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Qantas Airways (ASX:QAN) is reportedly negotiating with Accenture (NYSE:ACN) to outsource up to 1,000 back-office roles to India under a plan named Project iQ.

Lake Resources (ASX:LKE) has started its 28-day public consultation phase for the Kachi Project on Aug. 3.

Vmoto (ASX:VMT) recorded a 156% year-over-year sales increase to 6,020 units, advancing its annual delivery targets.

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Aaron Brown discusses his latest piece on the collapse of AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness. He argues "The easy story is another tech wunderkind flying too close to the sun. The more useful one is that the 439% return was a warning, not a triumph."

A $506 million bet on thousands of New York rent-stabilized apartments has already soured for bond investors, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rent freeze is threatening to make it worse. Ran Eliasaf, Founder & Managing Partner of Northwind Group, discusses the needs in the NYC housing market and the possible impact of the city's recent moves to make it more affordable and levy new taxes.

Chris Maurice, CEO of Yellow Card, explained how his company differentiates itself from competitors like Stripe and Wise by building the underlying infrastructure that enables international money movement using stablecoins such as USDC. Yellow Card provides direct liquidity and on/off ramps against local currencies across regions including Africa, Latin America, and Asia, allowing stablecoins to be sent and converted locally without the need to convert back to dollars first. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close."

Moffettnathanson Research Analyst Julie Zhu says SpaceX almost has an "identity crisis." Elon Musk's company is set to report its first-ever quarterly earnings results on Tuesday after going public this summer. Zhu talks about what the team is looking for on "Bloomberg The Close."

During the countdown to the market close, Romaine Bostick highlighted the recent surge in private debt defaults, noting that Fitch Ratings reported a record 6% default rate among 1,300 US private debt borrowers in the second quarter. Randy Schwimmer, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Strategist at Churchill Asset Management, acknowledged the challenging environment reflected in the rising defaults but expressed optimism about improving conditions in the second half of the year. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close."

The Trump administration is advancing a plan to allocate $200 billion annually toward medical research, emphasizing support for individual scientists and private research facilities rather than traditional university-based research. John Flavin, CEO of Portal Innovations, a Chicago-based firm that funds early-stage life sciences companies, discussed the implications of this shift. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close."

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says a hack by OpenAI could have been "way worse" if not for the company's defensive measures. He calls this a "wake up call" for the industry and says the incident has been reported to lawmakers and authorities. He speaks to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow on "Balance of Power."

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, said that while AI and the Fed may be issues more at the forefront of the economic conversation, risk from the Iran war and its subsequent impact on fuel stores remains an important factor in the background. Slok also commented the possibility that the Fed may have fewer meetings, saying that market will still try to price the Fed regardless of the schedule.