Watching us from the united states. These are your markets. We are seeing a bit of a lift to european stocks, actually, not so much. They were lifting, but now they are flat. About 56. 65 after that opec plus meeting. Gold is down a touch. Remember, because it is fourth of july in the u. S. , treasury markets are closed. Coming up, dont miss our coverage of the boston pops fireworks spectacular, it is a bloomberg special and starts at 8 p. M. New york time. So if youre watching from asia or europe, its definitely worth it. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. The tanks are ready to go and the fighter jets are set. All part of President Trumps changes to the traditional fourth of July Celebration on the National Mall. The present will speak from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and critics say he is turning the event into a campaign rally. President trump warned iran against stepping up uranium enrichment. Iran says it will restart the model reactor if europe fails to offer
Ways of look at this, if not more. There are going to be those who say the president lost deterrence, the iranians see they can continue to walk all over him and theyll continue to escalate tensions with some sense of comfort that perhaps the president doesnt have the stomach for conflict. There is another way of looking at this, however. And that is that the United States can use this to galvanize support from the europeans and perhaps from other places around the world to show the International Community that iran is still aggressive, that iran is deserving of the sanctions that we have on them right now, and these sanctions, lets go very clear, are still taking a bite out of the iranian economy, the political and economic isolation is working. So we still have a plan thats been in place by the Trump Administration and it looks right now as if were set to double down on that and perhaps even to recruit others to the cause. Paul there are two interpretations you offered us. Which one
More. There are going to be those who say the president lost deterrence, the iranians see they can continue to walk all over him and theyll continue to escalate tensions with some sense of comfort that perhaps the president doesnt have the stomach for conflict. There is another way of looking at this, however. And that is that the United States can use this to galvanize support from the europeans and perhaps from other places around the world to show the International Community that iran is still aggressive, that iran is deserving of the sanctions that we have on them right now, and these sanctions, lets go very clear, are still taking a bite out of the iranian economy, the political and economic isolation is working. So we still have a plan thats been in place by the Trump Administration and it looks right now as if were set to double down on that and perhaps even to recruit others to the cause. Paul there are two interpretations you offered us. Which one do you side with . I think th
More. There are going to be those who say the president lost deterrence, the iranians see they can continue to walk all over him and theyll continue to escalate tensions with some sense of comfort that perhaps the president doesnt have the stomach for conflict. There is another way of looking at this, however. And that is that the United States can use this to galvanize support from the europeans and perhaps from other places around the world to show the International Community that iran is still aggressive, that iran is deserving of the sanctions that we have on them right now, and these sanctions, lets go very clear, are still taking a bite out of the iranian economy, the political and economic isolation is working. So we still have a plan thats been in place by the Trump Administration and it looks right now as if were set to double down on that and perhaps even to recruit others to the cause. Paul there are two interpretations you offered us. Which one do you side with . I think th
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