Tech Stocks Rally on the Back of Ceasefire Deal
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the rally in tech stocks and fall in energy prices as markets react to a two-week ceasefire deal between the US and Iran. Plus, Anthropic is giving tech firms early access to its new Mythos model to get ahead of possible cyberattacks that could wreak havoc. And, Apple's first foldable phone is still on track to launch in September, despite reports of major manufacturing delays.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Caroline Hyde. |
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| 0:45.4 | I'm Caroline Hyde in New York. |
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| 1:12.2 | Bloomberg Audio Studios. Podcasts. wherever you get your podcasts. to coast with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovelow in San Francisco. |
| 1:21.2 | This is Bloomberg Tech coming up. Energy prices tumble and global tech stocks rally after the US in Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. |
| 1:24.1 | Anthropics' new mythos model is so powerful it's giving tech firms and competitors |
| 1:28.9 | early access to get ahead of possible cyber attacks that could wreak havoc. And Apple's first |
| 1:34.6 | foldable phone is still on track to launch in September, despite reports of major manufacturing delays. |
| 1:40.8 | First, we check on those markets that you just pointed us towards Ed. Extraordinary moves. |
| 1:46.1 | As we have a tentative moves towards a ceasefire, we of course have up to the moment reporting |
| 1:51.4 | of concerns that in some ways that's being, well, inflated upon at the moment and Pakistan is speaking |
| 1:57.5 | out, but I'm looking at 2.5% higher on the NASDAQ 100. We are off by a percentage point from the original highs as we worry about how this is fire continues to unfold. But I'm looking at Brent Crude, off by 13%. This is a record move. At one point, it had fallen as much as 17% on the international contract. But let's get out to the latest with Tyler Kendall, who stands by in the White House. |
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