President Donald Trump will decide within two weeks whether to strike Iran, his spokeswoman said, as Israel hit more Iranian nuclear sites and warned its attacks may bring down the leadership in Tehran. “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” Trump said in a dictated message, according to White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. Trump, who is scheduled to attend a national security meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, has publicly mused for days about having the US increase the stakes by joining Israel’s strikes on Iran. In corporate news, SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to team up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to realize what could be his biggest bet yet — a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build robots and artificial intelligence.
Son envisions a version of the vast manufacturing hub of China’s Shenzhen that would bring back high-tech manufacturing to the US, according to people familiar with the billionaire’s thinking.
Today’s guests: Isabelle Mateos Y Lago, BNP Paribas Chief Economist, Alessia Berardi, Amundi Investment Institute Emerging Macro Strategy Head, Elizabeth Monier, University of Cambridge Assistant Professor
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Chapters:
00:00:00 – The Pulse
00:00:31 – Trump Hints He’ll Hold Off Iran Strike, Give Diplomacy Time
00:02:55 – Trump Set to Decide Within Two Weeks Whether to Strike Iran
00:11:44 – Isabelle Mateos Y Lago, BNP Paribas Chief Economist
00:18:13 – Alessia Berardi, Amundi Investment Institute Emerging Macro Strategy Head
00:20:56 – Geopolitical Tensions Rising
00:26:34 – Elizabeth Monier, University of Cambridge Assistant Professor
00:31:45 – Stocks Gain, Oil Eases as Trump Weighs Iran Role
00:37:19 – Softbank Pitches $1 Trillion US AI Hub to TSMC, Trump Team
00:46:32 – Switzerland, Sweden, Norway Cut Interest Rates
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