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Podcast: Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition
Episode: Red Sea Navy Task Force, BoJ Unmoved & Apple's Watch Ban
Description: Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has announced a new maritime task force intended to protect commercial vessels travelling through the Red Sea from attacks by Houthi militants. The countries involved in the new task force — dubbed Operation Prosperity Guardian — include the US, the UK, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Seychelles and Spain. (2) The Bank of Japan offered little for rate-hike bulls as it stuck with the world's last negative interest rate and kept guidance unchanged on future...