• What Is Jane Street? And Why Are Regulators Watching It?
    Jul 17 2025

    Jane Street is one of Wall Street’s most profitable and secretive firms. And when Indian regulators accused it of market manipulation earlier this month, it rocked the finance world.

    On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg finance reporter Katherine Doherty joins host Sarah Holder to go inside Jane Street’s unique trading strategy, and what new regulatory scrutiny could mean for the high frequency trading industry.

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    15 mins
  • Murder on Rainbow Mountain
    Jul 16 2025

    At over 16,000 feet, Peru’s Rainbow Mountain is hard to reach — and its bright colors are hard to miss on social media.

    After a community effort to build an access road and usher in tourists succeeded, fame has proven to be a blessing and a curse for the Indigenous community that sits beneath it.


    On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Marcelo Rochabrun and Sarah Holder trace how the community turned Rainbow Mountain into a global tourism destination — and the money, violence and tragedy that followed.

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    18 mins
  • The Leaked Phone Call that Plunged Thailand Into Crisis
    Jul 15 2025

    A leaked phone call between Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Cambodia's Hun Sen has ignited a significant political crisis in Thailand, leading to large-scale protests and her suspension from office.

    On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg’s Patpicha Tanakasempipat about the political fallout and its impact on the powerful Shinawatra clan, which has dominated Thai politics for almost three decades.


    Read more: Humbled Thai Billionaire Is a Warning to Trump-Era Populists

    Further listening: What Thailand's Same-Sex Marriage Victory Means for the Economy

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    19 mins
  • How Copper Tariffs Affect Everything You Touch
    Jul 14 2025

    Last week, President Trump sent markets into a tizzy, when he proposed tariffs on one of the world’s most valuable commodities: Copper.

    On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s economic statecraft reporter Joe Deaux joins host David Gura to discuss the president’s ongoing push to bring copper manufacturing back to the US. Why 50% levies on copper could affect everything from your car and iPhone to the nation’s electrical grid, and what the copper industry is doing to get ahead.

    Read more:

    Trump’s 50% Copper Import Tariff Said to Include Refined Metal

    Once-in-a-Generation Copper Trade Upends a $250 Billion Market

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    17 mins
  • America’s Flood Mitigation Math Problem
    Jul 11 2025

    On today’s Big Take podcast, we examine what the disaster in Kerr County, Texas reveals about the growing risk of flooding across the country as the climate changes — and the difficult economic choices facing communities grappling with these new risks.

    Read more: No Alerts Heard in Deadly Texas Flash Flood as 161 Still Missing

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    20 mins
  • Wall Street Banks Are Battling for Japan’s Top Young Talent
    Jul 10 2025

    Japan’s hottest banking talent is in high demand as Wall Street goes all out to woo new hires with fancy dinners, strong-arm tactics and higher salaries.

    On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, Bloomberg’s Lisa Du talks to host K. Oanh Ha about why firms are resorting to extreme measures and the problems they face in hiring top talent.


    Further listening:
    Can’t Get Enough of Matcha? Too Bad – Japan Is Running Low
    South Korea Has Plenty of Botox But Not Enough Doctors

    Why China’s Investment Bankers Are Breaking Up With Capitalism

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    13 mins
  • How a 10-Minute Video Call Changed the Oil Market
    Jul 9 2025

    OPEC+, a coalition of some of the world’s top oil producers, surprised markets over the weekend with plans to boost production by more than half a million barrels a day. The increase comes at a time when investors are worried about oversupply.

    So what was behind the decision? Bloomberg’s Joumanna Bercetche breaks it all down with Big Take host David Gura from Vienna, where members of the oil cartel and executives from around the world are gathered for the Ninth OPEC International Seminar.

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    14 mins
  • China's Plans to Make AI a Utility
    Jul 8 2025

    In a remote part of China's northwestern Xinjiang region, dozens of data centers rise from the desert. A Bloomberg analysis of investor and tax documents and company filings found Chinese companies plan to buy more than 115,000 high-tech Nvidia chips — chips the US has banned from being exported to China – to power these centers, which could then be used for training AI models.

    On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha talks to Bloomberg’s Andy Lin and James Mayger about the story, and what it means for China’s AI master plan.

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    16 mins