The China Hustle

Like it or not, Micron is driving the stock market and the company’s earnings report will tell us a lot about the future of memory and compute demand. Plus, we talk about Meta’s new prediction markets app and Alphabet joining the Dow Jones Industrial Average.Travis Hoium, Lou Whi ...  Show more

It hasn’t been in many headlines (thanks, AI), but pharmaceutical companies are on a merger & acquisition spree that could break records. With more than $126 billion in deals so far this year, companies are looking for novel drug canddiates and clinical stage companies to bolster ...  Show more

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Carson Block, who is the chief investment officer of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, an activist investment firm with $261 million in assets under management. Block was featured in the book "The Most Dangerous Trade: How Short Sell ...  Show more

Is China's behavior towards its innovators separating the country further from the world? That's the question on everybody's mind, as the Chinese authorities continue to exert their political power over the country's rising tech companies. George Magnus, associate at the China Ce ...  Show more

Authorities in China ordered Didi to stop taking new ride sharing customers, and banned the sale of the app, because of data sharing issues. Investors in the newly floated company are furious, but this isn’t the first kind of regulatory intervention China has made. So what’s behi ...  Show more

Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Bloomberg News National Security Reporter Kate O'Keeffe discusses Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the US, secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities ...  Show more