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Speaker 1: also watching travel related stocks. They are moving lower in

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Speaker 1: early trading after flights in and out of Brussels were

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Speaker 1: and as a Bloomberg business flash, Tom and Mike Karen Moscow,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. Obviously, security being stepped up at

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Speaker 1: airports and travel destinations around the world. According to The

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Speaker 1: police presence at airports here. It is apparently all but

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Speaker 1: impossible to get in or out of Brussels at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Michael Delta eight was the last plane in I believe

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Speaker 1: Flights to Brussels being diverted to Amsterdam and to Frankfurt

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Speaker 1: Star Wars hotels. We've been talking about being unlockdown. Early

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Speaker 1: Ian Bremer is the head of the Eurasia Group. Ian

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Speaker 1: this is very very early days. Is this, I'm wondering,

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Speaker 1: going to be a game changer for any of the

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Speaker 1: political events, the whole question of refugees, the borders in Europe,

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Speaker 1: the Brexit vote in Britain. Or do we become somewhat

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Speaker 1: as the markets appear to be today, inured to this

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Speaker 1: sort of thing. It's going to be part of daily life. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it is becoming part of daily life, and certainly for

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Speaker 1: the markets. But let's recognize the important trends that are

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Speaker 1: that we've seen today in Brussels. We have a Brexit

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Speaker 1: of that is refugees in political crisis. Part of that

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Speaker 1: as a consequence, and Merkele her weakness. She's been down

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Speaker 1: This is yet another blow to her the most important

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Speaker 1: worse as a consequence of these attacks in Belloment. Finally, France,

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Speaker 1: that the Americans aren't really very affected by terrorism in Europe,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna light up the Eiffel Tower, and this time

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Speaker 1: for the leaders of institutions in Europe dealing with suicide terrorism. Well,

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Speaker 1: What do we expect in terms of the political fallout

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Speaker 1: heightened security. Do we see Shangon shutdown? Um? Well, Shangan

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to see again that this is incremental.

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Speaker 1: This sadly is not a prize, and specifically coming on

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Speaker 1: bigger because that was more of a tipping point that

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Speaker 1: honor stunning headlines. Ian Bremer, the French Prime minister, after

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Speaker 1: the Belgium attacks, we are at war? That from the

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Speaker 1: certainly at at war um with those that would deign

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Speaker 1: very clear, UM. The the extant conditions that are causing um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we know about those issues. Those fixes are

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Speaker 1: That the terrorist crisis is insufficiently we have to leave

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Speaker 1: it there. Ian Bremer, generous of you to be with

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