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-Lee Klaskow, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Transport, Logistics and Shipping Analyst, discusses CH Robinson Worldwide agreeing to buy trucking brokerage firm RXO in a deal centered around a bet that artificial intelligence can help the companies improve efficiency in a challenging freight market. CH Robinson aims to diversify its business and capitalize on RXO’s abilities in expedited and last-mile delivery through a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $5.8 billion.

-Sam Fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence, Director of Research for Global Industries and Senior Pharmaceuticals Analyst, discusses AstraZeneca investing $2 billion in US biotech Summit Therapeutics Inc. to collaborate on a promising new cancer medicine that could be combined with the British drugmaker’s other treatments. The investment will speed up development of Summit’s experimental ivonescimab, a bispecific antibody drug that aims to better attack cancer cells and stop them growing, and targets two proteins called PD-1 and VEGF.

-- Robert Schiffman, Senior Tech Credit Analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses his latest credit research on Micron Technology. According to Bloomberg Intelligence: Micron's AI-driven cash surge could make its credit profile materially less cyclical than in prior memory upturns, as stronger pricing, strategic customer agreements and rapidly expanding margins improve earnings visibility. Fiscal 2026 revenue rose 256% to $133.2 billion and adjusted free cash flow reached $62.3 billion, while Bloomberg consensus points to roughly $271 billion of revenue and about $141 billion of free cash flow in fiscal 2027.

-- Dylan Sloan, Bloomberg Wealth Reporter, discusses his story about how the world's tech billionaires gained a combined $845 billion through Sept. 30. That’s the most ever for the first nine months of a year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Tech billionaires are now worth a combined $4.6 trillion, accounting for 36% of the index's wealth despite making up only about a fifth of its members.
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Today's guests:
Suzy Welch, NYU Stern School of Business Professor
Torsten Slok, Apollo chief economist
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-Craig Trudell, Bloomberg Managing Editor of Global Business Coverage, discusses Tesla deliveries. Tesla Inc. reported better-than-expected sales for the third quarter, delivering 486,532 vehicles worldwide in the period. The results are a boon for Tesla following a period of declining auto sales and a lagging stock, with competition in the crucial China market and sluggish demand in the US pressuring the company.

-Poonam Goyal, Senior U.S. E-Commerce and Retail Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses Nike earnings. Nike Inc. is cutting jobs and overhauling the business as results deteriorate, with a restructuring plan expected to save $2.5 billion over the next five years. The company announced weaker-than-expected sales for the latest quarter and a disappointing outlook for this fiscal year, with a high-single-digit revenue decline expected.

-Matthew Bloxham, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Media and Tech Analyst, discusses top tech stories. Anthropic PBC is seeking to go public as soon as the middle of November, with formal marketing for its IPO potentially starting the week of Nov. 9. The company still expects to make its debut no later than the end of the year, despite deliberations being ongoing and the timeline potentially shifting.

-Lindsay Dutch, Bloomberg Intelligence Consumer Hardlines & Beauty Retail Senior Analyst, discusses Mattel takeover interest. Mattel Inc. has drawn takeover interest from Authentic Brands Group, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Authentic has been discussing an offer that could value Mattel at more than $20 a share, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
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The US added fewer jobs than expected in September and wage growth slowed, signaling some caution among employers amid rising costs.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 29,000 last month after a downward revision to the prior two months, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Friday. That missed all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.2%, partly reflecting a growing workforce.
Bloomberg’s Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney get reaction from:
Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist at New Century Advisors
Rebecca Patterson, Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations
Kristina Campmany, Senior Portfolio Manager at Invesco
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- Jake Silverman, Bloomberg Intelligence Semiconductor Analyst, recaps Micron earnings. Micron Technology Inc. gave an upbeat forecast for the current quarter, fueled by the AI building frenzy, though the chipmaker warned that rising compensation would weigh on profit margins. Revenue will be about $61.5 billion in the fiscal first quarter, and excluding some items, profit will be about $38.15 a share. The company's gross margins will tighten slightly in the current period due in part to increased worker pay, with the adjusted gross margin expected to narrow to 86.3% in the current quarter.

-Sarah Frier, Bloomberg Managing Editor for Technology Coverage, discusses Chipmaker Broadcom agreeing to lend Anthropic as much as $42 billion to lease its chips. The agreement would let Broadcom pick a financing partner and convert the debt instruments into Anthropic shares, according to Reuters. Anthropic has committed to spending more than half a trillion dollars on cloud, computing and infrastructure in the coming years, and its IPO could value the AI company at about $2 trillion.

-Ryan Vlastelica, Bloomberg Equities Reporter, discusses Microsoft. Microsoft Corp.'s shares jumped 37.5% from July through September, their best quarterly showing since 1998, adding $1 trillion to the company's market capitalization. The company's earnings in late July showed the fastest cloud growth in four years from strong AI demand, easing concerns about whether Microsoft's heavy AI investments would lead to better growth.

-Geetha Ranganathan, Bloomberg Intelligence Analyst on US Media, discusses Netflix. Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive officer at Netflix Inc., said the US streaming giant isn’t growing as quickly as he would like. Netflix is expanding beyond its core business of films and TV series, with about 5% of its content budget going toward live programming.
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