Trump Maintains Naval Blockade; Big Tech Earnings Wrap with Apple

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are the stories we're following today.
Karen, we begin with the latest on the standoff between
the US and Iran. President Trump is promising not to
let up on the naval blockade of Iran's ports to
try to pressure Tehran back to the negotiating table. The
President says Iran's economy is a disaster and the impact
on US prices at the pump won't last.
The country's do really well, and that's despite a military operation.
I don't call it a work.
Could you rather have a military operation?
We're really.
I mean, Iran is dying to make a deal. I
can only tell you that.
I was President Trump speaking to reporters in the Oval Office.
But Iran is holding firm. As we hear from Bloomberg's
Patrick Sykes in Istanbul.
The supreme leader in Iran, who we still haven't seen
person or even heard his voice, is still in effective,
hiding and thought to be wounded. He said very clearly
that Iran wouldn't be compromising on its nuclear technology or
its missile program. And then overnight as well Iran has
said that incepted some drones overnight, So it still feels
like it's very tense, even above Tehran itself.
Bill brigs Patrick Sykes reports Iranian officials are warning the
blockade will keep driving up oil prices. Axios is reporting
the President Trump got a briefing from US Central Command
and the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about
further military options against Iran.
Nathan Defense Secretary Pete Haygesith and other Pentagon officials wrapped
up testimony on Capitol Hill, this time answering questions before
the Senate Armed Services Committee. Haigesith defended the US position
about the war with Iran to Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand up
New York.
So the question I would ask to you and to
others is what is the cost of a nuclear armed Iran?
What is the cost to the American people's The world's
most dangerous regime has a weapon.
But the truth is they don't want war coming to
this shore, and when you do decapitation operation, the likelihood
is going to be exchanged. In the United States, There's
no evidence that we are safer because of this war.
We did not have any evidence that Iran intended to
eminently attack this country in any way, shape or form.
On Wednesday, Hey, Seth God, you'rerilled buy a House panel
who questioned the US justifications for the war in Iran.
We're caring.
The longest partial government shut down ever is over. President
Trump has signed the bill to fund most of the
Department of Homeland Security except for immigration enforcement. Republicans planned
to pass those funds separately in a budget bill that
won't require Democratic votes. Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson, this.
Will relieve pressure from the Department of Homeland Security Sectuary Mullen.
We greatly relieve the President will, the administration will.
We were not going to have lines at TSA.
Everybody who get their paychecks.
Now we'll get moving forward.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans overcame their differences on
the bill after the White House warned it had run
out of funds to pay TSA workers. This month, Democrats
had demanded restrictions on ice enforcement after the killings of
two US citizens in Minnesota, but Republicans rejected their proposals.
Democrats say the issue will come back to hunt Republicans
in the midterms.
Let's turn to the markets now, Nathan, where the record
run on Wall Street continues. The S and P five
hundred and Nasdaq enter today's session at all time highs.
The SNP rows ten percent in April, it's best month
since twenty twenty. Matt Raw is senior portfolio manager at
Men Group.
I think there's an assumption that at some point in
the relatively near term, we're going to get a resolution
to the straits being reopened, the normalization of crude. So
for now, the market is saying that the AI benefit
and the potential upcrash associated with AI has a higher
weight than the potential near term consumer spending drag.
Matt Row of Man Group. The S and P five
hundred closed above seventy two hundred for the first time
ever yesterday.
Big company news to tell you Karen. Share of Apple
are up more than two and a half percent in
early trading. The iphonemaker delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast
for the third quarter. We get more from Bloomberg Tech
host ed Ludlow Change.
In Fortunes for the stock change in sentiment on how
Apple's doing. The guide for the current period the June
quarter is that revenue will grow fourteen percent to seventeen
percent year on year. There is strong demand. There was
one notable moment incoming. CEO John Turnis did speak briefly
on the call. He said there's an exciting product roadmap,
but specifically declined to give any details. So the key
takeaways strong demand, some supply constraints, manageable cost pressures, and
it was all about the guidance that was good enough
to change the course of direction for the stock, but
also how the market felt about what was a beat
but not a blowout for Apple in.
The quarter gone.
This is Ed Ludlow for Bloomberg News in San Francisco.
All right, Ed, thank you well. Shares of Roadblocks, they
are plunging down almost twenty twenty three percent. The video
game company reported first quarter users that fell short of
analyst estimates, and the drop comes after Roblocks implemented a
safety features restricting how kids, who make up a majority
of his audience can use the platform. Time now for
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 King, Charles and Queen
Camilla have wrapped up their visit to the US. During
his visit, King Charles gave a speech before Congress, attended
a state dinner, and paid a visit to New York City.
On their last day, the royal couple paid their respects
at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery,
and they celebrated America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday at
a block party in Virginia. More than a million people
in Lebanon are expected to face food in security by August,
according to a new analysis from the United Nations and
World Food Program. Joseph Bellevo is the executive director of
the humanitarian group Global. He says the food crisis is
due to the war in Iran, displacement and economic pressures.
We're incredibly stressed. The entire health system was already vulnerable,
was already fairly weak prior to March second, when this
round of conflict erupted. Since that time, one hundred and
forty seven hits on medical facilities.
Joseph Bellevue with med Global. A suicide note purportedly written
by the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is locked inside
the case file of his former cellmate, convicted murderer Nicholas Tartaglioni.
He told The New York Times it was written on
paper from a yellow legal pad and tucked inside a book.
Tartaglioni says he found the purported suicide note. In July
of twenty nineteen, a school board meeting got so heated
in Philadelphia that the board members shifted to a virtual format.
The board approved the controversial three billion dollar facilities plan
that includes, among other things, the closure of seventeen public
school Lisa Haver is with the Parent and community group
Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools.
I'm horrified.
I'm like, how many times can these students and parents
come and say we don't want to save our school.
District leaders say it's necessary because they have to address
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NBA playoff blowout that Nicks in Atlanta led forty to
fifteen after the first quarter in eighty three to thirty
six at halftime. The final was one forty to eighty nine.
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Sixers are going to a game seven in Boston after
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This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager.
Easily the biggest week for earnings this quarter is closing
out with surprisingly strong results from Apple. The iphonemaker delivered
a revenue forecast blowing past Wall Street estimates. So it
did come with some warnings that memory chip costs you're
going to keep going up and a shortage of Mac
computers could last for several more months. Here with us
for some morning after analysis is Dan Ives, the global
head of Tech research at Wedbush Securities. Always great to
talk tech with you, Dan, And I did see your
post on x saying that these earnings sure in a
potential golden era for Apple.
Tell me more, good morning.
Good morning. Look, I mean me and you.
You know, if you think about over the last year,
there have been ups and downs, but we're actually really
more downs and ups in terms of what we've seen
the last few years.
This was as robust of a quarter and god as
we've seen a few years.
I mean, this is almost a mini supercycle that's playing out.
I think there's a stock that's going to have huge
upside here and it's just as Cook's handing the baton
to turnus.
Really a golden night, not just for the next but
for Apple.
Okay, I did see your note as well, putting a
focus in particular on the results out of China. Is
it going to be particularly important for Apple to keep
growing the market in China to keep its momentum going.
Look, Nathan, that's the hearts and lungs. And if you
think about the last year, that's been a headwind. Now
it's a talent.
Now, look, some of that is product cycle, some of
it's also Cook being part politician navigating what we've seen
China the last year. Now it's a talent and that's
the hearts and lungs of Apple strategy. Twenty percent of
iPhones come out of China, a huge sort of flex
the muscles moment for Cooper tina.
I mentioned the memory chip costs.
This is something that's been coming up quite a bit
of this particular tech earning cycle. The chip costs going up.
Is that going to be a crimp on Apple's margins?
Are consumer is going to have to start thinking about
prices going up for their next round of iPhones.
It's really the latter.
I think you'll have one hundred and maybe one hundred
and fifty dollars price increases. Book Some of that they'll
absorb through the supply chain, but ultimately this is something
that you know they're probably they're going to have.
To hike prices a bit.
Nothing significant, it's just what's happened in memory. It's a
memory supercycle. And to get on the line for those chips,
there's shortages.
We've seen across the board. Given AI revolution.
Do consumers stomach that those kinds of price increases?
Do you think?
Look?
I think when I think about called three hundred million
and have an upgrade to iPhone, there will be a
lot of in send thems out there from the carriers.
Carriers will also probably you know, ultimately absorb some of that.
It's maybe a one percent churn from that number, maybe
one and a half percent, but that's not something too significant. Look,
when it comes to pricing, navigating the supply chain when
to raise prices, the Hall of Fame or Cook.
News when to do it? And I think that's what
you'll see.
So how does this set things up for John Turnas
when he does take the baton and thinking about the
Worldwide Developers Conference coming up as well?
What about the AI story?
Dan?
Well, first off, if you go.
Back, I mean there's a surprise obviously when Cook announce,
but now knowing these numbers, you see why he did
it because he's he's handled the toon a great time,
going to them with a mini supercycle.
But the reality is turnus, it's going to be about
AI that will define Apple I.
Think in WWDC is where they ultimately released the first
part of that strategy in terms of serie AI with
Jem and I, we think ultimately is a subscription service
that's going to be important. I think that's where seventy
five to one hundred dollars per share as the consumer
AI revolution go should get Fatina.
In our last minute, Dan, what's your overall take on
how this week of earnings went? It seemed like it
was kind of hit or miss when it comes to
how these hyperscalers are monetizing AI.
Look, this is.
About as bullsh underlying fundamentals, guy, that you could have
seen from big tech, specifically in terms of the cloud players,
everything you're seeing from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and even Meta
from a cap Bax perspective.
Look, I think the bear thesis essentially got thrown out
the window this week. I think tech stocks are up
another ten to fifteen percent higher and there is no
better validation you could have seen from big tech.
Fool's going to the weekend pretty happy.
In our last just ten seconds here you talk about
what time it is in the AI party.
What time do you think it is now?
Well, it's about eleven thirty pm. Maybe the cops came
try to break up the.
Party over the last month, they left the music's back on.
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