Tom good morning. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Diplomatic efforts intensify as israel weighs a response to irans drone and missile attack. The west calls for deescalation to avert wider conflict. Markets show signs of stability with crude prices easing as oil traders largely shrugged off irans assault. On hopes the conflict is contained for now. German chancellor olaf scholz arrives in china for talks with president xi jinping. On a mission to dial down tensions between beijing and europe lets check in on markets on the back of those unprecedented attacks from iran. This is not a market that for now is showing significant signs of risk off. Yes gold is higher but treasuries are down, the dollar is softer and u. S. Futures and european futures pointing higher. The context for the u. S. Was that last week was the biggest weekly decline for u. S. Stocks since october. On expectations that there will be higher for longer on the rights view coming out of the u. S. And stickier inflati
A General Election may not be in the offing, however, this didn't prevent Fine Gael from hosting a very well attended National Agriculture, Food & Rural Development Forum in the Firgrove Hotel, Mitchelstown last Friday night.