Vertex Pharmaceuticals ($VRTX) podcast mentions

Timestamped Vertex Pharmaceuticals ($VRTX) mentions across our podcast corpus.

1. I do not. I do not. I had the great good fortune the fortune of having a board chair early in my tenure, Joshua Boger, who was the founder of Vertex Pharmaceuticals. And like the founders of companies, I'm told more generally, they don't like to have a lot of oversight. And Joshua said to me, my job is to support you or fire you.

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2. Constellation's Ray Wang. Samsung's quarterly profits surged 19-fold and we're seeing chipmakers fall in early trading. SpaceX also falling. Well, now down about a third of a percent. The Elon Musk-led company is joining the NASDAQ 100 index today. China's Deepseek is developing its own chip to help power artificial intelligence systems. This is according to Reuters, which says the chip is designed for inference, the stage in AI when models are trained and begin generating responses to user queries rather than for building new models themselves. And DL News, shares of Kinetix Pharmaceuticals are soaring Vertex Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy the endocrinology-focused biotech company for $10 billion. The purchase price of $85 per share is a 102% premium over where Krenetic shares closed yesterday. And the American dream of a World Cup is over, the U.S. losing to Belgium 4-1. The game was marred by controversy over FIFA's decision to allow the U.S.'s Fuller and Belligan to play. Again, tech futures leading the way lower, with the NASDAQ futures down 1.1%, S&P futures down 2/10 of 0.4%. Dow futures up a quarter percent. 10-year Treasury yield 4.49%. And IMEX crude oil is higher, up 9/10 of a percent at $69.17 a barrel. Brent at $72.71. And that's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Karen Moscow, and this is Bloomberg.

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