Rocket to Buy Mr. Cooper, Gold Surges Amid Tariff Fears

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Today’s Podcast Features are:

- Paige Smith, Bloomberg News Consumer Finance Reporter, on Rocket to Buy Mortgage Firm Mr. Cooper in $9.4 Billion Deal. The online mortgage provider Rocket Cos. is acquiring Mr. Cooper Group Inc. in an all-stock deal valued at $9.4 billion that will create a mortgage behemoth that handles one in every six mortgages in the US. The combined company will service a book of $2.1 trillion of loans and nearly 10 million clients, according to a statement Monday. Mr. Cooper shareholders will receive 11 Rocket shares for each of Mr. Cooper’s stock they own, representing a 35% premium, it said in the statement.

- Mike McGlone, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Commodity Strategist on how tariff angst is pushing traders to gold. With investors on edge ahead of President Trump’s April 2 tariff salvo, bullion has risen to yet another all-time high above $3,125 an ounce, adding to a run that’s already delivered a 19% gain this year and a string of records. It’s become overbought, according to the Relative Strength Index indicator, which measures the velocity of a security’s price moves. But gold can keep rising.

- Shawn Donnan, Bloomberg News Senior Economics Writer, discusses what we know about the Trump tariffs and the lessons from similarly broad tariffs in 1930. Plus, a new Bloomberg analysis of the economic impact the tariffs could have on the US economy.

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