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Wei Li, BlackRock Global Chief Investment Strategist, joins Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss the risks and income opportunities within the fixed income market.

Krishna Guha, vice chair and head of central bank strategy at Evercore ISI, sees inflation, oil prices, and bond yields being of more importance to the Federal Reserve than US jobs data in determining whether to raise interest rates at this month's meeting.

Cameron Dawson, chief investment officer at NewEdge Wealth, suggests waiting for some volatility to come and create better equities buying opportunities as she says, "2Q is likely the peak in earnings growth rate."

US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump and is stepping down after repeated clashes with his boss, Pete Hegseth. His resignation leaves the service without several top leaders as the conflict with Iran continues. Rachel Schilke of Bloomberg Government has more.

Wei Li, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock, says, "right now, from a total portfolio perspective," she prefers equities over credit and government bonds, however she does see "good income opportunities within fixed income that we do want to lean into."

Nordic Investment Bank Chief Executive Officer André Küüsvek speaks on Bloomberg Television as the Helsinki-based multilateral lender owned by the five Nordic and three Baltic countries formally added resilience, security and defense into its strategy. "We are in discussions with around 30 other potential borrowers and counterparts with a gross pipeline of about 1.2 billion worth of projects today on the table," Küüsvek says.

The premium that France pays to borrow over Germany, among the most-closely watched bond risk gauges, is near the highest since the days of Europe's sovereign debt crisis in 2012. Nerves are also spilling into France's stock and corporate debt markets, fueling underperformance versus international peers. Bloomberg's Alice Gledhill reports.

The rise in real yields, which is outpacing that of nominal and breakeven rates, has "a little bit more room to run," says Laura Cooper, global investment strategist at Nuveen. "The key catalyst going forward will be that August inflation print," Cooper tells Bloomberg Television. "We're going to be driven more by data in the next coming weeks."

UBS scored an interim win in its multi-year struggle against Switzerland's push to make it hold billions of extra dollars in capital. This comes as lawmakers from the key Economic Affairs and Taxation Committee of the upper house said the bank should be able to use convertible debt, known as AT1s, for as much as 50% of the extra requirement, provided that those instruments are reformed. Bloomberg's Jan-Henrik Foerster reports.

Anna Edwards, Tom Mackenzie and Paul Dobson break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade."

ANZ FX Research Head Mahjabeen Zaman joins Horizons Middle East and Africa to discuss the outlook for the yen, the prospect of Bank of Japan rate hikes and potential currency intervention. She also weighs the global bond selloff, Federal Reserve policy and the medium-term outlook for the dollar.

Sucharita Kodali, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, discusses Shein's trading debut in Hong Kong and the outlook for the e-commerce and fast-fashion industry. She speaks with Yvonne Man and David Ingles on Bloomberg: The China Show.