Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us a long list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world those are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference that is kicking off this hour a World Leaders top Security Experts diplomats are all now gathering for the central meeting in southern germany on everyones mind the big global issues the war in syria where a government offensive and it live has triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis another issue concerns over the shrinking influence of the west in shaping Global Security it is even spawned a new term west lists next. And we have our chief Political Editor michelle you look at the Munich Security Conference for us where she is watching in on everything thats happening there for us jaime said and i want to ask you about that term west listener what are people there saying about this. Well many feel that it is kind of appropriate and thats exactly what the security conference always aims to do is kind o
Earnings tumbled 26 for Carlyle Group you you have exits and new deals slumping. From new york, i am alix steel. Welcome, everyone, to Bloomberg Markets. From where we are now to where we were in 2011, when we had the s p downgrade, the u. S. Is completely different. Sitting in the chair now, looking at market reaction, you can feel the difference. Guy absolutely. The market is struggling. They are saying, we already knew this. But does that mean you can ignore it . Im not sure that you can completely ignore it. I think theres an underlying message here. There are three factors used here, in terms of the downgrade. One of them is clearly that the government is going to continue to spend. We will have bigger deficits, higher debt to gdp. I think that will have this Going Forward for higher Asset Classes. Is it real assets, things like commodities . I think that is something that will maybe percolate for a well. Alix in the budget deficit we do have, has that helped us since covid extend
sides of the aisle two very different points of view. boom. 1600 if she wanted to jump and she would kill both of them. secondly biden will kill both of them passed three bible past three bipartisan legislation that s like better than patrick . come on. now they started their fiery but civil debate on the steps of the capitol and they ll continue it right here. in the studio republican congressman byron donald s of florida and democratic congressman jamal bowman of new york. they are here to debate gun violence, the economy 2024 more that s coming up live. but first, a wrong doorbell. wrong driveway a wrong car. three honest mistakes, but anyone of us could make turned deadly or in your fatal for several young americans, all within the last week and texas two cheerleaders shot for opening the door of a car they thought was there s it happened in a supermarket parking lot. heather ross says she was trying to apologize to the man in the car when he allegedly threw up his hands
connections in minutes so you don t have to bend over backwards. i see no downside thought that was flexible. in a senate hearing today, the pentagon said it s tracking more than 650 potential ufo cases the term they actually uses unidentified aerial phenomenon. that s according to sean kirkpatrick, the director of the office, created last year to focus on the sightings who testified today it s a lot more than the 350 reports referenced unclassified intelligence report released earlier this year. you ll likely remember this video from 2021 to 3. navy videos driving speculation about ufos. the government still isn t even sure what that was. the navy pilots saw objects that seem to defy the laws of physics . patrick said today they found no credible evidence yet of extraterrestrial activity areas testifying about a declassified video from last year, showing a fast moving small orb flying through the camera screen of a drone in the middle east. you ll see it come through the top
The equities tenyear yield is below the 5 we have been crossing over earlier in the week. Twoyear yield an above 5 oil is another interesting picture to watch wti has been trending up this morning after being down for the week down by over 6 . Lets bring the developing story from the middle east fighter jets launching a strike in two locations in Eastern Syria. The pentagon says this is linked to the Iran Revolutionary guard over attacks on u. S. Bases that began last week killing one u. S. Citizen and injuring 20 more the pentagon says the u. S. Does not seek escalation of any conflict and describes this as a separate issue from israel and hamas. You have to think the issues which emerged in israel with hamas have inflamed the situation. This is the Iranian Revolutionary guard with the attacks. It is hard to separate one from the other with Iranian Revolutionary guard proxies with hezbollah and hamas. If you watch the news and every time you watch it, you say this is the 17th attack s