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Peter Bowes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

No, absolutely. The sort of largest ones of those are not coming in until sort of just gone midnight US time on Wednesday. Worth saying, of course, that, you know, as I mentioned, the big move on Friday appeared to be China's retaliation. We still haven't had the EU response yet. So we know that European trade ministers are meeting right now.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Their response, if it is a retaliation, well, that could move things as well. This is quite a sort of a serious situation on the stock markets now. In a way, if you're sort of invested in the stock market, you're probably concerned. But actually, the likelihood is you've got sort of a longer term investment, especially if it's pensions.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Their response, if it is a retaliation, well, that could move things as well. This is quite a sort of a serious situation on the stock markets now. In a way, if you're sort of invested in the stock market, you're probably concerned. But actually, the likelihood is you've got sort of a longer term investment, especially if it's pensions.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

If you're not invested, I think potentially there's the suggestion that you could be more concerned that you might be because this might well signal, as I say, that we could be on the verge of a sort of much larger economic slowdown.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

If you're not invested, I think potentially there's the suggestion that you could be more concerned that you might be because this might well signal, as I say, that we could be on the verge of a sort of much larger economic slowdown.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Which word? Which word do we use? Yes, which word? Tell us. Well, look, I mean, look, crash is quite a specific term which we use for when a sort of stock market falls by about 10% in a day or sort of 20% over the period of a couple of days. The FTSE is obviously down and it's been down over two or three days. We're nowhere near that kind of level.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Which word? Which word do we use? Yes, which word? Tell us. Well, look, I mean, look, crash is quite a specific term which we use for when a sort of stock market falls by about 10% in a day or sort of 20% over the period of a couple of days. The FTSE is obviously down and it's been down over two or three days. We're nowhere near that kind of level.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Yet, if you compare it to a year ago, the level of the FTSE 100 in the UK here is sort of down about 2% or 3%. It's still long-term sort of doing pretty well. So we're not in crash territory yet. A couple of people I've spoken to have said it's a bit crashy, crash-like, but not quite a crash.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Yet, if you compare it to a year ago, the level of the FTSE 100 in the UK here is sort of down about 2% or 3%. It's still long-term sort of doing pretty well. So we're not in crash territory yet. A couple of people I've spoken to have said it's a bit crashy, crash-like, but not quite a crash.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

The measles virus is a good exploiter of children who are not vaccinated. It's one of the most contagious viruses we know about. It has a reproductive number of 12 to 18. What that means is if you have measles exposure, on average, 12 to 18 non-vaccinated children will become infected. So this is really a monster epidemic at this point.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

The measles virus is a good exploiter of children who are not vaccinated. It's one of the most contagious viruses we know about. It has a reproductive number of 12 to 18. What that means is if you have measles exposure, on average, 12 to 18 non-vaccinated children will become infected. So this is really a monster epidemic at this point.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Back in the 1980s, measles was the single leading killer of children globally. Two to three million children lost their lives because of measles. And then through the good work of the Gavi Alliance, the Global Alliance of Vaccines and Immunizations, over the last 20 years, we've brought that number down to around 100,000.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

Back in the 1980s, measles was the single leading killer of children globally. Two to three million children lost their lives because of measles. And then through the good work of the Gavi Alliance, the Global Alliance of Vaccines and Immunizations, over the last 20 years, we've brought that number down to around 100,000.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

And the reason is the virus, after it sets up infection, it gains access to the bloodstream, spreads to the lungs, and causes a serious giant cell pneumonia, which is life-threatening. In the past, you could have a discussion with a parent and explain the devastating effects of the measles virus. versus the high level of safety of the MMR vaccine.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

And the reason is the virus, after it sets up infection, it gains access to the bloodstream, spreads to the lungs, and causes a serious giant cell pneumonia, which is life-threatening. In the past, you could have a discussion with a parent and explain the devastating effects of the measles virus. versus the high level of safety of the MMR vaccine.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

It's become more complicated now, particularly in our state of Texas, because we have a very aggressive anti-vaccine movement. And now having the Health and Human Services Secretary publicly make reckless statements about the MMR vaccine, it's gotten all that more complicated.

Global News Podcast
Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil

It's become more complicated now, particularly in our state of Texas, because we have a very aggressive anti-vaccine movement. And now having the Health and Human Services Secretary publicly make reckless statements about the MMR vaccine, it's gotten all that more complicated.

Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states

These protests were widespread, more than a thousand individual demonstrations across the country. That is significant, the biggest single day of protests since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states

These protests were widespread, more than a thousand individual demonstrations across the country. That is significant, the biggest single day of protests since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Global News Podcast
Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states

Perhaps surprising to some that it's taken so long, given this country is still so polarized in terms of the nature of politics here, so long that it's taken for large groups of people to get together and take to the streets to express their anger in this way.