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Wall Street Breakfast

Wall Street Breakfast: U.S.-China Relations

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business, Investing, Business News, News

3.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

U.S.-China relations on edge after spy balloon is shot down. Dell (DELL) to slash 6,650 jobs, ~5% of global workforce - report. After recent cuts, Tesla (TSLA) lifts Model Y prices in the U.S.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.0

Good morning. Today is Monday, February 6th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan, our top stories. U.S. China relations are on edge after a spy balloon

0:17.1

is shot down over the weekend. China is warning the U.S. of serious repercussions for shooting down the balloon, which had been drifting across the US for a week.

0:26.0

More layoffs to tell you about, this time Dell is in the spotlight.

0:30.0

The company is laying off 5% of its workforce.

0:34.0

And the price of Tesla's model Y is going up.

0:37.0

It was only three weeks ago that Tesla slash prices

0:40.0

on some of its model Y's to boost demand and to make more versions eligible for a tax credit.

0:47.0

We begin with the U.S. and China.

0:50.0

There had been some hope of cooling tensions between the US and China in recent months,

0:54.9

but now things appear to be moving in the opposite direction.

0:58.3

An American fighter jet shot down what was dubbed a Chinese spy balloon over the weekend.

1:03.2

This balloon had been floating across the US for a week.

1:06.6

That same balloon forced Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin

1:10.0

to cancel a top-level meeting with President Xi Jing Ping citing violations to U.S. sovereignty.

1:16.0

After the balloon was shot down, Beijing called the use of force a violation of international conventions

1:22.1

and warned of serious repercussions.

1:25.0

Leaders insisted that its civilian unmanned airship was merely collecting meteorological

1:30.6

data and strayed off course due to high winds.

1:34.0

Debris from the balloon is still in the process of being collected.

1:37.6

It was recently revealed due to a leak that a US 4-star general has warned that the

1:42.2

U.S. will go to war with China in 2025.

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