Ship Attacked in Hormuz; Quake Devastates Venezuela

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Here are the stories we're following today.
Karen, we begin with new risk in the Middle East.
A ship was attacked on the Strait of Horror Moves yesterday.
It is the first reported strike since the interim peace
deal between the US and Iran went into effect last week.
We get the very latest from Bloomberg Middle East correspondent
Abira bu Omar in Dubai.
What we know from American sources is that they're not
pointing the finger just yet at Iran, but that could
be very likely the case. And it could be because
this ship, the middle sized ship that had passed through
the Strait of Removes, passed through through the waterway that
is closer to the Gulf of Alman or the part
of the strait that hugs the coast of Ahman, while
Iran has been trying to maintain the movement through the
coasts that are closer to its borders, to be able
to sort of maintain the movement in a way that
works in accordance with its own rules.
Bloomberg's a bierrabo Omar reports The attack has led some
ship owners to review their exit plans, but traffic does
continue to move in both directions through the strait. President
Trump has not directly addressed the episode, but he says
Iran is focused on the peace process.
They want to make a deal with us very badly,
and we probably will.
I think we will. But the straighter is open.
President Trump spoke at a White House event with farmers
where he announced an eleven point one billion dollar aid
requests for the agriculture sector. President says Iran will use
its unfrozen assets to buy US wheed and soybeans. He
says that process will start pretty soon now.
Nathan to the latest on the other major war overseas.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski has approved a forty day influence
operation to convince Russia to end the conflict. Zelenski gave
no details of the plan and opposed on social media,
made after he received a briefing from the head of
his security service on strikes against Russi targets. Ukraine has
recently intensified attacks on Russian energy and commodities infrastructure, prompting
President Vladimir Putin to call for stronger air defenses.
Well Karenamassive rescue and recovery effort continues in Venezuela, where
two powerful earthquakes struck within a minute of each other
Wednesday night. The death toll is up to at least
two hundred and thirty five from the magnitude seven point
two and seven point five quakes. Thousands more are hurt.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says American search and rescue
crews are on the way from Los Angeles and the Washington,
DC area.
They have a much of collapsed buildings and so they'll
need a lot of help in terms of digging through that.
The airport there is badly.
Damaged, so we'll have to rely on the Department of
War to deploy assets there.
Secretary of State Rubio says the US will also assist
with Venezuela's longer term needs. More than a dozen other
countries and the United Nations have also pledged aid. Acting
Venezuelan President Delsi Rodriguez says more than two hundred and
fifty buildings were damaged in the coastal area near the
capital Caracas, where the cun Try's main airport was heavily impacted.
The Venezuelan government setting up a two hundred million dollar
reconstruction fund with resources from the International Monetary Fund.
Let's turn to the markets now, Nathan, where tech fears
are weighing on stocks around the world. As we close
out the trading week is sell off and Samsung Electronics
and sk Heintings triggered a second trading suspension in days.
In South Korea, the COSTP index dropped nearly six percent.
A couple of things concerning investors include Apple's decision yesterday
to raise prices on many products. That's raising fears that
rising component costs could eventually curb demand and slow the
tech rally. And Polka Mishra is a partner at Javelin
Wealth Management.
I think the one sort of reality check that market
finally got yesterday was Apple cut increasing prices of its products.
That's actually shown how there's not unlimited money in the market.
If the chip makers are benefiting, then the product makers
are going to suffer. So it's the first sign that
it's not in an endless rally.
Javelin Wealth Management's Polka Mishra Nashek futures they're down one
point one percent this morning, and shares a Micron which
soared to our record yesterday. They are current laid down
as well. They are lower by about four and a half.
Percent market Sidria kindly to Apple's decision to increase prices,
Karen to deal with soaring memory chip costs. That stock
plunged more than six percent yesterday. Mark German covers Apple
for Bloomberg. He says the move appears unprecedented.
Apple has not, at least as long as I've been
covering the company, which has been well over fifteen years
at this point. A broad set of price increases, mac
price increases, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod, ho Pod Mini Vision Pro.
We're talking about very significant changes here to the starting
prices of max Well.
Bloomberg's Mark German says prices will not be raised on iPhones.
We also adding to a investor angst this morning, Nathan,
a report that open Ai may delay it's IPO, and
Bloomberg's Alexis Christopheris joins us with the latest Alexis, good.
Morning, Good morning, Karen, and Nathan. The New York Times
is reporting that the chat GPT maker is leaning toward
holding off on an initial public offering until next year.
The paper says bankers advising the company on its IPO
plans cautioned that recent volatility in tech stocks as well
as in SpaceX's shares following its record IPO, could damp
an enthusiasm. The time, says CEO Sam Altman, is pushing advisors,
including bankers and lawyers, to target a valuation of a
trillion dollars. Open Ai has filed confidentially for an IPO,
with the SEC, saying it has not decided on timing
just yet. In New York, Alexis Christophers Bloomberg Radio.
Right, Alexis thank you. Soft Bank investors aren't taking well
to the news of a possible delayed open AIIPO. That's
stock film more than twelve percent in Asia. Soft banks
investment in the chat GPT maker is slated to standard
roughly sixty five billion dollars by October. Expectations of a
big financial windfall from open AI's public debut had Booey
the soft bank to record highs.
City Groups strategist Nathan say it's too early to call
an end to the Ai trade. The team, led by
Dirk Willer, says equities are likely to keep churning higher
as corporate earnings remain strong, while quote liquidity has not
tightened enough to burst the bubble.
And some mo other news this morning, Karen California will
vote in November on a controversial proposal to impose a
one time tax on billionaires help fund federal cuts to
health care for low income people. A major labor unions
announced it is moving forward with the proposal despite staunch
pushback from a wide swath of critics, including Democratic Governor
Gavin Newsom. Opponents say the tax will push billionaires out
of California.
In Washington, Nathan Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen sidestepped
questions from the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee
about his support for advertising security services at airports nationwide
and Bloomberg's Amy Morris supports from Washington.
Ranking committee member Rosa Deloro of Connecticut asked Secretary Mullen
how the department can justify the move after all the
sacrifices made by TSA workers during what she called the
Republican shutdown. Mullen took issue with that.
Well, actually it was the Democrats that voted every time
to shut them down.
That's just gimming.
We didn't shut them down, You shut them.
Down, answer my question, why are you moving?
And I answered your question. You're the one that shut
them down?
Was the Democrats shutdown? You know, these people come to
us to get funding for their for the works that they.
Do, and what you voted to shut them down.
President Trump is pushing the move in the budget process,
alongside efforts to strip federal workers of collective bargaining rights.
TSA workers would be affected in Washington. Amy Morris Bloomberg.
Radio Okamie, thank you, and White House officials say President
Trump will take his first trip on the new presidential
plane next week when he travels to an event in
North Dakota. The plane was gifted by the Katars government.
It's intended to serve as a temporary plane until a
new fleet of Boeing jets arrives. President Trump had defended
accepting the gift from Katar, saying it would be foolish
to turn it down, and he's praised the plane, saying,
quote this is the sleekest line, and quote again, it
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Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. An attack on a ship
in the Strait of Horror Moves is pointing to the
risk to Middle East shipping even with an interim peace
steal and effect between the US and Iran, President Trump
says the deal is still intact.
We knocked the hell out of them, and now we're
negotiating from a position of pure strike pier strength.
They know that, and the straits already and we're.
Setting records in this.
I was President Trump at a White House event with
farmers last night, joining us from Dubai this morning. Is
Bloomberg's head of Middle East coverage, Stuart Livingston. Wallace, Stuart,
what more do we know about this attack? What could
it mean for the negotiating position between the US and Iran?
Good morning, Good morning, Nathan. I mean, at the moment,
the details are not entirely clear. I mean specifically who
exactly carried out the attack, and as of now, no
one has really claimed responsibility for it. However, we can
read into it certain important points, which is, this ship
was traveling in the so called Southern Corridor, hugging the
coast of Oman, which is obviously the alternative route to
the Northern Passageway, which hugs the coast of Iran, and
therefore one might presume that it was perhaps a warning
of sorts not to use that southern route and to
stick to the one close to the Ranian coast. And
from that you can extrapolate that there is pressure from
Iran that it wants to maintain the control over hormones
and ultimately would like to extract a revenue stream from
all the ships that go through there every day, which
you know, we don't know quite what that toll would
look like, whether indeed it would be called a toll
or a fee, but we're talking about billions and billions
of dollars every year, you would presume in terms of
what that means for the negotiations, it's going to be
very difficult because so far the red line for the
US and for many of its allies and in even
most of the region has been that that the Strait
must remain an area of free passage for international commas.
And to that point, we heard from Secretary of State
Marco Rubio talking about the difficulties that he sees around
charging any kind of fees for whether it's tolling or
insurance or whatever you want to call it, through the
Strait of Hormones. But just sixty days to negotiate a
broader piece deal, could this situation the status of the
strait of hormones bog things down toward a more permanent deal.
Yeah, I mean absolutely, it's going to be a problem
going forward. I would say it's one of a number
of problems. I mean, it's probably the most pressing because
that's the one that's had the immediate impact on the
global economy far and wide, and will continue to do
so despite the recent drop in oil prices. You know,
we're a long way from going back to normal in
terms of global energy supply. But in terms of that
sixty day timeframe, I'm not sure how many people actually
believe that we'll get anything done in sixty days. The
last major nuclear agreement we had with Iran, the JCPOA,
took the better part of two years. Wasn't quite years,
but pretty much there. So I suppose in theory they
could use that as the basis of the current negotiations,
but that seems quite unlikely. So I think the expectation
is that will probably be extended. But then you add
to that all the huge problems on top of their
not just the nuclearile, not just hour moves, but also
the issue of ballistic missiles, of sanctions, of frozen assets,
support for It's a very very long list, and they're
all very very thorny issues.
And when it comes to this attack yesterday, Stuart, how
is it affecting traffic through the Strait of horror moves?
Now?
We had heard from the President that something like nineteen
million barrels of oil had gone through the Strait in
just one day. Is it starting to have an impact
on the level of flows through the Strait now?
It's very difficult to say, because it's always been a
little bit patchy, and a lot of the ships going
through continue to turn off their signals, which means that
often we don't discover that they've gone through until several
days later when they emerge somewhere in the Indian Ocean
or off the coast of somewhere quite far away. So
I can't really give you defind advance of What I
can say, which I think is difficult to argue against,
is that as far as the international shipping industry is concerned,
the fact that you can still get attack going through
there is going to make them very cautious about moving ships,
either in or route. And just one example, the International
Maritime Organized was working on an evacuation plan for the
hundreds of ships still stuck inside the Persian Gulf. As
of now, that's suspended because again they can't guarantee safety
coming through horror moves. So I think it's going to
be something that develops over the next several weeks. We'll
see if there are a further attacks, what the negotiations
look like. What's telling is that the Sultan of Oman
is going to be in France next week. I believe
and you presume that horr moves will be very high
on the agenda. I think the Omani position is going
to be critical here because they're obviously one of the
two countries that actually sits on that straight and to
some extent, can determine the outcome.
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