US Bombs Iran After Troops Killed, UK Gets Another New Leader | Bloomberg Daybreak: US Edition

Bloomberg Audio Studios podcasts radio news. — Good morning. I'm Karen Moscow and I'm Alexis Christopherus. Here are the stories we're following today. — All right, Alexis. And what we're seeing in oil comes as fighting escalates in the Middle East. US Central Command says it had completed a ninth straight evening of attacks targeting Iranian command centers, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites and communications networks. President Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews.

This is a far bigger job that we're doing. We were doing a little job at stopping them from having a certain capability. Now we're just ending it. So it's really not the same thing. What we're doing now is we're ending any chance where they could have a nuclear missile.

Iranian strikes have killed two more US service members in Jordan, bringing the US death toll to 17 since the war began. And Bloomberg Stevenchinsky says there's fear that the conflict will escalate even more.

So before it was really with the tit fortat attacks, you saw the US and Iran targeting military assets, but now you're seeing them start to target energy assets. Quuadia facilities have been targeted over the weekend. There's also more uh countries are having to intercept drones as well.

And so there is this fear that this could spiral into a wider regional conflict like we saw in March where Iran was targeting and succeeding in attacking and damaging oil refineries, liquified natural gas plants. And if that happens, it's no longer a question as to how long it takes for Humu's traffic to get back to normal. It is a question for how long does it take for some of these really important assets and production facilities to get repaired and to come back online because that could take more time.