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The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed business reporters around the world. The context you need on the stories that can move markets. Every afternoon.
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Wall Street’s Predictions for 2026
Every year, Wall Street’s top minds — strategists, economists and portfolio managers — pack their best ideas into dense market outlooks, often running...
How Much Would You Pay to Buy Back Your Time?
Tired Americans are increasingly willing to pay a premium for items or services that save time or ease their fatigue: a laundry machine that both wash...
How China Defied the Odds in 2025
China started 2025 with deflation, a property crisis and fears of a “lost decade” damping sentiment. By year’s end, it had stunned the world with an A...
Why African Startups Are Embracing DeepSeek
Chinese tech companies Huawei and DeepSeek are teaming up to offer cloud computing and AI services. And they’re pitching African startups on using the...
Doing the Math on Toy Tariffs
Since the start of his second term, US President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs – especially on China, where most toys are made.
On...
How to Make It in India (Instead of China)
The US-China trade war has upended global manufacturing, forcing companies like Chicago-based Learning Resources to fundamentally change how and where...
The American Toymaker Caught in Trump’s Trade War
President Trump’s trade threw American businesses, which source everything from aircraft parts to baby strollers from China, into chaos. Over this yea...
Why Instacart Backtracked on an AI-Pricing Experiment
This month, the think-tank the Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports and the news nonprofit More Perfect Union released a report finding that Ins...
Even a US Blockade of Venezuela Isn’t Spiking Oil Prices
From OPEC powerhouses and US shale producers to countries like Guyana, global producers are drilling more oil and driving down prices. And with the po...
Weekend Listen: Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War
Lynsey Addario’s life work means taking great risks to tell other people’s stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who has been abd...
Inside Disney and OpenAI’s Billion Dollar Deal
As AI-generated images ping pong around the internet, the Walt Disney Company has been mostly playing defense, using litigation to protect its intelle...
Truckers Are Aging Out. Who Will Replace Them?
The trucking industry has long been dominated by older white men. But as those truckers steer toward retirement, who will replace them?
On toda...
Many Cancer Drugs Don’t Extend Life
Treating cancer is a massive business. In 2024 alone, cancer treatments generated at least $200 billion in worldwide sales for the pharmaceutical indu...
The $2 Billion Flood Control Scandal Rocking the Philippines
The Philippines is no stranger to typhoons, but this year’s storms exposed something far uglier: a vast corruption scandal.
On today’s Big Take...
Wait, Weren’t We Supposed to Have a Recession in 2025?
All year, the jobs market, consumer sentiment, AI and inflation flashed warning signs about the economy — but 2025 managed to avoid a recession.
...
Weekend Listen: The Man Driving Microsoft’s New AI Strategy
Mustafa Suleyman co-founded AI lab DeepMind when he was just 26 years old. Four years later, it was acquired by Google for a reported $400 million.
How to Invest in AI Right Now
Depending on who you talk to, AI is the key to remaking industries and jobs – or a bubble ripe to pop. And if you’re an investor, you’re already expos...
A Fifth-Generation Farmer on Trump’s $12B Bailout
From rising costs to shifting markets, American farmers are struggling to make ends meet. Now, the White House is stepping in.
On today’s Big Ta...
The Fed Just Cut Rates Again. Here’s What’s Ahead for 2026
On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee cut rates by 25-basis points. It was the scenario a lot of close watchers of the Federal Reserve expec...
India Wanted to Become The World’s Toymaker. Then Tariffs Happened
The US tariff war with China sent American companies scrambling to find alternative manufacturing hubs. India looked promising until the White House u...
What to Expect in the DOJ Epstein Files Release
After last month’s passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the US Department of Justice is on the clock to release an enormous cache of documen...
Weekend Listen: Salman Rushdie Isn’t Afraid of Free Speech
Salman Rushdie was nearly killed when he was stabbed 15 times on stage in upstate New York in 2022. His injuries were so severe that he lost an eye. I...
Netflix’s $82 Billion Power Play for Warner Bros.
News broke overnight that Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $82.7 billion.
It’s a deal raising eye...
How Microsoft Excel Conquered Corporate America
Excel. If you work in corporate America, that word either inspires laser-focused productivity or pure dread. Over the last 40 years, the spreadsheet s...
Are We Headed For Another ‘Crypto Winter’?
Back in October, Bitcoin reached a record high. Just a few weeks later, its price had plunged, taking out over $1 trillion dollars in assets along wit...
Hong Kong's Deadly Fire Triggers Rare Public Outrage
Hong Kong’s worst fire disaster in decades has stirred up public anger over negligence, safety standards and official accountability.
On today’s...
Where US-Russia Talks Leave Ukraine
On Monday, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff flew to Moscow, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited France.
Witkoff is expected t...
Weekend Listen: Ken Burns Says Gratitude Is the Missing Ingredient in Our Politics
Ken Burns has been telling stories about America for almost 50 years. The lauded documentary filmmaker has a new series on PBS, The American Revolutio...
The Big Business of the Doodle Boom
Goldendoodles, bernedoodles, labradoodles, cockapoos, everywhere you look, it seems like doodles — those fluffy, adorable poodle mixes — are taking ov...
Wanted: Fed Chair. Must Run World’s Largest Economy, Manage Up
Weeks before the Trump administration is expected to name its pick for the next US Federal Reserve chair, current White House economic adviser Kevin H...
All Eyes on Japan and China Tensions After Taiwan Remark
After a rare public comment on Taiwan from Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, relations between the two nations are at a historic low — and B...
Inside Trump’s Retribution Campaign
On Monday, a federal judge threw out the criminal cases filed by the Department of Justice against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorn...
Checking the Math on Trump’s $2,000 Checks
Under new pressures over inflation and affordability, President Donald Trump has been talking up a plan to share tariff revenues with Americans, in th...
Weekend Listen: The Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li
Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence research for 25 years, which is why she’s been called th...
Harassment Concerns at Oxford Went Unaddressed for Years
Oxford University has repeatedly been slow to act when confronted with allegations of harassment, assault and inappropriate behavior by male academics...
Nvidia Silences AI Skeptics (For Now)
Nvidia released its third quarter earnings Wednesday, crushing estimates and easing Wall Street’s concerns about an AI bubble.
On today’s Big Ta...
The Hot Market for Jobs No One Wants
After a period characterized as “low-hire, low-fire,” the American labor market is seeing a surge of layoffs from companies like Amazon, Starbucks, UP...
Animal Experiments Are Fueling China’s Biotech Rise
China is investing heavily in cutting-edge genetic experiments. It’s part of their quest to become a biotech superpower.
On today’s Big Take Asi...
How Private Equity Got Its Hands on Billions in Americans’ Retirement Money
Apollo Global Management reinvented how pensions could be managed and paid out — by taking them over and moving the risks offshore. Other firms have f...
Weekend Listen: Former UK Spy Chief Was Paid to Steal Secrets, Not Solve Mysteries
For almost 40 years, Richard Moore was a career spy in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. Only his closest friends and family knew what he did for...