Sunak's Summer Election Gamble & Nvidia Delivers On AI Hype | Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition

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(1) Standing in the rain and being drowned out by protesters playing the Labour Party’s 1997 victory anthem “Things Can Only Get Better” will not have been Rishi Sunak’s preferred backdrop for his announcement naming the date of the next UK election.
(2) UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to stake the Conservative Party’s future on a rare summer election was so secret that even his chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, appeared surprised by the plan.
(3) Nvidia the chipmaker at the center of an artificial intelligence boom, gained in late trading after a bullish sales forecast showed that AI computing spending remains strong.
(4) Federal Reserve officials earlier this month coalesced around a desire to hold interest rates higher for longer and “many” questioned whether policy was restrictive enough to bring inflation down to their target.
(5) BHP Group just won an extra week to convince Anglo American Plc on its $49 billion takeover plan. But the world’s biggest miner still must resolve the deal’s most intractable obstacle: What to do about South Africa?
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