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Qualcomm shares jumped after the chipmaker forecast annual sales of more than $15 billion from artificial intelligence components in data centers by fiscal 2029. This year Qualcomm’s gains have lagged a general rally by chip stocks as investors concentrated on names more closely associated with spending on AI components.

Qualcomm’s new priority is to win business from the biggest investors in data center gear, joining the competition to cut into Nvidia lead in what has become the most lucrative opportunity in the history of the semiconductor industry.

On this episode, Carrol Massar and Tim Stenovec speak with:

• Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech Host
• Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence Global Head of Technology Research
• Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga and author of the new book 'Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love!'

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Latham Group (SWIM), the largest designer, manufacturer, and marketer of in-ground, residential swimming pools in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, and produces custom pool liners and automatic safety covers. Nearer and longer-term driver remains the structural shift toward fiberglass pools, which continues to take share from concrete. Fiberglass represents approximately 76% of Latham’s pool sales, yet remains underpenetrated in key growth markets

For more, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with Sean Gadd, CEO at Latham Group.

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Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, delivered a sales forecast that topped Wall Street estimates after AI-fueled shortages of the components sent prices soaring.
Revenue will be approximately $50 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, which runs through August, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Analysts estimated $43.2 billion on average. Excluding some items, profit will be about $31 a share, compared with a projection of $25.31.

The shares climbed about 5% in late trading after the report was released. They had already more than tripled this year, outpacing all other major chip stocks.

Micron and its peers in the memory space — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. — have become major beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom. A spending spree by data center operators has stoked the appetite for both conventional memory and a newer variety called high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, that works with AI systems.

On this episode, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with:

• Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech Host AND Jake Silverman, Bloomberg Intelligence Semiconductor Analyst
• Katie Hubbard, President, U.S. Capital Markets for Walton Global on state of the US housing market
• Ellen Wald, President of Transversal Consulting and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
• Len Tannenbaum, Founder, Tannenbaum Capital Group AND James Crombie, Bloomberg News Senior Editor, Credit on private credit latest

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In an industrial park a half-hour outside Prague, Peter Magic finds himself at the center of a gold rush. In the 15 years since he started his business as a teenager in his parents’ garage in Slovakia, it’s developed into a fast-growing company with almost nine figures in annual revenue and an international clientele. He isn’t training a new kind of agentic artificial intelligence that replaces your employer’s legal department or building the next online prediction market. His company, Janoshik Analytical, does purity and sterility testing for black-market anabolic steroids, an obscure niche Magic found during his own foray into weightlifting. His search for other lifters online took him to 4chan and Reddit, where many talked freely about their pharmaceutical experimentation but fretted about what might be in their drugs. Magic figured testing steroid samples couldn’t be that hard. “It took a couple of years, actually, before we got all the processes perfected, because obviously, legally, this is pretty thin ice,” he says. Among connoisseurs, his testing has become the gold standard. Outside, in his lab’s parking lot, he has the shimmering purple Ferrari to prove it.

As it turns out, Magic’s reputation for running a legitimate business evaluating illicit substances has positioned him perfectly for a new black market: the global trade in peptides. For more on the show, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec, spoke with Amanda Mull, Bloomberg Businessweek Senior Reporter and Madison Muller, Bloomberg News US Health Care Reporter

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Tuesday’s stock-market slide was what one Wall Street strategist called a “chip-wreck.”The semiconductor companies that have led this year’s stock-market advance with triple-digit percentage gains were suddenly hit with a wave of doubts about the sustainability of the AI-driven rally.

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On this episode, Tim Stenovec and Carol Massar speak with:

• Amanda Lyons, Head of Research, Energy Group Capital
• Sean Gadd, CEO of Latham Group
• Katherine Kostereva, CEO of Creatio
• Gracelin Baskaran, Director, Critical Minerals Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

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SpaceX is selling investment-grade bonds for the first time in what’s expected to be the start of a massive borrowing spree to fund the company’s AI ambitions following its record $75 billion IPO.
Banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are arranging calls with investors on Monday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because they’re not authorized to speak publicly. A bond sale is expected to follow, with maturities of between five and 30 years, according to the person.

For more, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with Robert Schiffman, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Credit Analyst

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Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman proclaimed a wizard for guiding a then-record US economic expansion, only to see his luster dimmed by the financial crisis that erupted less than two years after he stepped down, has died. He was 100.

He died on Monday at his home in Washington, according to a statement by his wife, Andrea Mitchell, chief Washington correspondent for NBC News. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.

Greenspan’s 18 years as Fed chief, from 1987 until his retirement at the start of 2006, were marked by a stock market boom and low unemployment. More so than the four presidents he served under or the seven Treasury secretaries he worked alongside, Greenspan was seen as the maestro who kept the economy humming.

In a statement on Monday, the Fed said, “Chairman Greenspan’s legacy endures at the Federal Reserve — in those he mentored directly, in the economists and public servants he inspired, and in the frameworks and practices he helped shape.”

On this episode, Carol Massar Tim Stenovec speak with:

• Betsy Duke, Former Federal Reserve Governor, Former Wells Fargo Chair, Former American Bankers Association Chair on Alan Greenspan legacy
• Jim Caron, Portfolio Solutions Group CIO at Morgan Stanley Investment Management on Fed, Greenspan, US vs ROW equities, rates, credit, macro and 2H outlook

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Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100. The former Federal Reserve Chairman died on Monday at his home, NBC News reported, citing his wife, Andrea Mitchell. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease. Greenspan was proclaimed a wizard for guiding a then-record US economic expansion, only to see his luster dimmed by the financial crisis that erupted less than two years after he stepped down. Bloomberg's David Westin, Paul Sweeney and Isabelle Lee look back at the life and legacy of Alan Greenspan, along with James Egelhof, Chief US Economist at BNP Paribas, and John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief at Bloomberg News.

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