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Kara Nortman, co-founder of Angel City Football Club and managing partner of Monarch Collective, and George Pyne, CEO and founder of Bruin Capital, join Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg Deals."
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Kara Nortman, co-founder of Angel City Football Club and managing partner of Monarch Collective, and George Pyne, CEO and founder of Bruin Capital, join Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg Deals."
Ancora Holdings Group is pushing to acquire H.B. Fuller Co.'s building adhesives unit for as much as $1.2 billion. James Chadwick is the president of Ancora's alternatives arm. He says the activist investor is comfortable with the offer and it would be a "win-win" for shareholders. He speaks on "Bloomberg Deals."
Sweetgreen Inc. CEO Jonathan Neman says the cyclospora outbreak had an impact on the business but the US FDA now says it's safe to eat iceberg lettuce again. He says Sweetgreen's supply chain isn't affected by the cyclospora outbreak and its restaurants don't serve that kind of lettuce. Neman speaks to Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick.
AI is driving enormous early-stage valuations, but Foundation Capital General Partner Joanne Chen says venture investors still need discipline when backing companies before they have products or customers. Chen joins Bloomberg to discuss how the firm identifies exceptional founders and her view that AI will reorganize companies and remove bottlenecks rather than simply eliminate jobs. Chen joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."
Silicon Data has raised $30.5 million to expand its pricing and performance benchmarks for the rapidly growing AI compute market. CEO Carmen Li joins Bloomberg to discuss the company's ambition to become an "independent referee" for compute, CME's planned GPU futures tied to Silicon Data benchmarks, and what its data says about the value and depreciation of older chips. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."
Christopher Smart, managing partner of Arbroath Group and former special assistant to the President at the National Economic Council under Obama, said that it is a 'weird time' for the US Economy as economic data shows solid numbers, but with weakening growth and geopolitical factors creating uncertainty. Smart said while he's sure the US will need data centers and the investment in AI, he is worried about how making profits on those investments have been pushed further and further down the line.
Nigel Dawn, global head of private capital at Evercore, joins Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg Deals." Secondaries deals for private assets surged to a record $121 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by fund managers seeking to hold onto single "trophy" assets longer, according to Evercore.
Google unveiled a slew of new hardware ahead of its Made by Google event, including its latest generation of Pixel smartphones. The new phones feature innovations such as a "HiLight" feature that transforms the camera flash into a notification indicator, improved scratch resistance, and brighter displays, but with higher starting prices due to a memory supply crunch. Bloomberg Senior Tech Editor Dana Wollman joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."
AI demand continues to outstrip available computing capacity, and Morgan Stanley sees little risk of oversupply anytime soon. US thematic research strategist Michelle Weaver joins Bloomberg to discuss growing evidence of returns from corporate AI adoption, why labor and power remain critical constraints on the data center buildout, and why she expects companies to ultimately use a mix of open and closed AI models. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."
Wisconsin Representative Bryan Steil said that moderate David Crowley and democratic socialist Francesca Hong are 'two sides of the same coin' after Crowley pulled off an upset in the Democratic primary to face Republican Tom Tiffany in the fall. Steil said that he expects the race to be close and that he thinks that voters care more about 'kitchen table issues' than 'looking back' at Tiffany's stance on the 2020 election results.
Goldman Sachs Group will pay as much as $2.25 billion to buy Neos Investments, expanding its asset manager's reach in the actively managed exchange-traded fund market. Bloomberg's Neil Sipes joins to discuss.
An in-line inflation reading spurred gains in both stocks and bonds, easing concern about imminent Federal Reserve interest-rate increases despite elevated oil prices. Ed Yardeni, Founder at Yardeni Research, talks about raising his S&P target and the market melt up.
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