Analysis: Interviews

Activism Surges in 2026

Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu reports on Bloomberg Deals about the number of activist campaigns during the first six months of 2026 increased 20% from the same period last year to 184, a record that is...

Plenty of Market Capacity To Absorb IPOs: Turturici

Jamie Turturici, head of TMT equity capital markets at Barclays, joins Dani Burger on Bloomberg Deals. Moonshot AI is preparing to begin discussions in August on a final round of fundraising before...

Blackstone Debuts Two Private Market Funds

Bloomberg's Loukia Gyftopoulou joins Dani Burger and Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Deals. Blackstone is unveiling new funds to bring private markets to Main Street investors. This comes ahead of its...

AI Will Lead to Productivity Gains, Stifel CEO Says

Ron Kruszewski, Stifel chairman and ceo, says artificial intelligence will lead to productivity gains. He says financial advisers are still valuable and AI can help them. He speaks on Bloomberg The...

Deals Fly At The Farnborough Airshow

Bloomberg's Siddharth Philip joins Dani Burger on Bloomberg Deals. AerCap Holdings is in discussions to buy Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner aircraft, people familiar with the matter said, potentially...

Activists Take On More Campaigns While Avoiding Proxy Fights

Carmen Lu, partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Shaun Mathew, partner and head of shareholder activism and hostile takeover defense at Kirkland & Ellis, join Dani Burger on...

Need To Constantly Evaluate Software Investments: THL's Sperling

Scott Sperling, Co-CEO of THL Partners, joins Dani Burger on Bloomberg Deals. Private equity company Thomas H. Lee Partners over 50 years has managed or deployed $50 billion of equity capital,...

Layoffs Hit ESPN After $3B NFL Network Deal

Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu joins Dani Burger on Bloomberg Deals. This week Disney's ESPN began a round of layoffs tied to its takeover of the NFL Network. The job cuts also hit Pixar and National...

Dallas Hopes to Attract Women's World Cup in 2031

Monica Paul, executive director of the Dallas Sports Commission, talks about hosting the World Cup this year and how the city hopes to attract the women's World Cup in 2031. She speaks to...

Tesla's AI Spending Test

Wall Street is looking for signs Tesla is putting its AI ambitions into action. Investors want clarity on the EV maker's planned $25 billion in capex spending. TD Cowen analyst Itay Michaeli...

Samsung's Foldables Are Here, and Apple Is Next

Samsung has unveiled a new lineup of foldable smartphones and offered a closer look at its upcoming smart glasses, developed with Google and partners. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman explains why...

Apple to Launch Leasing Program to Spur Sales

Apple is preparing to launch a new hardware leasing program with Klarna that could make it easier and cheaper to upgrade to the latest iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman...

Trump's 100% Generic Drug Duty Threatens US Low-Cost Supply

Generic drug manufacturers must move production to the US or face a 100% import duty from August 2028, President Donald Trump said, threatening the supply of low-cost medicines that millions of...

Stocks Fall Before Alphabet Results as Oil Jumps

Wall Street investors bracing for the start of the megacap earnings season sent stocks lower, with the market also falling as worries about an escalation in the Iran war boosted oil prices. Phil...

US 30-Year Yield Raises Alarm in Longest Run Above 5% Since 2007

The US 30-year bond yield is trading above 5% for the longest stretch since the dawn of the financial crisis, echoing investor concerns about a growing debt pile and sticky inflation. Tony...

AT&T Gains on Earnings; Reddit Falls on Google Content Use Limitation | Stock Movers

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Super Micro Computer shares jumped after the company issued a business update that included raising its fourth-quarter gross margins outlook and saying the...

AT&T CEO on Earnings, Mobile Subscriber Gains, AI

AT&T CEO John Stankey discusses second-quarter results that added more monthly wireless phone subscribers than analysts expected. Stankey says he's pretty confident we can keep that moving going...

Trump Downplays Talks With Iran as US Widens Strikes

President Donald Trump and officials in Tehran signaled a renewal of peace talks is unlikely in the near-term as the US widened the scope of its airstrikes on Iran during an eleventh straight day...

BOJ Is Said to Be Open to Faster Pace of Rate Hikes as Yen Weakness Continues

Bank of Japan officials are reportedly open to raising interest rates at a faster pace than the consensus among economists, with no pre-set course in mind, as the yen's continued weakness adds to...