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Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition

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 GDP data and a tech outlook for 2026.
 • In the UK – a look at UK politics and what 2026 may hold in store for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
 • In Asia – a look ahead to the challenges facing China’s economy in 2026.
 
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Daybreak Weekend: US GDP, UK Politics, China Eco

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
 

On today's podcast:
 

(1) European Union leaders reached an agreement to loan Ukraine €90 billion ($106 billion) for the next two years, aiming to strengthen Kyiv’s hand at the negotiating table and keep the war-torn country afloat.
 

(2) The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to the highest in 30 years and said more increases are in the pipeline if conditions allow, in a sign of growing conviction that it can attain the stable inflation target it has pursued for more than a decade.
 

(3) The Bank of England cut interest rates but joined a wave of other central banks in warning that the speed and scale of future reductions is now in the balance.
 

(4) Officials have found the dead body of the suspected shooter in a Brown University rampage and the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in his Boston-area home.
 
 
(5) TikTok’s long-delayed plan to separate from Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. was put in motion Thursday when the video sharing sensation said it’s being bought by a group of buyers led by Oracle.
 

(6) Wells Fargo was sued by a former manager who says he was fired for pushing the bank to create a more diverse workforce and objecting to its practice of interviewing minority applicants for jobs that were already filled.
 

(7) As shoppers at London’s renowned Selfridges department store soaked in the festive mood ahead of Christmas in 2021, the billionaire Weston family were closing in on the sale of the landmark. But instead the family got caught up in the collapse of Benko’s €23 billion empire less than two years after the Selfridges deal.
 

Podcast Conversation: Blackstone Parodies ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Annual Holiday Video

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EU's €90B Ukraine Loan, Shooting Suspect Found Dead, Why €23B Empire Fell

The EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says it's a "crucial" moment for Ukraine's future, as European leaders meet in Brussels to decide on how to financially support Kyiv. "Putin is banking on us to fail, and we shouldn't give them that," she told Bloomberg's Stephen Carroll in Brussels.

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Bonus Interview: EU's Kallas Warns 'Putin Is Banking on Us To Fail'

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On today's podcast:
 

(1) The Bank of England will likely deliver a pre-Christmas interest-rate cut on Thursday as concerns shift away from inflation and toward the UK’s struggling economy and jobs market.
 

(2) Central banks hike when there is a risk of inflation re-accelerating or when policy is judged to be too loose. Neither condition applies right now, tilting risks to hawkish disappointment weighing on the euro.
 

(3) BP appointed Meg O’Neill as its new chief executive officer, making her Big Oil’s first female leader, as the company struggles to revive its fortunes after a botched pivot toward renewable energy.
 

(4) OpenAI has held funding talks with investors to raise tens of billions of dollars at a valuation of $750 billion, according to a report in the Information.
 
 
(5) Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that German troops could participate in a coalition to secure a demilitarized zone in Ukraine after a possible peace agreement with Russia.
 
 
(6) Driven by a funding vacuum caused by post-financial crisis banking regulations, private credit has evolved from a relatively niche form of financing to become an important part of Europe's property lending landscape
 

Podcast Conversation: Where to Eat in Brussels from Business to Value

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BOE Set For Rate Cut, First Female BP CEO, Private Credit's Backdoor

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On today's podcast:

(1) The Trump administration threatened retaliation against the European Union in response to efforts to tax American tech companies, singling out prominent companies, including Accenture, Siemens and Spotify Technology , as possible targets for new restrictions or fees.
 
(2) President Donald Trump said he was ordering a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers going into and leaving Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Caracas amid a US military buildup in the region and the threat of land strikes.
 
(3) French President Emmanuel Macron said in a Financial Times op-ed that placing tariffs and quotas on Chinese imports would be “an uncooperative answer” to address its trade imbalance with the European Union.
 
(4) The UK’s Labour government passed a workers’ rights package that expands protections for employees and achieves a key policy goal of the party’s left.
 
(5) OpenAI is in initial discussions to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc. and use its chips, a potential win for the online retailer’s effort to broaden its AI industry presence and compete with Nvidia.
 
(6) Jared Kushner’s splashy projects in the Balkans are colliding with the realities of doing business in the region.
 
Podcast Conversation: High Coffee Prices Are Changing How People Take Their Daily Brew

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US-EU Digital Tax Threat, Venezuela Tanker Blockade, Kushner's Balkan Dreams

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On today's podcast:

(1) The Olayan Group, a Saudi empire led by sisters Lubna and Hutham Olayan, has grown in influence, with a nearly $13 billion stock portfolio in the US and stakes in companies like BlackRock Inc. and JPMorgan.

(2) US negotiators offered more significant security guarantees to Kyiv as part of President Donald Trump’s renewed push to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but the effort still appeared part of a bid to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on territory.

(3) Nasdaq, the second-largest exchange in the US, is looking for regulatory approval to extend trading hours on its stock venues to 23 hours during the work week.

(4) President Donald Trump sued the BBC for at least $10 billion over a misleading edit in a documentary last year that gave the impression he’d made a direct call for violence in a speech leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.

(5) The UK finalized a long-awaited free trade agreement with South Korea that the government said would boost exporters from automaker Bentley to beverages firm Diageo.

Podcast Conversation: The 25 Best Places to Travel in 2026, From Argentina to Gabon

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Saudi Wealth Unveiled, Trump Sues BBC for $10B, Luxury Home Woes

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On today's podcast:

(1) At around 6:47 p.m., as the sun began to fade on a warm Sunday afternoon at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, the first gunshots rang out. Soon two gunmen were spotted in a parking lot close to a grassy area just off the beach, where more than 1,000 members of the Jewish community in Australia had gathered to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah.

(2) President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signaled that Ukraine could accept security guarantees from the US and Europe as a way to prevent future Russian aggression, and substitute for its long-term goal of joining NATO.

(3) Brown University, mourning two students killed during a shooting rampage Saturday, sent students home and called off final exams, classes and assignments for the fall semester.

(4) Wage growth for the lowest-paid workers is starting to slow as a worsening jobs market undercuts the bargaining power of a section of the workforce that has proved resistant to the Bank of England’s inflation-fighting efforts, new data shows.

(5) The head of Britain's Armed Forces says the "whole nation" needs to become more resilient and prioritise industry and infrastructure to deter the growing threat from Russia.In speech later today, the UK Chief of the Defence Staff Richard Knighton will warn the price of peace is increasing, as Russia attempts to divide and destroy NATO.

Podcast Conversation: AI Is Getting Dangerously Good at Political Persuasion

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Bondi Beach Massacre, Meloni's Europe Warning, Private Equity Shakeup

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 the November jobs report and quarterly earnings from Nike.
 • In the UK – a look ahead to the Conference of Paris.
 • In Asia – a look ahead to the next monetary policy decision from the Bank of Japan.
 
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Daybreak Weekend: Jobs Preview, Paris Conference, BOJ Decision

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On today's podcast:

(1) President Donald Trump said the US would be willing to contribute assistance to Ukraine as part of a security agreement to end the war with Russia, but continued to express frustration with the pace of talks.

(2) The seizure of an enormous oil supertanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday is just the beginning of a new phase in the Trump administration’s ramped-up pressure campaign against Nicolas Maduro, according to people familiar with the operation.

(3) The premium Britain pays to finance its debts has narrowed thanks to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves shoring up the public finances in her budget last month, and a helping hand from her central bank.

(4) Broadcom, a chip company vying with Nvidia for AI computing revenue, suffered a stock slide after its sales outlook for the red-hot market failed to meet investors’ lofty expectations.

(5) China Vanke, the last big survivor of the country’s yearslong property crunch, sent investors an innocuous-looking announcement about a $3.1 billion loan agreement with a state-owned shareholder. But the Nov. 2 statement contained a twist: Shenzhen Metro Group, which had given unwavering support to the developer for nearly two years, now set a cap on any further financing. 

Podcast Conversation: Bob Iger Just Got the Better of Sam Altman: Dave Lee 

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Trump Offers Ukraine Security, UK Gilt Penalty Fades, Europe's AI Giant

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.

On today's podcast:

(1) US forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking a serious escalation of tensions between the two countries.

(2) Ukraine sent a revised peace plan to Washington as President Donald Trump held a call with European leaders, according to a person familiar, as both sides scramble to keep efforts on track to end Russia’s invasion.

(3) Federal Reserve officials delivered a third consecutive interest-rate reduction and maintained their outlook for just one cut in 2026.

(4) Oracle shares fell more than 10% in extended trading after the company reported a jump in spending on AI data centers and other equipment, rising outlays that are taking longer to translate into cloud revenue than investors want.

(5) London is experiencing the most widespread declines in house prices in the UK, estate agents warned, as the capital bears the brunt of Labour’s new tax on high-value homes.

(6) Poland is the European Union’s biggest coal producer, but Europe’s Coal Mining Holdout Braces for Its Inevitable Demise

Podcast Conversation: Diageo Taps Into Guinness Boom With New London Tourist Hub

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US Seizes Tanker Near Venezuela, Fed's 'Silent Dissenters', Europe's Coal Holdout

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves expanded her fiscal headroom to £22 billion by upping a range of taxes including: a levy on homes valued above £2 million, increasing fuel duty, and freezing the threshold people start paying income tax for longer. But her crucial budget was overshadowed when the Office for Budget Responsibility released its economic analysis, including all the budget's key measures, ahead of the Chancellor's big speech. Our budget top team of Bloomberg's Chief UK economist Dan Hanson, our UK Political Editor Alex Wickham, and Opinion Columnists Rosa Prince and Marcus Ashworth.

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Special Episode: Reeves Hikes Taxes After Budget Pre-Release Shambles

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