Back to School in a Pandemic: A Retail and PC Salve? (Podcast)

In this week's Bloomberg Intelligence Radio show featuring our analysts and their research, Poonam Goyal looks into the impact on retailers of this year's back-to-school shopping season addled by Covid-19 uncertainties. while Anand Srinivasan gauges the consequences for PC demand. Eric Kazatsky digs into the battle between heavyweights Vanguard and BlackRock in a municipal bond market altered by the pandemic. Kit Konolige explains why diversified utilities will weigh options for their non-U.S. power businesses as the virus and crude-oil price meltdown spur a new wave of divestitures of risky assets. Kevin Ryan says that weather woes point to the mismatch in insurer pricing.The BI Radio show podcasts through Apple’s iTunes, Spotify and Luminary. It broadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays at noon on Bloomberg’s flagship station WBBR (1130 AM) in New York, 106.1 FM/1330 AM in Boston, 99.1 FM in Washington, 960 AM in the San Francisco area, channel 119 on SiriusXM, www.bloombergradio.com, and IPhone and Android mobile apps.Bloomberg Intelligence, the research arm of Bloomberg L.P., provides in-depth analysis and data on more than 2,000 companies and 130 industries. On the Bloomberg terminal, run BI <GO>.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.