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From Bloomberg world headquarters, I'm Steve rappaport. Target's latest earnings beat Wall Street expectations, but its forecast was not so great. Bloomberg's genus surveillance reports. Target is predicting a slower than expected recovery from a rough 2022. Last year, weakening demand for non-essential hit the retailer's profits and its stock, the subdued outlook echoes the message from Walmart last week showing U.S. retailers remain cautious amid a cloudy economic picture, but similar to Walmart targets cautious outlook followed a strong fourth quarter the retailers key sales metric rose in the quarter, analysts were looking for a decline. Target CEO Brian Cornell says they're planning business cautiously in the near term to ensure the company remains agile and responsive to the current operating environment. Switzerland's banking regulator says Credit Suisse seriously breached risk management obligations in the greensill capital supply chain financing case. Finma ordered the Swiss lender to take remedial measures, including a periodic review of the most important business relationships for counterparty risks. Finma also announced its opening enforcement proceedings against four former Credit Suisse managers. Visa and Mastercard planned to defer the launch of some cryptocurrency products and services. Reuters reports the company's decided to hold off until market conditions and the regulatory environment improve. Elon Musk reclaims the coveted title of the world's richest person, the Tesla CEO's wealth got a big boost from a surge in Tesla stock, Musk started the year with a net worth of $137 billion, becoming the first person to lose $200 billion from their fortune. Those are the company's stories we're following this hour, I'm Steve rappaport, and this is Bloomberg. Global market news changes in an instant. So don't miss a minute. Listen to Bloomberg radio anytime anywhere around the world on the iHeartRadio app. Tune in, the Bloomberg business app and Bloomberg dot com. This is balance of power on Bloomberg television radio. I'm David Westin well, this is the week when they start rolling out that chips and science act, something we talked about a lot as Congress was passing it on a bipartisan basis, I must say. And it's a very exciting potential development in the development and production of semiconductors in this country. To take us through where we are, we welcome down Mitch landrieu. He's President Biden's senior adviser for infrastructure. Mister Orlando is the former mayor, of course, of New Orleans. So mister mayor, thank you so much for being with us really appreciate it. So first of all, it's like the kid in the back of the car. Are we there yet? When is money going to start going out the door? Well, we're getting there. I mean, right now, as we speak. So this is the announcement today from secretary Armando is what's called a notice of funding opportunity. Where they tell folks that funds are actually available to do a certain thing. And there's certain thing in this particular instance. There's something that this country has been waiting on for a long time. Everybody knows that this little chip that we have as part of everything that we do in our life. And most of them are manufactured overseas. And of course, we saw through COVID, the disruption of the supply chain. So the idea here is to bring those manufacturing capabilities back home. Number one, to push up on national security and protect ourselves. Number two to create manufacturing jobs here in America, the president's already created 800,000 of them. And number three to create high paying jobs with products that have made in America by folks that are in America. So this is a really big announcement. It's going to hit all of those different parts. Secretary raimondo rolled it out this morning. Of course, this is part of the president's overarching strategy to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States of America through investing in infrastructure through investing in climate and of course now through investing in semiconductors and making America stronger, more steady give on national security, a bigger push and to create those hundreds of thousands of high paying manufacturing jobs are going to come from these investments. Mitch my understanding of what's going on here is there's a fair amount of money in the United States government is putting up. But that's not all of it. The idea I think is sort of priming the pump that in fact, if you get the federal investment, you'll get the private. Where are we right now on constructing the factories? Are some of those factors already under construction? When will they start producing chips? There's no question about that. What normally happens in the idea in creating this industrial policy is for the federal government to show up with cash and with money, whether you're building a bridge or whether you're building a railroad or you're building high speed Internet or whether or not you're investing in all the stuff that we needed to manufacture chips. And then the private sector follows in. As a consequence of all of the investments that the president has made, you've seen now hundreds of billions of dollars for the private sector starting to show up in all of those different places. The same thing is going to happen with semiconductors as well. And as this money goes out, so we're going to put these notices of funding opportunities out there. Folks are going to come to us to say, listen, we think that you ought to work with us. They're going to be four or 5, 6, 7 of what they call these fabrication facilities across America that are really thoughtful and located. And then the private sector is going to come in on top of that. So this $50 billion that the Department of Commerce is talking about now is going to turn into substantially more when the private sector lays on top of that. And then of course, if we get our national security in place, we got a manufacturing in place, everything is just going to flow from there. My experience at least is when you ask for money, particularly a lot of money from something there's usually some strings attached. There's some strings attached here. Take us through some of those strings if you would, particularly starting with investment in China. Well, listen, we don't really look at it as strange. I mean, this is part of a much larger policy to make sure that we bring stuff back home to America to help our national

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