
Chicago Fed President Austin Goulesby says if the job market
shows further deterioration, it could be assigned to loosen monetary policy.
The August Jobs report drops at eight thirty Wall Street Time.
Please stick with Bloomberg for live coverage to the data
on blue Burg Surveillance with Tom Keen and Paul Sweeney
on Bloomberg Radio and the Bloomberg Podcast page on YouTube.
Well, Karen Golsby's not the only Fed speaker talking about
raid cuts. New York Fed President John Williams says the
Central Bank is facing a delicate balancing act when it
comes to policy.
We need to keep the labor market in balance to
ensure that the effects of terrorists do not spill over
into a longer lasting broad increase interflation. On the other hand,
maintaining a stance of too restricted policy for too long
could increase risks to a maximum employment mandate.
New York Fed President John Williams says the impact of
tariff's on inflation has been less than originally feared. He
says the labor market is undergoing gradual cooling consistent with
a slowdown in the economy.
And we turned out to New York City's mayoral race.
The New York Times is reporting Nathan that Mayor Eric
Adams told Confidence that he's weighing job opportunities that would
prompt him to abandon his re election bid. Reports indicate
Adams had been in talks with advisor to President Trump
about a potential job if he quits the race, which
he's denied. President Trump wade in on the race at
the White House last night.
I would like to see two people drop out and
have it be one on one, and I think that's
a race they could be one.
The President emphasized he'd prefer not to have a communist
mayor of New York City, referring to current Democratic front
runners are run Mom Donnie for full transparency. Michael Bloomberg,
founder a majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company
oft Bloomberg Radio, has endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the mayor's race.
What's turned out care into the latest and President Trump's
efforts to oust FED Governor Lisa Cook. The Justice Department
has opened a criminal investigation into whether Cook committed mortgage fraud,
sources tell Bloomberg. Federal prosecutors have issued subpoenas relating to
allegations that Cook misrepresented information on mortgage applications. Last month,
the President said he was removing Cook after Federal Housing
Finance Agency Director Bill Poulti accused her of mortgage fraud.
Cook is suing her lawyer denies the charge and says
the President lacks valid grounds to remove her, and in
a filing late last night, Cook said a court ruling
in favor of Harvard University backs her argument that President
Trump's attempt to fire her is a pretext.
At the same time, Nathan, President Trump is asking the
Supreme Corps to let him fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter,
testing a nineteen thirty five Supreme Court ruling that said
Congress could insulate high ranking officials from being fired. The
filing follows a federal appeals court decision reinstating Slaughter, who
is challenging Trump's attempt to alster. Trump sought to remove
Slaughter from her position in March. She sued, arguing that
her olster flouted the FTC Act, which says a president
can remove commissioners only for cause.
On Capitol Hillcare and there are plenty of fireworks at
multiple hearings, one involving President Trump's FED pick Stephen Myron,
the President selected as chair of the White House Council
of Economic Advisors to fill Adriana Coogler's seat on the
FED Board. Democrats raised concern that because Myron says he
wants to keep his White House job while serving at
the FED, that could compromise Central Bank independence. Myron addressed
those concerns during Bloomberg's live coverage of the hearing.
The President nominated me because I have policy views that
I suppose that he liked. If I'm confirmed to this role,
I will act independently as the Federal Reserve always does,
based on my own personal analysis of economic data, my
own personal analysis of the effects of economic policies upon
the economy and act based on my judgment of my
judgment of the best economic policy possible.
Stephen Myron says he spent much of his career studying
monetary policy. Last year, he wrote a paper detailing numerous
proposals to overhaul the FED.
Meanwhile, Nathan Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Junior was criticized by Democrats and some Republicans. At his hearing.
Senators challenged Kennedy's changes to federal health agencies, including overhauling
a key vaccine advisory and slashing you a support for
global immunization efforts. He had a heated exchange about COVID
with Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.
There was so much.
Data chaos coming out of the CDC, and it would
all take.
Out incentives and these are modeling.
You know, I know the answer of how many America
side from COVID. This is the Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
Senator Mark Warner addressed the hearing with Bloomberg afterwards.
This guy promised that he was going to follow science,
not you know, across the board fire experts he's on.
It feels like a persh against any of the respective scientists.
Virginia Senator Mark Warner was speaking on Bloomberg's Spellance of Power,
and it's time no off for a look at some
of the other stories making news in New York and
around the world. And for that we're joined by Bloomberg's
Michael Barr Michael, Good.
Morning, Good morning, Karen. Massachusetts Governor Mara Heally says the
Bay State will vaccines available to its residents no matter
what happens at the federal level. That means insurance carriers
will have to cover vaccinations required by the States Department
of Public Health, no matter what is recommended at the
federal level. The move comes after AJHS Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy junior fire the CDC director, restructured the department and
attacked doctor groups that recommended vaccinations. Heally says they won't
let the Trump administration get between doctors and patients.
We're forced to do this as states because of the
abdication of responsibility by the federal government, and so we've
worked quickly here in Massachusetts.
We've worked with other states.
We're going to invite other states to join our coalition
so that there is more of a consensus.
Governor Healy says no one in Massachusetts is going to
be denied because of cost. Josh Kraft is contributing an
additional three point five million dollars to his campaign to
unsea Boston Mayor Michelle Wo, The son of billionaire New
England Patriots owner Robert Craft, has spent a total of
five point five million dollars of his own fortune on
the campaign, which has also been funded by donations from
his father's friends and associates. Despite out spending his opponent,
Craft trails Woo by thirty points in a recent poll.
The thirty day deployment of the National Guard in Washington,
d C has been extended until at least the end
of November. Brigadier General Leland Blanchard made the announcement via
social media.
I've made the decision to extend the encampment as we
continue to work to ensure that everyone that walks through
these city streets is safe.
The order applies only to the DC National Guard, not
those sent from other states. Rhode Island and Connecticut sue
the Trump administration over its order blocking further construction of
a nearly completed offshore wind farm meant to provide power
to the two New England states. The States asked a
federal judge to vacate to stop work order the administration
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Good morning.
I'm Nathan Hager. Some of the biggest names in big
tech were over at the White House last night touting
their investment pledges and boosting their ties with President Donald Trump.
The President says he's not worried about competitors like China
catching up in the AI race.
We have the smartest people, we have the greatest technology,
and they can copy, but they can't create like we
can create.
And that was President Trump at a White House dinner
with among others, met A CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Apples, Tim Cook,
and Satya Nadella of Microsoft and comments. Heard live on
Bloomberg Radio this morning. We're joined by Bloomberg's Valerie Titel
and Vali guess. One of the biggest headlines to come
out of the dinner last night as President Trump once
again saying substantial tariffs on chip imports are coming very soon.
But is this much different from what we've heard from
the President in the past.
Good morning.
Honestly, it's not, because he's still touted that some companies
like Apple will be carved out of these tariffs that
he was foreshadowing could be coming shortly, him noting specifically
that Tim Cook will be in pretty good shape. Of course,
that is Apple's CEO. And with Apple achieving some of
those carveouts, it's also understood that some other companies with
their chip exports and imports, will be getting a similar
carve out as well, as long as they tout these
investments in the US. And as you mentioned, many of
these tech leaders in the room in the White House
doing so yesterday talking about their spending valves, their investment
into the US to build these data centers, to get
the right energy infrastructure in place to complement the boom
and AI that Trump wants to build.
Did we get a sense last night, val on what
the President's priorities are when it comes to boosting Silicon Valley.
Well, look, I think energy infrastructure is a big part
of that. We know that many regions globally do not
have the kind of energy infrastructure that is needed to
drive the data centers, so many of them pledging investments
into data centers as well. That's something that's laying the
groundwork almost for this AI boom. But I also want
to bring you attention to what's going on in the market.
This morning. We have shares of Broadcom up nearly nine
percent in pre market trade. They came out with a
beat and earnings, and this is important for the chip
sector because they also foreshadowed a pact a new customer,
Open Ai, which they'll be getting ten billion dollars of
revenue from. This is very interesting. They are partnering with
the chat GPT owner OpenAI to design and produce an
AI chip. This will be a direct challenge to Navidia's
dominance in the AI chip market, but very interesting to
see this announced and the shares of Broadcom lifting not
only the tech sector but the broader SMP index this morning.
So you our last thirty seconds, then, val, I mean,
how much of an issue could that be? Foreign Vidia?
I mean, they've really dominated this space for so long.
There's a lot of questions about that whether adding a
new competitor into the market it will suffer margins will
suffer off the back of that. But note Navidia has
some ninety five percent market share, AMD is the leader
behind that, and then Broadcom not far behind. But you
could definitely argue there needs to be more competitors in
this space to drive the cost down of these AI
chips could help Trump's AI boom, which he so desperately
wants to take place in the US.
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