Bloomberg This Weekend | Nepal’s Devastation, Deep Space Exploration, Wall Street Bets on Baldness

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  August 30, 2026 at 16:07  |  2:28:52  |  Bloomberg Markets
Speakers
Victoria Coates — VP, Heritage Foundation
Stephen Moore — Former Trump Economic Advisor, America First Policy Institute
Philip Luck — Director, Economics Program, CSIS; Former State Department Deputy Chief Economist
Lisa Du — Asia Investment Reporter, Bloomberg
Avalon Purnell — Equities Reporter, Bloomberg News
Ross Hamilton — Co-Founder & COO, Space Network
Shannon Kingston — ABC News State Department Reporter
Lisa Mateo — Reporter, Bloomberg
Bailey Lipschultz — Reporter, Bloomberg
Sam Schwartz — Former New York City Traffic Commissioner; Author, Auto Kill

Summary

Bloomberg This Weekend covered the Nepal glacier-flood disaster, Iceland's EU referendum rejection, NASA's Roman Space Telescope launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, US-Canada trade tensions, the US-Venezuela oil agreement, macro and inflation risks, Shein's Hong Kong IPO, and emerging hair-loss drug developers. Guests weighed in on oil, US equities, agriculture, and biotech-adjacent consumer health themes. The program also discussed autonomous vehicle security and concerns over upcoming elections.

  • Nepal's catastrophic flooding and rescue efforts were a major live story.
  • Iceland voted narrowly against reopening EU membership talks.
  • NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman telescope on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
  • US-Canada trade tensions and the Lake Ontario/Lake America naming fight were discussed.
  • The US-Venezuela oil deal was framed as strategically bullish for US oil reserves and oil majors.
  • Stephen Moore highlighted oil prices as the key economic variable and called the US stock market the world's strongest.
  • Philip Luck warned fertilizer shortages would keep food prices rising.
  • The program examined Shein's risky Hong Kong IPO and the baldness-treatment investment theme around Cosmo and Vera Durmix.
Ideas
Victoria Coates VP, Heritage Foundation 59:04
Venezuela deal doubles US oil leverage.
The US-Venezuela oil agreement is strategically bullish for US oil reserves and US oil majors: it puts 65 billion barrels under US influence, doubles US reserves, makes the US 'the world's gas station,' and gives oil majors confidence to invest in Venezuelan production; the similar crude grade could also replace Canadian crude imports.
Philip Luck Director, Economics Program, CSIS; Former State Department Deputy Chief Economist 79:02
Fertilizer shortage keeps food prices rising.
More than six months of disrupted fertilizer supply means planting seasons have passed with less fertilizer and less planting; as a result, food prices and other prices will keep rising even if the Strait of Hormuz opens tomorrow.
Lisa Du Asia Investment Reporter, Bloomberg 82:25
Avoid Shein IPO on riskier valuation.
Shein is listing at a much-reduced valuation with an untested 'AWS of fashion' pivot, but fast-fashion stigma, child-labor and forced-cotton allegations, China/US tariff exposure, and investors' preference for proven peers like Zara make the IPO risky and unattractive; cornerstone investors are mostly existing backers, suggesting regular IPO investors hesitated.
Avalon Purnell Equities Reporter, Bloomberg News 91:22
Watch emerging hair-loss drug developers.
Hair-loss is a large, sticky cash-pay aesthetics market with no newly approved treatments since the late 1990s; Cosmo's topical lotion and Vera Durmix's pill/injectable are the leading developers and could reach the market as soon as next year, offering differentiated products that could follow GLP-1 willingness to pay.
Stephen Moore Former Trump Economic Advisor, America First Policy Institute 108:13
US stock market is world's strongest.
The US economy is not great but good, and the US has the best stock market in the world; no other country has matched its stock market performance, investment, manufacturing and construction gains, and US companies continue to report strong profits.
Up Next

This Bloomberg Markets video, published August 30, 2026, features Victoria Coates, Philip Luck, Lisa Du, Avalon Purnell, Stephen Moore discussing WTI, U.S. oil majors, CF, DBA, SHEIN, Cosmo, Vera Durmix, SPY. 5 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.

Speakers: Victoria Coates, Philip Luck, Lisa Du, Avalon Purnell, Stephen Moore  · Tickers: WTI, U.S. oil majors, CF, DBA, SHEIN, Cosmo, Vera Durmix, SPY