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Oct 2025
28m 24s

US Shutdown Begins As Stocks Drop & Gold...

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

On today's podcast:

(1) Congress blew past a midnight funding deadline, triggering the US government’s first shutdown in nearly seven years — and the third under President Donald Trump.

(2) US equity-index futures fell as the deadline to avert a government shutdown lapsed, disrupting one of the country’s largest employers and threatening to delay key economic data releases

(3) Pfizer has won a reprieve from the US President's threatened tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry. The drugmaker agreed to cut some prices by up to 85% and sell directly to the public in the US.

(4) Keir Starmer was battling for his future a week ago. After the retreat of his main Labour rival and his decision to take the gloves off against populist rival Nigel Farage, the UK prime minister’s shored up his standing.

(5) Bloomberg's Women, Money & Power convenes the most influential voices from across the global finance industry for the second year to debate and discuss the critical issues facing the future of investing, real estate, consumer banking and private markets, as well as philanthropists, owners and CEOs.

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