Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition

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On today's podcast:

(1) An employee at OpenAI was arrested and charged with using a hidden recording device in one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to statements from the artificial intelligence company and the US Justice Department.

(2) Many of Britain’s large businesses are ready to replace staff with artificial intelligence over the next year, according to a prominent survey of chief financial officers.

(3) Saudi Aramco’s executive headquarters in eastern Saudi Arabia was hit during a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi militants on Tuesday, causing a fire in a part of the complex, the kingdom’s energy ministry said.

(4) Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said that while the impact of the energy-cost shock from the US-Iran war on broader UK inflation has been limited so far, it’s getting harder to avoid.

(5) The head of MI5 warned Britons must be resilient in the face of “escalating” Russian hybrid warfare, as the UK’s domestic security service devotes more resources to hostile state threats than during the Cold War.

(6) Swiss lawmakers have backed a new special tax for systemically important banks, in the latest blow to the country’s largest lender UBS Group AG.

(7) The initial report from the independent regulator of UK football paints a devastating picture of a sport facing a financial crisis unless it changes course.

(8) Six months into a war that sowed upheaval in the Persian Gulf, Qatar found itself stuck. By late August, even limited shipments from the gas heavyweight had all but stopped following a projectile attack on one of its tankers outside the Strait of Hormuz. Pressure was growing, not only from energy-starved clients but also from inside an economy built on regular deliveries.

(9) Rory McIlroy cast doubt on LIV Golf surviving bankruptcy to continue on as a competitor to the PGA Tour. “It’s hard,” McIlroy said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi. “It looks like every day that goes by, there’s another player that was on LIV that says that they’re not going to rejoin for LIV 2.0.”

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Your morning briefing. All the news you need to start your day.

On today's podcast:

(1) A global slide in semiconductor stocks deepened, sending South Korea’s chip-heavy equity benchmark down 7% as concerns about AI overheating and Chinese competition intensified.

(2) Globally, comparisons between the subprime episode of 2008 and today’s AI investment boom are being drawn because of the yawning imbalances that underpin both.

(3) Big US bank stocks are teetering in correction territory as the group kicks off earnings Tuesday, heightening the focus on executives’ outlook for the American consumer with long-term borrowing costs the highest in decades.

(4) The International Monetary Fund said global growth should pick up next year with a boost from AI investment, but warned the world economy is nearing the limits of its resilience as the energy squeeze persists and financial risks build.

(5) French high school students are set to hit the streets on Tuesday, extending their movement into a third week with no clear response from policymakers to their demands in sight.

(6) A barrage of drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia has intensified pressure on Washington to step up efforts to help its close ally battle Iran-backed Houthi militants in neighboring Yemen.

(7) UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was “almost certainly” responsible for an alleged terror plot at a British airbase used by the US.

(8) Prime Minister Peter Magyar galvanized Hungary with his vision of a national makeover following the Viktor Orban era. Now comes the tough task of delivering the economic centerpiece of that plan: a credible road map for euro adoption.

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Your morning briefing. All the news you need to start your day.

On today's podcast:

(1) Saudi Arabia’s main airport came under renewed attack from Houthi rebels, a day after a strike on the facility killed 12 people and heaped pressure on the Middle East’s biggest economy as it prepares to host major events that seek to boost foreign investment.

(2) President Donald Trump said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy ceasefire” effective immediately.

(3) A man who was allegedly plotting an assassination attempt on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been detained.

(4) With an agreement to curb exports of hybrid vehicles to the European Union, China is betting it can sidestep harsher restrictions from the 27-member bloc with a gesture that has little immediate prospect of reshaping the overall trade relationship.

(5) Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their systems.

(6) Bond markets are starting to do some of the lifting for central banks around the world by pushing up borrowing costs themselves, potentially reducing the number of benchmark interest-rate hikes needed to get inflation under control.

(7) UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey must find £35 billion ($46 billion) to meet the Labour government’s spending ambitions, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned ahead of the budget later this month.

(8) With hundreds of thousands of young French people taking part in nationwide protests, violence flaring and bonds suffering a market rout, investors are losing faith in the European Union’s second-largest economy to get a grip. For Europe, it’s a nightmare scenario.

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Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Host Nathan Hager take a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week.
In the US – a look ahead to U.S CPI and PPI data, along with U.S bank earnings.
In the UK – a look ahead to European leaders meeting in Brussels.
In Asia – a look ahead to Japan's Sports Day.
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Your morning briefing. All the news you need to start your day.

On today's podcast:

(1) Mobile payments firm Airtel Money is set to start trading on the London Stock Exchange later on Friday, a listing that may mark the largest initial public offering for the bourse in five years.

(2) Revolut Chief Executive Officer Nik Storonsky said he wants the digital bank to hold a primary listing in the US, if it chooses to pursue a public offering in the future.

(3) Firmus Grid abandoned its attempt at one of Australia’s biggest-ever initial public offerings, after the Nvidia -backed data center company failed to lure global investors who’ve grown increasingly skittish over frothy AI valuations.

(4) European Commission finance chief Valdis Dombrovskis urged euro-area member states to observe budgetary restraint, pushing back against a proposal from Italy and Greece to introduce additional leeway.

(5) President Donald Trump said in a social media post that the US would “not be attacking Iran” before November’s midterm elections, citing what he said were “productive discussions” with the Islamic Republic.

(6) The UK’s Labour Party won a special election for a central London parliamentary seat early Friday morning, providing a boost to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and a blow to the Greens’ leader Zack Polanski.

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