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Bloomberg's Anthony Hughes joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Blackstone  is selling its stakes in a trio of data centers across Northern Virginia for $3.5 billion, cashing out of part of a bet it made less than three years ago.

President Donald Trump reported earning at least $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto and memecoin-related businesses, according to his latest annual financial disclosure. Patrick McHenry, former Republican Congressman from North Carolina, Bloomberg Contributor, former House Financial Services Committee Chairman joins to discuss Trump's financial disclosures as well as Speaker Johnson sending the House on recess.

Marlinspike Partners just raised an oversubscribed $127 million Fund II to "rearm America," the latest sign that investors are piling into defense startups. Marlinspike co-founder and CEO Neil Keegan, who also served six years as a US Navy Surface Warfare Officer, joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."

The US decided against renewing its trade deal with Canada and Mexico, choosing instead to conduct annual reviews of the pact. That's according to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who spoke to Bloomberg News on Wednesday. The USMCA will stay in tact for another decade, unless a country decides to exit. Bloomberg's Jeff Mason reports.

The IPO window is showing more signs of life, with Uber-backed Lime raising $174 million in its public debut, pricing its shares right at the midpoint of the expected range. Lime CEO Wayne Ting says the company is going public to attract new investors, and is thinking about M&A, though "the bar is high." He joins Ed Ludlow from the Nasdaq on "Bloomberg Tech."

The Russell 2000 has outperformed the S&P 500 by almost 14 percentage points during the first six months of this year. Should such a performance gap hold into year-end, it would be the largest in over 20 years. Jill Carey Hall, Equity Strategist and Head: US SMID Strategy at Bank of America, discusses her mid-year outlook for small cap stocks.

Eric Liu, the Co-Head of Private Capital at EQT, joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain how AI is reshaping private equity investing, why software companies face a growing divide between AI winners and losers, and how his firm manages regulatory risk in technology and healthcare. He also shares why high-quality assets continue to trade despite a slower private equity exit market.

Signs of economic strength alongside easing price pressures spurred a bounce in stocks from session lows, with Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh saying inflation risks have come down. Jordan Jackson, Global Market Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, gives his macro call and discusses the market reaction he expects to see from Thursday's jobs data.

National Grid CEO Zoë Yujnovich discusses the company's strategic $1.75 billion investment in Jouleant, a US-based AI power firm, emphasizing the growing importance of AI-driven electricity demand. She speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest."

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Space companies including FireFly Aerospace (FLY) Intuitive Machines (LUNR) and Voyager Technologies (VOYG) shares are moving on news that NASA selected three companies to send robotic landers to the moon as part of efforts to establish a lunar base before the end of the decade. The agency announced awards to Astrobotic Technology Inc., Firefly Aerospace Inc., and Intuitive Machines Inc. to send landers to the moon. - General Mills (GIS) shares are moving after it posted fourth-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations, lifted by higher prices. - Meta Platforms Inc. (META) gained on reports that the company is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models. The company is also considering selling access to "raw" computing capacity, according to people familiar with the matter.

General Motors (NYSE:GM) reported a 4.2% year-on-year decline in U.S. auto sales for the second quarter, with total deliveries of 714,896 vehicles compared with 746,588 units in the prior-year period.

Meta Platforms is developing plans to build a cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to AI computing power and models. It would take on industry leaders like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has details.