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Brookfield closed its $2 billion Mideast fund in August and Jad Ellawn, their Managing Partner and Regional Head of Middle East says they're seeing multiple opportunities in the Middle East. He spoke to Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East & Africa and explained why they think there is a growth in the regional population based on the data received from their investments in the likes of payment platforms and school enrollments

SGX Group Head of Derivatives Janice Kan believes investors are abandoning siloed trading, and are now demanding a single venue where they can trade global equities, sectors and currencies together. She speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin."

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday morning, achieving a milestone for the program even though the company cut the mission short after an earlier engine failure. Bloomberg's Danny Lee explains.

OpenAI is holding back a version of its Astra artificial intelligence model after the software failed to perform as well on safety evaluations as the current iteration. The version known as GPT-6.1 Astra improved with respect to so-called model laziness, which refers to things like failing to complete a task. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will set out his pitch for honest political debate as the antidote to populism in his first speech as premier at the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool. Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker reports.

Australia's data centre boom is facing headwinds, with local opposition to new developments adding to concerns about the costs and benefits of rapid AI expansion. The debate is being amplified by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's call for stronger AI safeguards following revelations that an OpenAI model hacked a government website. Co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Jeannie Paterson joins "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" to discuss the future of Australia's AI ambitions.

Iranian officials have privately expressed pessimism about reaching a deal to end hostilities with Washington before US midterm elections in November. Bloomberg's Stuart Livingstone-Wallace has the latest developments.

Kate El-Hillow of Russell Investments said the recent jump in Treasury yields should not be viewed as purely temporary. In response to a question about whether the rise in yields might fade if geopolitical tensions ease, she argued investors should get comfortable with a "higher floor" and "rates for longer." She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Emily Graffeo on "The Close."

Simon Gallagher of SPG Global discussed NBC regaining MLB rights and the league's growing mix of broadcast and streaming distribution, including Peacock. He said the biggest issue is fragmentation: with roughly 2,500 baseball games, it is hard for viewers to figure out where a specific game is available, since rights are spread across multiple platforms. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close."

Ruchir Sharma, Chairman at Rockefeller International and Founder and CIO of Breakout Capital, warns that rising Treasury yields could become a danger zone for the AI trade. Sharma's recent column arguing that a 5% level on the 10-year yield could potentially derail the AI boom, notes that yields are now meaningfully above that threshold and asking what 5.2% implies for the sector. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Emily Graffeo on "The Close."

People Pleasing, Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Padding -- the four key barriers that author Fran Hauser says many women have trouble overcoming. She explains how she learned to reclaim her own time during her decades of executive experience in her new book 'Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour: The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Doing Less and Achieving More."

Libby Leffler says Nvidia's new system designed to keep AI agents from "going awry" is a positive step in the right direction. She argued that buybacks "don't lie" and said the day's weakness in markets looked more like a macro-driven move tied to oil, Treasury yields and broader AI-news sentiment than a problem with Nvidia's underlying model. She speaks to Romaine Bostick & Emily Graffeo on "The Close."