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Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joined Balance of Power to discuss the recent escalation in the Middle East. He said Iran will go to "extreme lengths" to ensure it exercises some control over the Strait of Hormuz.

AI is dominating venture capital, with OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI attracting a huge share of global funding. Eric Hippeau, managing partner at Lerer Hippeau, joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss what that means for startups and the broader VC market.

A few Federal Reserve officials in their most recent policy meeting said there was a case for raising interest rates, though they ultimately supported the decision to leave rates on hold, according to the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee's June 16-17 meeting.

Leslie Vinjamuri, the President and CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why President Trump's latest Iran threats are aimed at gaining negotiating leverage rather than launching a full-scale war. She also breaks down NATO's strategy for managing Trump, why Europe is adapting its approach, and why the risk of escalation. and its impact on oil markets and the global economy, remains dangerously high.

Once a rare event reserved for historic mega-acquisitions, the jumbo bond sale is increasingly becoming the tech sector's go-to financing tool. Debt offerings of $25 billion or more have quickly shifted into a baseline for tech giants funding their artificial intelligence expansion, with Amazon.com Inc.'s sale on Tuesday marking the seventh time this year alone a technology company has reached that threshold in a single shot.  Vishal Khanduja, Head of Broad Markets Fixed Income at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, discusses how the bond market is pricing in these offerings.

The International Monetary Fund left its global growth forecast largely unchanged for this year, saying that the boom in artificial intelligence helped offset the fallout from conflict in the Middle East. Petya Koeva Brooks, Deputy Director of the IMF's Research Department, discusses the updated World Economic Outlook report on Bloomberg Open Interest.

Fatima Boolani, Co-Head of US Software Equity Research at Citi, discusses the tech selloff and why infrastructure software is so important amid the AI trade.

A flare-up in geopolitical risks drove stocks lower, bond yields rose and oil climbed as President Donald Trump said a ceasefire with Iran may be over, noting the US would probably launch further strikes. From New York to London and Tokyo, equities retreated. Almost 400 shares in the S&P 500 dropped, though chipmakers bounced. Sarah Hunt, Chief Market Strategist at Alpine Saxon Woods, discusses these market gyrations amid geopolitical swings.

The CLARITY Act, the United States' primary cryptocurrency market structure legislation, faces a critical deadline of 7 August 2026 to pass the Senate before lawmakers depart for summer recess on 8 August 2026.

Julia Hermann, Global Market Strategist at New York Life Investment Management, says financials have been "less loved" by the market, but she says the sector is not strapped for cash and is a high quality area of the market. She speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest."

Estonia's Prime Minister Kristen Michal said the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, has been a positive one. He also said his country would be willing to contribute to efforts securing free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Michal spoke to Bloomberg's Oliver Crook on the sidelines of the summit.

US President Donald Trump declared the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding "over" on 8 July 2026, effectively terminating a diplomatic framework that had been in place for less than three weeks following its signing on 17 June 2026 during a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.