Israel Resumes War Against Hamas; Historic Month for Markets

On today's podcast: 1) Israel resumed combat against Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a week-long truce between the two sides ended on Friday morning. 2) European stocks advanced and the dollar fell before comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that may offer clues about the path of interest rates. 3) After two years of delays and production snags, Tesla has finally handed the first Blade Runner -esque Cybertrucks over to customers. 4) Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gavin Newsom of California sparred over taxes, border security and energy, i n a debate that unfolded as a sideshow to the 2024 presidential race — and perhaps a glimpse of the next one. Full transcript: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. Israel has resumed airstrikes in Gaza, minutes after the expiration of a week long truce with Hamas we get the latest from Bloomberg's Anthony Squasien in Tel Aviv. Truce wasn't extended at seven am local time. It was some rocket warnings miss I was being fired and to Israel just before that ended, and Israel responded immediately, and it looked like we're back to fully fledged conflict right now. Reports of air strikes in Gaza made different parts of Gaza, and it does seem that the relative calm of the last seven days is well and truly over. Bloomberg's Anthony Squasiin in Tel Aviv, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netan. Yahoo and other Israeli politicians had consistently said the war would resume at some stage and the truce would not become permanent. Well, Nathan. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin was in Tel Aviv when the fighting restarted yesterday. He said that Israel must defend itself within the confines of international law. Way israel defense itself matters. It's imperative that is relacted in accordance with internationally mediterran law and the laws of war, even when confronting a terrorist group that respects neither. And Secretary Anthony Blincoln was speaking before the latest escalation. Hamas and other Islamist groups are still thought to be holding around one hundred and thirty people captive in Gaza. Turning back to politics in the US, Karen, there's been a debate between a Republican who's running for president and a Democrat who says he's not. Florida Governor Ron de Santis squared off last night with California Governor Gavin Newsom. This is a slick, slippery politician whose state is failing. People are leaving a state. Governor DeSantis went after Newsom and California over immigration, high taxes, and crime. Governor Newsom touted the White House's message of Bidenomics three point nine percent unemployment, the lowest black unemployment in American history, the lowest unemployment for Hispanics in American history, the lower most unemployment for women in seventy years, at lowest black poverty rates in history, and the Fox News debate comes as DeSantis struggles to gain ground on Republican front runner Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. It also allowed Newsome to air his presidential ambitions for twenty twenty eight. Well, Nathan, Let's turn to the markets now. Stocks begin December after notatching one of the biggest November rallies on record, and we get more from Bloomberg Stirlei Pellett. After the months three trillion dollar serge, the S and P five hundred is now just five percent away from its all time high. The gauge climbed over eight percent in November, a feat achieved fewer than ten times for that month since nineteen twenty eight, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It was also the gauge's best month since July of twenty twenty two in New York, Charlie Pellett, Bloomberg Radio and Charlie. Was also a profitable month for bond investors. In fact, treasuries had their best month since the nineteen eighties, and we get more on that from Bloomberg's John Tucker. The boon to bonds comes from signs the economy and inflation are slowing and the Fed is done hiking interest rates well. Traders are even betting on the first FED rate cut in May. Bloomberg Economics sees the FED cutting rates one hundred and twenty five basis points next year. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Index returned four and a half percent of November. That price up and yield down has spurred an everything rally, from stocks to cryptocurrencies. Does it continue? Listen closely today as FED Chair Jerome Powell speaks at Spelman College in Atlanta, and if he sounds even a little hawkish, November's rally may turn into the winter of our discontent. I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio. All right, John, thank you. By the Federal Reserve's top bank, a watchdog wants lenders to be more comfortable turning to the Central banks discount window. Michael Barr, the FEDS Vice Chair for Supervision, towed to the backstop as an important tool for financial stability and monetary policy. The discount window provides ready access to funding that can help banks manage their liquidity risks. The ability to access funding at a predictable rate throughout through the discount window should figure importantly into banks liquidity risk management plans under a range of scenarios and the fence. Michael Barr added that it was important that lenders have a range of options for accessing liquidity struck some corporate news now Karen. After two years of delays and production snags, Tesla has finally handed the first cyber trucks over two customers. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, says it has an extra safety feature. Why do you make it bulletroof? I'm like, why not? Do you want to How tough is your truck bulletproof? He says. Elon Musk says the cheapest version of cyber Truck will cost just under sixty one thousand dollars. That's more than fifty percent over the price Musk floated when he announced the vehicle in twenty nineteen. Well Nathan Disney has restored its dividend. The entertainment giant declared a dividend of thirty censorsh for the second half of its fiscal year. Disney had pledged to restore the payout, which was halted during the pandemic. Disney has been under pressure to improve its performance and restore its dividend by activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is seeking board seats at the company. Well, speaking of under pressure, Karen, take a look at Dell shares. They are down nearly six percent in early trading. A company reported revenue that declined more than expected, and it continues to see sluggish corporate demand for personal computers. And it's time now for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. For now, we're joined by Bloomberg's Amy Moore is Amy. Good morning, Good morning, Karen. The twenty twenty three United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP twenty eight, launched yesterday. Now before the summit began, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterrez warned fossil fuel companies quote their old road is rapidly aging. It's time to end our addiction to fossil fools that is validating climate change. It's time to bet on guaranteeing through strong political will, that temperatures will authorise more than one point five degrees. At the end of the center, the United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the summit, announced a commitment of thirty billion dollars to help finance climate solutions. Tens of thousands of delegates are expected to make this the biggest summit ever. It is looking likely that Congress will take the unusual step to expel one of their own. Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons reports George Santos, on the brink of being kicked out of Congress, took his fight to the House floor. I have been convicted of no crimes, mister speaker, but following an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, members said they did find some troubling behavior. Committee chair Congressman Michael Guest offered highlights of the report. It says it Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal profit. After the ex fulshion vote, Santos still faces a twenty three count federal indictment that alleges he stole from donors and used campaign money for personal expenses in Washington, Nancy Lyons Bloomberg Radio. The CDC is monitoring a pneumonia outbreak among children in the Cincinnati area. Warren County, Ohio has reported one hundred and forty two infections since August. The outbreak comes amid China's surgeon hospitalizations, which CDC director doctor Mandy Cohen told Congress yesterday, is not being caused by a new virus. Do not believe this is a new or novel pathogen that we believe this is all existing, meaning COVID flu RSV. Cohen told Congress. The winter cold and flu season offers the CDC a chance to regain the public's trust, and former White House Chief Medical Advisor doctor Anthony Fauci is set to testify before Congress early next year on the origins of COVID and the pandemic response by the US. This would be the first time Fauci has testified since he retired. Global News twenty four hours of and Whenever You want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Amy Morrison. This is Bloomberg Karen all right, Amy, thank you. What we do bring you news throughout the day right here on Bloomberg Radio. As Amy said, but now also as she said, you can get the latest news on demand whenever you want it. So how do you do it? 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Washington won it Anaheim five to four, a win for LSU that have any national Champson women's basketball Angel hes Back in the lineup scored nineteen. She had been out the last board games. John Stshawer Bloomberg Sports from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on Syrias Exam the Bloomberg Business app in Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. The truce is over in Gaza. The seven day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has ended. Israel is resuming combat operations after Israel said Hamas violated its agreement that has released dozens of hostages over the last seven days in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. For the latest we were joined by Rosalind Mathison, Bloomberg News Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Roz, thanks for being with us once again. What set off this resumption of combat, Well, basically, the truce was due to lapside of the way in the early hour this morning. What we had seen previously was that the SEASPI was rolled over for two further days, and there had been talks to try and get it rolled over again. Those clearly weren't successful, and so that the SEASPI lapsed early this morning. And what we have is Hamas and Israel both accusing the other of violating the terms of the Sea SPI, not meeting the agreements about the release of Israeli hostages yesterday, the number of those hostages, Harmas accusing Israel in turn. And now we've seen a resumption of the fighting. As you say, we saw airstrikes into Gaza this morning. We know the fighting's going on there again. Hermas says there have been casualties and wounded at hospitals already, and Israel is making clear that their goal in the end still is to eradicate Hamas, and as part of that they now see the military campaign likely moving further south in the Gaza strip. It's been quite concentrated in the north. But the messaging today, the warning to people in Gaza today is be prepared because the military is going to now push further sout. And the messaging from the US with that expectation that the war would be heading to the south, was that Israel needs to limit civilian casualties. Talk about US diplomacy, the role that's playing there, and whether that could have any impact on what we see on the ground, well, that's right. In fact, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln was still on the ground in Israel when the fighting did resume. He took off shortly afterward for Dubai to attend the COP twenty eighth summit, but in his meetings in Israel, he said he made very clear to officials there that the US is concerned about the humanitarian situation inside Gaza that they're urging Israel to do everything they can to limit the impact on civilians from this war and to also uphold international humanitarian law. And that was the public messaging, so privately you can imagine it was possibly a bit stronger. I mean, you can see the rhetoric shift really from the US since the start of this in October seven, which was the Hamas attack on Israel. The US does remain strongly supportive of Israel in this, but has become more vocal in their concerns about the impact on gas. And certainly that was a message that Blinkl was delivering on the ground. And even as the fighting continues, we're hearing from Kater, which has been leading negotiations on extending the ceasefire, that there are still talks underway to bring in further pauses. Can you give us further clarity on that? Well, that's right. In fact, even when the fighting was going on before the truce, we knew those lines of communication were working quite furiously. Katar, alongside Egypt and US officials acting as go betweens between Hamas and also Israel, and a role potentially for Iran in all of that. The idea was to get towards that initial truce that we saw that lasted for seven days in the end, and Kata has been out this morning very quickie to say despite the resumption of the fighting, those talks are still going on. It is hopeful that there can be a way back to at least other temporary truce. That's because there are still Israeli hostages inside Gaza that we know, and aid agencies that hope to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza during that window which has now shut at least for now, And so Kata is saying, we're still talking about there. We're hope you can get to a point to at least have a temporary truce. But the reality in the end also Israel has made very very clear that they intend to keep fighting. Their overarching goal is to eradicate Hamas, and right now they don't see that goal as having been met, only have a minute left ros. But before the fighting began, the New York Times reported that Israel got a hold of Hamas's battle plan for October seventh, more than a year ago. Tell us more about that, well, that's right. In fact, this was also reported by an Israeli media outlet Khan Media a couple of days ago, saying that Israel did get blueprints of this plan by Hamas a year ago, but dismissed it as too difficult for Hamas to carry out, implausible, and so didn't really follow up on it. And that echoes some of what we've seen from the reporting we've done ourselves, which is really this presumption on the part of the Israeli security forces the intelligence services, that Hamas wasn't able to do something of this nature, that yes, you'd see six skirmishes go on from time to time from Gaza into Israel, but that a full throated attack was impossible, and that's why in the end they kind of missed the signals leading up to the October seven attack. 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