Casualties at this point and and irans foreign minister has said that they dont want to escalate and they dont want to war so investors are hoping that this will really be the last military or attack as part of this chain of events and that they really settle this diplomatically going forward. Until you get the sense that investors are eager to get past these tensions that they would rather see it as episode it instead of something more fundamental. I think its going to remain a serious concern for markets especially given the unpredictability of both parties but investors really arent changing their at their strategies at this point theres still a lot to be positive on for global stocks. Central banks continue to pump a lot of liquidity into the market. China and the u. S. Are about to sign a trade deal. Concerns have really abated so i think investors are still really hoping that this will be the end of iran and china or iran and u. S. Tensions and you know stocks back to records aga
A 2nd base in the city of ed bill in the north iran says the attack was in retaliation for the u. S. Assassination of general sort of money but it hasnt offered any evidence of american casualties the u. S. Defense Department Says its still assessing the full extent of the damage. With me in the studio im pleased to welcome from the Aspen Institute and tyson baka welcome times and now as we heard the pentagon say theyre still assessing the scale of damage and casualties but let me go to the original tweet sent by donald trump when he 1st heard of the missile attack and he said all is well assessment of casualties is taking place so far so good what do you make of that i think that that was a narrow communication to basically communicate to the American Public and to the world that that its didnt lead to perhaps significant casualties now we dont have any word from the Defense Department itself but we do have word for. The iranians which is probably not credible saying that there have b
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