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This is a special presentation of Businessweek Convenes, a series dedicated to bringing together prominent leaders for frank discussions on vital, often sensitive subjects. In this episode, we delve into a crucial topic: the state of Black leadership in corporate America amid the rollbacks to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the country. Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick leads this discussion with prominent business an...

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The Trump administration is signaling to allies that it has no immediate plans for a ground invasion of Iran, even as it deploys thousands of troops to the Middle East, people familiar with the matter said. The people, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations, cautioned ...

As U.S. companies reassess exposure to tariffs and trade volatility and pull back on international expansion, Bermuda remains a steady destination for U.S. private wealth and business investment. Bermuda’s leading industry clusters are 90%+ dominated by professional services sectors including risk and insurance, digital finance, and private wealth management.

David Parker, Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) Head of Bus...

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US President Donald Trump sent conflicting signals on the prospect that talks with Iran would bring a halt to the nearly month-long war, further roiling global energy markets.“I say they’re lousy fighters, but they’re great negotiators, and they are begging to work out a deal,&rdq...

The patient-provider relationship is at the heart of healthcare. But that relationship is starting to shift. There's a new presence in the exam room. One that lives on patents' phones, shows up before the visit begins, and too often stays hidden. It's artificial intelligence.

Oliver Kharraz is Founder and CEO of Zocdoc, the healthcare access infrastructure that connects patients to health care. He discusses why patients are ...

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The White House insisted that peace talks with Iran are ongoing, even as Tehran publicly rejected US overtures and issued fresh conditions of its own to end the conflict that’s wreaked havoc across the Middle East and global markets.

“The United States has been engaged over the last three da...

When Elon Musk took the stage on Saturday to unveil his plans to get into semiconductor production, he didn’t spare the superlatives. No one has ever proposed anything quite like what Musk calls Terafab. The project, as outlined, would be a massive operation to build cutting-edge semiconductors for artificial intelligence, robotics and space forays. He would not only try to take on the best chip manufacturer in the world &mda...

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Stephen Nesbitt was on no one’s list of Wall Street heavyweights when he bumped into a thirty-something salesman pitching the next big thing for wealthy investors: private credit.
Nesbitt — who, as it happened, had written a book on private debt — took the idea and ran wit...

Nicolai Tangen, boss of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, visited the Middle East and was struck by the area's dynamism, but hours after his departure, the region erupted in a war. The fund is planning for potentially bleak scenarios, including the return of inflation and geopolitical fragmentation, which could have direct consequences for the fund and implications for the stock market. For more, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec spoke w...

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During an all-hands meeting at Apple in January, an employee asked about a spate of executive moves. The company’s chief operating officer recently retired, the chief financial officer and general counsel took smaller roles as a way to prepare for their own retirements, and in a sing...

Stocks and bonds rebounded after President Donald Trump said the US and Iran had “very good” conversations about an end to the conflict in the Middle East.  
President rump said strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure and power plants would be postponed for five days following the start of talks with Iran to end the war.  
For details on this development, Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney speak with ...

The US charged Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a co-founder of Super Micro Computer Inc., with illegally diverting Nvidia Corp.-powered servers to China in violation of US export controls. Liaw and two others allegedly sold the hardware to a Southeast Asian company and coordinated for its ultimate shipment to Chinese customers, and they made efforts to evade scrutiny by auditors from both Super Micro and the US government. Supe...

Featuring some of our favorite conversations of the week from our daily radio show "Bloomberg Businessweek Daily."

Hosted by Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec

Hear the show live at 2PM ET on WBBR 1130 AM New York, Bloomberg 92.9 FM Boston, WDCH 99.1 FM in Washington D.C. Metro, Sirius/XM channel 121, on the Bloomberg Business App, Radio.com, the iHeartRadio app and at Bloomberg.com/audio.

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US officials say the White House is sending hundreds of Marines to the Middle East as it weighs a plan to seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub. Deploying even a small number of troops on the ground in Iran carries huge risks for President Donald Trump.

Any effort to seize and hold Iran&rs...

The sense of growing hostility toward business leaders and others in power is everywhere, coinciding with dueling populist political movements, and has been heightened by the refusal of many former Epstein pals to take responsibility for associating with him. The Epstein files have exposed a code of elite silence around a sex offender, and many of America's business icons and politicians must stop minimizing their roles in what hap...

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Each week the world’s largest liquefied natural gas plant remains shut, the world loses the equivalent of enough energy to power Sydney’s homes for an entire year.

Qatar’s Ras Laffan plant closed earlier this month after an Iranian drone attack, the first interruption to supply in...

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he plans to stay at the central bank until after the Justice Department’s investigation is complete.

“I have no intention of leaving the board until the investigation is well and truly over, with transparency and finality,” Powell said Wednesday...

There’s been a lot of negative media around “private credit,” but most of that conversation is focused on leveraged corporate lending. Real estate credit is a different market — loans are asset-backed and underwritten to hard collateral. We’re in the middle of a significant housing shortage in the U.S., particularly in major urban markets like New York. That structural demand continues to support new h...